skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you think zero revenue is the default state. That's generally only the default during the short period of time in between selling angel investors on an idea or proof of concept and getting a first round of VC funding. Somewhere in the middle of that is launching a viable product and demonstrating a potential revenue stream while convincing investors there is a sizable addressable market you can poach from competitors or convince buyers they need a service they've never had before. Zero revenue is otherwise a short sprint towards irrelevance and insolvency.

Startups with a little bit of runway have to cut costs now to extend it, i.e. staff cuts, or they're also on a short spring towards insolvency. All business negatively impacted right now are extremely adverse to new expenditures for the next few months, and might only be slightly less so for the next six months to a year after that. All spending not absolutely essential to keeping the lights on is getting cut.

My workplace had contracts with a number of startups (and some more established) that provide industry-specific services, and as a matter of course we insist on a "force majeure" clause in contracts. As a result we are strongly moving towards terminating those contracts. We are considering it even for one or two that are close to being mission critical, because revenue loss just through June is in the range of $30,000,000. That represents roughly a 40% drop over expected revenue for that time period. Projections for the next quarter are much, much worse, even in an optimistic "we might be slightly less restricted as a society in 2-3 months" scenario.

Given this environment, startups that do not supplant an existing service for a lower cost, have VC confidence and can "hibernate" for a time, or some other type of product that can help businesses stem losses rather than just make some activity slightly easier and more seamless... only those startups will weather this storm.
Fuzzy portrait live drawn by Python
Thanks for the feedback! We think it's a neat idea too. My partner and I both had similar stories. In fact, when he started to describe his story, I knew how it ended and I just said, "I'm in. Let's build it."
But What About Their Childhoods?
It's improved a lot (I use it every day, alongside IntelliJ and they both have pros and cons, but I probably prefer Eclipse) - but this isn't really related to the classic Eclipse IDE as far as I can tell. It's something completely separate.
Fair argument, I just think it's rather 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater', getting rid of a tool that teachers are familiar with, works well and can handle 200MM customers because of an easily changed setting, which is already present in the software.

I know your argument is the correct one, but it's frustrating to see Zoom caught up in a furore of media-driven controversy.
The linked Twitter thread includes replies from someone who worked on the intended-replacement system indicating that “in the field” data entry accuracy was one of the biggest problems and not something that could be easily solved in code.
Is this a localization thing? In this image here[0], the italicized word clearly leans to the right.

Funny thing happened when I tried to type that out: typing /italics/ caused libre office to automatically italicize the word.

[0]: https://imgur.com/cq7BMex
Hangouts etc are using webrtc, but p2p doesn't scale beyond a few participants.
The Vanderbilt's private gym in the Biltmore mansion (1895) has these:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a8/e8/6d/a8e86d890a40c77cb4ba...

Also it has a swimming pool in the basement before chlorine- the entire pool would be filled before use and drained afterwards. Heated of course. Also they had a bowling alley..
I’m on Zoom a gajillion times over 5 years and I’ve not once experienced a zoombomb. I have experienced Google Hangouts bombs.

The incidence is of course going way up, but it really is overblown on the quantity. The biggest issue are those that post links on twitter or some place public (same issue for Hangouts).
There is a limit IMO. Getting bombarded with COVID-19 news, videos, blogs, Tweets every second of the day is definitely not healthy. I would definitely prefer taking like 30 minutes 2-3 times a day to keep myself updated using my preferred sources.
Sorry if this sounds fatalistic/cynical, but surprise surprise, people are terrible!

I often hear people say that there are more good people than bad in the world, and that the bad are often over-represented: that's just wishful thinking.

I held a retail job for a little over 3 years before escaping, in quite a well-off town, which was known for being "such a nice place". It would be excessively generous to say that 20% of the people that would come through our doors were decent human beings; even now I can still remember the faces of all of the "good" customers because they were so few and far between that encountering them was almost a shock. A majority of our customers were bitter, rude, cruel, and painfully indignant and self-unaware.
VCs were always 'risk' averse, though this manifested in odd behaviors. Such as the herd signal, whereby one investor decided to invest attracted more capital.

One might argue that the signal indicated lower risk, but this runs at odds with the mission to find potentially large payoffs. That is, derisk enough, and you de-reward. Add to that, that there is no "sure thing", or ultimate de-risk. There are no silver bullets in this process, and signals you think may indicate one thing, actually indicate something entirely different.
Live drawing: https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/

Debug frame showing the particles that draw: https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/static/images/debug.jpg

Stopmotion of 3 months of drawings in full hd: https://youtu.be/7xoZ3aDwPk4

Source code: http://github.com/sloev/face_experiments
And you think this app not existing is going to motivate people to do that?
There was this idea of breaking "Big Tech" apart floating around a few months ago. It was probably over-zealous as it was proposed, but I now honestly believe that it's a good idea to REQUIRE (by regulations) the major (again defined in such regulations) appstores be operated by a separate entity dedicated to such a role, and subject to extra scrutiny to prevent this kind of anti-competition behavior. Putting it simply, you can't run an appstore and publish apps in it too.
I was supposed to learn COBOL as part of class curriculum in the mid 2000s, but it was replaced with HTML and CSS instead.
I don't expect them to promote anything, back in the day a good app could get some initial traction, make it to the top 1000 apps in a category and move up the charts based on usage and good reviews.

That's not possible anymore. It's a known fact that the only way to make it on the app store these days is to blow half a million dollars on a burst ad campaign to get a large initial volume of downloads. Other option is to have the number of "App Store Managers", who decide what gets featured, and that option is only really available to top VC firms and large companies.
This isn't about zoombombing, this is about their very odd and suspiciously terrible security practices and repeated abuse of user trust. Zoom should be ditched immediately by everyone.

The problem is that while Zoom is ok at best, and really pretty terrible for classroom (two kids + my fitness bootcamp are all virtual now), the user experience for everything else is really even worse. So in a time when we really need video chat, viable alternatives are scarce.
Sounds like you were in the city (SF). The suburbs are much better!
Of course it's intrusive, as are your suggestions, as the whole concept is literally to intrude so you take a break. If you just want a suggestion to take a break try timed notifications.
TL;DR
Prefixing your custom commands/scripts with a comma, in order to avoid collision with present or future system commands.

Been doing it for years with a jj prefix instead, it is just under my index finger on the home row :-)
Show HN: hack:now – 36-hour online hackathon tackling issues caused by COVID-19
Be careful, you are going up a Chinese-based company that will downvote anything negative and give excuses that most people won't know anything about.
Wonderful artwork and design in this article, and also in the linked articles and issues.
It seems to apply pretty well to Mexico. Every time the cartels reach an equilibrium of violence where there’s a clear chain of command and territories violence drops. Then the Mexican state decides that having para-states on its territory is unacceptable, smashes them and violence increases. You see the same dynamic though not on the same scale in US organized crime history; the Mafia were brutal thugs just like the brutal thugs who are criminals in US inner cities now. The Mafia used violence less often because they were organized. People knew where they stood. Pay your protection money, don’t talk to the police unless they’re our police and you’re done.

No crime is better than organized crime is better than widespread disorganized crime.
That's a matter of perspective. If someone is critiquing you and you don't like it, you can easily twist that to say you were attacked and effectively shut down conversations you don't agree with.
I was sort of tempted to pursue this. I did a few years in the salty COBOL mines back when I was a PFY about 20...plus years ago. This niche probably hasn't moved very much since then and I could probably recall most of it after a few hours. I'm freelancing right now anyway and some other projects just vaporized.

But.

A quick skim of the postings is finding that what they're really screaming for is somebody who's been familiar with their particular pile of toxic waste for at least four years at minimum. They're asking for people with 4+ years of COBOL, and JCL (ok, fine), and DB2, and VSAM, and "SDLC" (proto-waterfall), and, oh yeah, a four-year degree.

Heck, there's a posting asking for somebody to draw diagrams and document their existing processes, and for that they expect you to have 10 years of COBOL experience.

Okay then. This is not yet a mess that they're motivated enough to fix.
I agree. I moved here for Grad school so I'm not making six figures anymore but it's still pretty cheap!
Unlikely. I've been through 2001 and 2008. Startups will cut things to the bone because most of them are cash flow negative, and that next VC round will be delayed 12+ months, maybe never.
By having each school's IT setup a separate server

School's have IT. It isn't always competent IT (I speak from experience), but clear instructions from up high can lead it
A repost of a previous post on Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660647

Since i didnt know how to update the old one with the timelapse video that i think shows the diversity of the algorithm
I see, that’s interesting. Thanks for the update on Eclipse. Release notes for dirigible said they switched to xterm.js, I’ve been using that lib a lot in both an electron and a web app and it’s been impressive.
An hour per week isn’t going to cut it. More regular physical activity is needed to keep the body and mind in good shape. In speaking with cardiologists, minimum 30 minutes a day. Obviously if you’re strength training and lifting heavy you’re going above and beyond, so this is a loose recommendation for people who don’t. The body acclimatizes to “moderate intensity” quickly when you put it to the test.

Let’s not toss the baby out with the bathwater. Awhile back on HN there was an article with a doctor who “prescribes” deadlifting, and I’ll butcher the quote but he says: “I would rather prescribe them an increase in deadlifting weight than an increased dose of blood pressure pills”.

Leisure is good. Finding a breath of fresh air in physical activity is better.
Not even to a standard 20-30 person class size? Surely there’s enough bidirectional bandwidth for a continuous audio feed and a token based video feed.
No, no, no... This really is not a waste. Businesses do this all the time. When something is needed right away they bet on multiple possibilities knowing that some of them will not work. But they do it because ultimately it will help the situation. It's the cost of doing business.

Governments can't really do it because no matter the result someone will complain about it not being done more efficiently.

I don't understand why the defence department is not willing to do it. It has more flexibility and is capable of spending billions in a time of need without much criticism.

I am just glad Gates is around to do it and is willing to do it. Ultimately it will save lives.
Cyberattack is a fairly generic term (as is anything "cyber-"). Just intentionally joining a Zoom room you're not supposed to be in/know about is probably "unauthorized access to a resource" and thus a "cyberattack" according to some definitions, and mainstream media, school administrators, ... are going to use those kind of definitions.

E.g. random definition pulled from merriam webster dictionary:

> an attempt to gain illegal access to a computer or computer system for the purpose of causing damage or harm

One can argue that there's not enough focus on the attack on a system here, but I'm not surprised it's used that way.
Please review the HN guidelines linked at the bottom of the page. I think the combative tone and the mention of downvotes, both of which are against the guidelines and are actively enforced by moderators and readers, is contributing to your karma woes more than the content of what you are saying.

(For whatever little it's worth, I suspect your assessment is correct.)
If you're an investor, this isn't how you see things. If there's no future, you cut bait. The startup doesn't have a real runway.
They just never took the Smartpipe bit to its conclusion. No punchline happened. Broomshakalaka, however, is masterclass.
This is how I make tables

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As a Canadian, I find it frustrating that for weeks, the Federal government was hesitant to halt air travel, citing the WHO who stated that closing borders showed little evidence on slowing the transmission of influenza (https://postmediaedmontonjournal2.files.wordpress.com/2020/0...)

And in the end, we ended up closing our borders except well beyond the time when it could've made a major difference.
Usr stands for universal system resource, look up the file hierarchy standard.
I believe zoom defaulted to passwords in the past, and a lot of companies just updated their settings to turn it off. Not sure what the state is now since we switched to Teams.
>but shutting yourself off is a dangerous head-in-the-sand strategy

only if that actual makes a material difference in your life. I think the opposite is true in this case.

People read about Covid-19 all day as a coping mechanism because absorbing more information gives people the illusion they have control over the situation.

Reality is nobody has much individual control over a pandemic, life got more dangerous, and reading a thousand papers isn't going to reduce that anxiety. We live in an age where people keep telling us that 'knowing things' is an antidote to tragedy or danger in life, because they're content creators, but really it isn't.

Everyone can learn how to deal with this in 5 minutes. Wash your hands, only leave your house if necessary, yet still people may die, even some you know. No news source in the world will fix that.
> I hate that I have no idea how it will render on Github or wherever without actually pushing a test commit out, or using Github's interactive UI + copypaste to preview.

I used to do this a lot, until I discovered Markdown Preview https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim
Here's a recent wastewater analysis study showing the prevalence of several illegal drugs in Europe.

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/waste-water-analysis...
> Meanwhile you are saving the target site some bandwidth.

And costing them some CPU :)
It’s probably a good idea in most cases, agreed, but there are exceptions such as if you are requesting resources in already-compressed formats, like most image/video codecs.
How to Survive the Cascadia Earthquake?
Just use a web extension like Dark Reader, it renders dark mode for all pages.
I'm not aware of information coming out of Russia that contradicts their official reporting, but I still find it extremely implausible that they have been so little impacts by the virus spread. But I'm flying blind on this speculation, I freely admit: Are typical travel patterns between Russia and the rest of Europe so minimal as to explain their decrease exposure?
Showed it to my wife who's been playing, and then I heard a bunch of clicking and now it's circulating in the Discord channel she hangs out in. Nice work!
> Zoom says they are too.

But, to be fair, Zoom has already been shown to be lying about e2e encryption. Fool me once...
It may help, but Italy (also shutdown flights to/from China in January) shows that the impact is not big enough.
Would love a sequel!
It wasn't non-obvious. It was covert. People had to root phones and observe CPU frequencies to uncover it. I see absolutely no indication that the intent was for the batteries to get replaced.
> I'll trust postgresql more when it can support a few thousand connections without resorting to running middleware (pgbouncer) all over. That was his point. PostgreSQL is just abysmally bad in this area.

Depending on your workload it's entirely possible to run PG with 2000 connections. The most important thing is to configure postgres / the operating system to use huge pages, that gets rid of a good bit of the overhead.

If the workload has a lot of quick queries it's pretty easy to hit scalability issues around snapshots (the metadata needed to make visibility determinations). It's not that bad on a single-socket server, but on 2+ sockets with high core counts it can be significant.

We're working on it (I'm polishing the patch right now, actually :)). Here's an example graph https://twitter.com/AndresFreundTec/status/12346215343642419...

My local 2 socket workstation doesn't have enough cores to show the problem to the same degree unfortunately, so the above is from an azure VM. The odd dip in the middle is an issue with slow IPIs on azure VMs, and is worse when the benchmark client and server run on the same machine.

> It's terrifying to watch a couple hundred connections take a moderately sized server (~100 threads) down the native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath path to ruin. That's just sad.

Which spinlock was that on? I've seen a number of different ones over time. I've definitely hit ones in various drivers, and in both the generic parts of the unix socket and tcp stacks.
Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report
In a sense, I suppose it is one aspect of accessibility. It's not a "total UX fail", though. You can still read the text and accomplish your task, even if the brightness isn't ideal.

Speaking of blinding, it's too bad the other aspects of accessibility aren't as popular. When screen reader support was broken, they didn't write blog posts about fixing it.
If it wasn't clear, let me be. Absurdly high numbers typically indicate exaggerations.
Or, you can flip a switch and enable Zoom, Google, or even Microsoft.

IT people are hammered right now, nobody has time to futz around with some random oss tool that will further stress overutilized remote infrastructure.
That is interesting. Do we now what the rate at which the virus dies in water?
Why not just use shell aliases?
Is there a treaty limiting routes? I know the US used to allocate them domestically. I'm a little surprised BA couldn't just least a gate from someone at Perth. Or just pay Qantas for charted flights.
Yes we should finally admit that a large part of the capitalist model is a complete and total failure. USA became a 3rd world country overnight.
I don't buy this. You can have two populations one that social isolates and one that doesn't. You get pick which one you want to be in. Those two populations can't mix.
It is faster and deeper and scarier than anything any leader working for a startup or VC in 2019 would have DARED put in a planning deck.

No one blogged about it in 2019, no one took a "how to navigate a pandemic-induced depression" class at business school.

That's not to say there isn't opportunity. Software engineer market comp WILL go down, as many point out, on account of shrinking RSU value. The talent war is over. It will soon be a great time to start a software company, if is not already.
That comes from the German-speaking settlements/immigrants in Wisconsin. In German the verb turnen is to exercise or do gymnastics. And a Turnhalle is a place you go to do that.
No, it's not and discussing it like it is a thing is irrational. Ethics are based on morals and morals are based on determining a "right" course of action for a given act.

Just because something is legal, by absence of law, doesn't mean it's right or fair for all cases. Just because something is illegal (copyright) doesn't mean it's not right or fair for all cases. What if the information saved a million lives? Would it still be ethical to claim "ownership" of that information?

What if the information caused a target audience to visualize that thing over and over again? Is it right to allow that information out into the public at all?

g'disable javascript in your browser'
This holiday is so long in the tooth.
> brandished a gun or fired one

There is a huge difference between brandishing a gun, firing it, injuring someone and killing someone. This is typical leftist misrepresentation of statistics by NYT - conflating of significant and insignificant events into single number to make it appear larger.
Stop using [angle “brackets”] for generics
About ten years ago I worked for a consulting company that did lots of work for our state government. One particular state agency wanted to hire me to maintain the system we built for them but it would have been a nearly 50% pay cut. The only people they were able to hire on that pay scale were those who moved on the first chance they got from the private sector. Each time they'd end up giving us a contract to take care of things during the interim period and then train whoever they hired. Went through three cycles of that until I changed companies. Who knows, maybe they're still going through cycle after cycle of hire, programmer leaves, big contract the consulting company, train new person to take over. There's no way it was cheaper than just paying someone the going open market rate but the state pay schedule for that job classification simply won't allow it.
Apart from their phones, they make little I want any more.

I built a Ryzen desktop a while ago, since there was no way I was paying what they want for an iMac Pro or Mac Pro, and I needed a decent GPU, lots of cores and memory and no thermal throttling.

Switched to Linux with a tiling WM (bspwm), since I’m a backend engineer (Go/Rust), not iOS. I also have Windows 10 installed, and honestly, it’s fine as well with WSL2.

Apple needs to realise Swift is not going anywhere except for the iOS/macOS niche, and consider general developers again, but so far Microsoft is doing a much better job of that, and I don’t hold out much hope, Apple have missed their window and are returning to their closed off locked down comfort zone. Not really sure they left, but it seemed like it for a while.

My MacBook Pro is gathering dust.
And of course they're not working with insurance companies or anything to make this accessible to anyone outside the HCOL bubble who have giant amounts of disposable income to sign up for an unknown commitment to a $130 a month "membership".

Just sell the damn test and don't worry about 'growth hacking' during a pandemic.
If you want to try new foods, that's cool, I do too. Read local food reviews.

But if ads convince you to try 47 different restaurants and that otherwise you would have been perfectly happy to eat at home, then the ads did a disservice to society.
Actual paper:

Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage / Medema, et al.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.20045880v...

Check out Table 4.