skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not efficient ways to deliver to consumers, but to delivery units like the local post office they're remarkably efficient (especially for rural areas). The biggest cost savings to be had would be to deliver from a local warehouse to the nearby DU, where you would pay the last mile carrier to do the heavy lifting. The issue you run into is that there's no appetite for increasing the load at these units, so no appetite for innovation until the infrastructure improves.
Apple stores aren't getting any shipments right now. Even if they were, those stores are closed and Apple isn't going to open them to sell a few face masks to consumers. By the time Apple stores open, even fewer people will want face masks. (And Apple won't want them on their shelves regardless)

Apple's distribution network is built around selling consumer electronics, not medical supplies.

This isn't remotely the sort of product Apple would manufacture and sell. It's not worth the time and effort to design retail packaging for it.
Awesome! Even if it is buggy or won’t work for me when I try it. Great that you already have this shipped. Not saying it is buggy. Just if it is, no problem having this out already!

Been waiting for something for OBS for a while. since 2019 when Mojave made Syphon injecting much harder due to security changes. And demand for it and any other similar injecting almost entirely waned.
It would be great if you include clickhouse in your benchmark. It also boasts heavy SIMD use and is free + open source.
Yes but right now they spend a billion dollars per year on humans doing things. They could tell all or most of them to go home and not come back, and then they wouldnt. But it seems they are placing big bet on this being highly temporary.

The odd thing is that they dont seem to get rid of anyone at all. Most companies use COVID as an excuse for a round of overdue layoffs
Alpha, sorry!
Replying just so I can find this again. I'm going to have to think about it in the coming days.
Testing has been ramping up https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
Computer Programming with the Nim Programming Language
In the UK they're saying there's a shortage of swabs and pipettes even, do you not need these too?

Also, in the UK our independent and uni labs have been saying for almost a week they could extract the RNA differently but the NHS have a fixed approved way that they won't change.

- Are the chemicals you're using more common or would there just be a new shortage of different chemicals?

- Is there a risk you'd be creating a test that didn't work very well, and the US would end up with a bunch of useless tests (e.g. Italy had to abandon a bunch of Chinese sourced tests, UK's anti-body tests are ineffective)?
Enemies everywhere: photos show absurdity of life under the Stasi
This is a very locale based phenomenon. There are more ups lockers near me than Amazon.
Good Scalable WordPress Hosting?
Looking for good scalable WordPress hosts apart from the standard Siteground, Bluehost etc.

Price is definitely a factor but I'd prefer something where costs and resources available are scalable as some of the websites receive traffic surges that don't warrant paying for those resources year round, and obviously compatible with WordPress.

Thanks!
> The Republicans were very successful at poisoning the well around Hillary Clinton

Since they’d been working on for more than two decades, that's hardly surprising (but also hardly repeatable.)
should private lives be made public post morteum?
Society should be structured in such a way that charity is not needed.

Given this, charity would be unethical because you are participating in, perpetuating, strengthening that system, and benefiting from that system from people worshipping you.
- nano are important for keeping ordering. while you may return results in insert order it is nice to have them so any other operations done in them outside the db you can retain (or recreate) that ordering. in financial systems nanos have become a sort of defacto standard for this. for examsple, all our messaging timestamps at places i've worked are always nano for anything written in the last 5-10 years.

Also when you are trying to do calculations on high-frequency data (tick, iot) it ruins your ability to take meaningful deltas (eg, arrival rates) since you get a lot of 0s and 1s for the time deltas. Its difficult to take weighted averages with weights of 0s.

the issues solving that (if you really need a wider range) are easier to solve that having to force everything down to micros and creating ways around that. (eg, kdb uses multiple date, time, and timestamp types and it doesn't use the unix epoch since it isn't very useful for tick, censor, or any high-frequency data i've seen).

better than a double that some systems still use.

-kdb's secret sauce that people don't seem to understand is its query language that more naturally fits the time series domain. It isn't really a database as more it is an array language with a database component. (eg, try to write an efficient sql query that calculates 5 minute bars on tick data).

I actually like Java too - I've written or worked on a couple trading systems written in core java. just get good devs who understand what it means to write zero gc code, abuse off-heap memory, and understand what hotspot can intrinsify. If you can stay in the simd code for all the heavy lifting loops (filters, aggregates, etc), I don't think java will be an impediment.

I think you have parts going in the correct direction, and you seem to have good experience from looking at the bios. Nothing really un-fixable (or un-addable) in what I saw glancing at your docs. I did bookmark you to see how the db goes. Will prob check out soon.
Will drones as a delivery method to customers be viable within the foreseeable future? I just don't see how the economics work out. Even if you ignore all the unsolved software, logistical and legal (zoning) hurdles, seems to me like the ongoing security and maintenance costs of a drone fleet would be prohibitively expensive for a long time.
We built a PPP loan calculator.
https://secure.docyt.com/covid
Oscar Wilde is a good start

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_Under_Sociali...
Reasons for joining: 70% just needed a job, 20% location (silicon valley - wanted to be in tech ecosystem), 10% was combo of: I was told it's a small, entrepreneurial team with undefined remit (so opportunities to forge own path - turned out to be true) and it was impressive in many non-technical ways (company mission, campus, resources, etc)

And no reasons relating to technical or data science know-how on the part of the team/company ;) I already knew coming in that the industry is technologically backwards (big healthcare co)
If correct actions were taken right at the start it wouldn't have happened either. Crisis silently averted is a crisis wasted.
Hiring developers when you're a small or medium size company is really hard. Nobody knows you exist and if they do there's no way you can compete with FAANG compensation.

So what can you do? You show off what makes you different, whether it's cool technology, family friendliness, remote work, etc.
OTOH, I don't think i've ever had an amazon delivery person deliver one of my packages a couple houses down. That has happened to me a couple times with both UPS and fedex (although one must be specific with fedex when it comes to normal fedex or fedex ground).

The last time it happened it was a Christmas gift and I didn't even know about it until the person it was delivered to IM'ed my wife using one of the neighborhood contact services. Turns out the delivery company even knew they delivered it to the wrong address because they put "delivered to XYZ instead of ZYX" in the delivery notes.
ah, vaporware.
This is just common sense. Aerosolized particles are not impeded by a shield. A shield is intended to obstruct ballistic projectiles. If those projectiles are aerosolized and are in the air that you breathe, then the shield will offer no protection at all. Even an N95 mask still can let in up to 5% of these particles. What efficacy is a piece of plastic in front of your face going to do against that?
If the vouchers were good for 10 years I might be ok with it
This post should be higher. I don’t have anything personally against people working at AirBnB, but I genuinely hope that they will go bust.

This is not a problem limited to San Francisco but it’s a problem for every travel destination over the World. The housing prices are inflated and because of AirBnB. We all are paying for AirBnB success.
The spike-in DNA injection is clever. How did you develop that technology? It seems like the kind of thing that just hits you one day.
This is interesting.

I have thought about looking through the source of old id tech engines but felt it was too complicated. Thankfully there's the Game Engine Black Book that has already gone through tjem and have distilled the concepts into easily understandable chapters.
http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

This project has reduced the codebase to the essentials so this may mean that it'll be relatively simpler tp understand its inner workings.

I hope to dive into this project's source in the future.
There’s a reason for that
I know there are Win32 Lua APIs. Maybe this is a 10 line windows app that just loads those in a host that loads main.lua?
but moral hazard makes the management of these companies worse and worse everytime one gets bailed out
FBI warns fraudsters are exploiting Covid-19 pandemic with cyberattacks
The silence of the owls
The sentences appear confusing.

> UPS is doing it so cheaply there's no way they're even close to breaking even on it.

You are saying "Amazon" has no way to be even close to breaking even?

> What's more, it's a substantial part of their network volume

Are you referring "it" is a substantial part of "Amazon"'s network volume?
I didn't say Asian labor, I said cheap/hasty labor. As the article makes clear, you can get that in the States too.
Iceland has only tested 28,992 of its residents as April 6th, so that throws the rest of this conjecture out the window. (Although regardless the conjecture was probably not a great idea.)

https://covid.is/data
Https://www.AudioBookReviews.com

An open blog for reviewing and sharing audiobooks.
I feel like you have to be delusional to believe AirBnB is the cause for outrageous rents in SF.

The housing market everywhere in the bay area is absolutely insane - do you really believe that AirBNB has an outsized impact on cities like San Mateo?

AirBNB continues to be the housing boogeyman while many people turn a blind eye to the absolutely sluggish rate of construction in the city.
I thought this was proto-union-busting.
Your site states you use a “proprietary machine learning algorithm”.
As someone who has seen a gamut of companies use the machine learning phrase to justify almost any conceivable product, could you share any non-confidential information about what you achieve using ML?
If jobs were exciting, they wouldn't have to pay you to do it.
I agree this is odd. Given their business, what Airbnb needs 12000+ employees for is beyond me.
That strong suggestion is so that a person with the virus will be wearing the mask, and therefore less likely to infect other people. That type of mask is more or less useless for protecting its wearer; its purpose is to protect everyone else.
Totally agree. Non-tech companies that think they need "data science" should instead put same effort into (data) engineering.

It's not quite 99% of the effort but close enough ;)

Search "data science hierarchy of needs"
If you trying building a package for Arch/Alpine you'll understand why I recommend it over APT/RPM. Also, caching is much easier with Arch/Alpine.
distributed config.
The sentence is not unclear, it refers to UPS and not Amazon.
You have two forms.
dang has built up a ton of trust from yc founders, and hopefully from HN commenters. We love when he improves our HN posts.
I worked for a large tech company that was hacked by Russians at least twice, and they had a not only unencrypted, but unauthenticated sql front end and api to their inventory management system that listed every server on the network and every piece of software and version installed on it, as all the user accounts on it and privileges as well as sysadmin contact info and everything you’d need for social engineering. I realized how bad it was when I was using it to find all the servers at the company that needed to be patched for heartbleed. Anybody on any server in our network could get to it, or just someone who plugged a laptop in at the office or got in to our vpn, and you’d have the keys to the kingdom. I told the head of security and he said it would break too many things to put it behind authentication.
Hm, I don't know. The only people I see complaining about 'losing trust' in the platforms is the very people who would be posting harmful content in those platforms.

Nobody should place all their eggs in one basket. It is unfortunate that a lot of these platforms have become the only source of revenue for a lot of people. The moment you are that tied to a revenue stream, any changes in policy that restrict the content you produce will become a death blow. People in YouTube are living the 'gig economy' from a different angle.
Actually Prusa has a print farm with hundreds of printers or more normally used to print parts for their printers. But they possess significant manufacturing capability in their in house print farm, plus laser cutters for face shields and QA/shipping supplies. I don’t see why they wouldn’t use their substantial capacity to support COVID relief.
Im currently curating an article about the best COVID datasets and resources so i'd be interested in this
https://www.productizedstartups.com

I interview productized service founders sharing their stories and revenue figures transparently.
Dash brings React to Python, R, and Julia
just so people don't get the wrong idea -- there are a LOT of leftists, such as myself, on twitter who have a problem with zuckerberg donating .0001% of his wealth, who ARE impressed by this. Giving away 28% of your wealth is nothing to sneeze at, even if in a just economy he shouldn't have that much wealth to control in the first place. On an individual level, I still think this is very commendable in a way that zuck's pathetic donation is not.
Funny, I never thought about who Aleph1 was outside of textfile authoring, or where he might be today.

Certainly, my image of him did not include a volleyball competition!
A userland process can view/edit the memory of another userland process. Not so with kernel processes.
What does the ship have to do with 5G?
For what? "Google for answers" isn't very helpful. It sounds like they're saying serological tests are valuable, but not viable for immediately testing a large population.
You might want to consider Matrix, where admittedly we do have phone-home stats, but you have to explicitly opt in to them during installation if you want to participate. (https://youtu.be/dDddKmdLEdg?t=605 in the video in the original post here)
There are multiple ways. I think the general solution is to compile statically, however for libraries you can bind mount what you need. I don't think Docker provides a complete solution, but I pretty much prefer anything over RPM/DEB packages.
I’m kind of like this... been at current employer around 8 years.

Motivation: very strictly 9-5 which is great for my toddler kids and personal side interests and being able to keep current even if employer is boring tech. Healthy compensation means I will be mortgage free in 2 years.

Profitable large company that will easily weather the coming storms (have always been tight with budgets), and not worried about layoffs since in growing + future investment part of company.

If it all goes to shit, once I own my house outright I don’t care, since wife owns a recession proof revenue producing business on which we can survive if I need to retool (can’t survive on only
that while we have a mortgage payment on solely that income tho).

Many reasons for something like this.
Yes - this has been falling over for the past week.
This is universal to STEM degrees I think. In mechanical engineering classes you analyze a beam, in real life you analyze an assembly with 50 components that have undergone 100 revisions with 20 different materials and loading from 4 directions that vary with time. Oh, and you have 4 sensors to give you information to analyze critical stresses. But one of them is broken, and Bob who can fix it is on PTO until next Monday, so...

Internships are supposed to fill this gap but it'd be nice if all students could get a taste of real world systems and data. For tech, maybe if they could partner with the IT department at the school to get them exposed to real, messy data. Maybe there are some teaching datasets with over a billion rows that people could play around with.
All that work and effort reduced to the chance to roll a dice is not going to sit well with many and with that, we cal almost call 2020 a snap in marvell speak.

I appreciate that the lottery idea is a solution from one perspective, and should your education be based upon a lottery or merit is not a choice that should be even on the table as a solution.
Iirc they passed the costs from the end user to the hosts by enforcing a much more lenient refund policy than what many hosts had put on their listings?
Does this comply with the terms of service?
I know this won’t be a popular reply and that’s fine, but I just want to know whether your admittedly intriguing concept isn’t taking the piss :)
Yeah, but there are big problems to solve that potentially offset those two benefits.

Legality: how high above your property do you own? Would a drone flying at 50 feet be trespassing? 100? 200?

Loss: how do you recover a crashed drone? Or one intentionally downed?

Range: how much power can you pack onboard without compromising payload capacity?

Payload capacity: how much can you reasonably lift?

Cost: dollar for dollar, is it more cost effective than trucks (even robotic ones)?

And so on.
>For example, when playing board or card games, I always try and discover some dominant, completely broken strategy that is definitely not in the "spirit" of the game. (...) isn't this how games are supposed to be played?

IMHO, there are 2 necessary criterion on whether or not a game should be played in a certain manner:

1. Is it fun?
2. Will people continue to play with me if play this way?

The first is obvious, don't do things that aren't fun. The second has to do with exhausting the people who might want to play with you - after all, if no one plays with you it's unlikely you'll be able to keep playing the game.

I don't imagine these criterion are complete, however. A dog might want to "play" by chasing a cat, and the cat might continue to "play" if it fears for its life. This is not a thing I allow. There needs to be some criterion for consent, or for the game being "good" for all parties involved.

In the case of card games, I've been very turned off of them before because of broken strategies. I'm not in principle against discovering new strategies that happen to be much stronger than intended ones, but if the game that comes out of that discovery is no longer fun, then I have no incentive to learn how to play the game.
Why would you want to continue doing business with a company that screws you over to the point where you need to chargeback? By that point, you're burning the bridge and should be totally OK with it.
Agree with your points on "old company/conservative industry" and "non-engineering culture"

I'm at a place that is both, and both are huge pains.

On the engineering side, it's a bit different though: technical roles are looked down on, and there is no engineering culture, eg, for data. Data is just a bunch of flat files everywhere, across many silos. No leadership to put it together into logical buckets for easy access and interoperability
There is a joke saying that the local state owned post will surely quickly overtake Amazon at drone usage as the small "you were not at home, go at post office for the package" leaflets are much lighter than the actual packages, so each drone can easily distribute a lot of them. ;-)
Since you seem to imply that one can make a good business plan for an airline accounting for such high risk, please present one, or point to one that has succeeded.
Logged in just to upvote your comment.

An actual land value tax would be even better!
Don't forget all the demoscene productions --- they'll use all the tricks in book, and then some. They'll be the first to break if the emulation of the hardware isn't perfect.

This masterpiece is a great example (but targets hardware which is older than what the hypervisor in the article can emulate):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16938029
Credit providers customer service phone recordings hacked
Thank you! Please also ensure all the countries on the planet have access to this tech.
> I also think the headline characterizing doctors who want to wear PPE as "frightened" is extremely inappropriate. I don't wear my seat belt in the car because I'm frightened of dying in a car wreck I wear it because it reduces my chance of a bad outcome in the event a crash happens.

I have several friends in the medical health field who have described themselves as "frightened" to be at work because of the lack of PPE (1 N95 mask, 1 scrub kit per day). They are exposed, repeatedly throughout the day, every day they go to work, while working 12+ hr shifts. I would expand on your seat belt analogy: they are like professional truck drivers, forced to drive the wrong direction on freeways, dodging cars throughout the day, and their seatbelts degrade with every car they dodge. One of them is already showing symptoms, all the rest are sure they've been exposed to heavy viral loads.
The truth and I have actually been harmed by censorship of this very topic. My aunt tried to send me a link to a video discussing this, wanting my opinion. Of course the link was dead by the time I tried to view it. Which required going back and forth, what's the title of the video, what author, oh that's the one, etc. In the end I was able to view it (my takeaways: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22797275), but obviously the better the censorship machinery functions, the more effort it takes to get on the same page to address misinformation! And blind blanket assertions that the whole topic is nonsense is just a path to increasing polarization.

Meanwhile the author of the video played with and mocked the censorship regime to market themselves. Spelling words out, writing them on a whiteboard, talking up how many times this information has been taken down, etc. The more a topic is censored, the more the nonsensical narratives look like forbidden knowledge. It plays directly into the conspiracy angle.

If something technological needs to be done to address misinformation, it revolves around viral sharing, filter bubbles, and most importantly basic scientific literacy. Swiping at the video hosting itself is an ineffective blunt instrument from the same exact toolbox that regressive dictators always reach for.
What we're seeing is how agile a small, functional, and motivated group can be. Private enterprise as whole is every bit as f'd up as the government.
Mapping Hospital Overload by County