skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the ideal size would be like a 10 or 11" device I could use for text-based things. (Think Emacs-ish only type of device, or something)....super light weight, long battery life.
Does Trillian support slack by any chance?
They have a 30-day free return period if you don't like it.
I’m Fortunately in this position. My spouse is on full time should care. We’re not wealthy but I make enough that we can live happily this way and our choice is that this is worth the reduction in income from my spouse working outside the house.

Even so, this is REALLY hard. I can’t even comprehend the feelings of those less fortunate.
Yes and no.

Yes if people used it, but no because people would probably not.

One of the reason electron is so easy to package: it creates a big blog of statically linked everything. If you start having to play the packaging game correctly, you get back to the same problems other run time had.

So my guess would be most users would not do it.
What is countries? I mean it's just atoms, man... This is all so trivial!
Thanks. I downloaded the 64bit "on demand" version of q, kdb+ and have been toying around.
It looks like it's not in the guidelines or FAQs anymore (perhaps because it's generally-enough understood that HN is largely independent of YC), but it's outside the purpose of HN to try to contact or raise personal complaints about YC companies.

There are contact details for YC on the YC homepage: https://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
No one knows if coronavirus is going away in the summer
and companies copying features no user asked for from the top competition is even more expensive and dumb.

it's like gnome giving up all its good differentiating features during the great rewrite just to mimic osx, no matter they were in a cargo cult mindset copying even the flaws, shortcomings and bugs.

here Mozilla is copying Chrome's abusive forceful use of google's services from the UI, no matter if the user wants or not
Another cool one is https://swimlanes.io
Weighted-task-chooser for when you have trouble deciding on a task in to-do list
While you sleep, specialized neurons in your brain help you forget
Interesting. I've got a 180nm mask from a previous job. It's obviously a larger scale than the finished chip. Could be 4x. I think it is from TSCM, circa 2003, for mixed signal CMOS.
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> if you spend a few years training someone then after that time period they may leave anyway

If it takes years of training till the person is useful and worth it, then there is something wrong with the way training is organized. We give juniors easier tasks then to seniors and train them, but we also expect them to be useful from the start basically.

It really should not take years till they make enough work for for salary + training.

> If a junior comes to work one day and says "We need to Kubernetize all our things" and you say "Actually, our server count is stable and low, we don't need to use Kubernetes, but we do need this new customer-facing feature implemented" then it's quite possible they'll get frustrated, want to argue with you. Of course replace Kubernetes with Haskell, Linux distro of the day, Rust, Go, whatever seems hip and new.

There is no difference between senior wanting to change things. This sort of conflict is normal and final decision is not done by junior.

Most people actually can handle not being given their way all the time. If they have no zone for own autonomy or decisions then they will get frustrated. But that zone should be smaller then the massive architectural decision.

Moreover, portion of people pushing toward new technology and being willing to experiment is something that company should have to keep healthy. Otherwise you all will stagnate.
For 'consumer' registrars, it's probably because 95% of their customers are small non-tech businesses who just want a website and don't know what DNS is, etc.

Nowadays, name server changes for well-maintained TLDs usually propagate within an hour or so based on my experience.
They seem to be saying, they could have picked Julia, but were just more familiar with Swift:

> and picked Swift over Julia because Swift has a much larger community, is syntactically closer to Python, and because we were more familiar with its internal implementation details - which allowed us to implement a prototype much faster.

I think it's very debatable to claim Swift is more similar to Python syntactically, as Julia looks more like a dynamic language to the user. Also, Julia is closer to languages like Matlab and R, which many mathematical and scientific programmers are coming from.

Swift has a much larger community, but it's not clear how big the overlap is between iOS app developers and Machine Learning developers. It probably would make deploying models on iOS devices easier, however.
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The articles states as fact there will be negative impacts on long term consumer sentiment and spending without really providing any evidence.

Most Americans are about to receive a $1200 check and unemployment benefits that pay more than their job did for the next 6 months. I don't think consumer spending is going anywhere soon.
relating to this...it makes me very curious about Neuralink or similar tech impact on humanity once that becomes more advanced. If it is true we have these specialized processing areas while our awareness is another specialized area, it would follow that all sorts of capabilities the new tech brings would simply be incorporated and assumed just as we assume our ability to remember a name or add numbers in our head. It will be a crazy future that I hope to see.
I totally missed it from the article but how is he going to tell the deadly strain from the less deadly one? I mean I understand how they can tell the difference between the two strains. But how to tell that some particular strain is less deadly? To the best of my understanding the only way to get there is to sequence the virus from statistically significant number (~10^5 ??) of carriers including the significant proportion of those with asymptomatic cases. Not realistic IMHO.
From the linked article:

> We’ll respect user configured telemetry opt-out settings by looking at the most recently used Firefox profile.

What am I missing?
I truly doubt the asymptomatic carrier and spreader myth. People lie to their doctors all the time. Why wouldn't they lie to a stranger taking a poll of their health?

Sure, the virus will hit some people much harder than others. There's a component there yet to be discovered. But those exposed must have some sort of response, even if it's just a series of stronger than usual headaches. Stuff like that goes under reported because "oh that was just a random headache". Said person might drink a lot and deal with hangovers so headaches are expected. Whatever.

My point is that these studies are not very thorough in following up on the response quality or even a requery 2 weeks later when symptoms got much worse.

Lies,damn lies, and statistics from personal health studies.
While I agree that it will take longer (and wind up different looking) to full recovery, having governments and business plan for the next pandemic will not happen. Short sighted people do not waste time on long term thinking.
100W FT8 bothers you? There are people pumping 1500W on FT8. I would get the sentiment on WSPR though.

I run 100W, and I'm rarely picked up above -7dB. Some of us have to given our QTH, antenna, and where we're trying to reach. Not all of us are in it for QRP. Perhaps they should designate a part of the FT8 bandwidth for QRP? 73
That used to resonate with me. And then I thought about how just because something worked once, that doesn't mean it isn't extremely risky and likely to fail on future attempts.
Memory Efficient: Eclipse or Intellj?
which is used to get

> All of the important things, like passwords and emails and secret keys, are in user space memory or in the user readable file system, generally...

In this scenario in OP's comment, user accessible stuffs are still more interesting than kernel things.
Ask HN: Primary news Sources for Covid 19
I’m getting really tired of reading news stories from people that don’t understand technology or science on what the latest understanding is about how covid19 works, what’s effective at improving outcomes and where the research is currently going. Are there any blogs/posts from doctors, researchers and field experts that HN readers are tracking that that would be worth following that have more direct understanding and involvement in the work that do a good job updating on the latest progress and summarizing the latest research.
Being fair, they dumped their #1 competitive advantage in order to relieve their #1 competitive disadvantage - keeping XUL made desperately needed performance improvements impossible to implement. Calling that "technical details" rather understates the case.
> But if you ban honest citizens from using Signal, will criminals stop using secure communications? No, they have an unusually strong incentive to use them and will seek out alternatives.

This has been a 2nd Amendment argument for ages: "If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns."
Quite a few people consider

> telemetry opt-out

to be sleazy.
Memory Hole is a support issue organizer application
A friend of mine mentioned that their company also took them to 80% pay but also gave them Fridays off. I wish we had a union just so they could negotiate for something like this.
How many people on a single $1200 check and unemployment will go out and buy a car, a house, a washing machine or visit a Disney park?
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You can't change history.

In a version control system, this is axiom 0.
Why did they choose indiegogo over traditional medical research funding?
It wasn't anything like the original Slack app last I used it a few months back. Has this changed? It doesn't have a keyboard shortcut to jump between unread channels as a basic example. Or hiding read channels, so I've got a huuuge list.
Yeah, we wouldn't want people to be do things they don't understand.

Maybe when people ask for clarity on a subject, we should give them reasons instead of saying things like "just dont".
It's a Norwegian product AFAIK, and the company officially sells it to EU/EEA/CH markets on their website.
Has anyone got any ideas how to achieve this?

Yes. Thanks for giving me a reason to write this up.

1. Download and install OBS. OBS will be your video processor; among other things it's super easy to make it capture the whole screen or individual windows.

2. Install the v4l2 loopback kernel module[1]. This makes it possible to have a virtual webcam. On Ubuntu 19.10, this was as easy as apt install v4l2loopback-dkms and then modprobe v4l2loopback.

3. Install the OBS plugin obs-v4l2sink[5]. This exports the OBS output to the new virtual webcam device. I just installed the deb file provided by the project[2]. In OBS, under Tools, select v4l2sink and Start.

That's all I had to do. Surprisingly straightforward. At least Chrome and Firefox[3] will now pick up a "Dummy Video Device" webcam that streams the window, or whatever scene I set up in OBS.

In my case, the primary advantage was that this virtual webcam is streamed in Jitsi Meet at a higher quality/framerate than the regular desktop share feature. It's also much lower latency than both Twitch and Youtube Live streaming (Jitsi Meet/WebRTC: <1s, Twitch: 5s, Youtube: 15s[4]; YMMV).

You also get to enjoy the rich feature set OBS provides for Twitch streams; for one thing, you can include the real webcam video.

Bonus: Desktop audio "just worked" in Firefox, which offers the pulseaudio monitor (loopback) device as an input. Chrome doesn't -- probably the intended behaviour. I'm sure there's a workaround.

[1] https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback

[2] https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-v4l2sink/releases

[3] For some reason, Gnome's Cheese won't

[4] Microsoft's Mixer allegedly has super-low-latency streaming (FTL protocol), but new account are cleared manually and I haven't had the chance to try

[5] For Windows, you can use OBS Virtualcam https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/
Because the screen costs $1500 and has the benefit of lower power consumption.

Problem is that a 24 inch monitor takes about $15 to run 24/7 for a full year. You can run that for 50 years and still have a set-up that's hundreds of dollars cheaper with better contrast, can show colour, can show moving images etc.

And if you put a motion/use sensor on it and connect it to a smart home setup, the energy use differences (e.g. reading the paper while brushing teeth) become minimal. We're talking about pennies per year.

They're interesting as part of experimental art pieces, but as a large-scale consumer product very much unproven for these usecases.
Here’s a post from late February that enumerates 42 known strains of 2019-nCoV as a phylogenetic tree: https://nextstrain.org/narratives/ncov/sit-rep/2020-01-30?n=...

I’m a lay person here, but it seems a foregone conclusion that viruses experience frequent mutation, and that a novel virus infecting a new host species for the first time is going to see a relative explosion in mutations due to the extreme increase in the number of opportunities for it to occur.
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Agree. Very, very few people/use cases require near-metal performance. Python is fast enough for most use cases while being much easier to start with and get proficient at than C/C++.
First of all, This website is called “hacker” news: practicality doesn’t have a lot to do with it. [1]

Second, practical research into how to transmit information more efficiently has many, many applications. WiFi and mobile-phone technologies would not exist without research like this. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic

[2] https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/vbush1945.htm
Support this.

When Finland was last attacked by the Russians many in my (grand-)grandparents generation collected and shipped gear as best they could. Many also traveled for days to join the Finnish resistance.

We also have a tradition of sending aid elsewhere as well.

I'd expect others to do the same, especially if it is yhwir families who are caught in the middle and they are safe (for now) like most assumed back in January and February.

I guess the reaponse just became extreme this time.
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Although not exactly a structured course or lessons, FEATool has been designed to be a very easy to use toolbox for physics simulations and learning by experimentation and trial and error with built-in tutorials (currently free license for home use during the lockdowns [1]), for fluid flow and heat transfer the simpler CFDTool might be more appropriate with an even simpler interface that "hides" the underlying PDEs [2].

[1] https://www.featool.com
[2] https://www.cfdtool.com
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The markets - after a welcome and long overdue correction - are up a few percent, so people seem to be buying in on the expectation of things getting back to normal. Prices seem to be back to 2016/2017 levels. This doesn't indicate to me that people with money believe we're in for a great depression.
I am confused by this article, was it that many words to say that "the US will have a strong dollar until it doesn't have a strong dollar"?

Isn't the premise sort of undermined by the fact (posited in the text) that overseas US denominated debt is actually better offset by US dollar denominated holdings than ever before?

And I don't entirely understand the importance of say a Turkey or Argentina default to this scenario. If large amounts if USD debts can't be serviced that alleviates the so-called "squeeze" because the haircuts represent money that doesn't need to be "found".

There was a lot of words in there and it seems like a pretty big pile of assumptions stacked on top of assumptions and it doesn't make a straightforward argument in favour of the premise that we should expect the US dollar to devalue relative to other currencies in the medium term.

(Also the link that explains trade deficits is a pretty bad explanation of trade deficits and how they do and don't matter.)
Remarkable is direct-only I believe, but they do have a 30day return policy.

As for the software/sharing, they have desktop (Win, Mac, Linux), Android and iOS apps and their own cloud hosted service for syncing documents, inks, ebooks, etc amongst your devices and the tablet. The apps are a little clunky (due to cross platform widgets) but you can quickly export a PDF of a drawing or drag in an ebook (PDF/ePUB) and it'll auto sync to your device.

P.S. The device itself is quite hacker friendly, it supports SSH over USB out of the box and they've shared their cross-compliation toolchain.
> they revamped their health systems to be able to handle pandemics.

Nurses in China was also wearing garbage bags in February. There's a PPE shortage for >2 months

https://i.imgur.com/PgDWgs5.jpg

The reason for this global shortage is China was celebrating Chinese New Year, when every production simply stopped. It happens every February. And Covid-19 kicks in and workers are effectively locked in their towns and can not travel. Local governments organized some emergency hires from local but still struggles to meet the demand.

If Covid-19 happened in other months it would be totally different.
I'm a physician, and I have exactly the same thought.
South Korea reports recovered Covid-19 patients testing positive again
I disagree. There is a valuable question of "how reliable does this system need to be?" and for startups, the answer is often not 5 9s of uptime.

99% uptime is 14 minutes of downtime per day. There are an awful lot of processes and even whole businesses that can eat 14 minutes of downtime a day. Especially if it's not a full outage.
Perhaps a first step is to simulate a population where several variations of the virus exist, and where people set out to get infected by those who are believed to host a "safe" variation. What is the likelihood that interaction between the variations and people's mistaken beliefs screw this up?
Yes, unfortunately is not part of the 4k subreddits I trained on. I will retrain it with more subreddits :)

The list of subreddits and an estimation of the performance for each one is on this Google Spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NBY1o85ZiNpcm4tcYhKk...
There is a substantial amount of fear porn around this virus. It's sad that HN isn't immune (sorry) to the hyperbole.
What books do you turn to for advice on working from home?
But being more specific here: What exactly are the shared resources? The binaries? That could maybe save a couple of hundred MB but this is maybe still not the biggest part. The remaining memory is probably sitting there in memory allocations of JS or so, and I don't think that can be shared.
that's true for the Mac app, but the Linux client doesn't support the non-green-screen option (according to the post)
Where is the evidence for any of this? Like, truly, I hear this line about how there is approximately nobody who is competent, and I honestly think it is BS. What evidence is the claim based on? Is it that you've seen how well people do in interviews and noticed that only a small number of them perform well? How would you falsify the hypothesis that those people are fully capable of being excellent employees and are just not good at playing this particular interview game?

I think people with your mindset have just repeated this over and over again to the point that we all take it as axiomatic. It also strokes our ego ("I can do something that basically nobody can even learn how to do!") so it's easy to maintain the farce.

This is the second time in this thread that I've seen the claim that the anger is driven by people who feel let down by the system. That's not me, the system has worked really well for me. But I still think it is a hall of mirrors that could be serious improvement. Not a 7, more like a 3 or 4, and held back by both people who think it works really well and people who think it's a bad solution but that there isn't really a better one (which I'm more sympathetic to).
> Then use that information to enact quarantines or investigations.

That's exactly what we want!

Quarantine the specific areas where there is an outbreak, and relax the nation wide quarantines currently being enacted in many countries.
This. Yes. It's funny and was a joy to watch over my morning coffee, but not AI. AI has become like so many other buzzwords: used with such reckless abandon that it's become watered down so much that it doesn't really mean anything in its common use.
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That’s why you need a constitutional safeguard against depriving people of their freedoms.
I've always wondered why Skulpt didn't get more traction: https://skulpt.org/
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According to the article, it was published on February 26 (although archive.org didn't index it until just the other day). The Fed didn't announce new swap lines until three weeks later [0].

This is my first time learning of the Triffin Dilemma, so I'd be interested for you to comment on what about it is "obviously" incorrect. Wikipedia suggests this isn't a controversial notion.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed-sw...
If this is a reaction to Ghidra, I'm really glad Hex-Rays is reacting positively to the competition! I'm not an IDA Pro customer, but I know people have been asking for something like this for years. I'm actually tempted to buy this.

But that said, I'm still pretty wary about IDA's sales process. There seems to be many negative stories, talking about what a frustrating & arbitrary experience it has been in the past. If even Tavis Ormandy is being treated poorly, that doesn't give me much confidence as a prospective Home user. Hopefully things will have improved substantially!

And then there's little things like Linux and Windows licenses being sold separately, so I have a choice between running IDA in Wine, or almost doubling the price I'm being quoted.

But still, I think this is a very promising move! And the price might seem high for hobbyist use now that there are very high quality free alternatives, but compared to the previous high four digits quotes it's practically a bargain =]

Let's see where this goes.
Still seems like an assumption until its tested/proven. I'd prefer a more evidence based approach, evidence from this virus.
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This is only anecdotal, and I'm probably not representative of the norm but, I will be saving every nearly every penny from UI and the stimulus incentive.
That depends on high resolution times which have been disabled in all browsers. AFAIK.
You don't have to convince me to use eink, you just have to convince me it is worth the price.

For example, I've been dying for one of these:

https://www.padformusician.com/en/

Imagine having my entire music library in an eink tablet. Then, when I go to my parents' house I can play any of my music on their piano.

But I'm not willing to spend $900+. I'd be willing to spend up to $200
No one said it was exempt from criticism. Saying that someone else's work is an "abomination that has to die" is rude and an inappropriate way to express your opinion.
The footer links to the Senate Financial Disclosures website:
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> If flu deaths are similar to C19 deaths during mitigation, it is abundantly obvious that we've made a terrible mistake.

You're asking for data we won't have yet. As I noted, COVID deaths are only just ramping up; 90% of them in the USA are in the last week or so.

There are early indications the lockdowns have impacted flu, as is fairly obvious. Local to me:

https://www.rochesterregional.org/news/2020/01/flu-season-20...

> New York State is reporting 157,426 positive cases. The latest data (ending March 28) shows a 77% decrease in reported cases from the previous week.