skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They send you the project prompt in an email right at the beginning of your time interval

Whoops, your home internet has gone down. Or Gmail has decided it's not having any mail from their domain. Or your mail provider think they're spam. Or your mail client doesn't pick up the email for half an hour. There's a whole raft of problems coming from "email delivery is reliable enough to be a timer."
You must have a reasonably short memory, because people said exactly the same sort of sensational things about Obama, and Bush Jr, and Clinton, and Bush Sr, and Reagan...
Checkly founder here! We are a dedicated API monitoring solution mixed with synthetic monitoring using Puppeteer scripts. A bit like if RunScope, GhostInspector and Pingdom had a baby. And the baby was born in a Javascript, Cloud Native, DevOps world...

As the parent mentions, we give you way more advanced tools to customize, monitor and alert than many simpler products like Setup/Teardown scripts, Puppeteer, GitHub, Prometheus and other integrations.
The only improvement I see is to move away from electron. For alternatives everyone should take a look at Revery-ui written in Reasonml. Its starts in milliseconds, few megs of RAM usage, very low CPU usage and has most of the modern developer experience associated with Electron!!
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Are they already doing that? Is there somewhere I can find the statistics broken out by strain? Or even a list of identifiers of the known strains?

From what I've seen, it's been published in some news articles and such that there "might be" different strains. Haven't seen anything particularly solid yet.
> Force most countries to adopt freemarket, remove trade barriers, remove import and export duties

No thanks. I'd rather not have US laws imposed on my country via trade agreements just so it's easier for them to sell their stuff here. If they want to expand to our markets, they should have to establish a real presence here and play by our rules.

Also, import taxes don't matter much compared to currency fluctuations. I remember a time when USD 1 ≈ BRL 1.6, importing consumer goods was a relatively simple matter despite taxes. Today USD 1 = BRL 5.11 and prices have become prohibitive even without any taxes.

> Some countries like India, Brazil play extremely unfair - this only helps few industrialists in these countries but overall public suffers usually as they are forced to buy substandard goods from local providers, instead of someone internationally competitive.

I used to think that way but the truth is it was a massive gain for our industry. Computer technology was licensed from foreign companies and produced here. Only large scale computers could be imported. This is great and continues to this day: companies pay less taxes if they manufacture their products here instead of importing. Software was a similarly protected industry and that is part of the reason why Lua exists.

Japan, USA and many other countries employ protectionism to great effect but when we do it we get sanctions from the USA? Because they want "compensation" for the losses american companies suffered due to the policy? Where's our compensation for the american agricultural subsidies?

This is why so many people say trade agreements are just modern day imperialism. It's obvious who's being favored by the agreement.

> This prevents countries like India or Brazil from becoming Taiwan

Why should we want to become Taiwan? If anything we should want to be more like China: heavy industrialization, access to the intellectual property of established international players, sells directly to markets they couldn't care less about (like us), will one day be in a position to compete directly with if not undercut them, etc.
What's the alternative? Every country should become island with no import or exports?

Politicians should understand that there are many things which can't be locally produced and penalising local businesses from importing those things from other countries is only going to disrupt the value add chain and lower their net exports.

This is something developing countries like India need to learn.

Get bad quality local machine = product crap quality end product = can no longer compete in international market = business goes bankrupt = local machine manufacturer is also dead in long term.
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Does medium randomly chooses who should login ? Because I didn't get a login prompt.
Beautiful hack. What about accessories à la Instagram or Facebook?
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I, for one, am absolutely fine with this. I have updated FF recently and didn't even notice any changes, had to look up what had changed after stumbling on this comment. I interact with address bar a lot, copy-pasting parts of URL all the time.

As long as they don't by default hide https:// and parts of URL from the address bar itself in Safari/Chrome style , I'm ok with it not shown in suggestions.

(I have a big 24" screen though, maybe that affects somehow).
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I think it's still very valuable to raise awareness of the existence of a lot of these more basic features in postgres core. Though I think it would be better titled "You might not need PostGIS".
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I'm not qualified to assess the risk, but if the there's indeed ADE (antibody dependent enhancement),[1][2] people once infected with a milder strain may suffer from more severe symptom from the deadlier strains, thus killing more people in the end.

I'm wondering how we may rule out this worst case scenario.

[1] Is COVID-19 receiving ADE from other coronaviruses? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S128645792...

[2] New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/new-blood-tests-anti...
I would say that while only 10-20% of programmers might be literally not worth paying any amount for, it might be as much as half of the field that isn’t worth the current, major US market compensation.
The trouble with the idea of false negatives in hiring is that you can't really define what they are.

Every job is likely to legitimately reject good candidates.

Most hiring is for a specific position. If you get 10 viable, or even excellent candidates, you can often still only hire one of them.

The one that gets it will take the job in their own direction. Almost by definition, the winning candidate is therefore the best fit.

Whatever roles the other candidates end up in will go in their own directions. Even if, a year on, you can objectively compare the performance of the one you hired against the one you didn't, their performance was within the context of the role they did win. They may not have been as good a fit for the role you didn't offer them.
Every government got this wrong, local, state, and federal. Democrat and Republican. The most important lesson is that you can't trust the government, they're not capable of saving you. You need to be able to save yourself.
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The bad click behavior persists.
This is inspiring. I’ve heard about things like FT8 and WSPR and have taken the first steps to get on track for a 10W license. Is it feasible to put together a simple transceiver to send short messages over 200km? I’d love to have an out of band way of staying in touch with my family that doesn’t rely on any one else’s infrastructure. The closest thing I’ve found are either RTL SDR hacks (receive only?) or the Elecraft kit ($900 for something way more Gucci than I think I deserve, given my amateur noob status!). For some reason I’m having trouble answering this question for myself, using internet searching!
Open source symbols to aid in social distancing
I searched for it but there seems to not be a set of universally, recognizable signs outside of the bio-hazard sign which isn’t at all easy to draw.

So I set out to create 3 symbols for :

- Immunocompromised
o To hopefully create more awareness around that person or household

- Recovered
o To give people a safe person to approach for help

- Possibly infectious
o To warn people to stay away

Github is here if anyone thinks this is a great idea https://github.com/windows-user0/VirusSignal

Website https://virussignal.com
Honestly, I think it is an overblown problem. (IIRC, the band in question was something like 22GHz)

Those high frequency bands are going to be reserved for high population areas. Their entire purpose is to avoid crosstalk by using signals with low penetration. So, the expectation is that those higher frequencies be used for things like low power micro cell towers in buildings, or downtown city streets.

That means the actual disruption, if it occurs, will only be over the high population areas of cities. Not generally wherever coverage occurs.
How does Covid-19 kill? Uncertainty hampers doctors’ ability to choose treatment
It depends on how many articles you've read this month...
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I am not going to be spreading the virus around so why would I be arrested? Actually once a “safe” strain was identified and could be tested for it would be impossible to stop it being spread by individuals on their own to those they know.

As we have seen with the whole HCQ fiasco regulations have a habit of getting lowered once there is data, even poor data. If we contact trace everyone who has been infected with the attenuated strain we will get some good data on the safety of the strain. It might not be 100% safe, and we might have some questions, but that is a discussion we can have once we find the strain.

We need to make some hard choices here between certainty and action. Waiting for certainty is a choice that carries a very high cost.
> a bunch of totally incompetent programmers out there that need to be kept out of because of fear of bringing quality precipitously down

I suppose it depends how you define "quality" - in my recent experience, it's always been the "rockstars" that are the worst developers. Because they generally write code which ends up being a nightmare to support and maintain when they're gone. Sure, it's great you wrote your own ORM in Perl but 10 years later it'll be crippling the company because no-one can make any changes without it breaking 27 other things.

(Ok, it's often Perl people...)

For me, a quality developer is someone who achieves the goals of the company in understandable, maintainable, testable, and documented code.
Quarantine and testing is the way to fight the virus and be able to return to the normal as soon as possible. Western countries fear it’s not possible to do this and regulate the people much more than they usually do. But the problem is, without quarantine the virus is going to spread and shutting down the economy like they did now will have much bigger consequences over the long run. Too many people live from paycheck to paycheck.
As of this moment America has a little less than 17,000 dead from this.

We could’ve used more competence and seriousness about this threat for the sake of everyone, not petty indulgences of performative outrage about a concept of freedom that feels hollow as we all are forced to hide.
Datomic works, all queries have a time-basis and all results are strongly consistent, full stop. At a mile high view, it works like git. There is a central transactor coordinating time, so inconsistent timestamps is not an issue. To deal with staleness, query nodes connect to the transactor and subscribe to the transaction log. If you send a query with a recent time-basis to a stale query node, it can block until it's caught up enough. The lag time is <10ms for query nodes in same data center as the transactor (and for web applications, normal server response times are already slower than 10ms)

Datomic is not for Spanner-scale systems, it is an application database competitive with relational databases.
IMO, using stackoverflow is closer to the opposite of cutting corners. No sense laboring to create something that is a 45 second Google search away.
My experience was different. My laptop boots in half the time with these mitigations disabled, and is noticeably much faster to use.
I wonder if https://github.com/sentialx/electron-global could help with your issues
> Net result: they do not. For my use case (Clojure/JVM and ClojureScript compilation), compile times did not get shorter. There seemed to be a slight improvement, but it was below the level of measuring noise (which was around 8%).

I think the level of measuring noise is 0.5%, at least that is what low level system programmers generally consider as noise...
On the other hand there are places where you are pretty free to do what you want in that job.

It really depends on the place.
If a coronavirus vaccine arrives, can the world make enough?
What grow on the mountain top? Only things I've seen are flowers, maybe apple or apricot and wallnuts.
Very difficult to get herd immunity up to a decent enough level without putting the vulnerable portion of the population in great danger though. Most countries are approaching something like 0.1% or 0.2% of the population having been infected. Herd immunity requires 70% - 80% immunity. About 350x - 800x more than what's happened already.

Also the whole thing presumes that immunity is lasting. Some of the data is showing that may not be the case.
Another way of putting it is: dollars have a network effect going for them, and it’s stronger than Facebook’s network effect in social media. This network effect was intentionally built during the Cold War. And with the USSR’s collapse, it became that much stronger.
This is spam for a "ghostwriting service".

Flagged with extreme prejudice.
https://github.com/sentialx/electron-global
How does the Iceland data suggest the hypotheses that 1) an attenuated strain exists in the wild and 2) it provides immunity to the worse strain? It's asserted in the post, but I don't see it. It seems likely to me their experience isn't any different from any other country's, and they're just testing more.

The idea in the post is obviously a good one if it can be done, it's just that it seems like a generic idea that should be considered for any viral pandemic, which makes me wonder why it's not already an approach people are working on.
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The virus was circulating in the United States undetected, by January. As one of the largest, most heavily traveled countries in the world, there was little hope that they would be able to shut their borders early enough to stave off any infections.
Yes it could create a shorter immunity, but the idea is to use the attenuated strain to drive the dangerous strain to extinction.

More fundamentally there are many questions that are unknown, but doing nothing until they are all answered it a choice that has a very high cost.
I read medium articles all the time and I've never once been asked to login, much less pay.
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Delete your medium cookies, should work then.
Exactly. His whole proposal is based on the assumption that an attenuated strain imuunizes enough people long enough. This has been possible in other diseases. But for example not the common cold, and not only because many different virus belong to that category.

So yes, I read your proposal. No, this is not addressed.
They are remotely exploitable without the mitigations in place.

https://mlq.me/download/netspectre.pdf
This looks beautiful, but I guess it's only useful for acyclic maps? References would be great.

Just learned, that I'm looking for a 'cognitive map'.
Who is undermining the meaning? Veggie burgers have been called that for decades. The meaning of burger as a cooked patty between two round pieces of bread is well established (chicken burger, falafel burger, whatever).
I posted that link. My comment was about relative importance.
Could we already start with this? There are almost no deaths in young people, so how about we send the youth to a Corona Summer Camp for a week or 3?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
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Except there are governments around the world that are handling this crisis well. Just because American government(s) are incapable doesn't mean all are.
Thank you! Was just about to point that out too. Drives me nuts when the standard SSB bandwidth is used.

People transmitting 100W on HF with WJSTX modes is another pet peeve.
Or your local pub toilet.

EDIT: snarky joke, I actually rather like the wall thing that Max Braun created.
I've read things on walls before, mostly at museums. It's not ergonomic.
Yeah, it works as a competitor to Wi-Fi in the ultra dense scenarios. How on Earth is it justified to deploy it to an entire city, let alone a Metropolitan area, county, state, or country? It has specific, limited use cases, and even then Wi-Fi’s solutions are arguably much better. Where is the benefit to the consumer?
It seems that Jitsi uses the tensorflow NN to detect the background, but only for the purpose of blurring it, not replacing it with a virtual background.
Elective patience.
What gets me is that these people still walk out in the sun.

We are talking about orders of magnitude weaker radiation than what you get dosed with every time you go outside. But further, sunlight does contain ionizing radiation (hello UV).
I really want to. Just so much junk epidemiology that has come out of nutritional epidemiology.

A small sample.. https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2014/11/academic-studies-questio...
Covid-19 Effect on New Remote Jobs
I can smear shit on my own wall for free, thanks. No need for technology.
There's this uncertainty due to the world being in lockdown and I wanted to see if this has already had an immediate effect on how remote companies hire.

And so I made a graph that watches new remote jobs posted on the most popular boards. Graph updates itself weekly.

I have this automated email on my site that asks people to tell my something about themselves.

Around 20% answer. And recently a lot of people tell me that they're lost their income and looking for a remote job.

Some people had a job that required physical presence. Others have lost their salary as companies are struggling with money.

But it's great to see that there doesn't seem to be any real decrease in new remote job posts, so companies still have the courage to hire!
>I used to think that way but the truth is it was a massive gain for our industry

This is only good if you want to work for big government granted monopolies where you are just a cog in a big machine.

To create a culture of export and value addition, every person should have ability to import the best machine they can afford from abroad without government eating into budget through import taxes.

For example, imagine I am creating fishing line and I found that best way to go about is to import a German machine through which I will be able to create high quality fishing lines.

Government imposed 200% duty on German machinery and now my competitor who is in Singapore can easily import that machine because he isn't paying 200% import duty on importer machine.

How is my product going to be able to compete in international export market when my investment is already double of my competitor.

This is the process of niche discovery. Big companies are slow at finding new niches to exploit. Small companies can do the exploration work and if they find something which works, they can become future big companies.

And if I am not able to import German machine guess what I am going to do? I am going to import end product form someone who is able to create the end product at cheaper cost then put my label on top of it and sell locally. What did I learn? Just slap label, market and print money?

I gained no manufacturing expertise.

When you add useless import taxes, you increase import of "final product" over import of "intermediary product". This way your country can't add value and you fail to capture value from a supply chain
South Korea somehow avoided the whole lockdown approach.
It does. The german study was conducted in a town that was relatively heavily tested during its outbreak, and only recorded 2.5% official infections in the population of that town, so the german study showed the actual number to be 7 times as high. This Austrian study found this number to be only ~2.5 times as high. Germany and Austria overall seem to test fairly similarly.
It was really nice. I can recommend!
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Usually I manage to read medium articles fine, but today I encounter:

> The page isn’t redirecting properly

> An error occurred during a connection to onezero.medium.com.

> This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.
I wish for a baby monitor made out of an e-ink display. Would love to have a non emitting screen on for that. Maybe someday...
Eh not the image with the studies. Again I really don't know much, but I know enough that it's not only about the ionization that "5G is save" people always make it about. Also there was one big pro-5G article here on HN a couple of months ago and that was such a blatant hitjob that ever since I've been weary.
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When you talk about government you seem to mean united states government, and the current one at that. There is such a thing as the rest of the world (shock!), and some places are doing a decent job.

Actually I'm pretty sure almost any previous US government, rep or dem, would have done a much better job than this one.

BTW if you want to 'save yourself', what are your personal plans for developing a vaccine?
Nobody knows the true infection fatality rate. Probably the best estimate we can make is from South Korea where they have done a pretty good job of testing everyone infected. There the infection fatality rate is 1.8% and rising as the cases age out and people in the ICUs die.
That's exactly what I ended up doing, but I hope we'll agree having to do tricks like that in order to use an installer is not... ideal
Gotcha. With a high velocity of data changes this is usually done with streaming data. Just did another quick google and I saw that SalesForce has a Streaming API that lets you capture events: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_stream...

Their description sounds like your use case:

> Applications That Poll Frequently
Applications that have constant polling action against the Salesforce infrastructure, consuming unnecessary API calls and processing time, would benefit from Streaming API because it reduces the number of requests that return no data.

I hope this will help you.
Right! But I specifically wrote dirty corners, which fits well for those sites and less for FB.
I get that, but it just made it obvious that nothing else mattered but the whiteboard (or in this case, luckily, a chromebook with text editor).