skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would caution everyone considering Migadu. My biggest issue revolves around support — they don’t have a public status page so when the service goes down it’s impossible to know if the issue is on my end or on theirs. They're averaged one big outage (~24 hours) a year over the past 3 years, not counting smaller outages, so this isn’t a generic thought experiment. They don’t respond to most of my emails to support, either. Do not recommend.
Is the business even profitable? They claim youtube made $5 billion in revenue ads last 3 months but they don’t provide net numbers. Their typical text ad weights approx 250 kb in size (including all JS junk) and ther profit margin is “only” 23%. I doubt pushing 4k content for 15 minutes and serving one 15 cents ad puts them in green.
Why does it need to be a hardware implementation?
Not sure how familiar everyone here is with cannonball runs, but from more than 50% of comments so far being in favor of the driver I get the sense that some commenters may not be. I didn't see speed numbers for this run, but the first previous run that came up in my Google search had a top speed of 193 miles an hour.

Personally I think this cannonball run was a very bad decision and posed increased danger to the drivers and to everyone on the road around them, including the noted issue of possibly hitting a truck carrying medical supplies. I take no issue with them going for a drive, but going for a potentially-near-200mph drive is a very, very different thing.
>ventilators are known to cause lung damage (because of the high pressure involved) //

I only know a little from my reading in the last month or so, but ventilators (used with intubated patients) seem very adjustable: you can alter the pressure, the Oxygen percentage, the tidal flow, breathing rate and such. I can see that in order to increase blood Oxygen uptake you might use higher pressures, but surely that's necessary to ensure patients get sufficient oxygen to avoid brain damage or other deleterious effects?

Won't the patients suffer in other ways if the Oxygen delivery is lower pressure?

When multiple patients share a single ventilator I see there are issues of balancing the supply, but I don't think that's what we're considering here.
Interesting. I haven't needed to do so, but I thought I had heard that was a pretty quick recompile, on the order of < 10 seconds? I know there are some tips to speed it up.

Here's the wiki page on component authoring:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/How_To_Write_Lazarus_Component
I think the design is done in the style of neumorphism if you want to do some further reading. But I‘m not sure it is particularly the best implementation of the design style compared to what others are doing with it lately.
"Filecoin".

IIRC they raised an embarasingly large amount of money during their ICO.
> With Javascript being the exception

And Python. And Ruby. And C++. And Kotlin. And Swift.
> A full load with an empty cache takes about 20 seconds on my desktop

Looking at the typical Amazon concern that "longer load times cost millions in sales" that you hear, it's crazy to think that gmail doesn't measure the uncached load time (or they do and are happy with 20 seconds).

Anecdata: I mostly use my phone for email, so most of the time I load the gmail web interface the cache is cold and it takes this long. It bothers me the one a month I load it.
You can opt out of the DNS system, there have been other systems in the past (AlterNIC was one such, quite some time back, IIRC).

Turns out nobody cares.
"wet market" doesn't mean what we think it means. Queen Victoria market, Melbourne would qualify as a "wet market" because it's selling fish and meat. If people want to talk specifically about live animal markets they need another label.
What's your problem with SBT? I've been using IntelliJ + SBT since I started with Scala and it has been working well for me.
Modern pascal implemented in Delphi / Lazarus IDEs has basically all essential features modern language can expect. It does not have garbage collector but I personally consider it an advantage. What it does instead is heaptrace. When it is on for debugging - upon shutdown of the program it will point you exact place/s in source code where you leaked memory should such leak ever occur. Madexcept product does the same thing and more for Delphi
What has Covid-19 taught you?
Hello everyone!

It has taught me to be grateful about food that I get to eat, no matter how less it seems or how bland it tastes; that we do not require veggies to stay alive, we can very well survive on cereals and pulses and that even 1-2 meals are enough; that I should cut unnecessary costs on subscriptions and plan more on emergency funds.

So what has Covid-19 taught you?
I think the correct answer is a version of his first one, that it is unnatural. The human brain is designed to detect the sorts of patterns that are relevant to behavior and intelligent decision making in environment in which human beings evolved, namely foraging societies. There is little relevant exponential growth in that environment, so we don't have the inborn cognitive mechanisms for recognizing and thinking about it.
Bradykinin might be the missing link in the disease process of Covid-19
Principle of Charity
It's using ENS (Ethereum Name Service) to locate the contents stored on IPFS.

This is done through Ethereum smart contracts.

Here's some documentation on all this:
https://docs.ens.domains/contract-api-reference/publicresolv...
Yes that's the point...?
Going beyond Turbo Pascal, the author is amazing! I've just discovered this blog and I'm amazed by how simple and relevant every article is.

Here are some of my favourites:

[1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/128.html

[2] https://prog21.dadgum.com/149.html
Thank you for your reply.

So my general impression is that red blood cells are failing to get adequate oxygen, even in cases where the lungs aren't, per se, filled up with fluid to interfere with oxygenation of the blood. I saw a comment somewhere, and I can't find it at the moment, comparing this to altitude sickness, which is a thing I have read up on and which makes some sense to me in terms of my impression of the pathology here.

So what specific pathway would inhibit uptake of oxygen, even in the absence of pneumonia? Typically, that's a side effect of anemia, which can be caused by either lack of B vitamins or lack of iron (which I understand to be also called Heme -- correct me if I'm wrong as I am a lay person here, not a medical professional).

So I'm trying to envision a specific chemical process that disrupts uptake of oxygen or binding of oxygen to the red blood cell and which is not anemia.

This sounds an awful lot like how carbon monoxide poisoning works. So maybe that's a mechanism to look at. The body can be fooled, either by viruses or chemicals of various sorts, to lock up those pathways with things that interfere with what we need.

This is, as I understand it, how Zithromax causes magnesium deficiency: The drug binds to the same receptors as magnesium, so they compete for uptake in the body. You cannot successfully take them together. Taking them together both makes the antibiotic less effective (it should be taken, in fact, with something acid, not something alkaline) and it also prevents the body from adequately absorbing the magnesium.

In practice, the way around this is to time your use of Zithromax and magnesium so that uptake occurs at different hours of the day and they don't compete. This is possible because of the relatively long half life of Zithromax, which means you don't need frequent dosing.

So this is the kind of mental model I'm trying to wrap my mind around. I know some of these types of antagonistic processes exist and if we can figure out what the mechanism is here for how people are basically suffocating, it should cast light on a solution.
Tekton – K8s driven CI/CD pipelines
oof that's the big question isn't it. Would take a lot to describe, as well as a press-check since all my information / context about this is specific to Shopify applications
Mask are not hard to make. The usual suppliers are running 24/7 to catch up. In 30-60 days there will be lots and Altman's effort to start at 180 days will run into the huge glut
Even using public trackers (in addition to DHT) I haven't had any luck trying to send friends my torrents. They just never discover my seed, even though I'm conectable. It's very odd.
Awww. Thiel-bots not happy? Bah! Your daddy is a creep.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/clearview-ai-facial-...
The results seem pretty good so far:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...
I'm hearing it's a mistake (I'm signing up just to share this, as a former assistant of his). But what I'm hearing could be wrong as well... in short, I would await an official press release from Princeton.
I do remember AlterNIC and other such attempts, but they aren't germane to decentralization. Being able to switch to an alternative federation root is still federation.
Meanwhile monetized animal abuse channels for children keep growing... because they make money:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4PpFUrfT2Pou7OwpVF0MUQ

Shameful!
Didn't Chuck Berry write a song about this fellow?
> 1. You'll likely need a majority of people using this, which is hard enough, but you don't need everyone using it.

It's going to be built into iOS and Android at the operating system level, and I assume have a very clear prompt to opt-in. It would not surprise me if it quickly reaches >50% of active users, at least for iOS.

Getting a timely Android update on the other hand...
Yes, I've been using Ubuntu Touch since 2015, as my only mobile OS on multiple devices, I'm also involved with the UBports Community, that maintains and develops the OS. I like it and it fits my needs, however it might not be for everybody, as there are way fewer apps, including some that many people expect to have.

However if you want to have an alternative OS, not based on Android, that is GNU/Linux with the necessary arquictecture changes to be reliable on a daily driver mobile devices, and that respects your privacy, then I believe it's the best choice.
What do you do if you can't access your Google One subscription because they've terminated your Google account for posting an emoji in a YouTube live stream, for example?
The Internet these scientists envisioned is keeping the world connected
This answer seems to have some likely leads for the cause:

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2020/04/10/on_cal...

which refers to: http://www.jeacle.ie/pub/articles/4008/

There were various revisions of Amigas and various different SCSI cards and software workarounds - without more info little can be concluded.

“models of the A4000 were shipped with a broken Buster chip which prevented many Zorro-III boards from working correctly.”

“The Fastlane card, on the other hand, was smart. It knew about the broken Busters and had a work-around to compensate. Performance wouldn't be quite as good as with a fully functional Buster, but the card would still work well.”

“The problem with old Zorro-II cards [snip] is that the Amiga 4000's 32-bit RAM is outside of the 24-bit DMA-able address space which these controller cards can see, so data can't be transferred directly from the SCSI device into main memory. This means the CPU ends up dealing with requests and individually copying a few bytes at a time to and from 32-bit memory.“
Yeah, at best it would be for technical users, and even then for 1:1 sharing a streamlined client tailored to that usecase would probably help. E.g. various status indicators that show whether nat traveral/hole punching is possible, discovery of the public IP address to include it in the magnet link (the x.pe extension!) to skip the DHT lookup if possible and a less complex UI. If you do 1:1 transfer you don't really care about your share ratio for example.
Hey! I feel like ensuring you clarify you'll only shut down an account if they break the rules you set out is a really good practice and there are examples, like FastMail's, you could borrow from. I know the standard boilerplate is to give a service the right to do whatever it wants, but as a small indie service operator you can be better than the fairly standard! ;)

Your service running itself is a good idea for avoiding you doing a lot of work, but if you got hit by a bus it is likely someone would shut off your credit cards that pay for services your services depends on and even if it's a box in your house it will end up unplugged. I'd strongly advise some business continuity involving a very trusted friend or family member who can be your second in managing the service at minimum, who has access to everything and knows what to do already.

I hope you don't take my comments as too much of a knock, what you're building is hard and worthwhile, and I wish you success with it. I'm on FastMail but that doesn't mean I always will be, and I like to have good options by good people.
Very cool! What tools are you using for this right now?
On Writing Well
I was never "in". Had my email for ages. I do not trust Google and the likes to handle my email
I think it’s also possible to get support by knowing the right people at google or by having a lot of followers on Twitter (including someone from google who can help)
The post is about “owning” your email address so you can move, not moving to a new provider.
It seems amply demonstrated that the mouse model of the disease is different enough from the actual disease that any given mouse result tells us nothing about the disease, or what may cause or cure it.

But there are very many researchers who know a great deal about the mouse model. It is not clear whether. any know about the human disease; or, if any do, whether the mouse modelers pay them any attention.
Just because there's no printer.
That's a fair point: another angle to the same issue is that not all ventilators are equal. Under normal circumstances a patient gets intubated and goes on the presumptively most reliable machine the hospital has and is cared for by the people who have the most experience managing these cases and devices. When the hospital fills up, you get whatever junk the hospital can get working and are attended by nurses and techs pulled in from other departments.

That's a reasonable hypothesis, I think. But yeah, we just don't know. And it may be years before we do. No one has the ability to do a controlled study right now.

(Edit: it's absolutely infuriating to see the comment to which I'm replying here grayed out from downvotes. It's a completely reasonable notion phrased as a question, yet HN... doesn't want to hear the answer?)
Someone linked me to this a few days back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okg7uq_HrhQ

It explains how they pressurize the lungs to try to keep the alveoli open and why that's very problematic, even when it is only short term. It is so problematic, they sedate people on ventilators so they won't pull the tubing out.

It sounds just really gruesome and like a brute force method that can't help but cause serious problems for delicate tissues if you use it for more than a fairly short period of time, which is the norm but is not how it is being used for Coronavirus cases.

Oxygen delivery is a complicated thing and I think taking a mechanical approach when mechanics may not be the actual problem is likely misguided.
The link to the Wikipedia article on Bradykinin[0] appears to be mangled, I'm posting the correct link here.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradykinin
Check out OpenPhone.
This is mostly because changing your email address is a huge pain. Once you're using your own domain, changing email providers is like changing web hosts or domain registrars: Some work but not a big deal.
BEEP...

BASIC >

I have to admit that I still judge programming tools, and in fact, entire computers, against the beloved BASIC prompt. You flipped a switch, got a BEEP, and 3 seconds later, you were in heaven.

Today the closest thing for me is firing up a PC and opening a Jupyter notebook. But it's certainly not the same.
Thanks for the heads up! I'll fix it.
> Privacy stuff is not a part of my requirements.

Can you send me a zip file containing all of your emails then? Oh, you don’t want to do that? Funny how even people who claim they don’t care about privacy actually really value privacy.
Wow, unusual topic for the front page of HN. I visited about 5 years ago. It was my wife's idea to go (it's quite far from other attractions, so you have to plan a visit), but we both really enjoyed it. The castle is the highlight of course, but there's quite a lot more to the site than that, and it's easy to spend a full day there.
To do what? It has a sort of natural monopoly in that it has network effects. If you broke it up, you'd end up with two unprofitable businesses. There are no shortage of youtube competitors- its not like they're locking out competitors with anticompetitive practices. For livestreaming they dont even have a monopoly because of twitch
(Edit: it's absolutely infuriating to see the comment to which I'm replying here grayed out from downvotes. It's a completely reasonable notion phrased as a question, yet HN... doesn't want to hear the answer?)

You're right and I've given it a corrective upvote. For a time, I had a PSA in my profile indicating that I think downvotes will be weirder and more hair trigger during a global pandemic. I'm trying to be more thick skinned about weirdness happening in votes on my own comments, but, yes, it's just adding sand in the gears at a time when we don't need more noise.
I completely agree. IDEs obscure the behavior of tools and languages. It's the last thing a student needs. I've been talking for a while about writing a course that teaches programming in 2 or 3 languages side by side to basically so the opposite of this. The specific quirks of languages or the things they obscure with magic melt away when you look at languages side by side. I wish university would teach in this way.
Icymi: Model to analyze and forecast the coronavirus pandemic in the real world
The point is that one is free to run one's own root if need be.

Similarly to the post you replied to - centralisation of name resolution is by market choice, not technological lock. The incentive is for everyone to coalesce around one service though.
This whole thing taught me to re-evaluate what's important.
What's the point of life, filling the pockets of tycoons, or spending time with family.

I will no longer believe in the mission of a company.
Any job is actually a glorified McDonalds position. You come in spend your 8 hours and go home to your family.
Coronavirus Resources and Readings
When I was 15 years old, I coded a Game of Life (with TurboPascal) and spent days playing with it, not only by activating cells, but also changing the automaton rules.

Eight years later, during my PhD, I had to pack discs on Riemannian manifolds (AKA how to place dictators on a surface so that they are as far as possible from each other). In the top tier of my bibliography, John Conway was there again. At first, I couldn't believe it it was the same person.
If you're willing to give Emacs another shot, check out LSP-mode [0]. It's an implementation of the language server protocol, the same tech that powers the autocomplete/jump-to-def/etc. in VS Code, and so it offers exactly the same functionality for all the same languages. It's true that it's not built into Emacs, but it's easy to set up and works well.

It's been a total game changer for me - it's allowed me to transition to using Emacs full-time for professional Python programming.

[0] https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode
Especially since the author says he is moving away from Gmail because "First and foremost, because it's a single point of failure".
Show HN: "Let's Talk AI" Weekly AI News Podcast by Stanford AI Lab PhDs
Use Youtube without an adblocker, they have a lot more than just simple text ads. Also, bandwidth is essentially free for Google beyond capital costs due to the fact they are peered with practically every ISP on earth (traceroute Google.com).
The problem with Alternative Platforms is they are often first used by people that have been banned by main stream platforms

It is sad we have come to the point that people "will not touch" a platform because there are others on their which they disagree with, or even find offensive.

It is easy to defend the speech of people you agree with, it take someone of strong ethical convictions to understand that in order to actually have free speech, the speech we find offensive must also be permitted.

Much of the original content on YT, that made YT popular would be banned under the terms YT operates under today. If you apply these conditions to potential replacements for YT then no replacements are possible
Fast Math Rendering on the Web
I'm really looking forward to what DHH can do with https://hey.com/. My aim with an email provider is that I trust it. A non-bootstrapped company with a founder outspoken against privacy issues seems a good place to try.
Found it - https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2020/04/01/1399300...
Just questioning assumptions, in a healthy skepticism kind of way. I have no expertise here. There is a lot of speculation and general fud surrounding covid-19, seems right to question potential 'solutions' when we are light on facts. To be clear, I never said it wouldn't work, I'm saying that it looks like you assume it will work.
Hey there HN, OP here. We imagine many of you might be in the target audience for this podcast (not necessarily experts on AI, just people interested in keeping up with developments of AI and its impact on society), so would love to hear your thoughts!
What’s wrong with that though? The target audience for persuading might be there.
Again not speaking for Google and only speculating without any inside information on the details of this subject, but:

If Google didn’t exist because only customer-paid business models were permitted for the services they provide, you would be cutting the vast majority of humanity off from essential communications and information services, and they would only be available to the wealthiest people in the wealthiest nations

People in the Philippines for example have the same access to Google that you have (assuming they’ve paid to load enough data onto their phone that week, which some of them can’t afford, or they have access to wifi, which most of them don’t), and I think that isn’t just amazing but is one of the greatest boons to humanity that we’ve ever seen

That would never have happened if Google was required to provide human customer support to every user, and if that changed today Google would very likely have no choice but to scale their entire business back to only being accessible to the top n% wealthiest people (or go out of business)

There are a few billion people in less-wealthy nations who wouldn’t even be capable of paying Google, not only because of poverty but also for simple lack of the required financial infrastructure that you and I take for granted
It's 'Ubuntu Touch by UBports' but people just call it 'ubports' for short.

At https://forums.ubports.com/ you can get the gist of ubports and get answered any question you have as well.
I've been using MailInaBox on a Droplet for a decade or so now and it's been great.
This really seems like a bad solution to me.

Any domain name provider will allow you to create personalized mail addresses for a total cost of around 10$/y.

Then -> imap -> Thunderbird.

And you're set for life with a nearly unlimited set of features.

It's easy to backup.

It can sync between different computers and mobile phones.

I don't get why he would chose something else.
Sounds like we should all hang tight and wait for the results to be published in a few weeks before jumping to conclusions
First Sighting of Mysterious Majorana Fermion on Gold
Titan is much easier, just a little cold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)