skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stuff you can learn on the job, you should. The stuff you won't is what college is for.
US Math Team coach writes app to help track Covid community spread
One note: Many of the books being listed are quite challenging to read cover to cover. For instance, "Introduction to Algorithms" (which is generally referred to as "CLRS" as an abbreviated form of the last names of the four authors) is the textbook for Georgia Tech's graduate introduction to algorithms course, and we probably only covered half of the material in it. Even just reading a quarter of that book (or of many of the others suggested here) would still be tremendously valuable.
People are making their own masks. There is no shortage of DIY masks. They have always been able to do that but, medical people and government leaders waited months in the USA to tell them to do that. Other countries already proved that wearing masks all the time helped protect you.

Medical people are telling the public not to wear gloves. The reasons they give and examples are detached from reality. There is a video going around on Facebook where a nurse acts like paint accurately represents cross-contamination. No consideration for material properties or other types of gloves.
Now you're chasing your own tail. You've gone from "I can losslessly compress everything" to "I can losslessly compress exactly one thing only".
Intel to unveil 10-core 5.3GHz processor
Something like this? https://i.imgur.com/ROYWOav.png
Interestingly, on the page it says it is not for surgical use.
I bet if you make a popup with instructions on switching the default browser when ie pops up, it'll go down
I would imagine death at work is significantly down...
When you buy a car, you have to give them permission to check with the credit agencies. If you miss a loan payment, the bank can then report to the agencies they used to vet you.

There is a level of transparency. It's not perfect but it;s something. This Company is obfuscating every layer, the tenants don't even know it's going on. The biggest issue here with the obfuscation is, Who is keeping the landlords honest?

There are already associations in the US that legally track tenant and landlord issues. This company is just bypassing all the regulations involved in that and pretending it's ok.
As an FYI, those methods do not result in sterilization. Sterilization techniques must meet specific parameters.
It's a PR making object
He and I had made our acquaintance at Union Station, downtown LA after a regularly scheduled 2600 meeting by the pay phones.

Back then, that's how you'd meet decent hackers - first Friday of the month, at some location published in 2600. Near the payphones. Hackerspaces weren't yet quite a thing, although we had the Electric Cafe in Santa Monica that was sorta close .. and there was also the virtual meeting place of The Well, but that was too noisy even in those days.

I offered Aleph1 a job at Cyberworks, a company I'd helped set up after I left operations for a tiny ISP named Earthlink (that's another story) .. he and I would commute out to Pasadena to a tiny nondescript industrial park, where I'd managed to get a bunch of sexy hardware together for the task of building one of California's earliest web agency/bureaux.

I think Aleph1 was only there for the great bandwidth I'd finagled and sexy hardware we had on offer for engineers, from DEC Alpha to SGI boxes - although the Volleyball video streaming from the beach was a pretty fun project, too: He got to string ISDN cables across the sand to an SGI Indy, parked under an umbrella on the beach, right in front of the match.

Good times. So amazing to think how far everything has come since then. If only I'd stuck it out a while longer after Cyberworks went to a business development meeting with that X.com guy, and then some nerds making an "auction site for the Internet", as if that would ever be a thing ..

;)
Pushing everything through a proxy does not seem ideal. Seems kind of like the easy road to adding VoIP to everywhere that slack already works.
Over 1000 people in America are dying every day of this disease. This thing costs probably $2 and likely provides significant protection.

About 100 people in America die per day from motor vehicle accidents. Next I suppose you're going to tell me that the extra $50 it costs to install a seatbelt in my car is a waste of materials, time, and money too, right?
>"He didn’t understand the value of good, hard, honest work," his older brother, James, later bemoaned. "He thought those people were fools."

I wouldn't call people like that fools, and pretty certainly the world would fall to pieces without them. That said, I don't think I can really blame anyone too much for not valuing good, hard, honest work in this world where many people are simply born rich and many others become rich by gaming the system and/or screwing people over.
The Precipice and Existential Risk
Most of those other techniques are not new and something that you can easily do on your desk at home. That's why they don't get media attention.

Agree with everything else you said, though.
depends_on was removed because it was an inconsistent and problematic directive. You can abuse links instead.
It does actually!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode
> That's funny seems to me that without them we would have a LOT of homeless people.

We have a LOT of homeless people. So...

Though it's true we’d have a lot more if we didn't have the small landowners (i.e., those who are homeowners but not landlords.)

It's only the larger landowners that are useless.

> They have an asset and allow others to use it for a fee....

Yes, them having the asset is a cause of homelessness. Them allowing others to use it may be a mitigation of the problem, but so would the user simply having the asset. Or the asset being held in common and allocated. Or...
>I read this the other day (before it got blocked on Medium)

Do you have a link you can share about medium blocking it? thanks!
Independently, not together.
What a delusional perspective
> As someone who has schizoaffective disorder, I take offense to your assertion that psychosis=murderer.

I did not mean to imply that. I was relating a real event that I personally observed.
Now many companies are changing their schedule and style of work. Remote access is an important part of business success
I'm writing about productivity, marketing, psychology and life.

Some personal favourites:
Lay a brick each day
https://www.pieterboerboom.nl/consistency/

The Scientist and The Monkey
https://www.pieterboerboom.nl/scientist/

My Favorite Quotes
https://www.pieterboerboom.nl/quotes/

Love reading others in this thread! Personal blogs are fascinating.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22807000

[Aside: I've heard they know nothing of qi in Qatar, ;oP]
With Regards to Keeping Children Safe “But What Else Can I Do?”Isn't Acceptable
Jack Dorsey starts startsmall LLC to fund global Covid-19 relief
I know a lot of people, including myself, who have cancelled membership to WeWork due to Coronavirus.

I intend to join again when we're allowed to leave our houses.
I'm not saying don't get a face shield, but even with shield and mask you still want to maintain distance.

Last time I shopped in a grocery store, I went when it wasn't crowded and prioritized staying away from people. If someone came towards me I went the other way. If someone was already in an aisle pointed toward me, or was pointed the other way but not far along, I didn't go into that aisle just then. If someone stood in front of an item I wanted, I came back for it, or skipped it if it wasn't important.

I also wore a mask, but I treated that store as hostile territory, focused on avoiding people, and got the heck out as fast as I could.
I'm surprised the openings for the head band are analog and not thunderbolt
Show HN: Open Startup List got featured on a tech newspaper
Does Facebook maintain an internal fork of Phabricator or is it relatively close to mainline? It's such a great product but parts of it are quite clunky - I sometimes wonder if there's some internal secret sauce to smooth these out.
>JavaScript frameworks such as React and Angular have transformed the web, bringing us fully-fledged client side applications with functionality that could only be imagined just a decade ago.

It's not like one couldn't create a fully-fledged client side application before Angular and React.
You seem to have missed that this is a science-communication video aimed to help lay-people understand APIs, standards, online abuse, privacy issues, and how automation is playing into the issues we have in society stemming from social media.
I agree with you except the reality is that we have no alternative to YouTube, not a serious one anyhow. So until that changes, unfortunately and regrettably, I do consider it a public forum - held by a private company. It’s a brave new world!

Should thinking there is correlation between 5G and viral sensitivity be illegal? Of course not.

The examples you listed are illegal and no one has any issue with those being removed.

Public forum or not, these companies should not ethically be engaging in the policing of things they consider “wrong think”. It does nothing but distort reality for both sides. Look at HN, this is an extremely strong bubble mechanic here. I’ve lost 50-some “points” on this site in the last two days and prevented from replying for saying true, first hand, or on-topic things people don’t want to see, certainly nothing that breaks rules or should be hidden because one disagrees... but that’s what it is - people trying to hide the thing that makes them upset. Same issue in micro scale.

No one should celebrate this mechanism. You should defend lizard man’s wrong think as “allowed speech” - because at some point no matter how smart or “Correct” you think you are, you will eventually find yourself on the “wrong side” of a corporate opinion, and when that happens, you will want to have supported protections for everyone the whole time.

No one ever thinks the pendulum will swing. What child-like naively would be needed so just always assume the monopolies will “just happen” to agree with one’s sensibilities on who should get a voice or not?
Thanka a lot . It is intresting for me
CodeTheCurve
I get a thrill from seeing people write stuff like "JavaScript is a toy programming language". It's just amazing, what kind of twat still honestly believes this?

Somehow people all over the world are building apps with it, and there are more of them doing it than whatever this person considers to be not a toy, but I suppose those are just minor details.
It's simple enough to work well, cheap to produce, can be transported easily - very cool.

Can we expect a ventilator machined from a block of aluminum next?
Jitsi is apparently completely unscalable.

Is this intended as a criticism? You wanted it to do a job it was never designed to do.
You only need to specify the container by ID if you're using docker directly; if you use docker-compose then you can use the service name and you don't need the `-ti`
Hal Wilner has died of COVID-19
Goverments have a problem. People can exchange information without oversight.

This is frightening, to say the least.
Apple:

Apple FaceShield® - A magical yet disposable premium face shield from yours truly at One Apple Park.*

*This device has not been tested or qualified to prevent or reduce infection, and does not provide particulate filtration. Not intended for use in surgical settings. These devices have not been disinfected or cleaned. Non-sterile.*

Only $99 yearly subscription. /s

Thank you. *Terms and Conditions Apply.

Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.

Everyone: Just like every face shield, but this one has a Apple Logo. Cool another collectable!

Me: Ok.
Late update, but they're putting in more effort to make sure authors don't get abuse. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1247612061732999172
People were told face masks don't work by the officials. This actively harmful lie was propagated since they wanted to save the PPE for health care workers. The problem with this approach is that one asymptotic/mild cashier can undo the work of a thousand health care workers.
Wow, that won't bode well with the other investors I imagine. At some point in the near future, other players or current investors will have to either pump more cash into this investment or let it go bust. damn, what a story though. rapid growth to rapid decline.
Bear in mind that soap doesn't just wash off the virus, it destroys it. The virus is held together by lipids, which soap dissolves.

Still, that's an interesting point, maybe it's a good reason face shields are better than goggles.
Yes, but touching a dried droplet is much less likely to lead to infection than inhaling one.
Results of the survey if anyone is interested: https://naborly.com/blog/covid-19

And the email that was sent after the initial request for data:

>I would appreciate a moment of your time to clarify my team’s efforts to make a positive impact amidst the COVID-19 crisis.

Yesterday, I wrote an email asking landlords to provide information on April rent payments. This information was intended to allow Naborly to better support landlords and tenants and promote a mutual understanding of the severe impact the economic shutdown is having on the rental industry. Upon reflection, I recognize that the email was poorly worded and did not provide sufficient context. I am deeply sorry if it suggested that Naborly or myself were trying to do anything other than help.

Our goal at Naborly is to provide a tenant screening tool that is free from bias, and we are firm believers that housing is a human right. For tenants, we aim to remove traditional barriers to housing such as level of income, student or immigration status, or prior evictions. For landlords, we provide a screening tool that captures a tenant’s entire ability to pay rent, beyond factors such as credit history.

As part of that goal, we have always had a reporting tool that allows landlords to provide feedback, both positive and negative, on their tenants. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, this information is more important than ever. We serve over 800,000 rental units and their owners and are in a unique position to compile information on the hardships facing tenants and landlords alike. Having accurate information allows us to adapt our screening tools to ensure tenants are not unfairly viewed as intentionally delinquent on their rent obligations. Last week, we were grateful to have received survey responses from more than 5000 tenants and 700 landlords on the difficulties the COVID-19 pandemic has created for them, and were able to use that information to promote a constructive dialogue between tenants and landlords. You can read the results of our survey here.

Naborly is and will always be committed to unbiased accuracy, fairness, and equality in our risk assessment. The notion that we are trying to hurt tenants in this time of crisis is against everything we believe in as a team. I am deeply sorry that the way I expressed myself did not reflect who we are as a company and what we are trying to accomplish. It was not my intention.

Our support lines are open to all landlords and tenants to assist in navigating the government programs available to them and to answer any other questions they may have.

Sincerely,

Dylan Lenz

Founder & CEO
Naborly Inc.
Here's a couple of typical labels in the US:

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/2025dfde-c877-4043-b91d-978...

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/05122787-1991-4084-869e-755...
There is no dedicated data compression at the moment as our use-case is centered around performance. That being said, we store data very efficiently with minimal overhead.

One interesting consequence is that in many cases, we don't require indexes where other databases do. This synthetically compress the data relative to other DBs by removing the space taken by these indexes while improving query speed. It also means ingestion speed remains fast with O(1) complexity.
> No. It really isn't. Normal people know it when they see it,

Wow. That’s an argument I didn’t expect to see. Do you know we’ve already been over this for pornography? It’s a pretty famous argument that didn’t go the way you might want if you’re using it too.

If you can’t tell me what hate speech is, but prove my point saying “people know what it is”... that’s exactly the definition of “loosely defined”. I’m not even saying it shouldn’t be loosely defined, there is nuance per context.

>Communities

Would you please be so kind as to tell me where that definition is in Section 230?

You can refer to yourself however you like. In this context the LEGAL terms are platform and publisher.

Well, Sounds like a good plan you have there. That it’s entirely ethical to hide wrong-think. Yes, I hope you never think the wrong things! Surely that could never happen right? Do you think it is coincidence that your opinion largely agrees with Silicon Valley’s “taste makers”?
I've been experimenting with Asterisk WebRTC (video & audio) and developing a SIP + P2P webphone for some time now. Quite close to something that's useable imho. See https://github.com/garage11/ca11 in case you're interested
The author's sister wrote this reminiscence about her in 2008: http://alphavilleherald.com/2010/04/zero-dark-thirty-the-las....
>Proving use will be damn near impossible.

That's easy. The servers are going to record who accessed the api, what data they retrieved, and when. I wouldnt be surprised if we receive and anonymous data dump soon.
Stanford hospital, for example, throws away one N95 per patient doctor visit. They are not sterilizing and reusing. So my friend who works there is using many dozens of them per day. It seems like they could come up with material-preserving procedures like sterilization, but they're not.
I also think qt doc is great.

Yes, appleseed can do that ! But it will be really noisy :D

Don't hesitate to come on appleseed's discord server if you need help.
I've done transcranial magnetic stimulation for my bipolar depression. Didn't seem to help. It's a pain to try to work and go for treatments every day. Meds work better for me.
Top posting won because that's what makes sense to most of the world.

I don't think so. Actually I don't think top posting has "won". What has won is not caring about how you reply and going with what happens when you do nothing.

People that top post never looks much at the quotes. They stop reading when they reach the blue lines. They read a couple quoted lines at best. So it's not a question of where you place the quoted text, but a question of if you use quoted text at all.
Not so much networking protocols but WebRTC maybe?
I did a hello world type of implementation of WEBRTC awhile back and it made perfect sense to me.
How does:

> We all start by 9am and finish up by 6pm.

Jive with:

> Flexible Schedule

And:

> Strict 40 hour work week
Well, I think it's an interesting idea in itself to build a full operating system based on a secure kernel, even if it's server/CLI only, runs in a virtual machine as a prototype (think GNU Hurd). Isn't it?
Faceshields are easier to mass produce I assume. Goggles are hard to come by.
Does that hurt you? Does it hurt anyone?

Do you think it should be illegal to think lizard people exist?

Do you think there is any degree of comprise in a best case argument you could make to how some actions are made with people’s “reptilian brain”?

Should it be the responsibility of someone else to make sure you aren’t “assaulted” with other people’s wrong ideas? Or should you take responsibility for your own intake and just ignore the guy?

I wonder how much credit do you give to your own “has serious mental issues” justification? Isn’t that the exact argument that transphobic people use? That this person has a serious mental illness so they shouldn’t be afforded like-protections? Seems like a bad argument on either use because it’s all opinion based on disagreement.

I was raised to respect people’s right to express their ideas even if... especially if I disagree.
> that's a different matter I didn't intend to go into

I don't think you can avoid it though.

What if I personally choose not to associate with people I view as activists? Surely that's my right? What if I start a small business that's very up front about refusing clients who are activists? What if Facebook were to ban the accounts of known activists?

Who gets to set the criteria that determine if a topic or group is protected, what constitutes an insult, etc? Who do these rules apply to - only the largest of businesses or even to individuals? How do you balance such rules against the freedom to choose not to associate with someone? How do you avoid situations in which such rules would constitute a form of forced speech?

If you tell Facebook (using your example) that they have to allow speech on their own platform that they don't agree with, then you had better have a very clear, comprehensive, and unambiguous set of legal tests to apply because you're opening an absolutely enormous can of worms. Worse, Facebook is the _easy_ case because you can construct a reasonably convincing argument that the large public cloud providers have intentionally made themselves a sort of public commons (albeit a strange privately owned and operated one). As you look at progressively smaller businesses that serve fewer customers and have more competition, such an argument begins to break down.

I can see the reasoning that a forum (ex Reddit) or web host (ex Cloudflare) is a platform provider and should be required to be neutral, similar to the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions. But I can also see legitimate concerns arising if (for example) YouTube was forced to host videos that they felt tarnished their brand or (for example) Reddit had been legally prevented from banning /r/watchpeopledie.
I could use some blog posts about quite functional teams.

Like someone on a team for a decade talking about why it works so well and discusses cultural and political issues and how the team overcame them.
Dutch government considers controversial Korean-style compulsory Corona app
IS&T shouldn’t be part of Apple. It’s culture and engineering talent aren’t representative of core engineering.
I've always had an interest in computer graphics, but never studied it in school. I found Jamis Buck's _The Ray Tracer Challenge_[1] and got totally hooked on creating a ray tracer. The book walks you through creating everything from scratch, starting with matrix multiplication all the way up through reflection/refraction and rendering (a useful subset of) OBJ files. The book gives you test cases in cucumber one at a time, and when the tests pass you have a new feature! It's super addicting. I've been learning Rust while going through it, too (repo: [2]). There's a forum associated with the book where people share images they've created and ask for help, and it's fun to see what other people have tried or what languages they're trying to learn while going through the book.

I've enjoyed learning a programming language at the same time as learning an interesting subject so much that I plan on repeating it!

[1] http://raytracerchallenge.com/
[2] https://github.com/garfieldnate/ray_tracer_challenge
And what, replace my lock screen image that says ‘BREATHE AIR’?
Apple IS&T isn't development infrastructure - while they do have some generic services, most groups at Apple develop and use their own tooling.
Although it isn't perfect, I put a lot of effort into the docs for my game development framework at https://domeengine.com.

Make sure each document/page has a clear audience, and it's clear to the reader what that audience is, as well as where other audiences should go.
If you look at gofun, (https://nipponcolors.com/#gofun) it makes you wonder why the text color doesn't change to black to maintain contrast.
Ah sorry my comment is ambiguous; I’m saying I 100% prefer butterfly keys over the new 16 inch keyboard. I’m sure I’ll get used to it though.
Landlords have mortgages to pay. Bondholders hold those notes. There is very little slack in the system for this scale of default.