skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies are called start ups by people old enough to clearly remember when they really were just a start up, and haven't internalized just how long ago that really was.
How Is the African Union Dealing with the Covid19-Induced Education Disruptions?
> This report is focused on illicit stimulants. No results for cannabis are reported because cannabis use is estimated by measuring its main metabolite (THC-COOH), which is the only suitable biomarker found so far, but is excreted in a low percentage. More research is needed to understand the excretion percentage of THC-COOH or find alternative biomarkers (Causanilles et al., 2017a).

this is the second sewage testing paper I’ve read today. Why are these so incredibly interesting and fun to read when compared to the other testing documents I’ve read haha.
I heard an interview of someone from the Swedish chamber of commerce. He said "Social distancing is part of Swedish culture." Having spent a decent amount of time in Stockholm, I don't disagree. I remember the custom on mass transit is to stay quiet and as far away from any other passenger as possible...unless there's been drinking.
That said, why does everybody care about Dark Mode so much these days?

My guess is that people either don't know/can't be bothered to adjust their monitors' brightness and contrast to a comfortable level, so they're left at the default which is usually eye-burningly bright, and they're trying to work around this in software by reducing brightness and contrast. Unfortunately this also means those who do have their monitors adjusted comfortably are subjected to much worse contrast.
It's a great word. You'll see it all over the place in AI aided drug design and tons of other places as well
Why even bother including a camera?
It could also look at other markers as a proxy for possible covid infection. If we see that a whole block is getting an unusual amount of sicknesses, we might want to investigate/quarantine that block.
There’s a YC company [0] already doing this.

[0] https://www.biobot.io/covid19
How do you deal with conflicts in PostgreSQL due to sync issues?
Air pollution isn't good for health: cancer, heart diseases are the leading causes of death. The virus kills a few, mostly old and sick and mostly males, but saves many, as people can finally see how clear air looks. So yeah, restarting the dirty economy machine is what going to kill millions, not the virus.
It is impossible to get loans from banks for unproven business models and it always has been. Banks invest in businesses with proven models, revenue histories, collateral and audited financial statements. Its just not in any way comparable to what a venture needs.
Thanks, yeah I feel depression is more of a symptom that something is wrong in your life, but I guess for some people even if you gave them a million dollars, they still wouldn't be happy. There are problems in this world (both inside and outside the US) that's bigger than me, along with other things that bother me but I guess not much control over that, so I find myself focusing on something else to distract me.

I use a Chrome Extension Distraction Free YouTube, even non-depressing topics it gets distracting like tech or gaming stuff. I try to use YouTube mostly to look up a topic I'm interested in like programming or tech talks, etc but some people I like their vlogs so I hit the bell button and have Gmail auto-apply a label...

I wish though services had a way to turn off things like related videos, etc though or some settings to show only if you reveal it - not sure the best idea from UX. Same with Quora or any other type of site, curious about something and then related questions distract. I guess they design them to be addicted and time sucks though, since more time you spend in the site it benefits their metrics and ad revenue.

I've been toying around with a product idea I have in my head but still super early but since I'm a fan of the freemium model and hopes to sell services/digital products on the platform, advertising or related content wouldn't be as important since I'd hope to actually have a thing of value to charge for, however, I feel ads if done tastefully and related content can add value, and maybe you're bored and want to find something to do... but if you use the platforms for both fun and education or work that can be distracting. Not sure if many platforms have attempted to tackle that problem much though.

I guess though doing less of these things that platforms do or give people more controls, probably would tick off your VC firm or shareholders as they'd see money being left on the table even if you were still profitable without it. Then there's dark patterns too. Like some game on my iPhone, is having a sale and as soon as I open it pops up a screen to buy gems, which is great way to get someone to accidentally spend their money I think. If I want to buy gems, I'll click the button myself... Actually very temped to uninstall it just for that reason.
You're completely wrong about deadlifts

https://www.livestrong.com/article/450195-do-deadlifts-wear-...

And in fact deadlifts are very often prescribed for those suffering from lower back pain (even if not 600lb deadlifts)

https://www.livestrong.com/article/450195-do-deadlifts-wear-...

If you're going to claim that poor form leads to problems well then I guess we shouldn't be walking around either for fear of tripping.

And since we're dealing in anecdotes here: I have two bulging discs and the only thing that keeps me from throwing out my back is my heavy deadlift routine (not 600 but regularly 425-450).
Never waste a good crisis, instead use it to shill for your favorite insane political stance.

He thinks a dictator will make us free. Words fail me as to how unlikely that is to work.
Taking photos is an essential part of what these devices need to do, regardless of how small or inexpensive they are.
It's known that some businesses won't open until September - that's the current target for sports stadiums, for example.

Even after September, there will be a lot of unknowns with massive economic implications. Will cruising recover in 1 year, or in 10 years? How much more friction will there be on international travel, and for how long? What's the risk of a coronavirus resurgence, both globally and locally? How different will the new crop of small businesses be from the ones that got eliminated in the shutdown? If you're going to give a startup huge chunks of cash, you need a high degree of confidence in the mid-term future, and in most areas that won't be available for a while.
Can you explain how your argument doesn't apply to local businesses as well?

And I would hope you would see the problem with telling people not to work at local businesses. Ultimately the only companies built to weather something like this is the larger multinational corporations and in times like these, it kills both startups and local businesses alike.
Analysis of UE(Mobile Phone) Security
The smartphone (Apple, Android, etc.) Date back decades. In the year 2020, why have Apple, Google, and other company's failed to program a basic firewall?
I appreciate that idea. But, the example I cited should at least warrant further discussion. If you know anything about the way Oracle does business (and this is the case for many other businesses in other industries) is that they sell you on a project with a small initial cost. Then, BIG SURPRISE! Cost overruns! Can't be helped, but here is the bill. Hence the lawsuit. If you look at this example, I really feel like a local solutions consultant (my magical Perl programmer) could have done it for less money and a better outcome. And, I really think that is a model we should consider much more often.
Ah, I've always wanted to put my software archeology skills to the test with something like this.
Oh wow, this is really a spectacular article. I didn't expect to see science reporting of this quality or depth in a traditional mainstream newspaper, this is pretty awesome
Interstate travel is being shut down in certain us regions like you aren’t being allowed to travel from Louisiana to Florida or New York to Florida so it’s possible
Just like shipping a few million N95 masks from one place in the world to another as disaster insurance is ludicrous?
Conversely, if you would choose COBOL in response to being offered $150K, you might well be a worse hire than someone who would do it for $60K.
It was so close to exactly what I wanted. Unfortunately good battery life was missing- a dealbreaker.
And the very fact that you refer to "admin work overheads" in something claiming to be "agile" indicates that it's Agile(TM), not actual agile. (Though I got that idea very quickly from your link, as well...)
Relevant: https://twitter.com/Taytus/status/1246586694461202436
Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of your users?
My wife died recently. I had to close various accounts. From an IT perspective, the results were shameful. For example, I called her cell-phone provider and closed her account. The agent was very respectful. He offered condolences and closed the account, and said there would be a refund. The next day, there was an email, addressed to my wife, using her first name, asking her to rate her recent experience.

I had to use text messaging to close her NY Times subscription. I texted "I need to cancel a subscription" The bot asked me why

1. No time to read

2. Price concern

3. Service issue

And I was told I had to answer 1, 2, or 3! Really?

Then a human got involved, and he/she was good, but obviously the bot still has some control because at the end I got this:

"Thank for contacting the New York Times, I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day."

Come on.....this is terrible. The human realized this and immediately added

"And also before you go, I wanted to express my most sincere condolonces to you and your family"

There is more, but this may be enough. My question for those of you working on apps that have registered users or subscribers: how do you deal with notification that one of your clients has died? Did you even give this use case some thought?
Oh, just like ~/.bash_profile would?
All of this seems invasive, but so does a pandemic. Someone has to come up with a plan on how to reboot the world, and this is a good first step.
"AS YOU KNOW, "Return" and "Enter" are separate keys on your keyboard"

Just FYI, my laptop has "Enter" clearly printed on both keys.
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I’m pretty sure ribonucleases are found everywhere (even in sewage) so if enough are present it would break down all RNA fast. RNases come from skin and dust, for example.
Seriously? The notion that an authoritarian government might be better-equipped in some ways to deal with an epidemic or even a global pandemic is in no way original, much less unique to Moldbug.
It will also filter out sound business models that actually do work in times of plenty, but don't under the conditions of a pandemic.
Do you need to boost muscle growth and increase strength?
Don’t be surprised if this position then goes to an H1B contractor though.
If enough anericans who have this knowledge do not apply because they
- Hate the tech
- Can’t provide their feedback to improve the system
- Don’t like the salary offered even if’s greater than their current unemployment income,
then is it for an offshore company to come in and fill that gap.
Out of curiosity, would you be able to elaborate on the type of practice?

I wouldn't imagine they are a GP? This crisis would increase their traffic. Cosmetic surgery?
i'm making one that replaces that psyop name with the disease's actual name: SARS-2.
Stand by time of 3 days isn't enough?
No, Airbnb will be fine because their expenses are running the servers, not owning the houses. They won't be making money, but they won't be losing it, either. The people who bought a house to rent via Airbnb, on the other hand, are going to get crushed.

Sure, you can wipe down the handles, if you brought wipes with you. That makes it a lot more spontaneous to use, though (unless you carry wipes everywhere, which is in fact a reasonable thing to do).
Sorry I missed your reply! We can hire outside the US/CA within North American timezones.
Fun project! I also used Clojure for a transit status project - calling the REST API of my local bike share system to display how many bikes were in the nearest station. Clojure is great for exploring and transforming that kind of data.

One small tip for the author: clojure.data.csv would simplify csv handling. Its readme includes a simple routine to transform the data to maps.
Why on earth did anyone frame 2008 as a "bailout for big banks"? It was a strategic concern for national security.

It can be both at the same time.
I just name all my shell scripts in all-caps. Nary a collision...
Frankly, it would be difficult to find a part of your post that is correct.

1. You're never causing their server to do anything they didn't configure their server to do. Accept headers are merely information for the server telling them what you can accept: what they return to you is their choice, and they can weigh the tradeoffs themselves.

2. The tradeoff you think is happening isn't even happening in a lot of cases. In a lot of cases they'll be serving that up from a cache of some sort so the CPU work has already been done when someone else requested the page. CPU versus bandwidth isn't an inherent tradeoff.
Presumably they’re going to use the device, too?
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lol no, rna degrades if you so much as look at it. dna is quite a bit more stable.

https://www.bioline.com/rna-hints-and-tips/
Whether or not these sort of headlines are politically beneficial, my point is that very few of these news stories give me any information I can use regarding Covid-19. Really my comment wasn't about politics, it just happened that most of the top headlines were political. Here are two more headlines to better illustrate my point:

>I moved to Paris during lockdown. Here's what I found

I am not in Paris, so this article is worthless to me. There is nothing I can do with knowledge of the situation in Paris.

> How to make your own face mask

This however, is information I could actually put to use. Articles like this are sadly a minority.
Exactly. Actual car rental companies are down more than 60% because they have debt payments to make whether people want to rent the cars or not.
I agree. At the end of the day, the startup ecosystem is much healthier when the market is sane. On the one end you have newbie angel investors and VCs throwing money at pre-revenue startups that will go nowhere. On the other end of the spectrum you have Softbank pumping in billions and ruining what could've been great businesses. Honestly, WeWork had (and still has) such a great value proposition. It could've been a very stably profitable company with a valuation in the hundreds of millions, but here we are.
Well, we have a bunch of call options at $40 (50% of American shale is viable there, probably more if labour costs drop). Given that, the downside is capped so that reduces the need to stockpile, and hyper-optimize this stuff.
Well, I'd say the situation is serious enough to require daily coverage in all front pages. This is the biggest global crisis since WW2.

We've had a global underreaction that didn't pan out exactly well due to politicians and media sticking the head in the sand while the outbreak started in China.

So I disagree, this is good, the situation is critical and people need to be fully aware/informed.
Working From Home: How to declutter the chaos and start focusing on work
There isn't just the risk of a name clash between programs that you use. It's a hygiene problem: a clash that you don't know about, involving some program you don't use (or not directly).

The system programs can potentially rely on each other, invoking each other in a way that relies on PATH searching, and not set PATH to a sane value when they are invoked. Your utility can accidentally shadow something and break the program whicc relies on it.

In other words, setting PATH to point to ~/bin first breaks unhygienic programs which blindly inherit PATH --- which is pretty much all non-setuid programs in a Unix-like system!

Setting PATH to point to your ~/bin last, on the other and, potentially breaks your programs when they call each other (in a way that relies on path searching), and are shadowed by new system programs. A fix for that is to to put ~/bin last, and ensure that all your programs refer to each other in a way that doesn't rely on PATH. E.g. prog is invoked as $bob_utils/prog.
Price point is kind of high for something like this. Would rather spend $60-70 and get a iPhone 5SE and that comes with a headphone jack.
is this a fishing site? many supplements have been proved to contain contaminants and are unregulated. probably should be flagged and removed.
> No-one in this thread seems to note this: try finding some ex-Soviet citizens who lived through 89-96 and ask them some serious questions.

If there's one thing the dissolution of the Soviet Union proved, it's that a complete economic and political collapse does not prevent people from disrupting markets. Many Western companies got their first foothold in the region during that time.
I was actually thinking about centuries, not just decades, referring, mostly, to the early formation of ancient societies. It is not a fast process by any means.

In modern times the process is, of course, can go much faster than in 2000BC, because everyone can see a template of a working system before their eyes in the form of existing countries, so they can just copy-paste the basic law / organizational structure instead of slowly inventing them.
In SF permitting/entitlement system is being rewritten for already 5 (8?) years. Funding is only ~1M, while this is an easy task such small budget for for 5 years of work does not worth it even if you can build this by a single developer.

And this is a department that have billions.
Show HN: Spotiflite – scrape spotify metadata to sqlite
I could help rewrite in some other language.
That’s without use. Talk time is a little over 3Hrs. I was interested until I read that.
They are not real system commands; they can't be exec-ed.
It’s not the format of the business or the size or the location. It’s the business model itself that defines the resiliency. Bottom line.
Some of it seems like cybering to me.
I have one and that's...very optimistic, even for standby. Lasts 3-4 hours if you're streaming music/podcasts
So. The problem is. The rate you quote, if you were a cobol programmer, is that price gouging too?
Maybe? I hate how dplyr handle the rowname/index in general. In pandas, I could put 1-2 columns that I wouldn't use for the calculation in the index/multindex while dplyr NEED to rely on mutate/summarise_if() or gather function, and hope for the best.
Scrapes meta data, like related artists, and where in the world people listen to the artist, off Spotify and stores in a sqlite4 db.

source code: https://github.com/sloev/spotiflite

install: $ pip install spotiflite

run: $ spotiflite scrape
Interestingly, in addition to the weather, I do miss nature. I think nature is always next door depending on where you are in the Bay area. For example, you can be in Foster City at 5 pm, get on 92W and reach crystal springs water reservoir on Canãda road by 5:10 (you already feel like you're far away from the city); 15 more minutes and you could be on Skyline (this was also one of my favorite "amaze the tourist" route whenever I was playing the tour guide for people visiting). There's plenty of nature around Pittsburgh, but I none of the hikes that are close to the city give you the feeling of being really deep in the woods. I also miss the Redwoods, the coast, and the seafood.

I've collected some pictures from my hikes in the Bay area here: https://madaan.github.io/hiking
This is not a new device, it was released 17 months ago (November 2018).
> i'm making one that replaces that psyop name with the virus's actual name: SARS-2.

The virus's actual name is SARS-CoV-2, the disease’s actual name is COVID-19. [0]

SARS-2 is the name of neither, and neither of the actual names is a “psyop name” and calling it that is serious tinfoil hat territory.

[0] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Yup, I dig this and I hope we see more of this as we enter another phase of mobile devices.

My iPhone 11, although a great phone, is unnecessary for me. I love its camera (for photos/FaceTime), everything else is superfluous. I am also terrified with dropping it.
Thank you! At least someone understand my frustration. When I try to compare countries, it somehow manages to insert New York along with a few other US states as countries. He/She/They might be a good React/GraphQL ninja(s), but definitely skipped out on the ETL course.
> which is totally doable at even half the salary you’re talking about.

Half that salary? That's $150k, or after taxes, about ~$8k/mo. or $3k/mo for everything else after your alloted $5k/mo. Yes, people can survive on a lot less, but why in the world would you want to live in the Bay area just to eek by on such a paltry net outcome without nearly enough to set aside for the rainy day that's coming soon.

And more importantly, that I think the vast majority of SF/SV kids seem to forget is, what happens when your cushy job disappears? How long can you survive dropping $5k/mo for a house that you could be paying $700/mo in a small town.
> well the laundromat is closed

For what it's worth, in every emergency shutdown order I've seen, laundromats have been classified as "essential businesses."
I hope you don't use APFS…
What a wonderful symmetry to the cholera outbreak in 1854 in London, where John Snow traced the sources to drinking water wells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
The problem is that the base "axioms" (really, definitions) he's working off of are basically alien language, and almost nobody understands why they are relevant. Add to that he is not saying "turn the crank like this", but is effectively saying "trust me when I say the cranks turn and out pops the answer, but if you dig into the machinery yourselves you'll see what I mean".

On the other hand, there was a similar case with a German mathematician beforehand, and he turned out to be correct.
> a high % of their wage is replaced with unemployment benefits

A "high percentage" seems like a comical overstatement.
I own one of these, and am a big fan. I bought it a year ago, for $100. Happy to answer any questions.
If a business model works based on current conditions, how is that "bullshit"?
Compiled CSS in JavaScript Same experience with no runtime cost
> Canãda road

Cañada Road
The key here is "in vitro".

If there is virus growing in a Petri dish, we can inhibit the growth. But we have no idea what happens when we put this drug in a complex living being.
I don't really need help taking a break but nice project
Where did you find it for $100? It seems to be $300 here.
like like this (but now in color): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gralXkKSkw
Alabaster Mono: Minimal Monochromatic Syntax Highlighting
... yet you bought it.
Make sure to check the docs out at https://compiledcssinjs.com
This should also allow to monitor for mutations of the Covid 19, whereas it would be impractical to do at an individual level. It would give an early warning signal.
I'm just noticing, by the way, that one of the repeats in this test pattern video is the same as the repeat you observed in the Star Wars opening crawl, so presumably that has nothing to do with content.
78 Coins, Or, Why We're Not Alone in the Universe
This looks like the same phone they came out with late in 2018 and it was not reviewed well: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/palm-phone-review-fu...
"half their tax money has now vanished"

Well, maybe, but also (some) states have delayed the income tax deadline to June along with the Feds, which is also a problem for cashflow.