skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excuse me for getting a little bit off topic: I think these crazy times will cause startups, medium size companies, and especially individuals to, in the future, keep much larger cash reserves and generally exist more frugally.

It is true that at least in the USA that democrats and republicans in Congress and the president are working overtime to shore-up their constituents (i.e., large corporations) so they will be fine. I think the help given to the mega corporations will be at least an order of magnitude greater than what is given to help individuals and regular businesses - I base this on what has been just been given to the financial industry in the last month.

Frugal small businesses that we own ourselves are probably the most stable unless you are in the billionaire class.
I'm in accelerator physics. Basically we study the physics of charged particle beams with the goal of improving their properties/developing new applications. I thought it was the perfect combination of engineering, which I like, with pure physics.
"Only when the cases go down again due to successful measures is containment"

We have already taken measures to contain the virus. So why aren't we preparing these needed resources for testing and tracing while the lockdowns are in effect? Two months will pass and we will be no better prepared than we are today because no government in the US is working towards this. The containment will be for nothing, just a temporary measure that will have to be repeated over and over because we aren't even trying to implement a better solution.
It’s definitely more of theory site. This talks about enterprise WiFi, but it might be helpful: https://www.accessagility.com/wifi-design-guide
Every year about 295-650k die of respiratory issues with flu as a complication. That means on average a 30-year-old knows about 200 times the people who have died of the flu then Covid.

So you must certainly be an exception. Personally, I don't know anyone who knows anyone who's even been hospitalized.

ref: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(...
I had QC15 for over 7 years and QC35m2 now over 3. Both used and abused because I don’t really care about the case. Never broke anything in them.

Eventually lost the QC15 and upgraded to QC35 - a decision I never regretted even though I fly way less now and use $600 audiophile headphones. Fantastic headphone - research the analytical tests, the QC has almost flat response and the noise cancellation makes it very pleasing to listen to. YMMV.
Relationships Move Fast on a Slow Cargo Ship
The upside to QUIC is that all the other nodes in the chain lose the ability to do useful things.

This behavior is why we can't use SCTP everywhere and can't deploy new protocols on top of IP.
> Other than that, for learnings and patterns about moderating HN, your best bet is to lure me with the right kind of beer. Or just ask a question here.

If that's an actual offer, I'd be happy to buy you a drink when the quarantine is over.
Note: this isn't just a Bose thing. Bluetooth has separate profiles built in for phone calls/two way audio and one way audio. Because of bandwidth limitations, quality is essentially cut in half while using two way audio. While self-voice can add back some external noise, the bulk of the audio quality loss is built into the Bluetooth spec.
The observation is correct. Remsedivir is a prodrug, the active compound looks like adenosine monophosphate. But that molecule bears too much charge to be able to cross cell membranes. Consequently medicinal chemists put protecting groups on the offending atom, to help the compound get out of the bloodstream and into cells. Once inside, those are cleaved off through nonspecific esterases and the molecule can't get back out.

It's all part of ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) optimization. Pharmacokinetics is an important subject, and that's why you can use the "XY shoved activity in vitro" papers only as starting points.
Developer Notes: trying to port the Python sound libs to Golang
Comment re Adult Swim riff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782448
That goes to OPs point. Rather than writing a narrative based on fear, there’s another version of the story that is: Here’s how to scan to PDF from your Android/iOS/Windows laptop. Here’s a YouTube video you can follow along with. Here’s 8 freeware applications that will help you crop it. These 5 services will allow you to fax without having to go to Staples.

There are still people who that won’t help, but positive mental attitude goes a long way.
It looks like the < and > characters need to be escaped because they're missing from the story title when viewed on HN.
Exactly, the instruments I was talking about are used to measure the properties of photocathodes. It's such a niche field that there's no off the shelf solution. Everybody makes their own device and ours is one of like two in the world with it's grade of sensitivity.

There is one professional engineer in the lab my group is a part of, but they primarily work on the bigger projects. For this, I have to do all of the CAD work and talking to the machinists. I also machined a lot of the parts myself due to time constraints.
If you had chicken pox as a kid, you can get Shingles [1] as an adult. I actually had it, without much complications but now there's a weird scar on my face.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles
"this needs to be improved long term" isn't really something you can put on a quarterly roadmap though. I think a good startup engineer knows how to keep track of these things themselves, and knows when and how hard to push on project leaders to get something done about it. Imo, most of the "UGH why doesn't the business side care about this!?" is really a lot of engineers failing to properly communicate in business-speak with the rest of the company. If we can barely explain the bounds of what "technical debt" means and how we handle it to ourselves within our domain in software, how can we possibly expect people involved with business requirements and money numbers to ever meaningfully understand this concept?
hey - just tested your code - works great. I am no coder, but have installed and it runs fine.
Quick question
1) Its now only checking for Group-1 which is 1hr fixed. Would like to include Group-4 which is the flexible slot.
2) Not just send notification - book the earliest one available.

How to do this?
My expectation would have been that a dot of epoxy would drop the sound level by 10-20dB, which wouldn't do much to prevent listening. Does it work better than that or is this a "something is better than nothing" type compromise?
How did Rich Harris, a "graphics editor," write Svelte? So many designers hardly know JavaScript at all. This one wrote one of the most advanced JavaScript frameworks I've ever seen. It's not just JavaScript. He wrote a compiler that takes a custom, declarative syntax and converts it to imperative JavaScript to surgically update the DOM.
> I would never know about bus and local supermarket hours and changes through the news in any of the two cities that I lived in my life (Sao Paulo and Los Angeles). I would (and I did) find the supermarket and the bus company websites. That's not "news".

That was your experience before this crisis. I've got hold of such information from a local news site a week ago, while official sites remained unchanged for a couple more days. I'm sure there are places where everything is well oiled, but for most of us things don't just snap into place and we need to be aware of our surroundings as much as it's tolerable for our mental health.
If I pick an x and tell you that g(x) = 3 can you tell me what x is?
I work for a hedge fund where all of the founding partners are billionaires. One of them said "Private equity is the best business in the world to be in." Translation: If you are rich, it's the easiest way to get even richer. PE seems like another example where the rich get to play the game "Heads I win, tails you lose".
Submitter MarkHall is also the article's author. Looking at his user history, he submits articles he writes here, despite their irrelevance to this community

I don't see any value in this article posted here.

1. It's general content

2. It's not related to technology (or other STEM knowledge/innovations)

3. Many tech companies are hiring

4. covid is not effecting many software engineers as much as other occupations since we can work from home.
If the theory says it's possible to juggle five chainsaws but nobody's managed to demonstrate it, and I try it without success, have I proven it impossible? Or have I just proven I'm not good a enough juggler?
From what I've seen, this is mainly a European thing. Chinese and US funding is designed to produce practical value, at least in theory.
You do get paid, though not very much ($15-30k for a PhD student, $40-65k for a postdoc), especially compared to a tech salary. The uncertainty is a lot higher too.

As for why people work at those salaries, there's more to life than money. Discovering stuff is fun and working on stuff that really helps people (not in the "expensive subscription juice service" sort of way) is rewarding. People teach for the same reason.

OTOH, taking a job at these wages is a luxury and chases good people out of the field. My spouse and I are both academic research scientists, but anything happens to one of us, the other's out ASAP.
> May I ask what your field is?

Collider physics. I'm guessing that a lot of the less applied sciences are the same way: we're looking for fundamental laws so it's more about convincing people that your result is valid than about trying to make money off of some application.

It's very hit or miss of course: there are still some groups that act very secretive and some that are more open.
I switched from QC 25 to DT-770 recently for similar reasons. DT-770 are also immensely more comfortable.
The Beginner's Guide to NMAP Scanning
Observational evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to...

The blue is dark matter. The pink is normal matter.

It's thought that the two clumps of blue+pink there passed through each other. But the blues went right through each other, undisturbed, while the normal pink stuff formed a shockwave.

>most of the mass in the cluster pair is in the form of two regions of dark matter, which bypassed the gas regions during the collision. This accords with predictions of dark matter as only weakly interacting, other than via the gravitational force.
I'm a scientist, we have a saying in my field. Garbage in, garbage out. If the data from China are wrong, then including them in calculations will make all of your calculations worse. We know that China's numbers are not only suspect but actively manipulated, as such we should not be using their data for calculations full stop.
I have the QC35-II as well. I've now disabled it on my phone, and hopefully it will only connect to the computer. I wish they would have put a physical button and let me cycle through the connected devices. But no, I don't know what they've thought, that the headphones will guess my intention? The reason I have it on my phone is that because of the poor bluetooth range I will keep the phone in my pocket and stream to the headphones when I walk through the house, but when I come back to the computer I need to hassle again to switch the connection.
CLS Music Player for Android with unique design and easy to use features
A memestream is coming: Quibi will flop and TikTok shows the way
Too early to say for certain, but the trajectory for Sweden so far doesn't look good, compared to neighboring countries that are more under lockdown [0]:

Current deaths per 1 million in covid-19

Sweden: 37
Denmark: 28
Norway: 11

All countries have a similar 'start' date with the Denmark lagging a few days. None of the countries are recommending homemade masks, which is disturbing.

[0] https://mackuba.eu/corona/#compare_countries (deaths per 1 mln checked)
s/are still done/can be done/

I don’t think I’ve mailed an IRS return this century. My DMV allows me to renew registration and print temporary plates from their website. They even send me an iCal file to remind me of my next renewal date.
Computer networking. I’m reading through TCP/IP illustrated.

Also learning about Linux. I used macOS for about a year and thought that I knew “Linux” but now I’m seeing how far the rabbit hole goes. I installed arch linux and am currently just customizing it and immersing myself in the community. Eventually I’ll pick up a systems or operating systems book.
Yes! I want to be sure that this miracle drug is 100% to eliminate all the other drugs that has nasty side effects and have a lower effectivity.

Let's pick some terminal ill patients. I think cancer metastasis in the brain has a very bad prognosis, like less than a year of life expectancy [1]. Let's make a one year trial: 100 patients in the control group that receive the usual treatment and a placebo. 100 patients in the treatment group that receive the miracle drug instead of the placebo. Obviously a double blind study.

If the terminal patients selection was good enough, after a year you will get 90 death in the control group (there are some lucky guys) and only 5 death in the treatment group (someone died in a car accident). That would be very convincing and in a few years (with a few additional studies) it will remove all the current drugs from the market.

Without a serious study, some doctors will believe in the miracle drug and some will have the gut feeling that another drug or drug combination is better and continue using the old treatment. The lack of a convincing study kill people.

And also, there is the risk of snake oil. Some doctors are convinced that a drug cures 100% of the patients and push it to be applied to everyone. Sometimes they are wrong, without a study it is impossible to separate the good and the bad ideas. The lack of a convincing study kill people.

[1] Unless it a metastasis of breast cancer and is affected by hormones? I think there a few exceptions, but it is usually very bad.
ooh thanks! would be really happy to capture any extra feedback if you have ideas for what to improve
A Guide to Designing Low-Cost Ventilators for Covid-19
Infosec history. I'm just entered the PC era, so things tend to be more interesting from now on.
> Could you please explain why you think this means science is broken?

To be precise, I already think science is broken, and your story seemed to confirm it.

Obviously, that "this is actually fairly typical" is not a counterargument to a systemic belief.

That said, it's entirely possible I jumped the gun here.

I take the reproducibility crisis to be a strong indicator that something is Very Wrong with science. I'm also convinced that the modern peer review system is fundamentally broken.
I Got My Website to Load in 1 Second
Super Mario Bros. flash website in 2006
Funny you mention this, Evan You, the author of VueJS was a graphic designer before writing VueJS
True minimalism is functional systems thinking, e.g. planning a capsule wardrobe to save the time deciding on what to put on, while still being able to look different each day. You could combine it with shopping for different materials, like whool shirts insteaf of cotton to extend the time between washing (whool doesn't absorb bacteria/odors like cotton).

The minimalism then basically goes unoticed to the outside world, it doesn't "punish" you socially while maximizing your own time and reducing the cognitive load.

You could ditch your gym subscription and get into calisthenics/bodyweight training instead, or prepare your meals in advance. There's a lot of stuff you can do that sums up. Making those trade offs is kinda fun..
Ecobee now sells the "ecobee lite" which has no Alexa and no microphone.
Ukulele/music theory and spanish
Roles at large established companies are not normally like those at startups. They tend to be on smaller areas of functionality, more specialized, and with little variety unless you swap teams (and that's almost like getting a new job).

Starting something new is quite rare, and if it's done, it needs to integrate into a whole bunch of existing stuff one way or another; whether it's builds, deployment, auth, database, payments, UI stack, whatever - large chunks of the design space have been explored before and are pretty much set in stone unless you have a lot of political capital to spike something new, or the company is dysfunctional and doesn't standardize on anything, so that it doesn't present consistently to its users and its developers are less swappable between projects.
Is there a way to delete my profile and all its content?
Attack Campaign Hits Thousands of MS-SQL Servers for Two Years
... Don't laugh: C

I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing.

I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially exploring the simplest, most minimal possible ways of drawing pixels on the screen in Linux.

So far tried fbdev (but doesn't work well with X), now playing with XCB.
Can't say I agree with most of the last paragraph. I much prefer to have my function calls easily differentiated from my array indexing / hashmap keying.

Though I do agree that array/object literals using [] and {} are probably not necessary.
Solder can be awfully darn quick. More and more these days my "breadboarding" is between modules such as e.g., a microcontroller development board and one or more breakout boards. If I can't find a breakout board for a particular component, I'll make one using a proto board. So the actual quantity of wiring has gone down. I don't do things like wiring an entire address/data bus.
One more reason why they shouldn’t be used for generics??
Does it make sense to make OpenGL shader and then use WebAssembly to run on web?
I am wondering if it makes sense to make OpenGL 3D shaders and then use Webassembly to run them on the web.. or it won't work unless I do some bindings to WebGL?
Similar to https://rancher.com/?
Also taking patients from France (we are grateful)
Personally, I think I'd keep them on the same site and have checkboxes on the left hand side that could be checked or unchecked for particular categories. (Sort of like how a lot of mapping software works.)
Flutter -- and I'm in love -- it's like being a Flash developer/designer from 2006 all over again :)
I had the same thought, this is wonderfully written. Detailed but accessible for a technically inclined lay audience, fun but not over the top. It's extremely hard to do, so well done and thanks to the author :)
Is there a list anywhere of bureaucratic processes like this that could use a more streamlined tool built on top of them?

This type of project seems like a much more impactful use of developer side project time than almost anything else.
Something I've learned is that modern CMOS logic is a lot more forgiving than TTL for breadboarding, thanks to low power consumption and push pull outputs. So if you're thinking of b'boarding a classic circuit like a minicomputer, allow yourself one concession to modernity, namely using something like 74HC logic instead of 74LS.
That’s not really easier to type though :)
I'm currently trying to get into game development and Rust so I'm trying out Amethyst: https://book.amethyst.rs/master/. I wanted to follow along with a roguelike game tutorial for Rust, but there was a problem. I would love to make some games that you can play co-op with some friends as I feel like there aren't enough games like it out there.
While information theory entropy and physical entropy are not identical concepts, they are coupled. I recommend Isaac Asmiov’s “The Last Question” if you haven’t read it already.
Trying to improve some of my intuition in linear algebra, more specifically in matrix decomposition and SVD.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-method...
Another great example of how taking the time to track things and fill out a spreadsheet is itself a good useful service. My main suggestion is to emphasize in the headline/title that this is focused on tech startup layoffs. I know it's alluded to elsewhere on the site text, it's just that many people who see "layoffs.fyi" will think it's a general layoffs tracker.

And of course it's fine just to focus on tech startups – tracking all company layoffs (nevermind local businesses) would be a huge undertaking.
...I’ve seen the movie “I am Legend”. Let’s hope we all get out of Manhattan before this all kicks off.
Huh? Pressing the button on the left side cycles NC levels for me with a voice saying "Noise cancellation high / low /off" for me.

If you have that mapped to alexa/ok google/etc, there's some other button combo to hit to cycle the NC level, but totally doable in hardware. (Though, changing the mapping DOES require the app).
I'll come here in 30 years to tell are the Boses still working.
This article completely loses me at the end where it suggests that using square brackets for assignment and collection access is an unnecessary/dangerous convenience.

It might not be the author's preference, but the argument made about it getting abandoned as the language ages anyway is demonstrably false with the most popular languages in the world (Python, JavaScript, Java, C, C++), and in languages with operator overloading it could never be true no matter how far the language evolved.
Sorry if self-plug isn't acceptable, I built one recently using Airtable to crowdsource data - https://www.freshgrads.info/corona-hiring-impact-tracker/
Obamaphone last time, Trumpfax this time around?
It's even worse....

The solutions to the "STEM shortage" are usually to ramp up training (BS/MS/PhD students, occasionally postdocs), without actually creating viable jobs for these folks when they finish. Many smart people don't want to get involved in a cutthroat job market, so either leave the field or never enter it. (The people who "left" science from my grad school cohort were all very smart; almost all of them could have cut it)

Meanwhile, cutting-edge research is mostly done by trainees who are learning as they go. This is important--we need future scientists as well as current ones--but it limits the projects and pace of research.

This is totally fixable too--fund more staff scientist positions and dial down the number of trainees. The NIH funds thousands of studentships and just a few (~50?) "research specialists."
On "bad location": consumer-focused startups will need to scale up fast if they get traction. Those are the ones that benefit most from being in SV: a pool of skilled labour they can bid their VC dollars + stratospheric ambitions on.

B2B companies may be better off located in one of the top areas for the business vertical. For example, non-consumer FinTech startups may be better off in New York or London than SV.
Again, buying millet or raw wheat instead of bread is not more minimalist it is more self reliant. You are not using as much of other people's services.

Imagine instead that you grow your own wheat. You can cook the grain for hours over an open fire. And poor people did such with various grains as their daily meal for generations. That's a state that's pretty minimalist, pretty self reliant and pretty impoverished.

But if you want to make bread you must possess a mill to grind it, a source of yeast and all the other implements to make bread. To decrease your poverty you have to decrease you minimalism by owning all these things and now having them as a concern in your life or you must decrease your self reliance and depend on someone else having a mill to grind your flour or bakery to have an oven.

Trust me, as someone who is very DIY. The more self reliant you become, the less minimal your life becomes.