skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rent to whoever pays and my tenant has a section 8 voucher and passed all the checks. They aren’t a bad tenant, but I rent to people who can pay - the government pays me because the tenant selected my unit and applied.
You could read Lee Smolin’s book about natural selection in black holes!
CXL and Gen-Z Iron Out a Coherent Interconnect Strategy
The fish/bug pictures are straight from the game. All of the other icons (hemisphere, bells, length, etc...) are made by a combination of my girlfriend / myself.
I’m trying to avoid looking at any outside guides for a good while, so I can experience things for myself.

But when I eventually give in, this guide will be handy!
To what benefit? To slightly reduce prices for a short period of time? At the cost of tens of billions in taxpayer money over the years?

We have a hundred times more oil in the ground than the strategize reserve can hold. It’s a political boondoggle.
Managing State in Pipedream Workflows
How can you find that convincing? I think it's too far to claim that if it weren't for Apple, we wouldn't have smartphones with paid apps.
There’s an official strategy guide available, so I would guess that was the original source.
I am under the impression that all the combinations of all configurations would still be small enough to present neatly maybe in a wizard.
"questionable business model => may collapse during a pandemic" is not equivalent to "may collapse during a pandemic => questionable business model".

(No comment on whether these things have a questionable business model, this is just how implication works.)
And yet we all know what they mean when they call those companies "startups". The term has drifted pretty far from its original meaning, but it does carry a new meaning even though it's almost completely different
Yes and no. Yes; lots of startups fail and now just fail sooner. No; many who would have otherwise found a foothold now have to re-examine their path forward.

The startup I worked for until last Thursday is going through this. Despite most other startups in the space folding and the sales team finally getting traction with lots of buyers giving a path to becoming a viable business, those companies that were eager to sign contracts a month ago are having to rethink their cashflow and deciding if changing anything in their existing business is worth the risk.
Tachyum Starts from Scratch to Etch a Universal Processor
Even on GNU/Linux distribution it is a settings that must be enabled first, but at least it tends to be present as a first-class option right from the start.

I can't stand those weird alt-codes Windows users end up memorizing. You only know those characters for which you've learned the codes. With the compose-key, you can guess anything that is diacritic character, and lots more besides¹.

I showed a colleague on a Windows computer WinCompose when she got wanted to be able to easily type a number of special characters (like en- and em-dash) without having to hunt for them in a character map or remember arcane alt-codes. She's not a developer, but it clicked instantly. Just think of a logical sequence, and get the character you want (for en- and em-dash its [compose - - .] and [compose - - -], respectively).

1: Like superscript numbers. Once you know that [compose ^ 1] yields ¹, you know ²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰ too.
On macbook, I use alfred : https://www.alfredapp.com/
It is freemium, and bookmarking feature is free.
It is much more than storing bookmarks though.
Yes, probably because of the shutdown. We are discouraged from complaining about it, so I'd like to know the best way I can help to address the problem.
Another thing that's more than half a decade old is your objection. The term "startup" has come to have a broad meaning. The meaning of words changes over time. Fortunately, new terms often come along to fill gaps. In this case there is the term early-stage startup.
Visualizing the Footprint of Highways in American Cities
Thanks for this. Tao’s comment made quite an impression on me, but important for outsiders like me to remember that the facts on the ground can change as time goes on.
It's a salt dome underground. You could drop bombs on it for months and not crack the dome.

They drilled into a salt dome in Mississippi, placed and detonated a nuclear bomb into it to see "what if". They didn't destroy the dome. It created a nice little pocket of highly radioactive salt that self-capped with melt material. The cavity got bigger, but the salt dome is still intact.

That kind of durability is what makes these kinds of structures perfect for geological storage.
For better or worse, in colloquial American English, "startup" means a particular type of company, and is only weakly correlated with age.
Even if you think politicians will make wise decisions with it, it’s not useful or necessary. We have hundreds of times more oil in the ground waiting for higher prices, no need to spend taxpayer money to force prices higher just to pump some into another hole.
DIY-face-masks (Work In Progress) including fabrics recommendations
> For start-up workers, the past few weeks have been sobering. Many had bought into the tech industry’s change-the-world ideals, had few boundaries between their work and personal lives and hoped for big payouts if their start-ups went public.

This saddened me, because it's a refrain that we hear over and over and over. Same exact thing happened during the .com bust (which scares me to believe that was 20 years ago already).

You can work really hard at a startup, put in a ton of energy, but at the end of the day, never forget it's just a business. It's a team, not a family, and in a team sometimes team members get cut. I've also found that the best folks in business tend to have rich, fulfilling lives outside of business as well.
I think the school of effective altruism* would say you have to be rich to do a lot of good.

One could even argue Bill Gates' comfort of not cooking, shopping or cleaning for himself is good, given he uses is power/wealth for good more efficiently if he doesn't do chores. (putting has past aside for arguments sake)

So I'd say it usually is immoral, unless you use almost all your wealth to do good.* *

It gets really interesting if we ask if being rich is immoral. I'm not rich in my country, but I'm rich compared to people in other countries. Does this, especially with our colonialist past (and present), make me immoral? I think it does and yet it would help little if I lived a more frugal life either.

I'm living a compromise and it's biased towards my well being. I'm living very moderate, what I don't need I save for later, not much travel either. And yet I own good speakers, purely for my pleasure, financed by my privilege of being a white male in the "western world".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

* * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdro3Zz5YsM ;)
Sure. Good luck !
People often (wrongly) refer to pre-IPO companies as startups.

Chick-fil-a, the chicken sandwich 40 year old startup.
It would also reduce supply of locations, increasing the amount people would have to pay. Do this enough, and it would no longer be economically feasible.
See PostgREST!
“Simple country doctor” touts Corona cure
Yep it is strange the author chose to focus on startups here. Almost every single company will be negatively impacted in the next few months to years (save for a handful of companies like Amazon/Walmart).
U.S. Interstate Highways, as a Transit Map
Zoom has signed HIPAA BAAs. I doubt they're jumping in on meetings when there's a risk of patient health history being discussed
> "If I can't search the file for this variable and find it easily, it's a bad name"

Like parent mentions, this is about scoping. My rule about short variables is that I have to see their _full_ use (including declaration) in only a few lines on the screen.

Personally I prefer single letter variables especially in lambdas for consistency (x, y, z).
> it shifted from HoReCa (hotels/restaurants/catering) to groceries

Some did, but take the tomato example in the article. Almost every sandwich from a restaurant will have a tomato slice. Home-made sandwiches, not as much. Some for sure, but less.

> People don't suddenly need less food during a pandemic

They might eat less, and they certainly eat differently. The US is overweight; it already needs less food than is produced. There's a good chance people are less active, so they need fewer calories, and produce tends to be low in calories, anyway. The only calorically interesting food in the story was milk. Milk sales have been in decline for a while, so this mostly school government milk not reflecting at-home consumption, and large amounts of cheese used by restaurants.
> It's a world-view you'd expect of unreconstructed pre-Enlightenment aristocrats, or maybe a society dominated by a violent slave-owning elite.

This really hit home for me. It has always struck me as supremely odd, the civilization-breakdown fantasies that people have when I suggest that everyone in a society, not just the police, have easy and unrestrained access to arms, as advocated by many throughout history. This seems to be their worldview: without the threat of cop (with superior firepower than any random person), that society will devolve into this immediately, every fender bender or bit of road rage turning into life or death conflict.

It’s plainly wrong on its face, even without invoking the reality that there are many peaceful and prosperous places in the US wherein the private arms significantly outnumber those of the state.

I have tried for a long time to understand this view, and Charlie just dropped in the missing puzzle piece. This almost makes up for how wrong he’s been about bitcoin.
But the "give way more money to the startup" really peaked in 2018, when we didn't have a bad economy.
Just use your Mayor's private email server. They'll be sure to acid wash the drives when they leave office.
Ok, we've taken tautological deadliness out of the title above.

Let's discuss the topic now? (Or nothing. Nothing is always an option.)
Beyond the obviously partisan slant of the article, I'm genuinely curious about logical conversation and supporting data to the claims this Doctor makes
I mean, I’m enjoying the show, but this changes nothing. Very few people claim to understand the proof and some of the few that do think it’s wrong.

Contrast with Wiles, where they _did_ understand it, they _did_ find a gap in his proof and he fixed it to everyone’s satisfaction.
I duplicated the paper to see how the controllers performed on arbitrary bike proportions and rough terrain, its neat that so little can balance a bike
-The very problem Sweden causes for Russia is described in the story; Sweden can effectively prevent the Russian Baltic fleet from exercising power in the Baltic or, for that matter - keep it holed up in the Baltic sea if the Russian admiralty should order it to brave the Kattegat and Skagerrak straits to venture into the North Sea.

The Russians aren’t concerned that Sweden are going to invade them anytime soon; they are concerned that, should the Russians get a bit carried away in their geopolitics-by-force games, the Swedes may be a heck of a nuisance.
Show HN: Duo – Curated Color Combinations
You know, the schoolkid's backpack.
I guess they were engaged in a form of carry trade and are trying to unwind their trade now, so to speak.
The alternative for a beginner is rm -rf repo && git clone repo

How is that better?
It means they're VC-backed webapps from San Francisco?
LOL. The US has hundreds of times more oil than the reserve can hold, just in other holes in the ground, or in shale.

The idea that pumping it from one hole to another is disaster insurance is ludicrous.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? I feel like we've asked you this a zillion times. It doesn't take much mozgi to figure out how to do this, or why.
Sounds like the story was "Everest", which was indeed written by Asimov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_(short_story)
So "startup" now means "company" and "early-stage startup" means "startup". I look forward to having to call them "incipient early-stage startup".
Indeed making stuff and selling online only that is delivered to doorsteps. Of course we have Amazon now, but as we can see they are slammed and no one wants to wait weeks for essentials.. if fear indeed kills all businesses where germs are spread then we need a few Amazons.

A great business for the GetArounds of the world is to focus on using their capital to create things that are in demand now and will continue to be in demand until a proven vaccine is found. That could take weeks, months, years and those with the capital now who shifted to meet demand will survive. Those who wait for a vaccine and who didnt change gears will be mostly gone. They waited thinking this will soon pass and yes the curve might be flattened soon, but the fear and how it changes society (until we have a proven vaccine) will remain!
How could Apple not “notice” that an app won’t let you get pass the login screen without a paid subscription.
The original paper is pretty interesting, and much more nuanced than Stross’s summary.

“Our claim is most controversial,and tenuous, regarding the idea of elite panic.We believe that elites panic just as non-elites do. Because the positions they occupy command the power to move resources, elite panic is more consequential than public panic.”

The paper overall references the fact that that historically, people in authority assume the public will panic, and most data suggests that they don’t. And ‘elites’ in this context means those in authority, not “rich and/or privileged people”.

They actually discus three possibilities: that
1) elites fear panic
2) elites cause panic
3) elites themselves panic

However, the paper certainly doesn’t suggest that ‘elites’ are somehow more prone to panic than the rest of society.

“Elites and Panic : more to fear than fear itself”
Clarke and Chess

Pdf at
https://moscow.sci-hub.tw/2964/7c0b4f9dec1b897ad09a6565ffbfc...
Very unlikely that someone going to the laundromat cannot afford a laundry machine.

Many buildings, houses, simply cannot accommodate a laundry machine, many prohibit installation.

Many will go to the laundromat because of convenience.
Yes, I did. Is an iPhone a PlayStation 4 now? Because having dealt with both SDKs, I can tell you there isn't really a comparison.
I can't speak for what "big tech" does, but I can say that when I worked in enterprise IT, we took the stance that nobody should have any expectation of any privacy on their laptops... but then rarely actually tracked any thing. On the rare occasions that we did track, it was due to an investigation of some sort, and there was an audit trail of who were were monitoring and why. It was never about productivity - that is between you and your boss.

The exception to this was web filtering - if you tried to access a site that was not allowed, someone got an email. That someone was pretty reasonable... they understood the occasional hit on a flagged site because you followed a link. They were more concerned about patterns of poor choices.
Exploring an Encrypted Penguin with AES-ECB
IMO it should be possible to build a CRDT-style, eventually-consistent, distributed DB using PG. Normalize to the max, and then normalize more, have instances publish replication for log schemas, have a layer of instances that publish merged logs, and have instances subscribe to and apply (CRDT-style) those merged logs.
I've always struggled with the 9-5 and M-F. It never fit my energy levels. For coding, I'm often most productive in the evening. Mornings are often really slow for me.

And with kids at home, a long contiguous block of time is almost impossible.
Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country
Roughly. I would broaden the colloquial meaning to "new-wave tech companies". Ones from the past decade that aren't FAANG and maintain an agile culture (or at least purport to), and have a certain San Francisco sheen to them even if they aren't actually from there
He has been doing that for years. Are you even familiar with the situation?
Florida government websites do have these warnings, as well as in email auto responders.
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but they are creating liquidity in the car rental market! /s
You say exploitation, I say more opportunity than they had before.
The title "Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges" isn't quite accurate. The footage is of Whaddon Hall, rather than Bletchley Park. Whaddon Hall was MI6, whereas Bletchley Park was GCHQ (GC&CS back then).

The title of the linked article uses the wording "Bletchley Park-linked" which seems more accurate!
This. People don't think things out. She probably heard or knew someone who did this and "made a killing" and decided to follow suit. I can see the allure, buy the care you want even if you don't have the cash and use to one clever trick to make payments.
The cost of licensing, manufacturing, cert etc in those days was quite high, yes. To be fair they were offering many services for that cost that you couldn't get elsewhere at the time. These days publishing on consoles is much cheaper and in some cases they've waived or eliminated many of the fees you used to have to pay for. In the XBox 360 days the certification process to push a build to consoles could itself cost you upwards of a thousand dollars depending on the circumstances, though it's my understanding that the fees would be waived in some cases (for bug fixes, etc). This was largely a necessity to prevent a broken build being shipped to 100k customers (because in those days it wasn't reasonable to expect everyone to download a 1gb patch), not as important now.

Steam is the best 1:1 approximation to the App Store and it predates it somewhat. The comparison isn't exact since they don't lock down your PC but they offer most of the same features.
Yes, Airbnb will be better off because they've offloaded all the risk on the hosts -- which is really what we're talking about here. Sure there were some hosts just renting out their basement suite but many others were effectively running makeshift hotels by buying up properties. Those people are going to be in big trouble.
Thoughts on Our Future
I feel like you are now vigorously explaining that the other poster was right, that we should use some other name.
Completely agree. I find the terms startup and scaleup as useful. Both aim for the same thing, but are in very different phases (pre/post business model validation). Then of course, in reality it's not that clear whether you're one or the other....
> that surplus of canned goods would mean...healthier meals for everyone

Canning tends to use lots of sugar or salt.

> There's argument to be made for canning the surplus on the grounds of derisking

You need staples in this scenario, not pickles.
Not sure I follow? Certain things are made in sweatshops, which many people consider "bad". Not everything is manufactured in a sweatshop.
https://archive.md/Xnbvv
Black death, black swan, black friday – post-virus world
DevonThink native apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Includes markdown notes, web scraper, full text search, per-group client side encryption, cross-device sync via self-hosted webdav or public cloud services. They have been around for many years, indie devs in Germany, quick response to support emails.

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The National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers: Covid-19 Assistance
https://archive.md/tHwp4
> And yet we all know what they mean when they call those companies "startups".

That isn't true at all. These companies were startups almost a decade ago, but since then they already matured and strayed very far from the classification. This is like calling a 40yo man a teenager just because he was one in the distant past.
Ask HN: Can electrical stimulation of respiratory muscles cancel ventilator need
Demand for ventilators has surged catalysing bidding wars, and people towards trying to produce mechanical ventilators with different designs and suitability to be mass produced.

What prevents electrical stimulation instead of a mechanical one from being considered? Would electrical stimulation of respiratory muscles and/or phrenic nerve make it easier to control ventilatory ratio by finding the sweet spot, and adapting, to simultaneously avoid hypercapnia and preserve the lungs?

Something akin to pacemakers and stimulation/control on His-Purkinje networks.

Would these devices not be more easily mass produced, sourced, and shipped?

All I have seen are purely mechanical contraptions that produce positive air pressure, with no control system or feedback to adjust to patient condition and no way for healthcare providers to easily control them, in terms of tidal volume for example. These contraptions have no sensors either to detect patient attempts to breathe.

Would the medical professionals among you help me understand this?

I would like to understand if this is possible and why is this not considered and what makes mechanical ventilation the de facto solution:

- Negative pressure from within (mimic natural respiration) vs positive air pressure from the outside (forced air)

- Damage to the lungs (high tidal volume) vs hypercapnia

- Controllability: detect signals in nerves or muscles and amplify and adapt to patient condition and/or to healthcare professional commands

- Data acquisition and data modeling: wouldn't electrical stimulation make modeling respiratory activity easier by acquiring data (respiratory muscles, oxygen saturation, pressure variation) and map them to recovery?
I think it's important to separate "the bubble" pricking from the very arbitrary nature of which industries are affected by coronavirus. I mean, for travel, restaurants, gyms, non-emergency healthcare etc. it's a great depression, while for distance learning, Amazon, videoconferencing, gaming, etc. it's boom times. But it's not like travel, restaurants etc. are inherently bad businesses.
Amazing!

There are plenty of song on his YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGRABtFGU7ng79NqF0KuIQ/vid...
Where are the world's cruise ships?
I guess startup is generally understood now to mean a VC-backed company that doesn't make any money.
Exactly. Corner the econ 101 student and this is their last pathetic little cry on any number of topics. But the liquidity!!!
Pet peeve: An expatriate isn't like an ex-skier, it comes from "to expatriate", ie to drive out of one's country, like "excommunicate" or "excise". Something that has been excised wasn't formerly cised.