skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Driverbase launches mobile apps to help you decide which car to buy
I feel your pain.

If we can minimize the amount of time & effort it takes to go from idea to launchable MVP, then all of these side projects and future ones suddenly become significantly more viable.

I wrote about this goal in-depth here: https://blog.saasify.sh/finding-your-passion-as-a-developer/
There is also http://libdill.org/ which has a different, better in my view, model and I have actually used in production.
No, I don’t think you are crazy. You must look how big government is at the federal Level. It’s so interconnected with other agencies that moving to fast will break thousands of systems.
I remember you referring me to Factual 8 years ago. Thanks for that! I didn't get hired, but it kicked off a life long interest in functional programming due to meeting with Aaron Crow during that interview.
They sold to Nintendo so I see it as a major success. Any way I look at it, Nintendo is using the switch hardware as originally intended. I guess you could say any use of older tech counts but I don't think that's as much in the spirit of the article as, say, the Wii's use of RF for motion tracking.
If you would have actually read those articles, you would see that the WaPo opinion piece does not actually downplay the coronavirus threat at all; it discusses the psychology of social panic. The NYT piece discusses how fear of coronavirus spread faster than the virus itself without any comment on the seriousness of the disease.

The CNBC article does compare the flu to the coronavirus and does note the flu has already killed more across the US on an absolute basis, but also notes that the coronavirus is significantly deadlier than the flu on a relative basis. Lenny Bernstein, the opinionist behind the second WaPo opinion piece you linked, apologized for his cavalier dismissal of the coronavirus in a followup opinion piece.

To date, only one person in the entire Fox News organization has apologized for getting it wrong on coronavirus. Every single other talking head has doubled down on downplaying coranavirus, and Fox and Friends is still implying that it's all just a second impeachment effort.
What was your experience with WebRTC?

I read some people tried to use it for multiplayer, but the performance suffered with more than 10 players.
Two threads from 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605310

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867575

(Links for the curious. Reposts are fine after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22765435

Posted as an example how not to manage/lead (re HN relevance).
> There are effectively two separate languages. Your type-level language and your term-level language.

Computational Type Theory (CTT) blends the distinction b/w terms and types, and in fact C-H correspondence bears no consequence on CTT research.

From a previous comment [1]:

> I worry in dependently-typed languages that without preserving this distinction between types that have runtime-significance (Church-style) and types that do not (Curry-style), you lack an effective cast escape hatch.

I think we've basically two categories of (turing-complete) programming languages:

1. Mainstream languages that use type systems for multiple purposes: operational semantics, compiler optimization, lightweight formal verification, etc, and provide casting escape hatches.

2. Languages where the type system's primary (and only?) purpose is formal verification, and there are no escape hatches.

It's just that 1 and 2 are really meant for different domains. 2 is mostly used for high-assurance domains like aerospace, automotive, healthcare, blockchain smart contracts where formal verification is high priority and escape hatches aren't sought, hence not built-in.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794925
Does this mean Tiger King was all a Kayfabe?
I feel as though screensharing the slides keeps everything in one neat location. If I have to load your presentation slides separately, I have to look back and forth between the slides and your video. Additionally, if I don't have a second monitor I now can't see either very well. Finally, despite his argument to the contrary, the synchronization is annoying. Having to say "next slide, #18" after each slide just breaks the flow.
This applies to gossip shows more than anything else.
> In the background global warming is a much greater threat to human life and has the exact same dynamic with the exact same players

Oh, please, enough already!

Global warming is nowhere near to what a virus can do. This thing could have killed half the population of this planet in weeks had nobody done a thing about it.

The comparison is nonsensical on many fronts. Perhaps the most significant of them is the reality of climate change: We cannot do a thing about it. Period. We cannot change it. We cannot reverse it. We cannot magically fix it in fifty years.

This is already well understand by the scientific community. Researchers don't get out there and expose it because they would instantly destroy their careers, lose grants and generally ruin their lives. It's a truly dishonest and damaging feedback loop driven by ideology, money and politics.

All you need to do in order to understand this reality is analyze ice core atmospheric sample data. That's it. It's that simple. Calculate the rate of change with CO2 increasing and decreasing. Write down those numbers.

Then realize this is what would happen if humanity left earth next Monday. It would take somewhere around 50,000 years for CO2 to decrease by 100 ppm.

We cannot accelerate this rate of change by 1000x without likely killing all life on earth. We can't. It would require such vast amounts of energy and resources that it might even be beyond what's available on this planet.

In other words, everyone is lying: Climate change deniers are nuts and those who claim we can fix it within even a few generations and just as crazy. The entire thing has become politicized beyond all comprehension. Science has left the building.

So, no. Let's focus on pandemics, they are far more likely to wipe us out than the entire "save the planet" fantasy.
You claimed that there were countless videos of "MSNBC and CNN criticizing the travel ban on China because the virus wasn't any more dangerous than the flu." Which of course isn't accurate.

You seek your redemption in some guy[1] listing a tiny selection of articles, having nothing to do with the partial travel restriction, arguing about the social effects. He links either contrarian articles, or articles talking about the psychology/sociology.

That you think this proves the case is astonishing. I am going to say again that you are either so profoundly partisan that the truth doesn't matter, or you are logically broken.

It's the classic deflection, and it's absolutely amazing. Fox was literally at war with what they saw as the "mainstream media hoax" (in lockstep with Trump, of course, because they are his state media), claiming that they were fear-mongering about the virus. Oh but now, the mainstream media actually wasn't at all. They were understating it. The cognitive deficiency to seriously argue this...

[1] That guy whose post history is littered with claims that the response to SARS-CoV-2 is "fear-mongering", and who a month ago seriously said that the US response was and is the best, of anyone. Their single example being that Trump limited air travel from a single region...for non-Americans...long after the horse was out of the barn.

Then again, your history has continual COVID denial, such as your claim that no hospitals are over capacity. You guys are really trying to argue everything simultaneously and it must be exhausting.
New test of the gravitational 1/r2 law at separations down to 52μm
Very true. It does make sense to look at those in the most dire need first. That did not occur to me.
Back in the day I think Macromedia Fireworks used this model as well..
CPUs were deemed unexploitable, until researchers had a better look into them.

The only thing that makes WebAssembly safer than its predecessors, is that most security researchers haven't yet bothered with it.
Show HN: Google like internal short links
They're also mistaken in their filtering oftentimes.

I have a smaller lesser known telephone operator friendly to a more advanced users, and my SIM-bound mobile phone number is rejected by big services like Google.

Not that I care anymore, I'll certainly not go to great lengths to use services which start their onboarding by blocking my number and forcing me to use big telco's services or some shady website.
Is there not a perfectly fine English translation, "Memorial"?
ER Doctor in NYC Says Ventilators May Be Harming Covid-19 Patients
The side by side with Go is actually impressive:

https://libcsp.com/
> the IPCC report from 1990

Which overpredicted the warming that has occurred from 1990 to now (though its predictions overall were certainly much milder than the catastrophic ones that are being trumpeted as reasons to spend trillions of dollars on CO2 mitigation).

Not to mention that there have been four more assessment reports since then (and the sixth is in the works now), and the more alarmist ones (in particular the third and fourth) are the ones that climate change alarmists are basing their predictions of catastrophe on. (Even though the fifth report actually backed off in some respects, particularly in admitting--though as obliquely as possible--that the climate model predictions were not matching the data.)
That wouldn't really be n=11 because there is a huge implicit control group of people who haven't come back to life, and if you do the math it would very strongly reject the null hypothesis.
It would seem that anonymous VOIP gateways could easily bypass that telephone requirement.
How Coronavirus Swept Through JPMorgan’s Trading Floor
0 < -1 < 2

To be fair, is there any mainstream language other than Python where that expression makes sense at all?

And even Python had to make explicit, syntactical support for it, and IMO it's a pretty non-obvious language hack. I mean, there's an invisible AND in there, that's pretty astonishing to me at least :-)
Html5 and modern javascript already replaces flash as a target. I don't know if the tools are the same. Webasm isn't necessary for that, its use is accelerating cpu intensive parts of a web page.
Thank you, i'm sure they are incompetent idiots that could not prevent their patients to die, after all they have graduated from a third world country and are probably not capable doctors. /s
It's the same bank that doesn't send you spam emails which make you used to receiving unsolicited communication from your bank. These emails make it easier to sneak in phishing emails. That's why I use that bank.
Lately, not at all. My iPhone screen time has reached absurd heights.

Prior to social distancing - if your hobbies generally involve computers then of course this will be difficult, but some strategies of mine...

At work:

- Instead of taking calls in front of the computer, put on headphones and "walk and talk" - for me, a number of my calls are taken while pacing around a meeting room or my living room these days. Video calls I try to do standing up and at a distance from the screen; it doesn't feel like "screen time" in the same way.

- In a meeting, laptops closed and take notes on a notepad, write on a whiteboard, etc.

Coding side projects:

- Not much you can do here, but you can do a lot of the planning and architecture work on paper or a whiteboard

Learning/research:

- The environmentally unfriendly method here would be to print articles/topics and read about these topics on a physical piece of paper

- Something like a Kindle would be a much better solution to the above - it tries to mimick the experience of a book and feels less like a screen

- Or try to find books that discuss these topics. On Amazon or from a friend or from a library

In general:

- Most of my hobbies for the longest time were computer-based which led to long hours behind a computer screen, but I've started to shift my focus to non-digital hobbies, trying to minimise screen time as much as possible. My ultimate goal (when this is technically feasible) is to have only an Apple Watch (with AirPods) that I use day-to-day and a MacBook that I use for work as little as possible (an iPad would be nice but the outlook to support software development doesn't look short-term), and hopefully no phone (the Watch roadmap is slowly inching towards being self-sufficient for calls, music, notifications, etc.)

- Woodworking: instead of buying furniture I build it

- Fitness: great for both your physical and mental health

- Reading: non-fiction for learning (as discussed above, somewhat replaces online reading), fiction for entertainment (helps replace watching TV)

I could list a number of other non-screen hobbies but really just find what works for you. It's likely there's a way you can make that work without a screen.
Only played it with my friends, don't think a map ever exceeded 10 players. So I can't say much about scaling - although it was a client-server model over UDP and not peer to peer networking.
That's not at odds with what I wrote.

What mattered was the original description of him as "an economist at ..." which effectively neuters his very public positions on things like coordinated action w.r.t. climate change. He's absolutely entitled to his beliefs, but shouldn't be cited as if "oh wow, an ECONOMIST at SANTA CLARA says this, so ..."
I built this primarily because I was bored in a Zoom lecture and wanted to chat with other people in the class. There were a couple of small group chats that started spontaneously but I thought it would be more fun if the entire class could be involved. (It doesn't have to be anonymous but otherwise the professor or TFs could see who isn't paying attention in class!)
Great book. Also check out The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver.
Wait, wasn't your "but orange man bad" classic twitter response good enough? Why'd you edit it?

"When it was risky for him to do so."

Trump just got a get out of jail free card and absolute impunity and immunity to do anything he wanted. Since he's fired a number of people in the most brazen display of corruption in US history. Risky? There was zero risk.

Yes, orange man is bad. He's historically bad. He is a thin-skinned grifter who is positively the worst possible person to be in this position.

Oh but look he did an easy, lazy partial, regional restriction that accomplished positively nothing. What a savior.
BPF for packet capture predates BPF for system instrumentation, and libpcap itself is under the hood an elaborate, optimizing BPF compiler.
PayPal supports Symantec tokens though? They even sold hardware tokens in the past.
>I agree with your comment in general, but I would just underline that the discovery component of a drug is often not paid for by the eventual vendor of the drug, but is instead paid for by taxpayers, other granting agencies, and venture capitalists.

In the case of the taxpayers and grants, i think it is important to keep in mind that these are explicitly given without strings attached or rights reserved because society decided that we want to encourage private research. It is fair to argue that perhaps we should change the model moving forward, but I find it fairly offensive when folk claim a retroactive ownership on this basis.

>Thus the eventual vendor of a drug won't necessarily have 5000:1 odds, but instead will be able to review and purchase the most promising candidate drugs based on data generated by other companies.

I wholeheartedly agree. the long >5000:1 is at discovery, i.e. the basic research that is often publicly funded. Once drugs have gone through enough screening to be used, the probability of approval is up to about 10:1 [1]. A lot of the bigger sales take place between phase 1 and 2, which probability of approval is up to perhaps 25%. Research institutions and early developers get paid based on the potential value and risk, and are not taken advantage of. The fact that companies often outsource early develop doesn't invalidate the their claim to their profits.

>The expensive part of bringing new drugs to market is testing in humans. Perhaps the US could bear some of these costs while, in exchange, shortening or eliminating patent protections.

This is an interesting idea. Two additional options that you may want to consider that wouldn't stifle development are expedited approval and government manufacture of generics. Due to the time value of money, faster approval increases the profitability of new drug development and without increasing prices to consumers. For generics, drug profits after loss of exclusivity are so far out that they don't significantly weigh in on the decision to develop a product or not.
Dismissing it as "both sideism" just allows mediocrity to thrive. On both sides, as it happens. It's an endless loop of "they're the problem, not us". Deflecting any responsibility and avoiding self-reflection. Nothing changes or improves as a result.

Why not demand better on all fronts? None of the aforementioned media are doing grade A work.
> But given the severity and high death rate of flu, shouldn't it also have that high level of hospitalization,

Your question is circular. It assumes that the severity and death rate of flu is the same as with COVID19. There's no reason to believe that's true at this point.

> or perhaps covid shouldn't have such a high rate?

The hospitalization rate is what it is. People aren't going to the hospital with COVID19 for the fun of it. They're terribly sick.
Hear, hear. Nicely put, too.
Are You Demotivated? – Keys to Get Your Passion Back on Track
Corona virus research from Monash university
Honestly, it actually hasn't been materially worse than the flu yet. So this article's premise is basically worthless.

We have 70k dead as of 3/6/2020 and it's already slowing. The flu kills between 290,000 and 650,000 worldwide yearly, according to the WHO.

The actual "damage" this virus has "caused", which the flu doesn't, is the economic shock of everyone being forced at once to not go out and spend. We have rightly done this to save the weaker among us, at the great expense of the masses' financial future.
WHO says Africa will not be a testing ground for any vaccine
I hate the way this drug has been politicized by Trump yapping it up before there were any good studies.

Politicians should shut up about unproven medicines and leave it to the professionals to actually practice, you know, evidence based medicine.
Could you say please what is the motivation to learn Russian?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782097

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787828
How can I get Spam Emails in my Mailbox
Did somebody knows Newsletter or Websites which will send me Spam Mails in my Mailboxes Coco841977@gmail.com or ThomasLather@t-online.de? I tried some Newsletters, but all normal.
Or can someone send Spam Emails in my Mailboxes? Or can someone subscribe oe expose my my Adresses on the right Place to get the Spam Emails? Brgds Thomas
One woman's politeness is another woman's dishonesty.
Except it is not.

https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html

https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html

https://www.qt.io/blog/2018/05/22/qt-for-webassembly

https://platform.uno/

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
I think Fidelity does allow this, but I haven't bothered with it since I use a password manager.

Fidelity has a brokerage account, free checks, free ATM withdrawals via debit card, maybe also your 401k, free money wires, automatic investment etc.

The only thing they don't have are branches where you can deposit cash, but that's really never necessary - in an extreme case you can open another bank account, deposit cash, transfer to fidelity and immediately close it.

I'm not sure why anyone uses a bank other than Fidelity.
Do you realize that if the media write "could die", readers will interpret it as "will die" ?
Just to be clear: He says it's not the ventilators themselves that are causing the harm, but the way they are configured. He believes they are causing pressure to the lungs that is making the situation worse for many patients.
Bottom of first paragraph: "That is a skeuomorph: it's an incidental feature of an object that persists even in a new medium where the incidental feature no longer makes sense."
This may have been posted on HN elsewhere, but I think this is coverage of the US PPE business you mention:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/04/03/if-you-i...
> the minimal predictions in this report

Those minimal predictions don't justify spending trillions of dollars on CO2 mitigation. They basically say "the climate is going to change, so be ready to deal with it".
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792370
No paywall: https://archive.is/h612X
interested folks can reply to the email they get on-signup and mention the HN thread and wanting to jump the line
I created a Venmo account this week because it was the easiest way to get out two payments to friends who I can't see face to face at the moment. The next day Paypal added my new Venmo phone number to my Paypal account that previously didn't have a phone associated. Good times.
In my opinion, Kotlin, C#, and TypeScript all come pretty close.
Why isn't there more of an emphasis on the phone companies? They're the ones literally giving your phone number to someone else.
I dont think libdill supports multiple CPUs, which is really hard to get right
> This thing could have killed half the population of this planet in weeks had nobody done a thing about it.

What? No, there's not a single credible model that predicts that this virus could have wiped out half the population, even with 0 mitigation efforts. Such a virus is a possibility, but it certainly wasn't this one.
Yes, seasonal flu starts exponentially, but people don't understand exponential growth and its limits.
While this has some value - it just screams another product that was slapped together in a night for "product hunt" clout.

Most of these examples aren't that great, and it could've been delivered as a blog post.
If the patients have a zinc deficient they can make all the zinc channels they want, it won't matter.

It is one thing to inhibit the virus, but zinc is needed to reduce the over active immune response,
One time I accidentally left SpinControl.app on for a week and went about my business (SpinControl, RIP, was an app that logged stack traces any time an app didn't flush its event queue for more than a few seconds -- i.e. caused a beachball). A week later I came back and checked it to find something truly astounding: with hundreds of logged spins, 100% of them were due to flash. Usually in Safari, but sometimes in other embedded webkit contexts. You would expect a few spins to creep into that list from other causes, and indeed I triggered one with a mail index rebuild just to be make sure it was watching more than the browser process, but no, SpinControl was working fine. 100% of the beachballs in the last week were due to flash's suckiness, to say nothing of power usage or security.

Flash's performance issues, at least on the mac, were very real. Good riddance.

> much better than J2ME ever was.

If you lower the bar to the ground anyone can jump over it.
The early talk about wearing masks struck me as particularly egregious. We were told: they don't help, you won't put it on properly, you'll just get yourself sick using it, you'll have a false sense of confidence.

That's what I kept seeing from the experts.
Boris Johnson moved to intensive care after his condition worsens
Wish I could, not my app!
Debugging an off-by-two compiler error
I'm sure you read all the articles in 5 minutes but either way the mental gymnastics you are going through to get around the headlines reading "How our brains make coronavirus seem scarier than it is" etc is truly impressive.
Ah, so you had a WebRTC datachannel between the clients and the server?
Airbnb raises $1B as it takes big hit from coronavirus crisis
Britain has millions of coronavirus antibody tests, but they don’t work