skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is happening at least with more traditional Ikea items, for example cabinets: https://www.semihandmade.com/pages/about-us
not sure about giving him $1 per surgical mask is a right thing to do. The big component is the material, which need to be refined and coated. The material needs to be processed with expensive machine. According to article from NPR, even manufacturers in China depends on this German machinary supplier. It looks like the difference between 2c masks and 10c masks from his company is due to either business efficiency or labor cost. To pay 10c or 20c per mask to his company looks reasonable if he bought machine from Germany and made end-to-end production from raw material. However it does not seem reasonable to pay $1 if he simply buys ready-to-use materials, cut, and package.

As for long term contract, the argument is ok up to certain extend. The cost of machine is quite high, several $m, it is a fixed cost, but negligible with high production volume - not that high to justify 10y contract.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...
Thank you for thinking I'm deep an edgy....
But why is long term important?
people need to see long term effects to know that it's more profitable. But right now, people see success without ethics, so why should they think long term?
There might be a day of reckoning, where these short term gains result in long term catastrophe, but until then, people do what works.
And today the only measure of what works is money.
Here's the Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerq4byr7ps

... just older people with underlying conditions dying ... etc.
After the last bout of anti-google posts on HN about a month ago, I took the comment advice and switched fully to DDG.

My experience was horrible. I don't tend to search 'popular' subjects, only technical ones, and hobbyist stuff. DDG was just plain useless for this, I had to switch back to google after about a week as I was using the !g prefix almost all the time.
Not exactly the same, but checkout Tabletop Simulator. It's a 3d play environment which can play very many board games, card games etc. The steam workshop must have tens of thousands of popular board games created within it.
Those articles do not in anyway describe situations that are close to what we're seeing now in new york, italy, france and spain

The flu is still terrible, btw. And I hope this situation will increase the vaccination rates for the flu
Right, that's a good point, that it's working on their side with convincing the advertisers. Thanks for clarifying so I could understand!
I completely agree. Maybe it's shallow but I could not muster any interest in the original hamburger DS, but as soon as I saw the Lite I wanted one. And I still love that design language and feel, especially in Crystal White.

It's a great way to get a premium feel out of cheap materials. I wish more modern (cheaper) electronics would learn from what Nintendo has been able to do.
$24,930 for perpetual distribution rights, unlimited domains, unlimited dev seats, and 3y support and upgrades. I could see those numbers making sense for a subset of potential users, for whom non-OSS licensing isn't a deal-breaker. But that's not me. I don't think I'll ever let go of my feelings about the nature of the web and FOSS software.
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I don't think you picture yet the scale at which we are all hit right now...
Twitter could honestly solve the issue that just using the app has a seriously negative effect on the mental and therefore physical wellbeing of it's users by offering a simple "Politics" toggle switch in their preferences.

They will never do this of course because it will reduce the power and influence of their platform.
I think most spam websites today could be filtered out with very simple algorithms. But that would lead to fewer people ending up on these websites and clicking ads. So if your search engine is also an ad network, filtering out spam websites is not in your interest.
This is generally true, although I mix for a long time, to develop gluten strands. The dough grows by about 30%, and the oven spring is another 10-15% on top of that.
My Switch is quite irritating. Every week it starts to drift and then the drifting stops after 20 min. It started doing this after maybe two months of light use and I'm extremely careful with my gear.

Also, the ergonomics, which I didn't think would bother me, is really bad. I can play hours with the Switch Pro controller, and 30 min with the regular controller before my hands hurt. I don't know if it's because I'm old, but the Gameboy Color never bothered my hands like this.
As a sysadmin, my main requirements for configs are:

* Human-readable and writable, including on systems where you have only very basic text editing tools
* Easy to template (for example mass deployments via Ansible or other such tool)
* Easy to use with grep/sed/etc

The format I've found that is easiest to work with is what sysctl and OpenWRT use for their configs. You can have complex hierarchies, but every line stands on its own. This means you don't have to be careful about where in the config a particular line is, if it is in the proper block, etc. Also getting information on a particular sub-item is as easy as running a single grep command.
Yeah, true, too focused on specifics. We also seem to come from vastly different sides of this coin, where if you can trust the government to have accurate, true and recent information published as soon as they have it, government resources are enough while in other places (like China, US or Russia for example), governments are a lot less trusted and reliable, and you might need to look up local news to get the full picture.

Thanks for sticking with us, explaining your viewpoint further :)
Conversely, the lead on the Imperial Study was also in charge of modelling for the UK foot and mouth epidemic which was found not fit for purpose and resulted in lots of livestock being slaughtered unnecessarily. And this is the one the UK and other governments seem to be basing their approach on.

"He was behind disputed research that sparked the mass culling of farm animals during the 2001 epidemic of foot and mouth disease, a crisis which cost the country billions of pounds.

And separately he also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or ‘mad cow disease’) and its equivalent in sheep if it made the leap to humans. To date there have been fewer than 200 deaths from the human form of BSE and none resulting from sheep to human transmission."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/28/neil-ferguson-sc...
I use glass, and the dough sticks like crazy. What I do is press a sheet of baking paper into the container, then pour into that. Quick and practical.

Given the number of questions, I think I should write up a quick manual on practical bread baking, submit it to HN, and watch it get noticed by no one :-)
Rails is actually quite hard in my opinion. I was working through "Getting Started with Rails" where you make a blog with posts they call articles and counting the number of ways the word article pops up in code. I'm up to 14 now, Article, article, articles, Articles @articles, articles_path etc, some of which you type in and some which are magically generated and pluralized, singalized, lower cased or whatever. I guess experienced rails devs know all that stuff backwards but there's a lot of not very obvious things to get your head around.
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GraphQL yes. But it's open source under the Apache License, code is in Github:

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/
Wow! Now people who know how to type using proper grammar and vocabulary are a problem???
A MAJOR problem with google is it's assumption that if you search in English you don't care if the top results are American.

I've noticed that on google.co.uk, unless you add 'uk' at the end of your search query you'll always get US sites first [1]. Google clearly lump all English based queries into the same geo-graphical bucket - they never used to do this.

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[1] Yes, I am logged in, and Google knows where in the world I am.
Nobody said it will have influence, it just makes you feel a little better instead of constantly taking it in the ass and never speaking up about it. Not to mention the mass amounts of misinformation and disinformation that need to be combated.
Comparing annual death totals for the flu to coronavirus deaths over a couple of months is mistake number 1.

Comparing a number that is static from year to year to one that is growing exponentially is mistake number 2.
Show HN: Real-time reactions for muted Google Meet members
Looks like a complete rip-off of VS Code. They couldn't even bother to use a different color scheme or icons?
I think Python is a terrible language for config files. It requires a full python installation. Lua or a simple LISP are better choices as they can trivially be embedded in every program at very low cost in terms of added code. It further avoid juggling different Python versions.
You don't even know how much experience I have. I'm saying architecture patterns can be learned from Wikipedia not 'everything'.

A devops configuration language (outside the domain of architecture) is not included in this category. Please don't be manipulative and please do not lie.
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Nintendo's game development is the exact opposite of lazy. They spend insane amounts of attention and manpower on the fine details. That's exactly how they keep succeeding despite lower power, poor cloud services, etc.
That really puts a different spin on this dark pattern... There are situations in which a person must cancel their contract and these companies are trying to abuse that situation to make money.
How is that different from what happens now with links being added?

Also, journalists (or let's call them news media agencies) often abuse this by reporting of "claims by this" on the topic rather than the topic and in that way refusing any iota of responsibility for what they put on the spotlight.
Considering the amount of testing that is actually being done, no one has much ideas of the real number of cases. With any luck he will be right but no one really knows.
I think that a lot of the people who are deniers are afraid of the economical consequences from the lockdown because they will be hit harder than others. So in their mind they choose to underplay the epidemic in order to justify their insecurity.
Venturing into Rust Land
Google with default settings is useless and using more sophisticated queries quickly walls off the user with increasingly annoying captcha.

The "world's knowledge under you fingertips" motto is still valid and brilliant though. My personal solution is library of OCR-ed PDFs with most established books from various domains, git repository for each domain. Greppable in miliseconds, locally. Hijack this, SEO experts!
I have a nice counter example why "config files as source code" is a bad idea.

The emscripten SDK (compile C/C++ to WASM) writes a config file as python source file when it is installed. At first glance it looks like a fairly simple key/value config file, but it cannot be parsed by a 3rd-party-tool (for instance to extract the paths to the installed emscripten SDK) unless the file is evaluated with a full-blown python interpreter.

I don't understand how this can be considered a "good idea" under any circumstances ;)
Things like wholesale NSA data collection were organized conspiracies against the population. There are plenty of examples, even just considering the US.
8 seconds in he says "we need Cobalt programmers" and repeats at 27 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVgHlSTPYQ
Many problems lack a Designated Person Who Cares. Everyone has something to do, a task to accomplish. There's never someone whose job is to improve the codebase and the tooling, even when it can benefit the team.
I don't know about evil, but they were pretty good at tax evasion, spanning decades: https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-str...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVgHlSTPYQ

8 seconds in he mentionds "Cobalt" & also at 27s
> They didn't realize there was any danger in making false predictions.

Is there any danger for them? PG seems to have very idealistic view of politics.

As far as I know, any amount of fact checking in politics don't change political views.

Will Fox News lose any viewers over this? Politicians may lose jobs because bad economy, but will they lose votes because they were wrong and ignorant?

H. L. Mencken wrote:

> No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

I think there is great Mencken experiment going on. Always underestimate public and see how far you can go.
> nobody big is behind it

Being a grassroot, community-driven project is a feature, not a bug.
Learning about recommender systems both for work-related activities and personal interest. I see a lot of people learning hard mathematics or physics concepts. This is somewhat related to machine learning but also has daily-life implications as it gives some insight into how these social media platforms shape their algorithms for building the social feeds or Netflix recommendations for example :)
I probably had covid19 in February(in Asia), only in retrospect I could differentiate it from the flu.

The main difference was it took the superior part of the throat instead of the inferior. Talking with doctors they tell me I had all the symptoms.

The problem with it is that at first it is "benign"(I had high fever for "just" two days) if your body stops it before getting into the lungs. Once it gets there it could be nasty(as it produces cytokine storm syndrome there) very fast.

So it is very easy to get confident.

Even the flu could get very dangerous is you get it combined with something else like a bacteria at the same time.
Even Sony's offering in that regard has been playing catch up to Xbox Live. PSN on PS4 has reached feature parity with Xbox Live on the 360, but it sure doesn't compete in important areas like actually working, download speeds, and navigating the menus in a reasonable time. Not sure what Live on Xbox One is like as I didn't get a Xbox this generation.

Meanwhile Nintendo still hasn't caught up with Xbox Live from the original Xbox.
That doesn't mean that the concept is a bad idea, or that he won't come up with something that can be demonstarted to be trustworthy.
Didn't Nintendo drop this philosophy the moment Gunpei left to work on a GameBoy competitor for Bandai and pushed out the GBC? Or was it after Gunpei died in a car accident shortly after? The NGC also didn't follow this philosophy and neither did the GBA. It wasn't until the Wii/NDS era, when they kind of brought it back.
Paul, you're absolutely right about the corona virus being the clearest credibility test fail for these people yet.

But you also write: "These people constantly make false predictions, and get away with it, because the things they make predictions about either have mushy enough outcomes that they can bluster their way out of trouble, or happen so far in the future that few remember what they said."

I'm not so sure about that. These politicians and journalists have consciously a/b tested their audiences into tribes of absolute uncritical loyalty. They feed on anti-intellectualism and cheap gut reactions.

At a certain level of responsibility, incompetence becomes malice. These people are far beyond that threshold. They will soon have the blood of thousands on their hands.

I'm not sure the people of the US will be able to keep them to account, but I certainly hope so.
You're not their customer, advertisers are, so it's only natural that the ads you see aren't personalized. That's never been the goal.

It is, however, technically a potential benefit that the more exactly advertisers can target you, the more relevant ads you could be seeing, which is a wonderful sales pitch for users who are agnostic anyway, but that's not how advertising works in practice.
They haven’t been good. Australian doctors are wearing homemade masks just like Americans. https://www.physiciansweekly.com/were-not-hungry-we/
Meh. I'm extremely dubious, often in politics we often see the public arguing against their own economic self-interest. Why should this be any different?

It's tempting to give ignorance and fear a complicated explanation couched in the suspicion of greedy forces. It's not parsimonious. Plain ignorance and distrust is sufficient.
Would be amazing if we managed to eliminate the common flu as a side effect of this :) not likely, but it does seem possible?
Is this really blogvertisment to get people to buy bitcoin instead of gold? After the second mention of bitcoin, I had to stop reading and go try and work out what that website's agenda really was.
But it literally is a strain of flu. And staying at home, sleeping and drinking a lot of water is exactly what the majority of people who contracted COVID are doing at the moment. Or do you believe that there are 1.3 million people in hospitals or cemeteries right now?
> CDC numbers for the "flu" are actually a combined "flu and pneumonia"

That's just like Covid though - they are counting everyone who dies with the virus even though most have other conditions.
How are you meant to find the most obscure content? If it's obscure, it probably means it is not relevant to your search. How would a search engine like that even work?

Tweaking importance of some sites seems like a nice idea though, but it could also be a bad thing.
I'd like a website recording people telling others to not wear masks.

Hold them into account.
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> 1, 2, 4, 8 isn’t that different from 1, 3, 5, 7.

What? The former is exponential and the latter is linear. They are the definition of different.

The 30th number in the first series is 536870912.

The 30th number in the second series is 59.
Playing 1K chess for the ZX81 without a ZX81
It is a IDE toolkit. You're supposed to use it to build your own as can be seen in the "Arduino IDE Pro".

They've used monaco[1] which is the editor part of VS Code for their project but Theia apparently is easier to work on a cloud and customize.

[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
I’m satisfied with the response - not sure what you’re so upset about.

As someone who has been through more than one natural disaster the fear and panic is absolutely destructive and often worse than the event itself. Remains to be seen in this case.

Look at all the wackos posting to youtube saying this is god’s sign he is coming back, etc. Those people absolutely don’t need a platform.
Show HN: App on Covid-19 with live global stats (No-code project using DronaHQ)
Inspired by recent Show HN: Bungholio. Automated checkout coming soon™
b2 and Scaleway are quite cheap (Wasabi would have been cheaper but that's >= 1TB). Check this post put [1] - not mine.

I personally use b2 with restic.

[1] https://medium.com/@simon_80033/how-cheap-can-cloud-storage-...
The basic idea is that you use an emulator to run the original code, and tie it into a chess bot.
Rosebud AI
Well, we've heard about all kinds of useful implications of big companies and governments hoarding enormous amounts of data on us and ever more sophisticated methods of analysis of this data (AI).

The technologies and infrastructure in question:

- video/image analysis + nationwide networks of cameras created to "protect us"

- geospatial data and live tracking of GPS coordinates on everyone's phones + on cell towers.

- passport/immigration controls at borders

Would be great if countries could mobilize this infrastructure in times like this, but I don't think this is happening in the West. China/South Korea were more effective in this regard.

And it definitely shows the state of "AI" - it can do what it is trained to do. We still can't throw AI at some arbitrary problem with many moving parts and expect it to come up with best available ideas.
I also do this :) It would be cool to build a dictionary that uses this method.
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Do you think Cloud66 is better than Heroku for deployment? Because i have the feeling that it's the same just one is more expensive than the other one.
Votes will be lost, because people are unnecessarily putting themselves and others at risk, and some will die.
That argument no longer works when we're seeing highly infected regions with significant increases in their _all cause_ mortality rate, e.g. https://reason.com/2020/03/17/italian-daily-death-rate-up-20... https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/04/01/virus-deaths-...
The Old Guard
Well, real value is that you can build internal tools quickly and connect them. As an example, you can have software development and product management apps in Fibery to track these processes and connect Features from product management to Tasks in software development.
Maybe you should try to explain why something that kills on average 450k every year is less serious then something that has only ever killed 70k. And not just less serious, but warranting several orders of magnitude fewer resources.

It's you who need a reality check.
See, this is the one complicating factor for L7 E2E, and I think you make a compelling case; you pretty much need open source/reproducible builds to be able to have any kind of protection against leaking PIIs over encrypted channels.

I think the best one can do today with services like Facebook/Instagram is to use third-party clients, or, in lack of that, the web apps.

IMO DoH/DoT is the main venue where this tradeoff becomes obvious today; privacy with regards to infrastructure providers, or ability for the user to see/control what your software reaches out to?
I suppose you can stop transmission of all video in jitsi as well (or at least it should be possible, given that it supports landline dial-in as well)? low quality video of heads is not that interesting for me personally (and for all purposes except keeping a literal headcount).
Indeed! Every time someone mentions "them" running whatever conspiracy I'm reminded of the quote "Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"

Looks like it's already centuries old even, from 1600s Sweden: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Oxenstierna#Quotation
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