skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really great, I hope you are psyched this post hit the first page. Everyone is fixated on pricing, I think the pricing is fine. Here are my notes:

Vectorizing - I don't see anyway to share these creations with the world. Why not have a Pinterest share button? The looky-loos who will never buy anything can share these creations for you and generate free traffic for you. Put them to work. Also, encourage artists to put their store URL as their Instagram bio link.

Authority - You kind of have a Kickstarter problem. They launched with thoughtful projects to fund so half the two sided marketplace was done. What happens when you get a few customers who then want to become sellers? When Aunt Marie wants to put her crappy poodle paintings on your site? How do you let her down gracefully? If you don't, why would I as a customer stay on site and sift through garbage?

Elitism - You are disrupting the gallery system but you are also accidentally creating a gallery. How do you reconcile that contradiction? Galleries don't make their money on selling out stock from the current show (this sometimes happens), they make money from generating press, becoming authoritative, and the wealthy go to the back room, where the great stuff is. Sometimes the gallerist will say, no, a museum is considering buying this. Are you going to do that? Say no to make more money later?

Lastly, you couldn't have picked a better time to launch. I would have to imagine the gallery system is getting flattened right now.
And in that time span about the same people died from the "regular" flu.

Speak for yourself, the "concept of freedom" that you talk about is one of the many reasons the U.S is what it is. The freedoms we have do have costs at times like these but the benefits vastly outweigh the costs.
We’ll learn one way or another
Prytek portfolio company Qlarium helps Israel procure Chinese medical equipment
So far I just think it's headers and lists:

# This

## This branch

### This sub branch

### Another sub branch

## This other

## And another

## One more

### This one has a branch

- one

- more

- thing

### and another branch

- what

- is

- this
An Introduction to Nutanix: What, Why, and How
>It breaks all kinds of UI conventions

Firefox devs don't really care about UI conventions.
If it wasn't owned by Russian corporation Mail.ru--which is under full control of FSB and Russian government--my nostalgia would give it a try. But no way I'd install anything on my devices that Russian security service has direct access to.
> For one, it has much lower latency, making it competitive with fibre in many areas.

What do people do on their phones ? I'm forcing mine in 3g all the time and it's faster than I need already. Why would you need 1ms ping and 1gbs d/u speeds ?

This sounds like phones having 4k+ screens to me, updating specs for the sake of updating specs, there is no real world need behind it. I guess many people are making big bucks in the scheme though, that's probably the major 5g benefit.
Capitalism strikes again.

Also, having assholes like Trump in power doesn't help either. A country full of guns and no-one's shot the cunt yet? It's bizarre.
Something about the first example makes me laugh. "Remove borders, add shadows, and increase the spacing between elements". In 10 years we'll see the exact opposite, "Get rid of shadows and egregious padding, and use borders to clearly delineate objects"
It does not include the controller, that's another 500 bucks. Round numbers at eInk.
Ask HN: What are you bearish on?
Because worse is better and LCDs and OLED dominate the display market.

People rather have a backlit display in a small form factor with a higher refresh rate than reading on an eink display.

My Phone / Tablet allows me to read and also watch movies in color but eink can't do that.
Speeding up Spark ML jobs using multi-column transformers
There is a stark difference in population, density, and economic activity between the United States and every other country in the world. The United States is the global hub of business, it's easy to see why they would be different compared to Norway.
I don't think anyone else gets to say how much noise the GP saw in their test.
Simple Hack to Improve the Effectiveness of Surgical Masks
We didn't sign it.
New York Times redefines the paywall. How do I enter my credit card number or does it support tap payment?
> We’ve enlarged the address bar anytime you want to do a search and simplified it in a single view with larger font, shorter URLs, adjusts to multiple sizes and a shortcut to the most popular sites to search.

Almost every single point in that sentence is a negative change. Which is +1 for my personal pet theory: all software gets worse over time
"attempt"

I'm going to repeat my point, and try to expand a bit, to maybe make it clearer. To unilaterally change where taxes go, California would have to attempt to withdraw from the United States. There's no other mechanism for a state to directly reduce their federal tax burden.

Sure, people across the country could elect federal officials that were committed to reducing the importance of the federal government, but then it isn't California doing it, it's the whole US doing it.
I think you might be thinking of Geography types. Geometry types really just operate in the 2D euclidean space which their associated SRS maps them to. And no 2D SRS can accurately represent the reality of working on a sphere, so I'd be very surprised if you found you could move a circle from the equator to europe and it remain a circle when back-projected.

Geography types try to deal with this sort of weirdness but are unfortunately slower and more complicated to work with.
OAuth Device Authorization
Neither please. Hospital facilities available and keeping immune systems up, a big yes, but also we have to accept that people die.
I guess this explanation is flattering to US citizens but actually the reverse is happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma. Due to reserve currency status of the US dollar, there is additional external demand for dollars. This means that the US will necessarily experience a trade deficit, importing more goods from other countries than exporting US goods to them.

> Why are these American dollars valuable to you?

You need them to service your dollar-denominated debt or to put them in your reserves.
How? Searching for this in google results in this comment
You know, if the condition for giving up your rights is "the government says they have a good reason," then you never really had any rights at all. We're all smart, maybe there's a way to solve this without eliminating civil liberties - a way that we'll never discover if at the first sign of danger we yell "take our rights, oh wise rulers!" to the politicians who, of course, are willing to take them.
On that matter, is there any reason why I can’t find high-resolution monochrome non-backlit TFT matrices?

I.e. how are they worse than rink?
https://www.gdcorner.com/

Been running the blog for around a year now. Trying to write more frequently this year. I write about game development, development in general, DevOps, team issues, and other topics. I like to keep it varied. Depends what I'm learning at the time, or what I have an itch to write about.

Some of my more popular articles:

https://www.gdcorner.com/2019/11/18/ImprovingCodingStandards...

https://www.gdcorner.com/2020/02/28/ProblemBehavioursInSoftw...

https://www.gdcorner.com/2019/12/27/JenkinsHomeLab-P1-Master...

https://www.gdcorner.com/2019/10/11/MemoizationInPython.html
Stuff like aiomultiprocess is meant to make performant python easier to think about when you are writing and organizing your code (since async/yield is well adopted). It’s enables some great parallelism for cpython to get around the GIL and there are simple tricks to shard data to minimize memory duplication.
Police outside the buildings.
Is it relevant to AMD ryzen users?
Tossing my 2c in the ring, this is how I usually hire new dudes[1]:

- Ask the existing team for a set of dude recommendations, and the reasons.

- Track down a set of dudes myself. Usually from publications, open source, or previous products.

- Discuss with the dudes regarding the greater project target, team, goals, initial tasks, scheduling. Ask the dudes for other dudes they can recommend, and why.

- From here on I pay the dudes for their time and effort during recruitment, always:

- Have the dudes look at previous problems and solutions, if available, and ask for feedback.

- Have the dudes spend time with existing team on current work and ideas. When populating entire teams I have dudes work with each other. I especially look for people who are freely sharing even with people they are (technically) in competition with.

- I always followup on my initial predictions over time, to see where I'm right or wrong, and what to look for in the future.

I often hire scientists or other people who do a lot of work out in the open. It's just so much easier to quickly get a feel for peoples' output by looking at, and discussing, previous work. And most of my projects require bleeding edge specialists.

I advertise <25% of my positions (guesstimate). This is a failing on my part. I have no magic lens to read CVs, so they carry no additional information value for me.

Hiring is expensive and often takes a long time, but hiring the wrong people is much worse.

Throughout my projects I have only had one person leave, and that was for a once in a lifetime offer. I very rarely need to fire anyone.

I would rather hire two excellent dudes than five good dudes. So I tend to have the budget to pay good rates. Then I call up temporary manpower to solve the more mundane tasks so I can keep my excellent people on the more difficult and interesting items.

Red flags I look for when I'm on the other side of the table:

- Who is doing the hiring? Some checkbox HR drone, the owners/investors, or the actual team?

- Hiring evaluation tools. Have they actually bothered to read up on the latest few decades of research, or are they just following dogmatic trends? Do they even track their own prediction skills when hiring?

- What is their understanding of the project, tasks, etc?

- Do they respect my time investment?

1) a "dude" is gender and ageless, of no persuasion, has neither skin nor eye colour, and so on.
Awesome, how does the data get into the system?
The level of herd immunity needed is related to the R0 which is a function of behaviour. This is a really complex topic to discuss, but it is only one we can have once an attenuated strain is found.

Of course the other factor is who is a vulnerable person is a factor of the pathogenicity of the viral strain.
Many pieces of large software are like a Shepard tone. It's constantly getting improvements yet doesn't get better (or even gets worse) in the long run.
But there's no hard boundary. 4Chan is the viral breeding ground, occasionally some particularly well-developed memetic pathogen is weaponised onto Facebook or Whatsapp where it spreads among a non-immune population.
No, I mean every government is incapable of saving everyone or preventing any infections. Nearly all countries in the world have had infections in their borders. The state of New York has an incredibly high infection rate because of its role in being a hub of international travel. New York still has not closed its borders, and their role in spreading disease within its borders can not be understated.
The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don't
Reddit.com Is Down
Something that came to mind was using Google Sheets, Google Drive, Netlify functions, and Eleventy to quickly put together a simple site. A list of products could be kept in a Google sheet. Columns I'm thinking of are sku, name, description, categories, unit type (qty/weight), price. When eleventy builds the site, leverage a JavaScript data file (https://www.11ty.dev/docs/data-js/) to fetch the items from the Google Sheet using a Netlify function as a go-between, and then render a page for each category (dairy, produce, cereal, etc.).

Use plain JS on the static site to allow customers to "Add to Cart". Possibly just keep a list of [item, quantity, price] in LocalStorage. When a customer checks out, render a form for contact info with the list of items. Submit the form to another Netlify function that writes basic order information to a row in an "Orders" Google Sheet (maybe keep a status there) and also output a plain text file to a Google Drive folder of the order information, including a "checklist" of items ordered, that can be printed out by someone to pick the items in the store.

This setup would mean that the page is static, so it would be fast for people on slower connections. Updating inventory would be easy because most people are familiar with spreadsheets and you won't have to mess with the overhead of a database server. If no one is comfortable with a spreadsheet, you could quickly build a page that provides a form for creating/updating rows in the Google Sheet. Using Netlify functions would mean that you don't have to manage any server infrastructure.

Hope this is helpful in some way.
There’s a great talk by Peter Zeihan that makes me think #3 is the likeliest scenario.
Maybe:

Someone steals your smartphone now -> they've got everything , and a smartphone

vs

Someone steals your clouded smartphone -> they've got an empty smartphone and no data.
They had a vaccine that let them not actually infect everyone with full blown smallpox to get to herd immunity.
The blog where this image was first published in 2013:

https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.ht...

Note that there is recent edit to the blog post saying "it depends on your OS packaging".

The SO question where an answer refers to this image and has some relevant discussion: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/493173/changing-his...
Very good demo.

Now you need something like a knob or dial to rotate the background, so you don't need to move your chair or turn 360.
"raises the question", not "begs". That means something else.

http://begthequestion.info
Open it in Incognito mode.
How many suicides? Guys losing their businesses that they put everything into. Can't even go fishing without their fellow man ratting them out to Big Brother.
There are many free versions of Linux like Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo, and Slackware among many others.
You should file a complaint with the CFTC
cftc.org
I think you can also do a lookup on their site to see if there are any open cases and investigations.
Quick and Dirty Static Sites
Clean and reliable setup for dependency installation
Dear @danieltillett - Thanks for the thoughtful piece.

You noted on your post "live attenuated (oral) polio vaccine" but later wrote "Apart from the time it will take to develop, trial, and mass produce a vaccine (12-18 months), it is unlikely that any vaccine will be practicable."

So how do you imagine this solution being administered if not as a vaccine? Is the solution a Pox Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party) with someone verified to have the harmless strain?
I get this by writing in minimal-markdown text, then pushing it to HTML and reading it in a browser. The reformatting breaks the prior spacial relationships of the words; swapping the text editor for the browser framing breaks the context.
> They changed it to behave like one other program: Chrome.

Oh man, I recently had the displeasure of using Chrome on someone else's computer and was driven absolutely insane by that behavior-- it made it extremely hard to edit a url.

Do you have any idea what the justification for this behavior is? (surely it's not just "be like chrome")
Every item in your list of "4G benefits over 5G" is not actually a benefit of 4G over 5G. They are all benefits of lower frequencies (which both 4G LTE and 5G NR can use) over higher frequencies (which only 5G NR can use). When running over these lower frequencies, 5G needs the same number of towers, has the same penetration of materials, and has the same interference with weather radar.
How about neither.
The select-all Chrome-like behaviour is so horrible. It makes the two most useful interactions with the address bar much more difficult - putting the address into the primary buffer (on X11) so you can paste it somewhere else (this now requires a triple click), and putting the caret inside the address to edit the URL (which now requires clicking twice, but not double clicking because that is different, so you have to click with exactly the right pause inbetween, which is a horrible interaction).

What's extra annoying is that a single click will select the whole address but not put it in the primary buffer! Another UI convention broken.

All of this is to optimise for the most useless address bar interaction - clicking into it with the mouse and then changing to the keyboard to type a new URL, instead of just using ctrl+L. This is a feature made to optimise for people using the software (IMO) incorrectly.
Wowza. Put this out there fully and take my money.
Well my personal opinion is that a few industries should be exempt from this and that includes agriculture.
Half of the softwares installed on my computer would not run because of those good security measures.

The browser let you do CRUD apps, with a hint of medias handling. That's it.

And not even good ones since your storage can be wiped out an any moment.
Thanks for clearing up that complete mess.
Controlling Covid 19: Stabilize immune response, Cytokine storm
Controlling Covid 19

IMPORTANT:

See video from 30 minute point...
https://youtu.be/StHb0KWE50s

Problem:
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Alveoli(sacks) in lungs are filling up with edema(water)..

Then the ER doctor puts the patients on a Ventilator, on high!

Already, alveoli filled up with liquid (edema), now adding more pressure is added via the Ventilators pumping in added oxygen too!

The alveoli, cannot handle the additional pressure, liquid (edema) + oxygen, the patients body starts going blue, with pressure!!!

======

Solution:
1. Firstly, give IV Vitamin C line 50-100 gms (recommended dosages), but even (15-30-45 gms can be given initially, if doctor is unsure) titration over 24 hrs, immediately & in high dosage.

2. See 2020 new scientific paper citation supporting, Vitamin C, reduces duration on Ventilators!!!

3. Vitamin C dissolves the Cytokine storm, ie. Immunity fighting our own organs, thinking its a virus!

4. Why is Vitamin C working?
4.1. Inhibits, reduces the Cytokine storm in the lungs.
4.2. Stops Anti-virus replication elsewhere.
4.3. Modulates the immune system.

5. Anti-oxidant & anti-inflammation activity helps reduce pressure on the Alveoli.

6. Vitamin C, blocks out the over-reactive immuno-response that's gone haywire, by creating a oxidative environment, using ROS (reactive oxygen system) , that in turn, removes GAPDH. So, it cuts short the Cytokine storm, building up in the lungs. Thereby, stopping sepsis.

7. Seeing the molecular system, from an engineering control systems perspective.

8. Vitamin C, scavenges free radicals. By putting out the inflammatory fire.

Thank you, Dr. Shiva Ayyadorai, Phd, MIT!!

References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboWRpBjK8E&list=PLLbB0CrciU4VZUgD1U5mf7g7xBdzo9x6i&index=1&pbjreload=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StHb0KWE50s&list=PLLbB0CrciU4VZUgD1U5mf7g7xBdzo9x6i&index=3

Pass to Docs,Health Management!!!
I think you're putting too much faith in the security of docker... It is only superficially secure, and any real evil software can break out of it since the attack surface is huuuge (every loaded kernel driver).
> Nobody known the true infection fatality rate.

It can be estimated with increasing accuracy.

> There the infection fatality rate is 1.8% and rising as the cases age out and people in the ICUs die.

You continue citing case fatality rate (CFR) numbers and call them infection fatality rate numbers (IFR). Can you please go back to your sources and read what they say. I bet they are case fatality rates. In South Korea one IFR estimates put the number around 0.4 and 0.7%.

Here are some IFR estimates:

1. Estimating the infection fatality rate of COVID 19 in South Korea by using time series correlations https://figshare.com/articles/Estimating_the_infection_fatal...

2. Estimating the infection and case fatality ratio for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using age-adjusted data from the outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, February 2020 https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

3. Using early data to estimate the actual infection fatality ratio from COVID-19 in France https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040915v...

4. Robust Estimation of Infection Fatality Rates during the Early Phase of a Pandemic https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057729v...
Most posters look like real people. But real like people from troll factories. They comment in natural language (my native), respond to questions, but you can tell that their profiles are specific for that single purpose. Profile names look like read but most likely are not (John Smith for EN equivalent). They have no real posting history, etc...
Unstuck to your categories, Jonathan Biss's course on Beethoven's sonatas is fantastic.

https://www.coursera.org/instructor/jonathanbiss
Then why not link to a study about the IFR in South Korea? My point is that the claim you make about the percentage of people who are infected that die is not supported at all by the article that the claim links to, which only discusses the percentage of confirmed cases that die.
> So, yeah, how much do we know for a fact?

Because it is transmitted at the same frequency as previous cell phone technologies. There are literally decades worth of studies around the effects of nonionizing radiation.

The only thing 5G changes is the transmission protocol.

It's fine to be a skeptic, but this is fear mongering. We don't need a 20 year long study to prove something we've known to be safe for 20 years because some crackpots claim it makes them nauseous or causes cancer. If you are going to be skeptical, why aren't you skeptical of the unverified negative claims?

Where's my proof? Google "non-ionizing radiation health". Would find a bunch of articles from reputable sources that all land on the same conclusion. It's safe.

Here's the CDC article on it.
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/nonionizing_radiation.htm...
What civil liberties are you afraid of eliminating in a crisis like this?
It doesn’t which is why I never claimed it did???

As for why people aren’t working on this idea I don’t know. Maybe someone is and they will send me an email and I can update my post. I would certainly be extremely happy with this outcome.
Show HN: I made a free game to fight coronavirus (100% of profits go to charity)
Topic-versioning architecture for scalable AI application
I always feel left out that there’s not a robotics competition for adults.
This guy thought about every aspect of the UX except the fact that reading a newspaper from the wall is very bad ergonomically because the reading-height is most often not at eye-height because of the large size of the display!
I think the idea is that once there is herd immunity, the virus has no way to propagate and ends up disappearing w/o vectors. However, that would require global immunity.
That's pretty good advertising campaign for their creative agency, even if it's inadvertent.
At that R0 herd immunity will be probably achieved when at least 70% of the population is infected. So it’s not all, but we are still speaking of about 5.5 billion people globally...
360° Driving by NYC's Elmhurst Hospital, Queens (April 8, 2020)
The problem is, without using all mitigation, at all times you /may/ have been exploited. So every time your system acts weird, you'll have that extra doubt. And can it can be pretty difficult to get remove a sophisticated exploit. I could see a sophisticated exploit network probing, tagging and targeting different exploits, for profit or just for fun. Probably not worth the risk for "most" people.