skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is essentially how we broke apart long streams into manageable archive files at Justin.tv. You can get slightly better decoder behavior if you’re careful about where you make the cut: some frames are encoded as a difference from the previous frame and others are self-contained. If you cut before one of the self-contained frames, the decoder can start immediately instead of throwing away some data.
Boeing 737MAX: Automated Crashes [video]
Medtronic: One ventilators is made up of more than 1,750 parts and 1M LOC
"Average skill labor" would not account for a reasonable comparison in standards of living. It takes the exact same amount of "average skill labor" to perform a string quartet in 2020 as it did in 1720, but the cost today is far higher than it was back then, if assessed via a reasonable consumption basket (perhaps involving chained comparisons over time, etc.). That's no coincidence, of course; performing a string quartet is the rare case of a good/service that has not been made cheaper by technological progress and growth.

Comparing by food prices, while ultimately a bit more reasonable, would plausibly err in the other direction since food prices have radically fallen in modern times. It's very helpful to expand the basket beyond food, and additional historical data helps take a guess at questions like "how much would good X have been valued in Roman times, if it was available on the market?"
The article mentions nothing to your counter. The article talks simply about food. My point was, as you quoted, wages have not kept up with rent/healthcare/education. Food is one only member of what one spends on. (Also note, if you compare wages to cost-of-living, avoid studies which conveniently leave out rent/housing/healthcare/college. If you narrowly define anything you can make it look good.)

You are more likely to skimp on food than rent. If you skimp on rent, you end up homeless. Sure, initially, you can squeeze into smaller and smaller apartments, but eventually you're homeless. You can skimp on healthcare and education, or you can skimp on food -- where you dont see the effect immediately.

Food being a bargain doesnt help if you have barely anything left over to spend on food.

Secondly w/r/t food quality, as the article mentions, quoted below, some foods have gotten cheaper (sugar, soybeans) while others (meat, eggs) have gotten more expensive. This is another problem being discussed on this thread -- what you get for the money is not really what you need nutritiously. Sure, perhaps you dont starve, but you end up obese from eating the worst sorts of foods.

from artlicle: "That may be true in general terms, and as NPR's Marilyn Geewax reported in February, soybeans, sugar and wheat are all cheaper than they were a few years ago.

But as we've reported, there has been volatility in the price of plenty of other food items. And key staples like beef and eggs are actually more expensive these days than they have been."
> All of these need to be normalized per capita. Otherwise you don't see the true extent of the problem.

Normalizing per capita replaces the true extent of the problem with the true relative local impact of the problem; both are significant.
I tried it out and it doesn't seem to support unicode well.

I searched for "学校" (Japanese: gakkou, school) in Japan and the results page was headed with "%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1".

Additionally, the actual results weren't great; it found a 2014 movie and a handful of Amazon/Youtube searches that aren't accurate. Some of the Youtube search results weren't even Japanese, but Chinese.

Just in case I'd weirdly picked a bad word (dubious since school closings etc. are all over the news), I also tried パンくん (Japanese: pan-kun, the name of a chimpanzee who was famous for being with Shimura Ken, a recently deceased comedian), which is currently trending on Twitter.

I didn't get any trend information at all.
Lower doesn't mean anything, when compared relatively

You have to compare the wealth of the rich guy with the average wealth at the time not with today's standards...

And even today, 2$ a day seem low but it's about how much the US government is giving away as aid too poor people to eat (it's about 3.4$ a day)

It doesn't mean anything if it's not compared with something that has the same base (hence my whole comment about Roman food cost that should include expenses for keeping the military state running)
The way it's presented makes a huge difference. People are obliterated for any political opinion if presented in a way that treats politics like a game instead of something that affects everyone.

Make a polite, clear-headed enough argument for something like eugenics and people will upvote you. It's troubling, but I can make a pro-socialism post under the same conditions. It's an uneasy peace.
Perhaps the solution is to stop publicly funding the BBC (and NPR)? They are popular enough to survive on their own. Then all of the arguments are moot.
They mention this in the article
Rebasing your branch with the master/release branch is fine as long as there is coordination. I much prefer rebasing as it keeps the history clean. Also, you're more than okay to rebase your branch with remote, providing your commits haven't been pushed yet (i.e. git rebase origin HEAD).
Very interesting and nicely done. I could see lots of uses for this.

One possible glitch. I searched for “.net” (as in the programming framework) and got no google searches. Maybe am escaping issue there too?
I like this set of graphs with commentary:

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/
Masts torched over 5G coronavirus claims
It's still early on in the pandemic. The vast majority of the people who will die from it still haven't yet. It's way too early to be putting ceilings on the overall death rate.
Language Degeneracy
There are different antibodies being tested though. So there's a good chance a properly working mAb (not inducing Antibody Dependent Enhancement) will happen.
He is handling the problem created by his lack of preparation like he handles his pornstar problems. With money and bullying.

Nevermind that end of February the government still sold off particle respirators and masks to the highest bidder.

The only good news here is that after this is over many other western countries will finally get over the idea that the US is their friend and take a much needed pragmatic approach - especially when it comes to the sourcing of telco equipment.
I opened the page and tried to register but got "Too many requests" message. Any reason for that?

Edit: Also, the website field doesn't accept at least some ccTLD's.
to anyone working on such hacks, I love this. It reminds me a little bit on how Sococo lays out its UI[1][2] in case you're looking for inspiration.

[1] https://socialmediaexplorer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/S...

[2] https://windows-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/Sococo_17.png
I agree with some of the criticisms even though I'm not 100% familiar with all variation of the statechart semantics. I use xstate and it works pretty well for all my use cases.

One important thing to note is that statecharts is just a specific runtime. So it compiles down to code - that code just runs the same way you'd expect any other code to run. Main differences is that it's mainly event-driven and that you execute functions only in response to the statecharts changes - but at the end of the day you're still just executing functions.

A very simple example is:

doorOpened -> ringBell()

ringBell() is only called when the door is opened.

What statecharts adds is simply an extra level of indirection where instead of being event -> action(), it's event -> state -> action(). Meaning that the state is always checked before executing a function:

doorOpened -> opened -> ringBell()

This is crucial because emitting doorOpened again may yield different results based on the state of the chart! Let's emit it again:

doorOpened -> closed -> keepDoorOpen()

This extra level of "check" before executing functions may seem trivial but opens the doors to designing quite complex event-driven reactive behavior using a drawing! Quite powerful stuff.
God, i have nerver been less impressed by solution every. What they did was some proper engineering instead of gluing togheter shit from stack overflow.
The US intercepted a shipment in Thailand and tried the same in Singapore. That is a very different level than an export ban.

There will be hell to pay when this is over
Really? This doesn’t sound very different to me.
I think this is a very good point that is frequently overlooked, it would only cost 2x to have 10 rovers instead of one!

It is also absolutely embarrassing that we still haven't fully surveyed the moon for resources, dont know where all the ice is, etc. Lunar rovers should be numbering in the hundreds, maybe thousands.
Would still be interesting if someone could train language / interaction model on different years of hacker news to see how a certain topic would be discussed differently over the years.
French doctor apologizes for ‘Covid-19 vaccine test in Africa’ comment
Will Cryptocurrencies Thrive After the Coronavirus Disease Is Gone?
Well, ironically and counter to your point, Russians had the same basic design now for nearly 60 years!
It's too large and complex to do now but I bet we'll be able to do that sort of thing by 2040.
Hello there,

Yes, I'm aware of the bug. We don't support Japanese characters still. Sorry, I'll fix it as soon as I can.

Meanwhile, please give the tool a second chance by searching in English if you can.

Thanks for the feedback!
Google Embraces, Extends, and Extinguishes
> the comment is made in jest ;)

Yet also horribly true, at least for some of us. This is one of the games that I have to put on the "avoid because pathological One-More-Turn syndrome risk" pile.
I wonder how Google prices this api? The actual cost must be difficult to determine because if the source data.

Perhaps they have some margin formula for “buying” data from their internal sources.

It seems to me that they are value pricing and since they are close to a monopoly on this service they are testing the price elasticity.
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You could just call it "ldap authentication". AD comes with an LDAP interface.
Hey there,

Thanks a lot and thanks for the feedback.
It's probably due to dot in the search query. I'll fix it! =)
Seems like few people really read the stuff.

One sentence made me choke :

> "The network needs to provide specific QoS and security policies based on user identity, rather than mapping to something instead"

Well, no, sorry. It's an orwellian design proposal.
These seem wise words to me and is just what I did until now. Would continue doing the same. I just wondered if there isn't a "database strategy" for laymen.

But it seems - from articles I've read on the Internet - many projects got in trouble trying to use exotic databases for which they didn't have enough expertise.
AviDemux [0] works reasonably well for this.

As usual it fails to calculate exact frame timings, which means the cuts may not end up exactly where the GUI is telling you (even if you take care to define the cut start at a keyframe).

[0] http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Hey there,

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: "Too many requests", not really but I do have some throttling in place. I'll see what's going on.

Re website field: I'm just using an HTML5 input with HTML validation (type="URL" kind of thing).

I'll fix these ASAP.
Thanks for the comment!
NHS worker quit when she was stopped from wearing face mask
I'll try to explain below.

Monoclonal antibodies, or mAb are made usually by fusing a right B cell or splicing a gene sequence for the right light chains (V, D) into a leukemic cancer cell line producing a so called hybridoma. Those cells are damaged in such a way as to produce tons of antibodies and are immortal.

By using a different starter cell line you can get different antibody classes. Also by providing a different interleukin stimulus to the cells.

Typically IgG is made because it's easiest, but there are options. See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...

Here's a helpful blog post: https://www.tebu-bio.com/blog/2018/11/13/monoclonal-antibodi...
Actually dataflow is right, I should have written "disclosure". Which I am contractually obliged to in all discussions relating to Google.

Then, I might be perceived as biased due to that employment. I might even be actually biased. Better disclose that up front.
Everyone in HN has this ability Perfect time to use it
Show HN: I made a networking app for post-Covid-19 era
Avidemux is great for what it is but doesn't make any attempt to allow frame-exact cutting by partial reencoding afaik, which is what I found unique/interesting about VidCutter
Agroecología En Cuba
React debugging session – Why is this function called hundreds of times?
I know what you mean but I think it's unhelpful to define it in terms of left/right. I'd describe them as having a bias towards the typical metropolitan liberal outlook.

The reason I'd describe it this way is that it's much more apparent on social issues and certain aspects of international relations, where they don't even seem to understand that other viewpoints might exist. On economics they seem to have at least some awareness that there are a spectrum of viewpoints and take a more consumerist view as often as they do a soft left view (although they still never really seem to consider libertarian or harder left viewpoints).
If Europe - which is, as you may recall, not led by Trump - had expanded their N95 mask production capacity back in January we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. Continental Europe is at least as capable of doing so as the US, if not more so (one of the main global manufacturers of the specialist melt-blowing machines required to make the filtering material in them is based there). The main problem is that it just doesn't seem to be possible to increase N95 production capacity enough within the timescale necessary, no matter what Trump or anyone else orders companies to do.

(Trump could obviously also have used the DPA to ban mask exports back in January, but that'd just have screwed the rest of the world - including countries which, frankly, were in more desperate and immediate need of them back then - in an even more spectacular and counter-productive fashion. It was in the US's direct interest to reduce the spread of coronavirus in other countries back then.)
What are those hardcore players playing now instead then?
Norway has flattened it's curve of those admitted to hospital and on respirators
Why Good Marketing Can Save a Crappy Product
Don't invent a title.

Real title: "How to make an old computer useful again"
> still have many contacts on LinkedIn and former colleagues wanting to refer me to their current company

Follow up ASAP & push for action in days, not weeks.

Lot of employees at companies are in the dark about the extent. I know companies that are putting on a show saying they're hiring but internal management is only hiring the absolute top talent out of layoffs.
> TLS certs can be a hassle for peer-to-peer type stuff.

From my perspective that's very generous. All the flags and extensions in x509 certs seem to have one use: provide a way for the companies who run the PKI infrastructure to extract more money. I am perhaps to being a little harsh here, as some like the ability to sign sub-certs are absolutely necessary to PKI.

However, outside of PKI, almost none of it adds any security. But they do add enormous amounts of complexity. To take but one example from StrongSwan:

> In addition to serverAuth the 'IP Security IKE Intermediate' EKU with OID 1.3.6.1.5.5.8.2.2 does not hurt either and will allow you to use the certificate with older Mac OS X releases too.

How much does 1.3.6.1.5.5.8.2.2 or indeed any of the extensions add to IPSec security: none. Yet woe betide you if you miss it and someone attempt to use your IPSec implementation from an older OSx. But if you try to work around that by providing every extension under the sun, Windows will reject it. So you end up walking this tightrope of trying to find the magic combination that works with everything.

The option to use TLS without the x509 baggage would be a breath of fresh air.
From your comments, I'd almost believe the government were doing well, rather than overtaking Italy in deaths per day at this point on the curve:

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

All the reports you've mentioned are also echoed throughout the UK press.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/02/shambles-cha...

Even the Telegraph - a massively pro Tory paper that has had Boris Johnson as a writer - is ripping into the government over its testing.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/02/thursday-morning...

> Almost no countries in the world have enough tests to systematically test their medical staff.

Key word that... 'almost.'
> You have to compare the wealth of the rich guy with the average wealth at the time not with today's standards...

Well, maybe. It depends what question you're asking. If the question is a social one about "what would it have looked like, broadly speaking, to have someone so relatively wealthy back then?" then maybe that's a reasonable comparison. If you're trying to get at "what would the rich guy really have been able to buy, subsidize, control etc. with that kind of wealth?", comparing by consumption basket gives an interesting perspective that tries to reflect absolute differences in the standard of living.
I fixed an old 2006 macbook pro for my 3 year old with Ubuntu 18.0 . She watch cartoons and have fun decorating her own machine. It took a couple of ours but there are tons of tips online.
I seriously doubt that Searle misunderstands computers, and probably not what passes for AI either then or now. I also regard that paper as one of the more accessible works of the genre, though, as always, you have to pay close attention to what claims are being made.

On the other hand, at least at the time of writing the original paper, he clearly misunderstood the 'systems reply', as his response to it -- supposing that the actor had memorized the instructions -- is beside the point, and makes no difference.
It looks to me that Google hindered the competition by providing the data for free while they did lose money at it. Once they were sure nobody can afford to compete with them, they started charging money.

Have there been competition between traffic data providers, small companies would have choices.
Updating re: "Too many requests" - it was, indeed, the strict throttling. It's now ok.
The FT graphs show the increases/growths/1st-derivative. Italy and Spain are likely over peak-growth, Germany and France nearly, UK and US not yet. These are 7-day rolling averages, so there's roughly 3.5 days delay in the estimated signal.

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
We found Mapbox incredibly helpful and easy to use, these guys are great.

I still can't believe Google does not have a GUI to both style a map AND add markers to it, but they have GUI for those things separately.
The app is government made and plain awful. In theory you get a text message and should reply with selfie within 20 minutes or risk a visit by police patrol.

In practice text messages are delayed and app crashes.

The app is a good idea as person in quarantine is visited twice daily by police at random and police resources are stretched at the moment. But the execution is lame.

Few days ago app have been made mandatory for quarantine.
In The Netherlands around 90% of ICU patients are obese [0].

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[0]: https://northerntimes.nl/umcg-investigates-possible-link-bet...
Why won’t the sailors who abandoned ship get coronavirus soon enough?
Only if the goal is to stop getting people to use it. If the pricing of the API was meant to be reflective of the cost of running and to encourage customers to use it more efficiently, then increasing the price beyond what they have done is maybe not a good idea.
In Germany we have fixed book prices and people still shop books on Amazon. There is even online shops like Buch7 that distribute their profits to charities, but its even more difficult to support local book shops because they either become part of franchises or have no good online ordering. IMHO it is much a matter of affordance and UX and only secondarily price.
In an unrelated thread, someone posted this quote from the Mithril documentation on the differences from React, which sums it up pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777320

Java and React are fast by bringing a lot of sophisticated (heavy!) machinery. Nim and Mithril are fast by being small and simple.

For example, the JIT makes Java fast – eventually. But initially it's interpreted and slow, with the additional overhead of bringing up the JIT compilation machinery in the background. AOT compiled code reaches its normal speed from the start. So Java programs take a while to get fast, which makes them feel heavy.

Startup is slow. Java 11 is slower than Java 8 which is slower than Java 6. Class-data sharing can make it faster – sometimes. You still have to load all that data, so when it's not cached in RAM and you have a slow disk it's still slow. A smaller program is always fast to load. This makes Java feel heavy.

When it comes to memory, Java does clever optimizations like escape analysis at runtime so that the programmer doesn't have to bother with deciding between allocating on the heap or the stack. This can also make it fast in certain scenarios, after warm-up, but a language with explicit value types can be made fast from the start. (Which is why Project Valhalla is coming.)
Is that so, I found that RailRoadTycoon games had a more compelling economic model.
What I really like about this is it removes some of the feeling of magic around react and similar frameworks. Yes there's a lot more going on in real react, but the core idea is simple and you can build your own and really learn what's going on at the same time. Well done! Bookmarked!
Perhaps. I’m inclined to see this opinion piece, through the lens of “Wittgenstein’s Ruler”: If you use a ruler to measure a table, you may also use the table to measure the ruler.
Ask HN: SARS-CoV-2 survives only 4hrs on copper. Why not change handles?
There's a ton of research that copper (and brass and bronze) fittings kill bacteria and viruses. Why aren't hospitals, public buildings, grocery stores, etc all installing copper or brass or bronze surfaces everywhere?

Yes I know it would cost a lot of money, but so is the economy grinding to a halt. That's definitely not free.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v2.full.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9762689/Fit-brass-fixtures-to-cut-superbugs-say-scientists.html
Only if you consider throwing away the trust of every single partner they have is a good leadership move.
> In a sense, this is an example of the US responding in kind to something that Europe has already done.

Is this meant to be funny ? /s

Seems like a kiddy moral statement. Europe has done so many bad things in the past, but US currently has the lead !

This affair learns us some interesting things :

1) nation states are the current structure that defends people, a statement which was challenged by the creation of EU, and will try to protect their people before others.

2) Global trade cannot abolish the aforementioned statements.

Pick your conclusion. Mine currently is :

States have lost self-reliance based on global trade doctrine and this trend should be reversed. Chicago school has made enough ravages.
Can Europe do this? Trump could then respond by blocking Google,Microsoft and other software services to serve Europe. A trade war will have many consequences, hopefully more smarter politician or diplomats could solve this disagreements and also Europe should consider reducing dependencies on US for critical stuff.
That's because you have 13 more years of experience now. Or you like to revise history.
Maybe remove the Japan option until you do support Japanese? It just seems to be an invitation to make yourself look bad. :/