skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plus so many of them already have cushy incomes by time they are in office, being a representative is really the cherry on top the cake.

Right, but I think the argument behind paying them more is that you shouldn't have to already have a cushy job to become a representative. We complain on here from time to time about how representatives don't understand technology, but it's no surprise when most folks who understand technology would be taking a pay cut to become a representative. Same with fields like medicine and management.
Indeed, I made a bug to track it for myself:
https://github.com/TrevorSundberg/madeitforfun/issues/2
Stray thought while reading the documentation, inspired by how easy it is to convert a variable to a function: is there any reason to include a separate switch statement at all? It seems like you could use `if` there with a similar syntax:

getSignZero(n) = if {
n > 0 then Positive
n < 0 then Negative
else Zero
}
For now, but if everyone was wearing one it could work.
When I was in high school, I stumbled across the source code for cc on the UIC mainframe. Part of it was in either Snobol or Spitbol (I don't remember now) and I remember going to the library to get a book on the language to learn enough to be able to decipher the code.
Who are you, Cato the Younger?
Second-order cybernetics happened, and as a result there was a split. Like neighboring comments say, there is control theory and game theory for first-order cybernetics, but second-order cybernetics is extremely philosophical and failed to make an impact aside from broad ideas like the emergence of complex behavior from simple designs. The Constructivist movement has a journal [0] and is still alive, but I'm not sure what impact they are having.

[0] https://constructivist.info/
graphviz is the secret weapon of any good tool writer: instead of creating a log as a list, why not just create it as a graph that can be rendered using dotty?
The key in all this is the users ability to choose to disclose when they were tested as infected. If this choice isn't baked deep into the protocol, it will be far to easy for things to go horribly wrong down the road as this technology is adapted for other roles.

As an obvious (and not all that impossible) example, consider a Bluetooth device owning person who is, in fact, physically isolated. No amount of "privacy preserving" anything will fix the issue if they know they've only been within range of 2 other people in the last <insert time window here>.

The paranoid user would want to change their disclosure settings upon entering the domain of this isolated individual, since they can be sure they would be able to identified.

Sadly, not all users will know who was and who was not isolated, so the notion of privacy is simply impossible as far as I can tell. You are weighing the social good vs the potential personal harm based on your unique environment. Nothing fundamentally changes this.
Some inflation is fine, and good. Giving the median American money equivalent to a decade of their income is not going to cause just some inflation, though. I'm talking about instantly doubling the price of housing in many cities. Instantly doubling the price of college, etc. It would be extremely disruptive.
The Fed is doing a great job with current tools but they're a bandaid for bigger issues. It's not a question of if this becomes an issue it's a question of when. The longer you let the bubble build the harder it is to deal with it. Economic stagnation similar to Japan... is tough to deal with.
I agree. That's what I mean by "it seems to be more for you guys about insider trading than about skin in the game".

Edit: I think I understood it. You mean that broad, "macro-like" allocation would prohibit shenanigans with assets in narrower domains, like for example when a congressman successfully pushes a particular drugs-related law that has very big impact on a some particular pharma company. It is more realistic that they can change a single paragraph in some act than they can throw out 30% of the federal budget to "finally start paying back our enormous national debt".
Pixelmator Pro updated with new Core ML-powered ML Match Colors feature
How about instead of a "communist mode" and "capitalist" mode, what if we do what the rest of the civilized world does and have a "socialist" mode which operates alongside capitalism and provides a robust social safety net, and we considered actually funding and competently staffing government programs rather than opting for the Grover Norquist model of constantly trying to reduce government to "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub" and expecting the free market to pick up the slack in providing for the general welfare?

And how about we finally realize that trying to run the American government like a business and electing "CEOs in Chief" is a bad idea?
maybe get a credit card for the business and split the bill each month?
dang flagged and deleted this so I will repost:

No, we cannot all agree on that.

I prefer the American Convention on Human Rights, which states:

The right of peaceful assembly, without arms, is recognized. No restrictions may be placed not the exercise of this right other than those imposed in comformity with the law and necessary in a democratic society in the interest of national security, public safety or public order, or to protect public health or morals or the rights or freedoms of others.
I’ll be generous and they can keep their current salary. But no additional income streams allowed. And all investments must be held double-blind and only invest in broad index funds.

That’d be a good start. An unforceable but public vow of poverty upon swearing in would still be good.
Having grown up in the older 'record aware' systems unix bytestreams were a wonderful breath of fresh air (this was back in v6/v7) - I guess perspective is everything
If I were Airbus or Boeing, I'd have a group working on something like this as a solution to CO2 emissions from commercial aircraft.
i hadn't thought about anti-vaxxers. it's true that their perspective might change with this pandemic and if we are able to make a vaccine.

the world is indeed not going to be the same.
That's very nice of them.

I recently received 12 weeks worth of unpaid parental leave.

Thanks company!
I am confused with my business plan
Yes, I am confused about the business plan that is running in my mind. I want to start a membership site helping the side hustler to give Ideas, teach and make them grow. Sometimes I feel Its better to build a product that I can sell to the users or become an online marketing consultant. there are so many options.

I need your help!

recommend some tips because I will then have to put so much effort to get the things done.

If you are in my situation how would you take it further?
This may be a bit of an optimistic take, but there's at least some evidence the IFR is ~0.37%. Given the current number of deaths in NYC, that would imply at least ~20% of the city population has already been infected, likely more given the lag between infection and death. If that's true, the best strategy will probably be to keep vulnerable groups isolated and loosen some restrictions until herd immunity is reached. How long that would be depends on the hospitalization rate since ideally we'd have hospitals just barely at max capacity, but I don't think its implausible by the end of the summer we'd reach ~75% infected at which point all restrictions could be lifted.
Do you have a source for that? I've seen charts purporting to show that, but digging in always revealed that they showed "social distancing measures" more broadly, limited to things like public gatherings bans and restaurant closures. I haven't seen any record of general business shutdowns or bans on private gatherings in 1918.
Colombia's race to build a 1K USD Ventilator
I would say the respirator situation here in Czech Republic stabilized since the - the awrial bridge is still running and medical personel shoukd be stocked now by PPE & some buffer is being built. As for normal people - everyone uses hand made cloth masks & that seems to work fine. You can even buy the cloth masks easily online now if you don't have sewing skills and don't know someone who does.
I don't know why New Jersey doesn't just

npm install unemployment-benefits-system

and be done with it.
Does anyone know if this this is generally the case with influenza also?
Ask HN: Is there a fuel cell expert out there?
Hi all,

Sorry to message everyone — I apologize. I am working on an open-source VTOL with flight mode with a payload of 200kg to travel around 100 miles.

We plan to make the bill of materials, blueprints, 3D parts (for printing) and other essentials available. We are targeting poor countries without road infrastructure.

We have a very good design in place, but the one element missing is a 50kW to 110 kW PEM hydrogen fuel cell in which the hydrogen is at 5,000 psi (not cryogenically stored).

We are in need of a PEM fuel cell expert that can connect us with the right manufacturers. We need a ~50-to-100kg fuel cell with ~100kW (i.e.: something like the Toyota Mirai). So far vendors take forever and are taking us through loops to even get a price or s spec. We are based in Los Angeles. If you can help, we would love you.

Also, if you’d like to help us, we welcome everyone. My email is somid3 !a!t! gmail
I have to admit I've not seen any evidence of this in any of my e-mail accounts. I check the spam folder for false positives periodically and while I've seen the periodic your password is XXX and we have webcam footage of you (which I can trace to the Perl hackers website password leak), I haven't seen any of the others or, for that matter a significant flow of spam in general. It's certainly a lot better than things were in the '00s or the '90s when I ended up abandoning e-mail addresses after they got flooded with spam.
On the contrary. For example, MSFT is currently trading at ~$165. A single MSFT Put option expiring on March 19, 2021, which gives you the right (but not the obligation) to sell 100 shares of MSFT at $165 at any time before expiry currently costs less than $20. So for $20, you can protect your $16,500 asset from a market downturn for a year. Also, options were significantly cheaper before the recent increase in market volatility.
Thanks, and thanks for the feedback! How would you want to see it highlighted? Show some slope measure for a given curve?
We're barely testing anyone. I know of only two people tested among my NYC friends. One who is still in the hospital after surgery to improve his breathing. One who is a healthcare worker exposed to a known carrier. Two other friends exposed to a known carrier who got sick couldn't get tested because there weren't enough tests. Nor could the 5 others I know who had COVID-19-like symptoms. Nor could I.
These are not "assumptions" about "the degradation of our democracy". They are factual assertions about the structure of democracy as a system of government.
Please don't post shallow dismissals:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This topic in particular tends to get flooded with a few shallow clichés as soon as it arises. This is to be avoided, because they have the effect of turning a thread into the same generic argument as the last N times it came up, which is tedious.

Better to respond to the specifics of a topic. Alternatively, if you want to learn, ask curious and neutral questions. But please don't pick one of the low-hanging bombs and toss it; the results are predictably boring. Not picking on you personally—we all have this reflex, and it's actually fine in in-person conversation, but bad for internet forums.
When the stock market is booming, buy puts on a major index.

SPY (S&P 500 index exchange traded fund) was around 335 in February.

Buy, cheaply a put (right to sell 100 shares) at a price of 300, expiring in 60 or 90 days, for about $150.

A couple of weeks ago, SPY was at 240.
Sell the put, for a gain of at least (300 - 240) times 100 times delta (a description of relation of the option gain to the stock change) of about 0.60, for a gain of at least $3500 to $4500.
If you used sba.com instead of sba.gov
We don't need UBI to work less than 8-10 hours a day. We can work less by living with less, and learning to be more productive. It really is that simple.

We are not forced to work. Work is required to produce or acquire the things we consume. There are only two ways to reduce the need for work: Consume less, or produce more with the same amount of work.
As a Pastafarian, it is interesting to me that folks are justifying their behavior based on delusional historical beliefs. I am now brainstorming how the Satanists might reply to this; they are keen to examine poor Christian behavior and satirize it [0][1][2][3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_School_Satan

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

[2] https://protectchildrenproject.com/

[3] https://apnews.com/6addf2f0ecb646919cb1cfcfdacfc6c1
if you dont see the technical advantages you simply arent at the scale. Its that simple. Speaking as someone who works at a company with one of the largest monoliths in the world, microservices become necessary lest you deal with incredibly difficult problems at massive scale.
That's the minimum required by law in USA FMLA
The new generation of birds completely walk over last gen. For a nation with a limited military budget, staying on the cutting edge is all we can do.
Sure, look at Trends the The Hustle — is it kind of exactly that at $300 per year. It is not easy, plus The Hustle has a huge following.

Your business plan is a good one. To help with your invoicing I’d suggest Chargebee’s startup plan (i.e.: $50k in revenues with no fee). Good luck.
I wish that was true but the flare-up of conspiracist nonsense on my neighborhood mailing list today makes that pretty hard to believe. Maybe if Facebook shutdown.
The fed has stepped into the repo market, commercial paper, money market, primary corporate bond, secondary corporate bond, consumer ABS, they're backing payroll lending through banks, direct lending to sub 10,000 employee companies through banks, municipal debt, treasury market, MBS market, expanded swap lines and foreign bank repos to provide dollars internationally all to ensure financial markets function. They're busy.
Is that why they are digging mass graves in New York?
If you include contamination from the Chernobyl reactor disaster as “having a (piece of) reactor" then they were also correct.
Is there an official document somewhere?

Also, how does it compare to DP-3T? (https://github.com/DP-3T/documents) (https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/)

Edit: Apple's preliminary specification was linked in another HN comment. (https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...)
It would be interesting to see this applied as a photo viewing app for VR, or applied to videos.
"running on multicore monster"

Just curious, but how do you take advantage of the multiple cores? Are you using a language that handles concurrency directly, with something like threads? If you use a language that has historically been single threaded (Ruby, PHP, partially Python) do you use multiple processes? If you use multiple processes, what manages the processes? What can spin up additional processes? And when you talk about a "multicore monster" what are you actually running there, the application or the web server or both? If the web server runs elsewhere, how does it connect to the app? Do you have something else to load balance the web server itself?
I agree completely. They should not exist either.
So those of us without cell phones or with cell phones that we don't activate, we can definitely opt out of the tracking and this will be respected forever without exception through a constitutional privacy amendment, right?

Also we're all going to continue to be "allowed" to turn off bluetooth to save on battery right? (Spoiler: no, the system only works if it's bluetooth on all the time for everyone no exceptions even though bluetooth is absolute low quality poorly engineered garbage as a technology.)

And those of us who are brainless and perfectly compliant sheeple obeying everything the government and media tells us without questioning or rational thought will be allowed to keep our old cell phones with the previous obsolete bluetooth standards correct and not be forced to buy a very expensive brand new phone we don't really need and can't afford, even though that severely damages the ability of the powers that be to mitigate the latest crisis they have intentionally created, right? (Ha ha ha.)
if they are large enough and have components that need to scale independently than a bottleneck in one of those components may affect availability of the service.
A big factor is going to be how effective the vaccine is and what R0 will end up being. One of the key factors in determining the percentage of the population which needs to be vaccination is how quickly it spreads and this is definitely not on the favorable side of that range.
I for one use neither Facebook Instagram not LinkedIn.

The reason why I worry so much about privacy details is because it can be implemented in a way that respects privacy. If it doesn't, then that is highly suspicious and doubly unfortunate given the circumstances.

But if it is implemented right then I will use it. And thankfully, it seems to be implemented right, so if that holds I will use it and try to convince other people to do so as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21615978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830447
New Jersey has started to publish this yesterday, see 'Hospital Census'

https://covid19.nj.gov/#live-updates
If you mean by that that it couldn't be louder than what the speaker could produce: No, because you're adding to the original noise entering your ear from the outside.
The US government significantly overpays most of its employees.
Ask HN: Anyone know/remember the TASMIN programming language?
There are about three Google hits that even mention its existence, with essentially no information about the language itself. It appears it was developed by GE, for applications FORTRAN wasn't suited for, in the 1960s.

It ran on the GE-635 computer, "a 36-bit mainframe computer built in the 1960s and was known for running the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, the first successful large-scale time-sharing operating system to be implemented."
> This isn't a red state: They collect plenty of revenue.

They spend even more. NJ is in the worst spot out of all the states:

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/financial-stat...
Yeah, I guess fair enough, though it a bit hard for me to seem sympathetic to DAL senior unsecured paper (US247361ZU54) considering it was grifting along at Baa3 for quite some time before this covid-19 situation. But hey, if the US gov is willing take on more of the credit risk, oh well, cant wait untill selling US paper to be the trade of the century.
That's all well and good, but you can't realistically expect a vaccine to be created. It MIGHT be created, or it might not. There are many viruses for which we've tried and failed to produce effective vaccines.
so if YC takes 7% seed round takes 23% esop 10, series A takes 25% for 8M$ which is your first priced round and the safes convert, so assuming no angels or friends & family round, VCs have 45 esop 7-10% after dilution, founders splitting 45 so 22% each, so the special $20k safe for bootstrapping costs will convert at 5M cap or something so we’re talking about a balance of 20k/5M = .4% or something ... just get a credit card
Not this guy, unless he wants to incinerate billions in shareholder value.
My understanding is that it’s easy to start deflation. But it’s hard to stop deflation.
All the pilots will be retired US (or close ally) instructor pilots. They equipment and scenarios are still classified. The jets live on US bases or similarly secured facillities (e.g. Boeing).
You need to multiply that 20 with 100. It costs $2000 to protect $16,500.
You're clearly doing flamewar, that's clearly not what HN is for, regardless of how right you are or which side you're fighting for. It destroys the intended spirit of this place.
Re: Complexity science. I highly recommend you always perk your ears up when someone mentions the Santa Fe Institute! Cormac McCarthy hangs out with that crowd:
https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/cormac-mccarthy-pub...

The have a great podcast called Complexity:
https://www.santafe.edu/culture/podcast
I would hazard to say that it is an Indian cultural thing. But it seems to be a spectrum since I have read accounts that some Indians don't hire Indians who don't belong to the same caste/region/state.
I think a lot of this also becomes a question of where you choose accomplish the same root goal: if your team can maintain sound boundaries in either a large codebase or a bunch of microservices, test & tune well, you’re likely to have good results either way. A lot of people tend to see something working or failing and attribute it to the technology rather than the social dynamics behind it.
I encourage you to listen to this podcast: Radical institutional reforms that make capitalism & democracy work better, and how to get them

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/glen-weyl-radically-...
The vendor you are likely referring to fixed mixed declarations and code in their 2015 release.
I have a really serious lung condition. I used to use mechanical intervention to treat my condition. I have found other methods and no longer do that, in part because such interventions are hard to keep adequately sterile and are known to increase risk of antibiotic resistant infections because of that element.

It's really not good to think of this problem space in terms of finding some group without ventilators at all. I get your point about the data, but the problem is that lungs are a critical system. If you have lung issues, you are a priority admit at an ER because that whole not breathing thing can kill within minutes. Inability to breathe is one of the quicker ways to die.

What I was previously suggesting was non invasive airway clearance methods and management techniques like being mindful of better positions to sleep in (which is apparently at least part of what some doctors are now doing according to the article I linked above). I got hounded and attacked as "practicing medicine without a license" for talking about my first-hand experience with managing my very deadly condition using such techniques.

You really can't just not treat patients experiencing lung distress and hope they live. That's a good way to kill people.

But I have looked at a little info on ARDS (the process that actually kills people with Coronavirus) and how ventilators work and I'm quite horrified that the world rushed to create more ventilators rather than rushing to say "We must do everything possible to intervene effectively without ventilators. Ventilators must be an absolute last ditch effort after every other possible intervention has been exhausted."

They aren't doing that. They are too quick to put people on ventilators and the fact that doctors are now coming up with non invasive alternatives tells you they haven't been sufficiently aggressive in exhausting all other treatment modalities first.

I have substantial first-hand experience with staying alive in the face of having routine lung distress that could kill me. I knew from the outset that they were putting people on ventilators too quickly, that ventilators are quite dangerous in their own right and that there are, in fact, other options available.

I'm quite frustrated by the whole thing. This absolutely never needed to be this ugly. I'm certainly not the only person on the planet who knew ahead of time that ventilators are problematic and that there are myriad other options available that can be tried first, especially before it gets that severe in hopes of not letting it get to that point.
Why video games aren’t a good measure of AI intelligence
How do you think this can help change the landscape of security, judging by the fast speeds, as low as .13s on DARPA, I imagine it will help block larger numbers of suspicious activities.