skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that looking at dollars purely nominally is not representative of the economy or the value of a company. Apple might have a stock price of 2017 (they don't but for the sake of argument) but the phones they deliver are not 2017, they are state-of-the-art.

Its not like 1 year of no profits turns a company into 0 value, its about the long term prospects.
I am a Russian living abroad. I know literally no one coming back to Russia for Easter. It's the first time I even heard of this idea.

Summer or New Year are the times when Russians are more likely to go to visit their relatives and friends.
تحميل لعبة رمي السهام Arrow Go ابدء با صيد الاعداء بالقوس رابط مباشر
HTTPS: //medium.com/me/stats/post/4b4544546d5
Rearranging the deck chairs won't save stackoverflow.com.
I was actually kind of surprised that my spouse's new company car did not come with either Google Maps or OpenStreetMap but instead credits the map data to some mapping company from eastern Europe if I remember correctly -- the data looks like whitelabeled TomTom or HERE data.

I just wish they would either augment their data with OSM or augment OSM with their data: now, with proprietary data, the data was already old when we got the car, and the fixes I contributed to OSM are obviously not in there.

Instead of contracting some middle man for inferior map data, they could have used completely free (as in beer) data for the regions where OSM is more up to date and complete than any commercial provider (empirically, this is most of the land mass on earth plus countries with a lot of mapping enthusiasts and/or free government data, like Germany and the Netherlands).
Ask HN: How do make use of your apple pencil?
I'd love to make more use of my apple pencil but have to admit I've been constantly frustrated with the apps available on iOS.

While coding I often make rough sketches on sheets of A4 paper. I've always liked drawing, and find visually encoding information really important.

I'm often frustrated that it's hard to quickly export sketches/notes to other apps I might be working with. I feel like there should be better workflows/solutions available but perhaps I just haven't found them.

Does anyone else have this kind of challenge? Or have insights into how they make productive use of their iPad and apple pencil??
Shitting on the US is the internet’s favorite pass time. If anything the guy would get kudos for writing it.
Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
At least he is doing it. You can't say that of other so called billionaires
I thought you were going to swerve into a point but looks like you ran out of gas before then. Regardless, thanks for pumping the breaks and bailing out.
It's not just bandwidth, it's also storage at instagram scale, but mostly because neither instagram nor the vast majority of their users find much utility in high resolution.
> Not all the time, though.

And to drive the point home even more: many high-status politicians in Western countries have contracted COVID-19 and it's uncertain how many more will, and how many will die. Also: uncertainty creates a panic of its own.
Not the cooling equipment that ensures they don't have a meltdown. Those must stay on all day every day.
That's Frank Calegari's writing at https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2017/12/17/the-abc-con... not Tao's. Tao left a comment there: https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2017/12/17/the-abc-con...
This strikes me as wishful thinking and also incredibly myopic about the realities facing many startups.

A startup that recently closed a big round (and the need to close the round wasn’t necessitated by massive debt or existing expenses — so think almost all of the money can be used as future runway) might be in a better short-term position than a business that is relying on net-30 or net-90 payments from clients that might not come and that will struggle gaining new revenue needed to pay bills. This is especially true if the startup can pause or slow-down hiring for now to extend the runway — but that’s a short-term advantage.

Longer term, there is absolutely nothing inherent to being a “startup” that will make it any better at weathering the future than any other type of business. And when investments come back — and it could take years, we just don’t know at this point the extent of the economic situation — it is the biggest/best-connected that will benefit. Plenty of startups won’t ever be able to raise that future round. Plus, they get the additional disadvantage of trying to figure out an actual business model during a recession. At least existing businesses — even if they don’t survive — had a working business plan in place first.

> I've got friends in manufacturing, hospitality, services, and so on that will not return to work because their businesses are going to or have already failed, for good. That's the fucking terrifying thing happening right now and it's more deserving of attention than us tech bros.

This is the only part I agree with. I don’t want to see any business fold — but I’m much more concerned about people who aren’t venture-backed founders right now.
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People whine about amazon, but it's apple that are the real monopolists, determined to control the whole market and then abuse that power.
I use pinboard for bookmarks. I put tons of tags on each link so I can look at them later.

For work related notes I use Onenote and put To-Do things on my google calendar
Most businesses operate that way for the same reason Starbucks doesn't check your ID every time you go to the counter to pick up a coffee. It's cheaper to just make another coffee in the rare scenario someone takes someone else's cup than to slow down everything. It is the optimal happy path that leads to far more productivity.
They are using the TSMC 7nm process, so they would even have a slight process advantage vs. the best Intel chips. The Itanium never made it beyond 32nm. Trade-offs at 7nm might work out quite differently than at 32nm. The latest Itanium chips had 3 billion transistors - that is small compared to the over 8 billion transistors of an iPhone A13 processor. So the "monster" chip Itanium - large and power consuming - would possibly make a decent mobile processor with todays technology.
Good thing we have search engines. If I want to find a good or service, I'll go look up reviews or the like. Ads only serve to sell me things that I don't need, in the vast majority of cases. I think it's fair to say that making people want more stuff is socially negative.
YouTube profits from videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatments
The recession might produce more tech bootstrappers
The point is not the crypto, but what WebRTC supports. As of now it does not. See https://webrtchacks.com/you-dont-have-end-to-end-encryption-... for reference
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494
> and Zoom claims to be GDPR compliant.

That's the thing, though. Zoom also claimed to be end-to-end encrypting with AES-256. If they were willing to lie about that, what's not to say they're willing to lie about GDPR compliance?
Hey there,

Sure.

1 - Please read https://treendly.com/tech and https://treendly.com/models - those should answer this =)

2 - We are still in the process of dealing with special characters in our search. But, it's coming along! Right now you can search in pretty much all languages that do not require special chars (English, Italian, etc..).

3 - Spams? I don't understand the question

Thanks for commenting!
Not to mention VCs becoming more risk averse — not wanting to throw good money after bad. So not only does it need to be a profitable exit, it needs to be profitable at a good multiplier compared to every other business seeking investment.
> numbers should probably be shift-typed

I tried this for a week several years ago; it was not a success. Aside from all the muscle memory re-learning, I also found that I used the number more often than I had thought.

What I do these days just make Vim abbreviations; for example 1= becomes !=, ;= becomes :=, etc.
2nd movement of this sonata (the Andante sostenuto) is one of the most perfect things ever created by humans.
C. elegans too has a photoreceptor which doubles as a taste receptor

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31518-5
How likely is a total economic collapse due to the potential coronavirus impact?
It's better to use heat pumps.
I’m assuming you aren’t in the US. Well I am in the US and if I lost my job in the current climate, I think I would have a hard time trying to find a job. I’ve never felt that way before - not in 2000 or 2008-2010. So your friends are far from unique. The entire global economy is screwed.

Assuming you’re trying to start a lifestyle software business, your startup costs should be cheap thanks to cloud providers or just using something like VMs.
There is gameplay actually, but it is more of an adventure game where you are trying to solve environmental puzzles than an action shooter. Action shooters were incredibly popular at the time and anything remotely first person with realtime 3D graphics had the expectation to be one, so that also played a role (remember that even System Shock released earlier was often criticized for essentially not being a Doom clone).

These days there are more games that have similar gameplay where you are trying to solve puzzles with physics and i'm certain a remake of Trespasser that was mostly the same but with more robust subsystems would play great.

The main issue was really that the subsystems that the gameplay relied on were very janky - physics kinda worked (though they worked much better than what the article seems to imply), player control was wonky, IK/animations often spazzed out, etc.
Hey, just a heads up: the "thx", "u", and spelling mistakes make your comment less attractive to read. I'm not saying your English has to be flawless, but things like using "u" instead of "you" is a choice.
Still hoping for a 3rd novel in the Freyaverse. It doesn't have to be named Uranus's Spawn.
> It's only ideological if you are ideologically wedded to the ideas that are destroying the western world.

That's quite an oxymoron. But also an interestingly constructed sentence!

Ideologues always feel that the mods are against their view. Interestingly, this feeling has nothing to do with the content of the ideology—only the intensity of the commitment. People on both sides say the same things, such as "I never, ever see anyone admonished for $opposite" and "this is simply a comment that doesn't match your view". A few examples going the other way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706668. (Edit: lest any of you actually believe those comments, that bit is flipped here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22705507)

> lower taxes because govt wastes money, I never, ever see anyone admonished for this

We admonish that sort of comment all the time when it's doing ideological battle rather than curious conversation. In fact the boilerplate line about taxation has been an example I've used for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The reason why opposing ideologues have opposite pictures of moderator/site bias is that you (i.e. all of us) are more likely to notice the posts you dislike and disagree with, and to weight them more strongly. Over time, these impressions accrue into an overall picture of the site. But it's an inverted picture of your own preferences! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Doesn’t seem any different than peering agreements between network providers.
Many societies with turmoil have managed to resolve the situation and went back to normal. Surely that depends on the attitudes of people, and especially leadership, on how to deal with the situation.

Zombie television presents violence as the only option and the enemy as an incurable and unsavable evil. If the only option shown is to kill and build walls, then that's what they are programmed to do.

In the real world people can always come together and compromise, share ressources and help each other. The foundation for this has to be built in peacetime.
It would also be extremely strange to publish a result like a proof of the ABC conjecture in a third-tier journal where you are an editor (actually, the editor-in-chief) rather than a top-tier journal.
People often forgot that its a Security-Usabilty scale, with perfect security on one side and perfect usability on the other. An unplugged computer is perfectly secure, while a computer wide open is perfectly usable. But neither is usually preferable.

As with most things, its a trade off.
I'm curious, why did you remove syntax highlight. I feel like I couldn't function properly if I didn't have my Dracula themed VS Code.
You can stay informed while also not wanting to fall into the 24hr news cycle drama.

I don’t think it’s healthy personally for me to read every bit of information on it I see. I’m staying at home, I’d rather be doing something productive and check in every few days.
Reminds me of colorguard/winterguard.
The data seems to back you up, so I stand corrected. [0]

I was basing it on my own experience pricing the rental unit I've managed in Berkeley for the last 21 years. Each year I do a rent survey for the East Bay, and that was based on my experience there, but the East Bay is a little less price sensitive in both directions compared to SF, so that's probably the difference.

[0] https://medium.com/@mccannatron/1979-to-2015-average-rent-in...
The center region of the bay area will hold its value longer while the outskirts will drop earlier. Basically people will "move up" when there is an opportunity to be closer to their job. Remember not all people will lose jobs during this downturn so some will take it as an opportunity to buy. If nothing else the bay area has great weather to offer.
Can an Old Vaccine Stop the New Coronavirus?
Keeping abreast of all news is important, but it's quite impossible to do unless you make a conscious effort to break out of the current news cycle.

If you follow the news, you know there's a pandemic going on, and you know there's a wealth of information out there if you need it. But if you're skimming headlines on most aggregators, that's more or less all you get to know (with the notable exception of gripe-pieces/love-letters concerning the Trump administration).

The cognitive overhead of filtering out all that redundant information, and the accompanying bullshit hot-takes by self-aggrandizing bloggers masquerading as journalists can be so exhausting that you risk giving up or developing tunnel-vision around it.

It's hard not to remember to check for pandemic updates even if you do deliberately filter them out of the news - it directly effects you.

I think this plug-in is a very good idea, and should make it easier to stay informed with respect to the bigger picture of the world.

Missing a couple articles lamenting our circumstances isn't really going to save that many lives.
The last post I saw on this topic was horrible with a bunch of people with, I'm guessing, no expertise and no opinion on the topic a month ago certain that the CDC had made an epic mistake. My sense is that coronavirus discussions in general have been getting more strongly worded as people are getting more worried or personally impacted and the topics have already been discussed at length. Combine that with most news media being mostly coronavirus news these days and I think many people would prefer that HN be mostly coronavirus-free.
I guess I'm asking what you think Nim offers that julia doesn't here. Is it just syntax?
The article mentions they use Bezier curves over the HSB colorspace.

> I used Lyft’s amazing Colorbox to help normalize our colors. Instead of a naive linear scale at 10% increments, I used bezier curves—a vast improvement at the more extreme ends of the scale.

Linear HSB is very naive, but HSB is still quite naive. It's just a cylindrical version of a color space optimized for displays, not human perception.

I don't understand why they wouldn't instead opt for the CIELAB color space, or its cylindrical equivalent. IBM does this, and it gives them effortless support for dark mode, by just flipping the luminance component of colors:

https://www.ibm.com/design/language/color

You can visualize the CIELAB behind IBM's color scheme here:

https://cielab.io/ (go to "IBM Carbon")
Firefox is extremely profitable. Years ago they took in 30 million per year just by having google as their default search engine.
I think it was more a jab at Zoom being buggy and (in light of recent revelations) inadequately secure - that is, implying that those 700 employees are obviously not doing development or QA given the state of the product.
https://treendly.com/trend/Fitness?geo=FR

There's a huge uptick for fitness gear and it seems not being signalled.

All gear in France and Belgium are sold out. I'm pretty sure it's elsewhere too.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Joo_Janta_200_Super-Chro...
A vaccine that was developed a hundred years ago to fight the tuberculosis scourge in Europe is now being tested against the coronavirus by scientists eager to find a quick way to protect health care workers, among others.

The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine is still widely used in the developing world, where scientists have found that it does more than prevent TB. The vaccine prevents infant deaths from a variety of causes, and sharply reduces the incidence of respiratory infections.

The vaccine seems to “train” the immune system to recognize and respond to a variety of infections, including viruses, bacteria and parasites, experts say. There is little evidence yet that the vaccine will blunt infection with the coronavirus, but a series of clinical trials may answer the question in just months.
I know I shouldn't feed these sorts of trollish remarks, but if it really bothers you, you can always just use https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl
Yeah, gun brandishing incidents is a really weird thing to get worked up about. Gun homicides, sure - but those have been going down in the US since the 90s. (Despite the assault weapons ban expiring. Funny, that)
Collection of CSS Accordions
same here. what a weird idea
A troll linking to a pdf file. Not suspicious at all.
Today? Nothing. But when someone looks at this 10 years in the future, they will be left guessing and assume it was the pandemic that was the cause as opposed to something else.
And I still think Mootools is better than jQuery
Different architectures scale differently with the transistor count. Clock speed for traditional desktop/server chips hasn't increased a lot over the last decade. A lot of transistors have been thrown at speculative execution to increase the effective speed by implicitly creating parallelism. Besides the security problems associated with speculative execution, this is an uphill battle. Explicit parallelism is an interesting alternative. One reason, that the Itanium failed, was that it was considered huge and power-hungry. And indeed its transistor count was high compared to the x86 chips of the time. But times have changed. The 3 billion transistors of the last-gen Itanium look almost tiny compared to the over 8 billion transistors in Apples A13.
Diigo. It just works. Has plugins and mobile apps, as well as an outline building tool for research. One of the few tools I started paying for before the trial was over. They also have a free plan.

I don't remember bookmarks, we remember sentences, phrases, or images, so why not just grab those?

My rule is if I'm reading something that I'm not instantly applying, I might as well keyword it and highlight anything that I might want to remember.

The results? It is super handy to have a search engine to quickly look up something.

Creating your own tags in a way you remember, also can be really helpful.

There's no reason other tools couldn't accomplish the same, but I've been using Diigo for over 10y without too much issue.

Happy to look at other alternatives.
Show HN: Dashboard comparing Covid-19 spread over time by US state/county
"Intervention: Wearing N95 Mask Intervention Effectiveness: 91%"

I addressed this in my reply: this was based on two studies, both about transmission of the virus to other people. Moreover, the people doing the meta-analysis explicitly say that the evidence for using an N95 mask over a plain-old surgical mask is weak. The confidence interval extends from 0.03 to 0.30...in other words, the evidence is weak.

So basically, this study supports the CDC's guidelines: masks might help prevent you from spreading your infection to others. They don't support your claim ("wearing an N95 mask reduces your chances of contracting SARS by 91%") in any way.

"What the meta-analysis is saying is that wearing any mask + gloves + gown + handwashing is about the same effectiveness as wearing just an N95 mask."

It is absolutely not saying this. It is saying that the combined intervention is dramatically more effective than wearing a mask alone, except for two studies that explicitly talk about transmission. You don't understand what you're reading, and you're spreading misinformation.
From Terry Tao's comment:

> It seems bizarre to me that there would be an entire self-contained theory whose only external application is to prove the abc conjecture after 300+ pages of set up, with no smaller fragment of this setup having any non-trivial external consequence whatsoever.

This seems like the crux of the controversy: what is the true value in the 300+ "pages of set up"? Clearly he's providing a new framing for the problem. If that new framing ends up being applicable to other problems (which was presumably the author's intent), then the "pages of set up" are the true value here, not the proof of the abc conjecture itself.

When Tao says, "no smaller fragment of this setup having any non-trivial external consequence whatsoever"—this is a comment about the state of things so far—but whether that will change is unknown.

Maybe all of that "set up" ends up having no more general utility whatsoever, or maybe we shouldn't even expect to have found external consequences yet: very fundamental re-framings may be very disconnected from applications. Maybe Mochizuki has found one path from the new framing back into an area of contemporary mathematical interest, and maybe further exploration will yield an abundance of new paths—maybe some highways.

Anyway just playing devil's advocate since the prevailing stance on this seems to be against Mochizuki in a way that feels odd to me.
Obviously - I was referring to when you have a SFU, such as Jitsi and comparable to zoom.

The concept of e2e encryption doesn’t even make sense in p2p, the fact that direct communication between two peers is “end to end encrypted” is self evident. It’s only when there is a central server that talking about e2e as a concept is relevant.
Sweden can do jack shit if Russia _really_ decides it needs to go somewhere, even without the nukes. Their submarine fleet is 4th largest by vessel count, and likely 2nd strongest (after the US) by strength. Much of it is also nuclear, so you don't really know where it is at any given time - a few subs are always parked in the Atlantic just in case. Sweden also has 1/14th the population of Russia, and 1/4th the population of Ukraine. I don't see what Sweden could do with this (im-)balance of power with a few puny conventional submarines and why anyone in the Russian Navy would be afraid of anything they can possibly do.
Show HN: A dotnet library to get the read time estimate for HTML or Markdown
I highly recommend against downloading chrome extensions from unvetted third parties especially those which interact with LinkedIn. They are a VERY common vector for Malware, either to scrape your own contact details, to scrape your connections, or to do any manner of shady things.

There is a long and deep history of LinkedIn related chrome extensions that I won't get into. Many are a violation of LI's TOS. Most have to do with Lead sourcing for sales organizations. A lot of LI information ends up getting resold on grey market sites. Just don't do it. The convenience isn't worth it.
Are there not case insensitive ublock origin filters?