skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the Soviets Helped an American Town Get a Bridge
It’s 8AM EDT. Most HNers aren’t even up this early.

Also, with the president’s multiple lies per day the media is barely covering it.
Does this hack keep the location of users synced between each other?

If so, this seems like it could "easily" be expanded into something like Roll20 where tokens are on a gridded map with an image background.
The answer to the question is "he would be as rich as a modern billionaire in the tens of billions range"
Etee: Button free finger sensing “joycons”
Use amazon search/reviews and then use the ISBN to shop anywhere (I would promote Buch7 as a social book shop knowing its not the best for English books). Your local book shopde will also order most things for you. (Call them, they call you back when the book arrived). The big problem is that English books are not fixed price in Germany ...
This takes accuracy hit for sure, total time of route can be different than the total time of segments. Especially if the route is long.
Lightweight VMs for Serverless and Containers
Show HN: Bail – get out of your plans, guilt free
From my perspective I pay more for the BBC then I do for either netflix or prime, yet get less value from it personally than either.
deZoom – remove the Zoom app from your Mac and fix vulnerabilities
> And finally, from a movie aesthete’s view, the Jurassic Park movies are among Spielberg’s (and original novelist Crichton’s) worst work

Disagree, in the case of Crichton. He wrote a lot of fairly bad books. I doubt I’d find much to agree with in a ranking of them that didn’t place Jurassic Park somewhere in the top half, at least. True that it’s not among Spielberg’s best work but Spielberg’s “mediocre” is still pretty damn good.
Nice project! I've also recently made a React clone in <1KB, with JSX syntax and Hooks - https://github.com/zserge/o
Yep, thanks for the feedback! =)
This story is a little bit one-sided. If you read right-wing media, you'll get stories one-sided in the other direction.

States in the US had placed orders for masks, in some cases more than a month ago, and have not received them even after having paid for them. They were getting outbid after having a contract in place, and companies (including 3M distributors) weren't honoring orders after higher-grossing orders came in. Florida-bound masks were being diverted to other countries.

A whole bunch of countries had already stopped exports of medical equipment. The US was getting outbid on exports AND couldn't import, so was getting stripped of medical equipment. This was a response.

Was it a thoughtful, reasoned, reasonable response? No. But some sort of rapid response was needed since there was a flood of equipment out of the US.

There are also many disappearing orders in different ports, where shipments apparently just vanish in a poof of smoke. It's not clear who is to blame (but usually everyone assumes it is the US, with no clear evidence).

I'm not sure where this is going, but we're seeing escalation on many different sides. We want a deescalation. I'm not sure how to get to there from here. Without deescalation, these are the sorts of things which tend to escalate to war.
I wonder if they simply tried calling Google and negotiating a volume based discount. I realize Google is notoriously impersonal, but I always prefer if you can solve a problem without code.
> us, founders, were the ones making the least already.

Sure, but founders also have magnitudes more equity than any employees.

It sucks for a founder of a company that isn’t profitable or has great growth but for a decent run company the equity is far more valuable than the salary.

Like Steve Jobs taking a $1/year salary and still being one of the richest folks on the planet.

As a founder you can still up your salary to a sustainable level and let your employees go. Employees don’t have that option.
For those who would like to dig deeper, a fellow who goes by ResearchIndicates produced a fantastic documentary-style Let's Play of Trespasser several years ago: https://lparchive.org/Jurassic-Park-Trespasser/
The correct way to contact dang on issues like this is to write email to hn@ycombinator.com
What's abuse about proposing new telecom standards through an telecom standardization org?
Completely agree coming from years of experience with MSSQL using it before it had good hinting, its very necessary.

I don't care how good your optimizer is, its not going to replace a human that knows what they are doing anytime soon.

I try real hard not to use hints and most of the time you don't, but sometimes you just do. To not have it will simply make you find whatever hacky way there is to beat the optimizer into submission to get the job done.

Its funny to see similar complaints about the V8 jitter now app developers get to experience a black box optimizer making different brain dead choices in production vs development environments.
Mixing Node.js and OpenJDK (2019)
> "All our ICU patients are in their 50s or younger"

I was expecting a Triage-scenario to be the cause of this, but since they're not just yet at capacity, that can't be the case either.

How is this anomaly to be explained?

EDIT: Apparently, they are over-capacity, I was left under the impression, they hadn't turned anyone away from ICU... nevertheless, I still don't understand how that anomaly is possible... it's statistically very unlikely: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8181359/Doctor-retu...
The Feasibility of Building an Island and Declaring it a Sovereign Nation
Strength through underhanded tactics is not strength. He's covering up his incompetence.
Discussion from 12 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19588156
> Can Europe do this?

No. But it should recognize that it is currently a province in the US empire. If it wants to be sovereign, it should change that, if it doesn't, it should cut out their administrative overhead.
If you carry lots of android devices it will alter the traffic on Google Maps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q
I can only speak for myself but what is there left to comment on? I have outrage fatigue. Trump goes from one incredible gaff/goof/statement to another. The list of his incompetence, arrogance, lies, and stupidity is quite large. It does not surprise me in the least that this latest selfish, short-sighted move was made.

His supporters are incapable of critiquing him. They are impervious to logic and reason. I no longer care to hear about his crimes and incompetence. I no longer care what he does. He is the President the United States deserves. In response to having elected the most incompetent, corrupt, and stupid President in history the opposition party is going to nominate a senile dinosaur who has no desire to upend the corporate dominance of our elected officials.
Love those layouts
Europe outside of Germany has no advanced industrial capabilities at all. They can choose to do anything they want to, however they have three major industrial options to choose from: Germany, the US, China.

Germany can't make enough of anything to satisfy all of Europe's demand. That leaves having to deal with the US and China.

The first thing Germany did was shift to self-preservation mode, abandon their EU and Eurozone partners, and lock down their exports. Germany has been able to hyper test their own population, while the rest of Europe was left running at low rates of testing, including Britain, France, Spain and Italy, along with all of Eastern Europe.

This is partially why Italy's case mortality rate is now a shocking 12%, the Netherlands is 10%, the UK is 10%, Spain is near 10%, France is 8%, Belgium is 7%, Sweden is 6%. And these numbers keep getting worse. Mortality rates like this should never happen in developed nations (Canada's case mortality rate by contrast is a mere 1.5%, Germany is 1.4%). None of them are testing anywhere close to enough. People expect incompetence out of the US healthcare system, however Britain and France are supposed to be among the best in the world and they have completely failed (England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer just said yesterday that there's no need for the healthy general public to wear masks).

The reason why even France and Britain can't test their own populations properly, despite months of lead time, is they have no industrial capabilities to match what Germany can do. Europe is largely left helpless and with the EU collapsing - there is no scenario where Italy and Spain will ever trust the EU again - the infighting and bickering is likely to continue indefinitely.
I have years of experience in asm programming with PIC processors, and my job is embedded software development. I got an STM32 development board a couple years ago to get my feet wet in ARM embedded development. I got completely bogged-down in setting up the development environment. It took me forever to get a blinking LED, and I spent an ungodly amount of time unsuccessfully trying to figure out how to change the rate based on a potentiometer input.

It was a very frustrating experience, but articles like this make me want to dive in and try again!
so do you consider your pgadmin fork maintained or not? where is it?
Great story and impressive work at Pyrofex. Can you share your perspective on the crypto industry right now?
Each user basically sends a text message through Jitsi Meet to update each other on their locations.
I never understood how animals without an adaptive immune system fight off stuff like this. Like spiders for example.
Scare tactics 101
8 things I learned during a quarantine
> Everybody is not acting like that.

The vast majority does.

> I meant help in any way that would benefit everyone.

And I'm asking how that would help. So far, every single proponent of "surveillance because covid" I asked this avoided the question.

It's also pretty incredible how you split hairs about "everybody" in the first sentence, and then talk about something that will help "everyone" in the second, without even saying how.
Elon Musk was not the original brains behind Tesla, it was Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, Musk merely was "the money man", the one who was able to eventually wrest control from the founders.
Then tape/break them.
> Searle goes on to contend that intentional behavior must be in response to real contingencies, not formal simulations of reality. If so...

He does indeed, but the Chinese Room paper presents no compelling argument for that view; it ultimately depends on an appeal to one's intuitions about the feasibility of a remarkable and unrealistic situation that is far from our own experiences, and one, moreover, where he misunderstood the most common response (the 'systems reply'). Dennett has objected that these sort of arguments (or, as he calls them, 'intuition pumps') are simply unsuitable for proving anything, comparing them to denying heliocentricity on the grounds of it being just obvious that the Earth is not moving.
Benefits of Sun Salutations for remote workers
Or, if you're building your own unit, then I remember citytech (welcome to city tech!) was pretty much the only option when I was doing it. The circuits to run electrochemical gas sensors are a little annoying to set up.
On thing I like about the IEEE (and potentially others, I am unfamiliar) is that the etiquette is not unspoken. It’s written very clearly and spoken out loud as the rules prior to every daily meeting. Everyone must either agree to it or leave. You are not allowed to continuously violate etiquette and be allowed to contribute.

Perhaps the rules are not culturally neutral, but they do maximize mutual respect, which promotes the ideology of treating every individual at the meeting equally.
Do no harm (tough choices for Covid-19 doctors)
That can go wrong on the employer side as well with bad employees not being able to let go of easily.

The US doesn’t have much of a safety net. Covid-19 perhaps will take the toll of the most bankruptcies and preventable suicides in a wealthy nation.

We screwed this one up really bad.
There sure will be. Europe spread the virus to the rest of the world, acting as the seed infection for half the planet. This was because of their incompetent and slow response time, poor crisis preparation (including health officials in the EU declaring there was nothing to worry about in February, stating that they were well prepared), and failure to properly lock down travel even while the virus was beginning to rampage in Italy.

"Coronavirus Started in China, but Europe Became the Hub for Its Global Spread"

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-europe-trave...
On the website you are showing 7 trends for free. So I created an account in the assumption that I can see more for free. But when I logged in I can only see 6 for free and then you are trying to upsell me. That doesn't make sense.
Pressurized air and leather flaps have the potential of sounding like a giant industrial whoopie cushion.
Yea just put -c copy
You are smart beyond my comprehension. Your article was amazing.

Although blockchain technology fits your skillset, I hope you will choose to do something [actually|more] worthwhile to our societies.
Wonder who is the recycling scrap metal yard in South Texas that get's all Musks' business ?
While part of me immediately fears biological variation of the Iron Wind, I absolutely enjoyed the article. This is really what I come to HN for.

What did trouble me somewhat is the ending where the author effectively says, and I am paraphrasing, that bothering with ethics of it in a world, where we, as a species, demonstrably do not follow ethics is kinda silly ( he lists human designed pathogens as a way to substantiate it). I had trouble accepting that argument that despite knowing that factually he is correct.

edit: replaced true at the end with "factually he is correct"
Xbox PC app switching from Electron to React Native
Why wasn't Lynx?
When you need a better internet connection (a simple WiFi router checking tool)
Why? That would entirely depend on how Google implements this. Ideally the result would match up exactly. If not you can certainly approximate the error introduced by this method well enough. They already needed to have something in place anyways to account for the bus actually stopping at all the stops. The API doesn't know about this in their old approach.
That whole argument would make sense if there was not a standardized solution to the problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Real-time_Transport_Pro...

I would like to hear the explanation for why they did not use SRTP, though I suspect the answer is, "We had no idea it existed."
7 overseas and US tech team will be built under him.
I've got no data while searching for "javascript". Is the signal too small or does the app only cather to some niches?
What kind of games did they have for arcades in Victorian London? Was it mainly pinball? ;)
Thanks for the tip. :) I ll keep that in mind. Any thoughts on the subject?
13 patients is not a big anomaly.

Check the historic number for respiratory related illnesses and deaths for the region and you will have context. Could be a lot of smokers .
Nope, it's probably just overloaded from HN.

I just updated the trend and, as you can see, it does show the data: https://treendly.com/trend/javascript?geo=US

We don't cather to any specific niche:

Thanks for the comment!
FCC, FTC give providers 48 hours to block Covid-19 scam robocalls
Great list I would add one thing to it:

No query plan caching not even for sprocs or functions.

Was surprised by this one, looks like the optimizer is much simpler than other db's so it usually take less time to create to the plan but the overhead is still there.

This is why you see the recommendation to use prepared statements and many client libraries try to automatically, but a prepared statement cannot be shared between sessions so its only good if your repeating the same statement over and over on the same connection.

If your app calls the same statements over and over from different connections which most apps tend to do it can save significant overhead and reduce response times. It was pretty much mandatory to make sure you where using parameterised SQL or sprocs back in the day to make sure it was using a cached plan properly.
Do you mean in assembly? If you just mean C, then if you’re already in embedded then I’d say a few years ago it was easy. These days it’s super easy - tools like STM32CubeMX will allow you to get even custom hardware up and running in no time.

It will even spit out multiple project types - everything from ARM Keil/MDK/uVision to just a simple makefile.
The first one is imperative and locks the implementation to use the Document object and the createElement function.

The second one is declarative and leaves it up to the receiver to handle however they seem fit.

I'm not arguing one is better or worse, or that we would be better off if we we're using the JSX way with native support in the browsers, just explaining how I see the differences between the two.
Phishing Stats: An Estimate of What’s to Come (April 2020)
My friend has been using ffmpeg for trimming game clips for a while. His workflow is: opening a video in a video player, making note of start and stop times, and plugging the times into his ffmpeg script.

Avidemux is a FOSS video editing tool I ran into that implements ffmpeg. Since this workflow requires a human to manually evaluate points in time in a video, a single tool seems like a better choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux
The current administration speaks for the country right now, but doesn't set an eternal policy that determines the United States' thinking towards its partners or erases the decades of strong alliances from the past.

Actually this is the beauty of democracy, eventually we will change this - many of us Americans aren't happy with the way our country is treating our historical friends in Europe and elsewhere. It's important that democracies stay united through this crisis, and especially after this crisis.

There is nothing China and Russia would like more than long term friction in the Free World alliances.
$800 is more in the good 5 star room than opulent suite territory tho, given the location
Not let go, but voluntarily quit in Jan to work on a side project. Now everyone’s wallets are tight and I feel that was a terrible decision.

My thinking was “economy is mega booming, I can always land a job if things go south”.

I was very wrong, things have gone quite south. Savings I had in stock vanished 30% of their value. A lot of anxiety. I could ride a couple of months but then shit’s gonna really hit the fan.
The Fragmented Death of the Farallon Plate
Yeah, but for a virus that even more heavily affects older people, it's super unlikely you'd get 13 under-60s and not a single over-60. It's like flipping a coin and getting 13 times heads, possible, but super unlikely. And we're not even talking about odds of 50:50, but 33:67 for young/old.

So, he got 13 times heads in a row? If yes, he's probably at the only hospital in the world to have that kind of a luck.

EDIT: The odds for 13 times heads in a row, is about 0.01%. So, one in 10,000 hospitals... hm, ok, that does seem likely to occur more than once on a global scale.
Covid19boards.com
I remember reading about trespasser in a game magazine as a kid. The promises were high, an open world sandbox game with realistic physics was unheard of at the time.

Then the reviews came and I remember that they were quite disappointing. I never played the game in the end.

I do remember that the game had one novelty: you could see your own body as a player when you looked down. And since the main character in the game was female, you had some boobs to look at. On one of the breasts there was a heart shaped tattoo that was your health indicator.
The students log in via email and from home, they both count as personal identifiers.

Now, China knows who is attending which lesson. And how much activity each individual shows. And also, what happens on the side like environment sounds, environment at the camera (e.g., how generous the student's apartment is). Also, the client can analyze the mouse cursor movement, see what other apps are running and how (on native clients), and on mobile clients there is for example the gravitational sensor.

Moreover, a voice (and the face, of course) is like a fingerprint of a person. Hence you now have a reverse lookup table from voice/face to person.
Thank you for the helpful suggestion - I must've been making this mistake for years.
Thanks for the kind words, KingOfCoders!

I'm cofounder of Stadia Maps, and I'm happy to field any questions folks may have.
I have a couple old laptops(and phones) lying around and was wondering is there some simple way to just use their Screens from a single Ubuntu desktop?
> You could even argue that being "apolitical" actually means that your political opinion is that the status quo is acceptable

I agree with this. I see Cultural Hegemony (domination-justification stories) being very strong in unexpected places. Family members or close friends who indirectly benefit from the artificial scarcity mechanisms (in SV especially Intellectual Property) that make up the various social class realities of rentier capitalism [1]. What seperates me and a mother of three in Bangladesh, who is getting paid starvation wages making the designer clothes I wear [2], is that I was lucky enough to have been born in the global North, in an upper-middle class family. I was able to grow up on the inside of the fort, and benefit from a rich inheritance [3].

[1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGp5_Sfbss

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnDDhco4gw
Group behind Central Park Covid tent hospital has anti-gay agenda
Maximum Security has won $11.8M so far in its racing career [0], and there are strong indications that it has been doped. [1]

[0] http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refn...

[1] https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/239437/nava...
I created something similar to be deployed on any network (internet, company, even social group):

https://hnprofile.com/

Happy to discuss with you (OP) about some things I learned along the way.
Is it related to https://www.etymonline.com/word/snap#etymonline_v_23756?
How is this different from google search trends?
May I point out that "fortnite monopoly" is actually a delight to play -- it's not just a surface redesign, but actually a far better game than monopoly.
I'm not. If copied without formatting as code blocks, the text would be a lot more readable and wouldn't require horizontal scrolling on narrow viewports.
A distributed alternative to finite-state-machine specifications (1985) [pdf]
Did anybody here actually know the detail about the "New IP" protocol? How it works?

I can't read the pay-walled ft.com article, but I been hearing people say "kill-switch" on the topic. If there will be a "kill-switch" builtin in the protocol, does that means the "New network" will be more centralized and thus unstable and bad?

I think if the goal is to connect more devices, why not build a completely decentralized P2P network that is cheap, easy to maintain, and user-friendly?
A Hot Performing Commodity
This is correct. Most workplaces and educational institutions use WhatsApp to communicate with employees/students.
The problem is, you are right. In practice, many companies say "well, it is compliant, but we don't care about the rest as long as we can function".
Google Trends is for researching things you've heard of. Treendly is to find things you haven't.