skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long ago when the number of games was much lower, you could count on people to know or hear about all the major games. There was a sense of community, of shared culture. Just like the first years after communism officially ended in Poland - there were 3 TV stations and there were cartoons at 19:00 every single day, with especially good ones on sunday. You could walk up to a random kid in class and start a conversation about his favorite bedtime cartoon. Or there was very limited choice in common household appliances and furniture, so countless people had the same models.

Yes, it's nostalgia too, but it was fun to have a sense of shared culture. Fragmentation has its downsides. I'm not sure how to have the cookie and eat it.
I love to knead, but in my tiny apartment I have a hard time finding a place to knead without making a mess. It would be nice to have a no knead option for some bakes.
Common Lisp and Clojure!
Hormone Weight Loss Solution
The entire press conference was stating that the federal stockpile is not a grocery store, but is to be mobile based upon where the federal government feels it is needed, and no state has the right to demand and send a shopping list.
You'll find that many rich folk are non-doms in the country they reside in for tax purposes also.
Terrific, novel, innovative suggestion. Thank you for sharing.

Nicely compliments the policy advice of bailouts taking the form of debt, convertible to assets.
> I imagine they might say it is for helping other nations.

Given that the administration is halting exports of masks to Canada and Latin America from 3M, I somehow doubt that the reserves are for helping other nations.
Berlin backtracks after accusing US of ‘piracy’ when 200k masks went missing
Definitely as a beginner it helps to follow a schedule and start to notice some patterns. As you make bread more and more you start to rely on more visual and tactile signals. For instance, I know that the levain is ready when it appears 'bubbly' enough, and the stretching and folding is done when the dough is 'tough' enough, and that the bulk fermentation is complete when the dough has approximately doubled in size.

This is a great beginner's guide that I have shared with many folks:
https://www.theperfectloaf.com/beginners-sourdough-bread/. After some time I have settled on theperfectloaf's 'best sourdough' recipe, which has a higher hydration.
Why not use real end-to-end encryption? Crypho is offering free audio and video conferencing for the next 3 months due to Coronavirus demand. https://www.crypho.com/
> Does opportunity cost really exist when print money? You can print 3 billion to do this. Or not. Unclear if it would change the inflation of our currency.

Just because the US can transmute solvency risk into inflation risk doesn't mean that the cost goes away.
That's not true. You can implement your own traits for foreign types.
America Is Committing Economic Suicide
I'm the CTO of a "lifestyle" business, though we don't really call ourselves that. Salaries here are excellent for our area (MN). Time-off is better than average, and we have free worldwide flights for vacations as a perk. Highly flexible work hours and location - we have some FTE's 100% remote, living in other states; I'm 90% remote. No overtime culture, no death marches. Maybe every 2-3 years we have a couple weeks of a good crunch but it's with buy-in from everyone doing the crunch.

We're lucky to have a customer base that spans many industries. We've lost some chunks of income.. chains of malls closing, restaurants, lobbies, DMV offices, customers getting live sports info.. but it's all temporary and we're well in the black. Instead of worrying if we'll make it we're looking for opportunities and how we can best take advantage of our strong position.
That's hardly a fair comparison, unless you can call up Debian on the phone and get 4 hour support for any of those binaries. Back in reality Fedora is the closest analog to Debian.
I'm not sure if you read the chapter in the (free) book but it explains it better than I can.
A guide to the SwiftUI layout system – Part 3
Why'd they have to go change the wording on the site, then?
If you're interested in this specific area, here is a useful summary of what's known: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

tl;dr not much
Yes, I agree that the feds should step in at this point (and should have done so long ago). What I'm curious about is the responsibility each state has to, for example, maintain their own stockpile of PPE. What are the resources that have been overwhelmed (and does it vary by state)?
typedef
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very strong typing right there...
I've used for calls on Android and not iOS since 2016. While walking to/from work. With lots of traffic noise. Sometimes people don't even know I'm walking, they are that good. QC35's here.

The only thing that gets me is wind. Wind is wicked bad for calls. Even for music. The wind makes a very loud sound when it hits the over-the-ear cups from the rear. I've taken to wearing a hoodie when I walk in wind, and that solves it. Mostly. Walking with a hoodie when it's not really cold is not fun, as I get really hot.
The trouble is that numbers are not being gathered in a consistent way in every country. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
> If businesses operated in a vacuum from politics, then maybe you could have an argument that taxes have “nothing” to do with morality. In the real world, businesses are lobbying for changes to the tax codes to benefit them, holding disingenuous or rigged contests to extract the maximum concessions from tax authorities, relocating or transferring intellectual property and licensing it back to subholdings to min/max gains and losses, and a myriad of other schemes.

The fact that businesses can shop around, or move to other jurisdictions, or lobby politicians, is a good thing. It is a necessary check on government power.

The alternative would be the government having absolute power to raise taxes. I don't trust the government, especially state and local governments, to handle that well. Many would raise taxes to a level that would strangle businesses and harm the economy.
This idea is pretty clever, if it could be made workable.

The main issue is that we have multiple tax jurisdictions. If a corporation is, say, based in the US, but also sells to Europe, what should be the rate the US and Europe charge?

Well, we can't split based on profits, since we already decided that profits are easy to game.

Maybe equity ought to be allocated on the sales split, since sales are harder to manipulate? But let's pretend in this scenario the US has a higher rate than Europe. I'm a tech company, my staff is in SV, let's say for discussion that that is a big reason why my company is successful.

Here, I have an incentive to not sell anything in the US. I get the best of both worlds: access to a great engineering team, and also a lower tax burden.

And what if I'm a startup, and I don't have any sales yet, but my valuation keeps rising because I'm actually doing valuable engineering? Which countries get a claim?

Maybe charge based on expenses? But we already saw that profits are easy to shift, which implies that expenses are easy to shift.

Ultimately, a fair regime would allocate equity to governments based on the future economic value to the corporation due to that country existing, but I can't think of any easy way to measure that split. This is the key point. Does the book detail how to solve it?

Also, you get weird effects, like clawbacks. Let's the US owns some large fraction of a company because it sells products there. A large recession hits the US, Americans buy fewer of its goods. Under this regime, the US should give up some of my equity stake because it's responsible for a smaller proportion of future profits.
When I write code, whether I can easily make an HN headline out of the code is nowhere on my list of concerns.
Shortage of test supplies forces labs to improvise
Amazon's absolute tax burden ain't the only problem.

Every other retailer, employer also pays payroll, property, sales taxes too.

Superior tax avoidance as a competitive advantage is a serious problem. Would Amazon be so dominant today if they had had to play by the same rules as everyone else?
I feel compelled to step in here and hopefully provide some insight on what that report means, because it doesn't appear to be what you implied.

* Edit: The header image failed to load for me and complicates much of what I said in the following paragraph; it isn't as cut and dry as it first appeared.

First off, that automated WAVE report is stellar for GetCalFresh. The color contrast here is an excellent example of strict conformance to WCAG 2.0 AA contrast requirements. (Most of the site is hitting AAA contrast requirements, which is above and beyond.) The report identifies a issue for an image element's contrast in the footer. Please note that this is a false positive; the actual visual contrast meets the requirement.

Heading levels are always a bit of a mess as projects get larger, but as the linked report shows, they could easily be improved slightly in this case. That's not going to outright break the site or render it inaccessible; however, it is a slightly less navigable experience for a user.

Finally, it's important to look at both the spirit and practice of conformance to accessibility standards. In spirit, these are usability standards. You can build something that checks all the automatically enforceable, auditable boxes in the standards, but is unusable in practice. Or you can focus on delivering a strong experience to users, focusing on the POUR principles, and I'd argue that's what an accessible experience should look like (not to exclude ensuring the more baseline elements of conformance, of course).
Do you know what they meant? Absent any context I don't think ``remote control'' has another well known device. I'm assuming that the person I responded to doesn't have a background in this stuff as this is was their first introduction to antenna radiation patterns.
NYTimes is the worst. I legit hate their system. Signing up is so easy. Input credit card payment details and click a button. Done!

Cancelling is another beast. It took me 2 months to cancel. So many phone calls that never end up to the person in charge of cancellation. They make cancellation really hard. Eventually I reported to my bank, who cancelled my credit card. Really hate NY times.

DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO NY TIMES.
The messy debris of a mind fighting itself.
I agree with this - but I do think it should be clear that the model is from outside the mainstream. Not to dismiss it but to clarify its status. Check out the New Yorker piece I link to in the article - it's quite shocking the misinformation that's out there.
You obviously read it wrong or didn’t read my comment at all. The press conference clearly stated that the federal stockpile is meant to be mobile and distributed based on where federal agencies feel its needed. This really isn’t an argument of federal vs people, it’s more about an argument with NY state vs federal.
I agree, and I'm sorry. I can see how this kind of reaction to a nonsense statement can become problematic, if everybody uses it.
Maybe Trump wrote it himself.
True. The cruise lines did this, although now it may come back to haunt them, assuming they are unable to lobby for US government aid.

> U.S. Royal Caribbean is based in Liberia, Norwegian Cruise Lines is based in Bermuda, and Carnival/Princess is based in Panama.
+1 for pinboard!
More or less all senators are lifetime appointments, which is part of the problem.

But part of the reason that’s possible is because the various legislatures get to choose their own electorates, and the lack of run off elections when no one exceeds 50%
I don't think it's necessarily that any single deduction or tax incentive is immoral. Rather, it could be immoral when, taken together, they mean that a corporation does not pay its fair share.

More specifically, I think the immorality comes when someone who already is able to provide for themselves is enriched at the expense of societies ability to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves.
Usually we change views in many very small steps, slowly turning from one direction to another. Also sometimes when confronted with a paradox in our existing model of the world that invalidates our previous believes, but that's extremely stressful event and also rare... fake news can't do that to you. They just push the buttons that already exist. I'll never buy a fake news promoting say anti-vaxxers' ideas, but give me something that proves something I already believe in and I'll be sharing it all over (ok, not, by now I've learned to be careful, but I'll have a strong impulse to do it)
Please make your substantive points without flamey swipes about "China sympathists". Solid factual critique is welcome regardless of whose sympathies it favors, but when people start planting little swipes and booby traps against the other side, it evokes worse from others, and down we spiral. That's called nationalistic flamebait, and if you're going to post on a controversial topic, you need to clean your comment of any of that so it can be a good contribution to discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What are some good alternatives to Zoom that are actually true end-to-end encrypted? I know of one: https://www.crypho.com/ and Crypho is offering free audio and video conferencing for the next 3 months due to Coronavirus demand.
In a startup you need to wear many hats. At a large company you may have had a specific role ("front-end developer", "database administrator", etc). In a startup you don't have the luxury of not-my-jobism. Experience is of course great, so long as you have breadth.
There's nothing wrong or right about being privileged. It is for many people inescapable. There is definitely something wrong with being ignorant of your own privilege though.
I'm building something for lazy React devs: https://divjoy.com

On the no-code side I really like http://carrd.co
Regarding the "all models are wrong" maxim...

Is that statement 100% true for the low-level models that physicists use and develop? In particular, I'm curious if quantum-physics models are 100% right, just not 100% precise.
States absolutely have stockpiles, but more for the "there was an earthquake/hurricane/bombing" sort of scenarios where there'd be mutual aid from other states after a few days/weeks and you could readily rebuild the stockpiles in a few weeks by placing some orders with 3M etc.

I don't think any state is going to wind up having had a stockpile sufficient for this sort of prolonged, world-affecting disaster.
The fed govt can print and borrow money at will, which states cannot and which is crucial in large scale disasters like this.
"the best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat” - Norbert Weiner
Korona Covid-19 Iş Dünyası
I still firmly believe that a lot of people get the scalability/sustainability thing wrong, and then overhire like crazy.

If you ran a lean startup, would location be as much of an issue? Or asked the other way around: should all startups outside of the valley be lean startups?

It may just be the horizontal versus vertical question. A lot of the work I do, when to have the autonomy to do it, is to make sure that every developer can get more done, or be more certain that the work really is done. I’m trying to vertically scale developers.

In systems design, when communication is cheap you scale horizontally. When it’s expensive, you scale vertically. What have we really done as an industry to improve the effectiveness of human communication? I mean, really? Most of those improvements were made in the 90’s, a bit more in the 00’s, and everything since has been refinement (or regression.)
The internet psuhes this idea that you can quickly be an expert in anything, you just need to read a few websites or watch a few YouTube videos. It's nice to have those resources, but the advanced info is often useless without the context of experience. Doing things is often the only way to attain ability.
Unfortunately, while the whole world doesn't stop at the borders of the USA, neither does the political bullshit eminating from it. All the claims about what's effective or ineffective as a solution to Covid-19 that politicians and journalists latch onto for political reasons leech out into the rest of the world and cause trouble there too.
Asking more of journalists at this juncture may be a tall order. The bar for them has been trending downward, due largely to a lack of funding and an abundance of competition, many of whom have little regard for journalistic standards.
I used to bike up to Skyline on Old La Honda road. I didn't consider it to be really impressive nature... at least not compared to the above mentioned cities. IMHO there are too many people and built-up land there (a general problem in the Bay Area), and whatever hikes/etc. are available are flat and rather mediocre. Marin is not bad but also crowded, flat and gets old fast. Places like Skyline, Saint Helena, Mount Diablo, Half Moon Bay, Pinnacles etc. are really only good for 1-2 visits and then to impress visitors :)

Sierras are amazing, but far away (both Rockies in Denver and Cascades in PNW are much closer and the traffic is not so bad), and the ocean is very cold, you have to be really psyched to surf or do anything like that in the Bay Area.

I mean sure it's better than most places East of the continental divide, but not particularly great. Especially with all the people :)
I guess it is meant to be used by federal agencies where they "feel it's needed" for better chance of re-election, yes? Case in point, Florida [0].

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-st...
I had nothing but good times playing TF in 1997/1998. I joined clans and made friends online in a way that seems almost impossible to do nowadays.

Action Quake 2 and CS through 1.6 offered similar opportunities to make good friends, but TF was the advent of that for me.
I don't know how you look at a metropolitan area like NYC overrun with cases, and decide there isn't a need there. Are they waiting until it hits Montana?
Akron-class airship – flying aircraft carriers
Well I don't know about the US, but the UK enacted new legislation to stop a citizen doing certain (abhorrent) things in countries where it was quite legal to do so.

This was after a huge media outrage about a certain pop star allegedly being a sexual predator in countries where it was legal.

The EU also forced those cookie notices on pages and GPDR about movement of data globally.

Being a holocaust denier will get you arrested in Germany, even if you broke that law in another country.

That's just three examples off the top of my head.
True. There is also something wrong with not being able to determine the extent of your own privilege for yourself.
Yes, it’s easier for businesses to relocate than people. This is an issue of physicality, not morality. If we drive into the specifics, it’s not hard to illustrate that businesses are fundamentally different in nature than people. My point is that tax avoidance is commonplace for individual returns as well.

The solution to all of this is to fix the tax code to represent what we actually intended, not blame those who are following the rules.

Tax is simply math, calling tax avoidance immoral is as silly as calling encryption immoral.
I think it's just unnecessary. Kneading helps gluten develop, but the same thing can be accomplished by letting the wet dough sit out for longer.
Stop sharing fake news if you se one, review it
Our genes don't change and improve that fast

Good points about the numbers
Yea, a perfectly fine business sells for a perfectly high price. There is little room to improve it and sell it, and leverage can only go so far, and brings lots of risks.
Worse, in medical equipment purchases, the Federal Government is spitefully outbidding Governors whose names are followed by a little letter they don't like.

https://wfpl.org/federal-government-outbids-kentucky-for-med...
Assuming that the R&D expenses result in benefit for society as a whole, then there's nothing immoral.

What is immoral is when someone decreases their contribution to society (in the form of taxes) through something that either does not benefit society as a whole or which is actually harmful.
Onionize: Tor v3 onion services (hidden services) for Docker containers
On the contrary, epidemics are reasonably easy to model (at least at a basic level), and modelling them has a long academic tradition. As with all modelling, it all depends on what kind of detail you want to get out of your analysis/predictions.

If you‘re looking at a simple population infection model, lockdown efficacy is just a factor affecting the contact rate among uninfected actors. You run multiple scenarios for multiple levels of this factor, and see where that gets you.

Or did you mean something else?

(Source: I‘m not an epidemiologist, but as an ecological modeller I work with very similar tools.)
Even if it is an ordered series of events, why does it appear to have a direction to the ordering?
Lisp.

So-called "low code" tools involve code, you just write it by rat-wrestling instead of typing. And good luck using those tools effectively for problems their designers didn't anticipate.

With Lisp, you write less code and it's easier and more fun to write.
Google Sheets can be surprisingly handy as a UI for editing data. For example, I have a job on AWS that scrapes a handful of URLs and snapshots them. Instead of creating a database and hosting it somewhere, or hard-coding them, I put them in a spreadsheet that the AWS job reads at the beginning of every run.
Can someone explain why this is HN-worthy? I don't get it.

- startup-related: no

- involves hacking: no

- of general technical interest: no

HN is (usually) a refuge from the otherwise saturated world of political mud slinging.
Do packages really count? You could go on for a long time listing applications that have packages or plugins, but I think it misses the point of the question.
New guidance on SBA loans means most startups still excluded from $349B stimulus
HOLY SHIT WE GOT HIM NOW!!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE BIGGEST THING TO WORRY ABOUT!!!!!
HE'S A CROOK!!!!!

Gotta love Ars Technica, the tech web site. Oh, and Hacker News. Big story here!
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."
This is driving me crazy ;) the poor quality of data.

You'd want health organizations around the world to be publishing every possible detail (anonymized) so that the disease can be better understood. Yet three months in, with over a million cases worldwide, we still have experts disagreeing about things like asymptomatic transmission, use of masks, droplets vs. aerosol, how much distance one should stand from another, viability on surfaces, etc. etc. Even for treatment options rather than insisting on randomized double blind trials start by using the natural experiments that are already happening.

We should have the data to answer a lot of these questions (or at least draw out some probability distributions), or at least someone has it. This stuff is going to be critical in informing exit strategies.
NY is getting hit really hard right now. What's the prioritization here?
This is a neat website Y an antenna engineer with lots cool info, but the big picture is buried. From that page, click on “antenna basics” then scroll all the way to the bottom where you can find “why do antennas radiate?”

http://www.antenna-theory.com/basics/whyantennasradiate.php

That answers the fundamental question of how antennas work.

Edit: looks like kawfey’s comment answered the issue already, I didn’t scroll down far enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787249