skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're designed to weather this kind of storm because "zero revenue" is the default state.

This is completely contrary to what common sense would tell you if you ask yourself "what corporation would best survive a depression". Pick and choose any qualities, any sector, any background and be honest with yourself.

My bet for what company I would prefer to own is something along the lines of:

- Industrial manufacturing of common goods that are necessary for people, not industries, without many external factors where you are not exceedingly (more than others) exposed to price fluctuations of other goods. This could be ketchup, medicine, toilet paper, you name it.

- A long history of sustained profit leading to cash on hand which you can use to compensate for downturns that you can be almost 100% sure are temporary.

- Infrastructure in place that you can scale down and then back up without losing massive amounts of competence or inventory quality.

Here's what I wouldn't like to have:

- Complex technical software development that is completely optional for both people and industries, completely dependent on external factors and therefore heavily hit by economical downturn.

- An unknown company with no history (startup) with zero cash on hand to compensate for a downturn that you can't even know if it's temporary or if you need to pivot completely.

- Severe penalties for scaling down as key intellectual competence disappears from the company, causing double work when resumed and possibly a lower quality product going forward, making it even harder to sell.

I'm not trying to get you down, but don't kid yourself. This is definitely not the type of climate where you would elect to be a tech start-up.
Chemistry is absolutely fascinating. One of my long-time goals has been to make a learning chemistry game of some sort. Players building bonds and molecules, solving problems by creating reactions, etc. Orbits and ions and quantum states.

Something truly educational, and of course one of the people I wanted to educate was myself by forcing myself to learn much more than my high-school level of chemistry.

I've gone down this road a few times, each time giving up on the absolutely scale of even the most rudimentary understanding.
Not entirely sure if the article is aimed at a web audience, but if it is, this would be an awkward justification because the unit "pixel" in CSS is normalized w.r.t DPI.
Sad that the tedious, smug, self congratulatory rich parasites here had to flag the parent comment.

Uncultured nouveau riche.
Have you heard about Weld[1] ?

It is an ongoing effort to built an intermediary representation that numerical library could share to produce an optimized instructions tree.

[1] https://github.com/weld-project/weld
I'm not a big fan of xkcd. It is used as a thinking persons' reaction gif around here and usually carries about as much substance. That you'd refer to it 'by number' already presupposed everybody has seen them so frequently you need say no more than that.

As such it is part of the problem, not part of any solution that I'm aware of.
I don't use javascript regularly so I have no notice of "samey". But I've been exposed to enough of a variety of programming languages from APL to C to Rust to Scala that I have a pretty good idea when some construct looks awkward or unergonomic. ES6 looks like a nightmare. Even compared to the nightmare that is Scala. And remember, Javascript's roots are scheme.

Here's the same thing in clojurescript. Tighter, balanced and no chaining of symbols.

(defn Cell [value i j]
(m 'button.cell' {:onclick #(move value, i, j)}))
Even the news outlets themselves are the ones spreading fear and non-substantiated claims. Just look into BBC's reporting of Molly Russell and how they use words like "Instagram helped kill my daughter", in quotes, to try and add substance to their piece.

They are willing to lay the blame squarely at Instagram's foot and yet offer no critical analysis of how her dad or teachers or society may have failed to help her - she may have tried reaching out, or showed signs of distress, but that's just glossed over because fuck instagram, they clearly have all the blame.

And that's a very dangerous narrative that people soak up - no critical thought, no attempt to try and offer thoughtful analysis whatsoever.

Those of us wise enough can see through their ploy, the agenda's they push, the propaganda they peddle. Just look into the BBC during the last election and you'll soon understand that disinformation, or out of context reporting is everywhere. Videos, quotes, images and basically all speech is being manipulated, to lure an unsuspecting reader into believing what they're ingesting, and has happened since civilization began.

YOU, as a human being, need to analyze and think about what you believe; are masks "ineffective" during this pandemic? News sources will tell you yes, others with experience will tell you no.

Stop relying on bots and algorithms to try and fill your world view, they're geared to feed you what you want to believe.
How is anyone supposed to read the text on this page on a mobile device when the ads above the current scroll location keep loading and unloading with random heights that suddenly shift all the text on the page up and down by a large amount every few seconds?
Sure. Here's some Markdown with Turle.

At 10pm I had a call with [#karl](Karl).

```turtle
@prefix p: <http://example.org/person/>
@prefix r: <http://example.org/relation/>
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>

p:karl owl:sameAs <#karl> ;
r:author <http://example.org/books/NestOfTriples>
r:friend p:pat
```
> Red Hat never really worried me, because they packaged (comparatively) so little software.

Erm, nope:

$ dnf repoquery -l $(dnf repoquery -f /usr/bin/\*) | grep ^/usr/bin | wc -l
34989
I think the idea is to provide the programming model that React allows via its virtual DOM, but compile all that code away, so you end up with code das works without a virtual DOM.

Direct DOM interactions are faster and you don't have to bring a whole VDOM library.
I also have those headphones and I was super weirded out by the touch controls initially, but have found in practice that they are great. I think this is the one time ever that touch controls are better than physical buttons, in fact.
Seems like they could cut out a lot of that code by using macros. Here's a quick and dirty Common Lisp script that reads the CSVs from the .zip file and generates classes at runtime using the headers in each CSV for the slot names. It also defines a 'select' function to make queries easy to write. It's a little too long to post here:

https://gist.github.com/jl2/fd324fa3faa919803152465fade14b6b

And here's what it looks like to use it:

CL-USER> (defparameter *transit-data* (read-transit-data "~/Downloads/gtfs_current.zip"))

CL-USER> (select (table *transit-data* :stops) 'stop-name "PIERNE")

((STOPS "PIERNE01" "" "PIERNE" "" "49.102273" "6.179863" "" "http://lemet.fr/screen/index2.php?stop=257" "0" "" "1")
(STOPS "PIERNE02" "" "PIERNE" "" "49.102558" "6.179825" "" "http://lemet.fr/screen/index2.php?stop=234" "0" "" "1"))

CL-USER> (select
(select (table *transit-data* :trips) 'trip-headsign "L5a - MAISON NEUVE")
'route-id "5-77")

((TRIPS "5-77" "SMIN_H1920-CLaS50V2-Lun-Sam-98" "409137-SMIN_H1920-CLaS50V2-Lun-Sam-98" "L5a - MAISON NEUVE" "1" "60112" "50057")
(TRIPS "5-77" "SMIN_H1920-CLaS50V2-Lun-Sam-98" "409138-SMIN_H1920-CLaS50V2-Lun-Sam-98" "L5a - MAISON NEUVE" "1" "60111" "50057")
;; ...
)
Thank you! I was just thinking yesterday that I wanted to understand Svelte more. I will dive into this today.
> We are exploring options to allow you to modify how [self voice] works via the Bose Connect app

Yes, please! Shut that fucking thing OFF. The only time I use the cable is because it doesn't have this terrible feature.

Especially when I connect to something like an amateur radio there's zero reason to ruin the sound by mistaking listening to amateur radio as some sort of "call".
I picked up Svelte recently and I am happy with it. There is good documentation and examples and any questions I had were already answered online.

I haven't used Elm yet.
So everybody here doing the "mistake" thing as if there's the slightest sign that this was on purpose. Despite their explaination is 100% consistent - the only comment I'd expect from a technical knowledgable person is "yeah that's the kind of mistake that happens when you need to juggle a shitton of load in a global customer base."

Having geofencing in their routing algorithms is state of the art, and probably more advanced than most other services.
“Stop viewing creativity as another thing on a list, it doesn’t work like that.”
UK is deploying a surveillance state as British are focusing on Covid-19
I never understood why we limit ourselves to sending SQL to databases. Instead of sending SQL we should be sending actual logical plans to the database. These logical plans could then be optimized by the database and executed. This would solve two issues I have with SQL:

1. Without CTEs SQL isn't that expressive and with CTEs queries can be hard to understand. Logical query plans on the other hand are rather easy to understand and can express more queries than SQL can.

2. SQL is hard to modify programmatically. To most software, SQL is simply a string without any inherent meaning. A logical query plan on the hand is a tree structure that can be introspected and modified.

That's basically the same thing you want, except that you want it implemented on dataframes while I want it implemented for database systems.
How Antennas Work
If only everyone was always this responsive.
I think under a Bitcoin standard the crisis would be much smaller as there would be much less debt and frivolity. companies would have savings as they should instead of buying back stock counting on a government bailout. Nic Carter wrote a great article with very persuasive arguments here https://www.coindesk.com/corporate-america-knows-the-bailout...
Ask HN: When does it matter to analyse competition and what tool to use?
Before starting to work on a new project, I would normally try to map a competitive landscape, using google search, Crunchbase among others.

However, I discover most of the relevant competitors after starting to work on the actual project as people will start pointing to this or that competitor, which is often very useful.

Have you felt this problem before? And how do you go about researching the competitive landscape?

Thanks a ton for sharing your inputs
True, but you could use your money and influence to try and prevent the market from moving to other, more efficient cryptocurrencies. Remember that BTC started in 2009, significant efforts have been made to build infrastructure around it. Many people got rich thanks to the increase in price. There’s a lot of money and emotions invested, for material and philosophical reasons.
He didn’t make that 2x4 or the scrap iron, they came from hardware shops long ago.

Your dad is capable of repairing anything because he has the mindset, creativity and skills. Were he rich he could take that same self reliance down to the local hardware store and buy what he needs to repair anything.

Though arguably if he were richer he wouldn’t be repairing so much, he’d be doing something else successfully as a self reliant guy.

The higher you go the more abstract what your self brings to the table becomes. It’s obvious that your dad relies on himself and his possessions. A self reliant guy in a company can easily have his natural ability and organized self reliance hidden under metrics and overlooked by class groupings.
In browsers yes for the most parts but not with images (like high dpi images needs to be specifically named and sized) but for example in android development the standard unit is dp aka. density-independent points and for ios development the unit is also points which is relative to the dpi used.
Thanks, this is embarrassing haha. I won’t forget how to spell chaff now.
I had a house up for sale for a long time. One day a man and his wife from Amsterdam came to view it. They brought with them a little box. The lady was allergic to 'radiation', and the box would tell her if this house was the one or not. She walked to-and-fro with the box pointing it all all kinds of bits mumbling to herself, and then walked out into the garden. After two hours of this she came back to us and said that it was all very nice but it wouldn't do, just too much radiation.

I asked her if I could look at the box. It was a field-strength meter with a built in amplifier hooked up to a variety of possible antennae, an open dipole and a small loop. She didn't understand the first thing about electromagnetic waves (polarization, for instance). The thing was set to its most sensitive setting amplifying the crap out of any background noise and picked up all kinds of interesting sources, one of which was the sun, essentially turning it into a complex detector for something you didn't need a field-strength meter for in the first place: to tell you where our life giving star is in the sky.

I pointed this out to her and she went to sit in the car in a huff while her husband hung around for a bit. Apparently they'd been seeing 100's of houses and none of them ever were good enough.

Meanwhile, they lived in Amsterdam, right opposite of the microwave support tower next to RAI, a spot so bad that whenever I would pass it my cellphone would spontaneously reboot because of the strength of the electrical field.

I never knew if she was serious or whether she imagined the whole thing or was just looking for a way to get some quality time with her husband. But I highly doubt she ever found a house that was good enough short of a mountain cave.

But that house, about 300 meters away from the German border was about as isolated from anything radiation related you're going to find in Western Europe and if she wasn't making it up then for the life of me I do not understand what mechanism would underpin that sort of sensitivity.
I too swear by my Shures. I've tried quite a few NC headphones/earphones over the years but they've all had issues with distortion, wind noises, etc to some degree, whereas my Shures can passively cut out just as much noise as the best of them while never introducing weird artifacts that break immersion and take me out of the music.

I just wish they'd release a fully wireless version with the same comfort and fit (not the replacement cable+dongle thing they currently have).
Coronavirus Work from Home Scam
Pursuing Covid-19 at Internet Speed
It isn't my definition, it is the definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillage

I'm not sure what you mean about ideals vs business opportunities. It isn't a question of making money or of practicality vs ideals or something, he simply isn't doing any of the three things you listed. As far as I can tell, he has never mentioned any of the three things you listed. His "farm" is even named after a tillage implement which he promotes constantly and is possibly most well-known for. He's a conventional organic gardener, he has no soil, he has captured no carbon, he has no plan for building soil or capturing carbon, so there's nothing regenerative about it. He imports all his fertilizer, so it isn't permaculture. He plows, broadforks and then harrows multiple times a year, so he's not even minimal tillage much less no-till.
What's the story with 5G mast torching? Is it entirely in paranoid territory (eg. 5G causing infections) or is it based on a rational cause (5G causing health issues due to density, or that ubiquitous 5G critically helps mass surveillance due to low-cost, always-on receivers)?
Study identifies new temperature sensing mechanism in plants
Don't buy sourdough bread from supermarkets, they don't make it right.
I heard that every time you buy one from them a hipster dies.
> Stop relying on bots and algorithms to try and fill your world view, they're geared to feed you what you want to believe.

That's super good advice and it would be actionable too if only we knew who are the bots and what the algorithms do. But presence/absence of the filter bubble need not be disclosed, bots are plentiful but masquerade as regular accounts and plenty of bots are meatware or the gullible themselves spreading the mental malware like any other infection.
Show HN: Disposable chat room web app written in Go
Wait, isn’t that feature only activated when you join a phone call? Why would it be activated for “amateur radio”?
After I try to sign up and click the verification link in the email, I can't log in.

The email textbox gets a red frame and an exclamation mark, but no further details.

Also, going through the signup flow doesn't trigger my password manager (bitwarden) to offer saving the account. It normally happens on all other services, so there's probably something different in your signup/login form.
An ex I knew got into the 5th highest university in the country starting from a completely average high school, with a broken family after five years out side the schooling system. Was that luck? No, it was a descision made and adhered to over a decade. Other people in her class got teen pregnancies.

Human decision exists and luck is a cop out. Burying meaning and choice in statistics and randomness is giving up at life.
Things were different in the old days, young padawan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4800-52-mainframe-du...
> The vast majority does.

How can you say that? The Netherlands still has people going to cafes. The UK is talking about banning outside exercise. Even if you can point to a figure saying people are moving less and adhering to their government's guidelines I don't think it follows that you can say the majority of people are acting like they are infected.

As for the second part, by definition, if those companies actions benefit everyone.. it would help. I didn't say and I don't know how they would do that.

Since this conversation started, it looks like Google has used their great engineers, great infrastructure and lots of money to publish movement reports. This might feed into Government decisions and hopefully will be a benefit for "everyone". Check it out here: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
I just want to say I don't like this article at all.

It makes minimalism seem like a rigid ideology specifically for white males who command poor people to build and craft expensive housing and objects for them (and many of those objects are in the shape of penises?)

A whole lot of discussion on random art and murder from one of the people who made that style of art.

I thought this was going to be about minimalism, which to me is:

Q: What is minimalist living?

A: It’s simply getting rid of things you do not use or need, leaving an uncluttered, simple environment and an uncluttered, simple life. It’s living without an obsession with material things or an obsession with doing everything and doing too much. It’s using simple tools, having a simple wardrobe, carrying little and living lightly.

It's basically being more content with less which ties in nicely with financial independence. Instead I got lectured to for not being a woman of colour who renounces my privilege and whitewashing of things in an art history that I don't care for.
I haven’t read it, but I presume this is about time dilation during a test match.
The Sony WH has touch controls
and they work quite well.
Nicely written! I mean your comment on that point.

In Taoism, they say - accept the flow and about Yin-Yang philosophy.

> "And to me that's not gonna change the world"

This is a mystery. I'm from India, and I've read few Vedic texts where it says, all these elements we've accumulated and grown with, by elements I mean Father, Mother, Son, Wife, Mine, Not Mine are just aggregated and don't assign much significance.

This is to our rational minds seems really absurd! Hence it is a mystery that would unfold when you start delve into it deeply.
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/ official site of European External Action Service that tracks and responds Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns.

It's just amazing how much of all disinformation you can be tracked back to Russian sources. Russian disinformation is not trying to create consistent counter-narrative to the West. They just throw out stuff wildly to sow confusion, doubt and distrust. You can see people in HN who have been caught into this net of disinformation and start parroting same narrative.

Throwing coronavirus disinfo at the wall to see what sticks
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/throwing-coronavirus-disinfo-at-the-w...
Oneinfra: Kubernetes as a Service Platform
Finland, ‘Prepper Nation of the Nordics,’ Isn’t Worried About Masks
1.1.1.2/1.0.0.2 & 1.1.1.3/1.0.0.3 DNS resolvers incorrectly resolves one of India's largest banks domain name "retail.onlinesbi.com" to 0.0.0.0
Did you actually try the Sony’s? That (rain activating touch) doesn’t happen. You can’t take your experience with a completely different product as universal truth.
That would make sense. I would love to read some stats on this if you have them.
None of the numbers make full sense and there will never be a fully accurate count from most overwhelmed countries, as many people are dying or turned away before making it to the hospitals. There aren't enough test kits to go around, but it does seem as more test kits are available, more people are seemingly infected. China's reported count hasn't budged and while its very possible they could have stopped the virus dead in its tracks especially from full force isolation and quaratine measures, to have the numbers not move any at all... is something short of a miracle. Zero new cases is very promising. I'm sure we'll get there. But I feel China may have made their second wave publicly known, while their first wave, much higher, was covered up as much as possible. But maybe its just a conspiracy.
Obviously nobody would put random spacing between elements. Usually people just decide that on the whole page the spacing will be X pixels and stick with it.

It's nothing new. CSS has these properties for a reason.
Gaps in Amazon’s Virus Response Fuel Warehouse Workers’ Demands
Hi,

That is a very good question. In my PhD I built, among other things, a very primitive parallel stirring system in order to speed up the synthesis of test batches. Although a very crude device, there was tons of stuff that I needed to optimize.

There are many steps in the practical work that is chemical synthesis. It might be removing air, adding reagents in different elemental states, cooling/heating/keeping and certain temperature, observing the reaction, taking aliquots, terminating reaction, and the many steps of purification.

I'd argue that while automation is possible to a certain degree (continuous reactor systems are the most the most interesting IMHO), the resulting mashines are always problem (reagent, reaction, etc) specific. And here lies the problem.
It's just energy, which can - like any other electromagnetic energy source - be harvested by the right resonant mechanism. The chances of a particular frequency band at such low field-strengths having an impact on a structure not expressly designed for it is super small. It would be like the evolutionary equivalent of finding a 'u-beam[1]' ready receiver in something made in the 1920's.

[1] The fraudulent wireless ultrasound charging company.
Smartphone vs. virus, is privacy always going to be the loser?
Sorry for your loss. Those interactions and outrageous and nearly comical.

I will try take this into account for my future projects or my teams projects.
No, pity that a lot of new build libraries and platform gets inspired by pandas workflow in search for something better, instead of looking at R ecosystem where people actually enjoy the available tools and workflows.
But bash already has pushd and popd
Why would you want to downgrade to a different version now that it’s clear there is no difference in NC?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8313470