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>Europe outside of Germany has no advanced industrial capabilities at all

Could you at least google about this topic before going on building a whole theory on top of an absurd statement?

So France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden etc in the EU have no "advanced industrial capabilities at all", nor have the UK or Switzerland outside the EU, really?
exactly what I use as well
I think vidstab is the only option for ffmpeg and it doesn't seem that great. I recently compared it to Premiere and Premiere was quite a bit better. I would also love a top tier option in ffmpeg.
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Maybe they can't fight it off and die. OTOH, a spider can lay hundreds or even thousands of eggs, so it's enough if a tiny fraction will be able to reproduce.
You definitely need a DBA to optimally set up a production database.
The current administration will go away, but I don't see the forces that put him in power going away any time soon. I can't predict the future, but I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the last clearly unsuitable Republican president the US will see.
Blocking someone’s laptop right now saves you 0 money.

As a matter of fact it puts you in a position where everyone you just fucked over is willing to take extra steps to make every little bit of communication harder and less efficient.

I would not be surprised that half of these people are going to start replying to their messages at literally the end of the time specified by the contract.

Good luck getting those laptops back
In my experience, large applications are amazing in what they fail to accomplish with nearly unlimited resources, and most of their bugs are boring ;-)
Genuine question: wouldn't this be considered write fraud?

Last time I asked this question [0] on a different story [1], the responses I got were that it definitely is wire fraud, but this is so mind-blowing that I would like to ask again to confirm.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22362682

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22354357
No, i am not an expert and didn't made a single statement because of that.

I don't know the answer. The only thing I do know is that a medical/surgical N95 mask is different from a standard N95 mask.

This would be reason enough to undermine your claim, according to me.

But as stated, I'm not an expert. A friend+client of mine in construction also has N95 masks and those are not valid for use in the hospital, he said.

Also basic Google backed me up :)

Ps. Thanks for trying to back up your claim with valid sources ;)!
Hello there,

The graph is a little bit adjusted, but if you go on Google Trends, you will actually see the same trend: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
There absolutely is a takeaway - and it isn’t just that luck is important in winning - it’s that luck is everything.

We like to live under the illusion that we are in control of our lives. We are not. We can set a general course, control this or that small, immediate thing - but so much of what we ascribe to our own success or failure is just sheer dumb luck.

I’ve had some ridiculous, absolutely undeserved successes over the years, I’ve been struck with serious illness out of the blue, I’ve seen friends with so many plans for their lives ahead snuffed out by illness and accident. I’ve seen the class clown rise to high office, and the prodigy work in a chip shop. We make choices, but against a sea of endless variables and influences, they make little difference.

People used to cite the fates, or their god or gods of choice - because they couldn’t explain the absolute randomness of the path of a life. I think you’ll find precious few people who, in their dotage, will say their life went to plan - and that doesn’t mean everyone’s a sad failure, rather that you end up places you never even dreamt of - because we really aren’t in control.
Google Trends scraper.
> For the 2020 iPad, they specifically mention "MFI compliant cases", so we can be fairly certain that one's done with magnets.

Why is that? Any case, including not "MFI", could put a magnet at the location if that was the case. Doesn't "MFI" mean that they make it only work with cases that are identified via the software to have paid their certification to Apple?
Is this based on Google Trends? Where is the data coming from?

Interesting project, btw
Yes, we do take data from Google Trends as well as other sources.

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I wouldn't bet against Trumps re-election, with his approval ratings going up in the middle of his biggest bungle.

Even if Biden is elected, I have limited hope for him to join us in tackling major issues such as global warming.

I also wouldn't bet on a resurgence of the "decent" GOP in the next decades, i.e. a party that "only" starts some baseless wars and doesn't promote antagonistic thinking in general. They will have noted very clearly what brought them their recent success.

I'm sorry to say, but as a German, I'm seriously wondering whether there is a better chance of establishing a reasonable dialogue with China than to stop you guys from messing stuff up.
Our data relies on Google and it is based on what consumers are searching for.

Specifically, it relies on Google Trends, Google News, Google searches, Amazon searches, Twitter searches and YouTube searches (for now!)

We also have a partner for e-commerce data (usecart.com)
Where are you drawing the line between “design” and “execution”? I would consider building keyboards that fail after a year or so to be bad execution.
I think the answer to this is basically that the further you go back, the harder the comparisons become - or at least you have to think much harder about why you're comparing things.

Over a few years, it's pretty easy to talk about the amount of money to maintain a certain standard of living. Some things cost more, some less and it averages out to a comparative number.

How do I compare my outgoings on a mobile phone to the 1980s/60s/40s? Should I? How do I compare international travel to a time before commercial flight? Before powered flight at all? Should I compare year round access to exotic fruits - something that would require royal wealth if even possible depending on how far back you want to go.

It doesn't mean we can't do it though, just that the comparisons come with more and more caveats and more ways of working it out make sense in different contexts.

One I think is quite interesting is "how many human hours can I direct with this sum?" or even "what portion of human output can I control?". It doesn't tell you what your salary would be in the 1200s but I think it's an interesting framing for looking at how the world has changed.
Amusingly enough, I got a Dear %{CUSTFIRSTNAME} from my auto loan provider less than an hour ago.
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Are there any tools that make this easy (i.e. not manually editing the binary)?
Still not terribly clear what happened. A journalist would want to talk to the shipper or the buyer of the masks, since 3M is disavowing any knowledge, and the German police just know they did not get their masks.

One thing is interesting: maybe 3M really don't know everything their suppliers are doing right now in China.

About 200,000 N95 masks were diverted to the US as they were being transferred between planes in Thailand, according to the Berlin authorities who said they had ordered the masks for the police force.
Show HN: Covid-19 USA states and counties Time series data website
I think the vision is a bit caricatural : France and Italy still have an important industry. Car, planes, drugs, luxury goods, trains, space launches, fin-mechanics and I miss a lot...
Fr and IT are 6th and 7th economies in the world : you cannot achieve that without an important industrial layer.
But of course Germany is the biggest industrial actor in Europe and among the biggests in the world.
This is probably a naive question, coming from someone who has written very little JavaScript:

Why do we need React? Why can’t the browser do the same job? Instead of passing a virtual dom to react, and letting it ‘diff/patch’ the real dom, why can’t code regenerate the dom directly, in a similar way? This would seem to save both time, memory and effort, since the browser can do the diff/patch itself, much more efficiently?
My friend and I wanted to contribute and help everyone to better understand the outbreak solely in the US so we built a website that tracks US covid-19 cases on a state/county level (where the data is available) and present their temporal evolution (time series). I was in charge of the front-end while my friend did data aggregation and manipulation. We are aware that there are already a lot of trackers out there but this one is US specific and tracks the cases in greater spatial and temporal detail, while still keeping it clean and simple (or so we hope). NY times seems to be way ahead of the curve in reporting and data visualization of covid-19 cases around the world but as far as I know (unless it changed) they are behind a paywall after a certain amount of website visits.

This just went live after a few days of almost not-stop work. It can certainly be improved and we would like to hear back from you with all of your suggestions and criticism. We wanted to make it public as soon as possible so we can start iterating and improving.

I know that the map is a little bit sluggish, this is probably because I am loading a ton of polygons which define the borders of every single county. I need a little break from this but I will try to improve it when I get a chance.

The data is collected by NY Times and is freely available for public use (attribution at the bottom of our website).

Our ToDo list:
Plot the rate of change of cases per each location available
Produce a heatmap which shows the amount of infected/per population number

Libraries/frameworks used:
jQuery, plotly.js, leaflet.js, select2
Man recreates entire pop song in his living room while in quarantine [video]
Straining an oxide membrane
Seems to be, via the verb snappa which is the Swedish version of the Germanic snappen.
VersusVirus hackathon in Switzerland with over 4000 participants
> there is no scenario where Italy and Spain will ever trust the EU again - the infighting and bickering is likely to continue indefinitely.

I can see politicians would try to blame China or Germany for the fact their country was not prepared but I hope the majority is not that stupid. I can see and believe my country was not prepared and is in bad shape but there is no reason to blame others when the fault is internal.
I had one of these guys call me and I can tell you they are good, we have a lot of skimmers on gas terminals, atms, etc. in South FL so it's pretty normal to get fraudulent transactions calls. But like this article, the guy spoke perfect English. The cunning part is they really knew the workings of my bank, they would call 5 minutes after the main line closes for the night. The worst part about it is, they had my card number but it has been put in cold status due to legit fraudulent activity, which basically means you can only use it as a debit card. Their aim was to get my pin from me, and they had a whole script before that, that they run thru. The scary part is it felt like a legit fraudulent activity call from my bank and I still suspect that one of the scammers had inner-working details of my bank. I knew it was not when they asked me to verify my pin. At which point I realized it was not a legit fraud activity call. I ask for a call back number and of course the excuse making started about the main line being closed now (they have a separate fraud line that is 24 hours). I told them I would call back in the morning, they said they would have to let these transactions go thru if I did. I said fine but I dispute them if you are recording and hung up and promptly called the fraud line. The scammers are getting more sophisticated and convincing.
Why be unhappy for 8+ hours a day? Life is short enough as it is, sacrificing 1/4 of it seems rather silly to me unless you have to.
I used this a while back (https://github.com/galkahana/HummusJS) and it worked quite well. While the support has ended, I think it should still work.

Worth a try. HTH
Face Facts: 2006 NYT Op-Ed on N95 Respirators to Fight a Pandemic
Perhaps those in favour of continuing public funding of the BBC can explain why people should be forced to pay a licence fee for a channel they don't watch. You get a criminal record - not a minor issue for anyone - if you persist in not paying if at the same time you own and use a TV even if you use it to only watch Japanese wrestling on a non-BBC channel. How would this go down in the US? If you hack your TV to make it impossible to attach an aerial (old style) or a cable service which excludes BBC you might get away with it. I'm not informed on that.
the BBC can't be very biased because all sides accuse it of being biased against them

I don’t think that’s true. For example you won’t find many Remainers claiming that the BBC was pro-Leave. Nor would you find many opposing Scottish independence saying the BBC was pro Scottish independence. It clearly does “take sides”.

The traditional left-right axis doesn’t work as a model here. The BBC’s bias is towards the opinions and interests of upper-middle-class Londoners, some of which would be traditionally be considered left and some of which would be right.
Very cool. I guess as you grow, you could get more partners and the data will keep getting more and more accurate. I wish big guys like Amazon released aggregated sales data.

How do you get access to Amazon searches, google searches etc? do you have to pay for those?
Covid 19: Pandemia global y sanidad local
Yet the Hacker News feed is also full of articles about people breaking into Zoom channels. I've seen little evidence that the trolling has diminished. There may be more people seeking positivity, but trolls troll.
Agroecology in Cuba (English Subtitles)
Turning off JavaScript in your browser will get you past the NYT paywall and many others.
I wrote a graphical tool with Lazarus that invokes ffmpeg. I used it to create clips to report cheaters in an online game, from videos created with OBS.

A word of warning: ffmpeg can't always cut where you want. Sometimes cutting in a certain point gives you a few blank (black screen) seconds. I guess it's because codecs work by storing what's different from previous frames.

If someone uses Lazarus (or maybe Delphi) it's as simple as:

s := Format('"C:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%s" -ss %s -c copy -t %s "%s"', [InputFile, Start, Duration, OutputFile]);

Memo1.Lines.Text := s;

WinExec(PChar(s), SW_SHOWDEFAULT);

With the parameters taken from TEdit controls. The TMemo was used to visualize what I was sending to ffmpeg.
Ask HN: What features does Prometheus based monitoring lack wrt. to APM tools?
I think many people here use Prometheus/Grafana for infra and application monitoring esp. in Kubernetes now. It is almost the default OSS solution.

What features you find that Prometheus/Grafana lacks compared to full-fledged APM like DataDog - which makes you consider trying a paid APM?

Some features which I can think of are reporting - like generating PDF reports to send it to team or management. Another is a visualization of overall infra - in terms of server maps and microservices in them, and graph of calls between them.

What are other such features you find lacking in Prometheus/Grafana compared to paid solutions?
You should focus your question then. It is very open ended and it seems like you are looking to make money as it is right now.

Different strokes for different folks.
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US National Archives
It would be interesting to see graphs of deaths for other reasons to compare numbers. For example deaths from starvation/malnutrition are likely increasing in India due to lockdown (https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/mar/29/...) and deaths due to cancer may increase due to patients' treatment being missed.
Seriously, that was ridiculous. Their bias is practically worn on the sleeve.

I will never forget the way the BBC "covered" Corbyn, with the heavy handed propaganda techniques and constant repetition of patently ridiculous smears. Meanwhile, that BoJo prick had his gaffes covered over, such as [1].

I'll never forget how the BBC "covered" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and David Kelly.

The original article mentions ever so briefly how the BBC "covered" the troubles - it was a constant stream of one sided filth for decades. To this day, coverage of those years remains sheer propaganda, though with less naked venom and foaming at the mouth.

So, when people write articles like this implying the BBC walks a tight rope of bias, my stomach churns. Like the Guardian, they never deserved their reputation and have gotten tremendously worse in the last decades.

[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-boris-joh...
Is someone aware of how popular tools do video trimming (also JPEG cropping).

I have been looking for lossless (reencode-less) trimming of videos since the end of 90s and always just found huge video editing tools that never had these features. And then ypu were stuck with some CLI tools where you need to count the number of frames or milliseconds or something like that. Like if a WYSIWYG tool isn‘t what most people would want to use.

How does the native iOS photo editing tool handle video trimming? And photo cropping? iMovie?
And what about google android tools? Or popular Windows tools?

I used to crop my photos with XnView, which supports lossless cropping. And I‘m always puzzled this hasn‘t really take off in other popular tools.

Lossless crop of photos and lossless trim of videos should always be included as a feature.

Reencoding sucks.
It’s a framework.

Similar questions are:

Why not build rails into ruby?

Why not build Django into python?

Why not build qt into c++?

It’s a programming flow and model, dom diffing is just one part of it.
It's violation of terms of service, and possibly a violation of contract, but it's clearly a civil matter, not a criminal one.
My Mother, the Tree
Because the DOM is a very specific style of API which is both extremely procedural and extremely heavy, your average DOM element is full of cross-links to other elements, so generating a DOM is both a pain in the ass and quite expensive. It's also extremely stateful, so while you could generate a new DOM and replace the old one you'd lose all information in flight e.g. focus.

Browsers might be able to provide a lighter vdom layer but… well first I'm not convinced the gain would be that big, and second what would the API be? It's not like there's a clear winner that has emerged, react is quite popular but hardly the only contender, and react has kept evolving its API so the sort of stability you'd want enshrined in a browser isn't exactly there.
Those 3 are the main, sharing the data in the end could be also a way to avoid future scrapings.
Is it possible that China is actually part of routable public Internet at all?

Should ICANN give each assigned IP block a flag to indicate whether it's capitalist or communist, so vendors can connect more carefully?
I think that the French and Italian patients being taken in charge by the German hospital won't give a f* that it is PR or not. They just want to survive and they sure will remember the german hand. Europe is a land of memory. We will not forget either the US actions.
Can I bounce this idea off you guys.

Would there be a market for a dba to charge maybe 100-200. Just comes in, listens to your DB use cases, and recommends various config/setting changes, hardware, etc?

It seems so much better than having a team of programmers study Postgres settings for a week. That was my last experience with it at least.
Wow this article and this thread is so full of useful information for getting started to ventur into DB management/engineering.
Absolutely. I don't pay to access data. All of my projects are around collecting data. I'm a master scraper ️

If you are curious, at https://rubini.solutions you can check out my other SaaS products =)
https://cycle.js.org/
Why wouldn't an automated interface be able to give similar recommendations ?
Yes, this is the point. They can also enjoy life like eating out and seeing movies, while not saving lives.

> poorer people trying to get the disease

Rich people like money too, so it would be most working people.

I'd be more interested in the percent of the population who continue to be carriers. What do you do with them? Lock them up for life?
All these comments about the reasoning behind the game are wrong. Hackers new econ is as narrow as possible.

Read this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-...

Monopoly is about the ideas of Henry George for one set of rules, versus our land enclosed rentier reality.
It sounds like now is a good time to learn a new skill for a few months. It would be unwise to quit now as a new job would not qualify for furloughing and if the economy turns worse you would be let go without any income.
Isn't this what the US just implemented too? You can apply for assistance through the CARES act for 100% of employee salaries and the loan is forgiven at the end if you don't lay off any of your employees
Sounds like it was the No Man's Sky of 1999.
This is past. The new hub is the US that is spreading it all over the American continent.
Done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZSoVidqV2Q
Still it might be an improvement over "whoever yells the loudest", which is the current situation.

And even though it has multiple interpretations, I only mean that at the technical implementation level.

Edit: downvotes because you hate QoS?

Edit2: Yes, I get the irony.
But is this a feature many actually used before? If it was used e.e. 10 hours prior and now 7.75 hours, it's insignificant.

A percent increase is a meaningless metric without the baseline. If it's "all azure" then we immediately know it's a huge increase! But if it's just a possibly seldom used feature it's minimal.
It usually works until it doesn’t.
Too bad the reviews put you off.

Despite major flaws, it was a fun game, and incredibly impressive back then. Way ahead of its time in certain regards.

You could shoot stuff out from under things and make them collapse realistically. If you shot a dinosaur on a hillside, his corpse would roll down. If you picked up a heavy object and swung it hard enough at the right moment, you could use it to fend off smaller dinosaurs. The bugs on the other hand were hilarious. E.g. if a wooden board got stuck in a door, closing that door might make the board turn at such speed that it slapped you to death on the spot.