skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Petition to free Martin Shkreli so he can cure Covid-19
They were 100% right. "Wuhan: Chinese Authorities Welding Apartment Doors Shut to Impose Quarantine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpHD9bjGe0

"Wuhan: Disinfection Spray over Wuhan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCY6OJskQRk

9 Feb 2020 was full conspiracy theory while mass media stood silent.

Even today its not entirely common knowledge to what lengths China went at the end of January while WHO was spreading lies about no human to human transmission, no masks, and definitely no international border closing necessary.
I've not really dug into online virtual museums yet! I've been wondering if I could convince any of the physical ones to run a video-chat tour though...
I have not yet heard "No meme". Interesting. I saw the word "meme" in Richard Dawkin's book before I was noticing it on the internet, something about how flocks of chickens and their pecking order have memes of behavior that are remembered and retransmitted if useful - so the idea has existed before the internet gave it to us (theme or target subject is the picture, text overlay is the pitched opinion) - such an image is worth a thousand words so its a fast (shortcut without research) Information Age method of "voting" for or against a pitched idea?

"No meme" could suggest "Don't try to shortcut and assume things about <some statement>" because we have realized that memes are a lazy way to transmit ideas without research? Disinformation seems to be the consequence of exponentially increasing bandwidth for all....
This is not a problem of userdir but of Javascript. Userdir is older, then JS arrived and introduced many kinds of vulnerabilities, then some of these have been addressed, with mixed results. With userdir you're perfectly fine if you don't use JS.
If they're blocking SMTP, doesn't it make sense to block the encrypted ports too, e.g. 587? But if they're blocking 587, then how do people with these ISPs use their own email clients like Outlook (or whatever it's called these days) with third party email providers, e.g. Gmail?
For some reasons I always had the idea of using HTTP headers and server logs to pass data. It can, e.g., be an alternative way of passing request/query input to a server, instead of using URLs or HTML forms. The server can read filtered input from a log file stored on RAM disk.

I did the TXT record as HTML idea many years ago by modifying djb's dnstxt to output valid HTTP header. The idea was to use tinydns and dnscache as a "back-end" database to store millions of tiny "webpages".

A true Rube Golberg machine.
I keep coming back to Orwell's short story 'Shooting the Elephant'. tl;dr: The protagonist, a colonial officer during the Raj, against his own judgement shoots an elephant because the townspeople expect of him.

That is, just do it. It'll mean nothing in a year that you did. And it's not worth fighting over now.
I'll admit, that does sound like the description of an onion'ey / college humor-ey thing I'd like to see. I makes me think of the Clubbing in the Wild video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8zwIphm5r4
Thanks, didn't know about outline.
Actually Google was earlier a tech company, but it was reclassified into communications sector in 2018.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...
> For Apple, fixing its broken IS&T division would not only be the right thing to do from a moral standpoint — it would help the company’s business as well. If Apple is going to become inventive again, it will need to give its employees more time to develop new ideas.

I actually laughed. What kinds of applications do people think IS&T is building? Supply chain management, HR, support software (Apple forums anyone?)... I don't see how Apple sticking its core engineering resources or at all innovating within IS&T helps their business.

Steve was the one that coined the 10X rule, or popularized it. That idea must still hold within Apple's executive ranks. I guarantee Apple's top engineers never interface with IS&T and their time won't be saved by improving it. In fact I would bet that managing the deliverable of one of IS&T's projects is a sign that you're not one of the golden ones.

That said, I obviously think these contractors should be treated much better and overworking people for low pay is never okay. Maybe Apple could use some smaller dev shops that treat their people better.
How is this different from the million other services that provide the same thing, like Guerrilla Mail? Just as with these other services, if you're intent on not letting users sign up with disposable email addresses (and you shouldn't be), then you just block the unverified.email domain in your signup form.
ALMM Deadline Extended to September 30, 2020
> it's very important that this be as widely known as possible, so that someone doesn't let their business fail because they weren't aware of how this program works.

Agreed. So let's clarify a few things.

For the loan to be forgiven, you first need to be able to get it. From NYTs SBA loans page[1]:

> You must apply through a bank or other lender, so start by contacting one you already have a relationship with. Many banks are imposing restrictions and choosing to work only with their existing business customers.

> The Treasury Department said the program would start taking applications on April 3, a week after the bill was signed into law. But the department didn’t give lenders necessary technical information until just hours before the program was scheduled to start — and lenders are still waiting for some key guidance and documents, bankers said. Many are still developing their application rules and systems.

Most businesses that need the loans have been closed for 2-3 weeks now and it will most likely take at least another 2-3 weeks for them to see any money from those loans in their bank accounts[0,1], if they are lucky enough to qualify. Very few can wait that long before having to close for good.

Then, if you are able to get a loan, there are very important limitations to forgiveness (from the link in your comment):

> Your forgiveness amount equals your total payroll costs multiplied by the average number of FTE employees you retained for the eight weeks following the date of your loan origination

> You must spend at least 75% of your loan on payroll.

From another, more recent, article[1]:

> The agency said that “not more than 25 percent” of the forgiven amount may be used for nonpayroll costs, like rent.

So you only get up to 8 weeks of payroll, from the moment you get the loan (it won't cover anything you already paid), and then at least 75% must be used for payroll. So for example a restaurant, is very unlikely to be able to meet those requirements, because they are barely employing anyone right now, and their biggest expense is their lease, which they won't be able to cover with 25% of the PPP loan that should be used for their payroll. The restaurant would then need another loan to pay the lease, but that's a super risky loan, both for them and for the bank - the bank will probably not approve them and if they did, it would be under very bad terms for the restaurant. Banks are not in the business of losing money.

0: https://money.com/sba-loans-stimulus-ppp-application-require...

1: https://www.nytimes.com/article/small-business-loans-stimulu...
It could give your immune system an extra day or two to produce antibodies before it get overwhelmed.
I think you’re missing the point. There was a huge controversy a while back where it appeared as though Adam Neumann was fleecing the company - personally trademarking the “We” brand and selling it back to the company, buying up certain office space and leasing it back to WeWork.
I had one of the first generation Roku boxes. And all it did was play Netflix movies. Which was why I bought it.

But then one day I turned on my TV and the Roku has upgraded itself. Now I could watch Amazon, Netflix and other channels.

It was a very pleasant surprise.
Hi, and thanks for your interesting work.

Isn't the quality of the prediction heavily influenced by how common the encoded content is?
What am I seeing? The chart is blurred out.
Now do it for stack exchange sites :)

dig how-do-i-block-edit-in-vim.wpodns.adtac.in txt
Cool free slack integrations to manage your (coworking) community
Launched an App for Interview Prep
But I am replying exactly to that. I don't believe 99% of the users of a given application for any non-trivial number of users conform to have exactly a "firstname" + "lastname".

In the US it's not rare to have a middlename. And there are many Latinos, Japanese and Chinese in the US as well, all of them which do not follow the convention.
Eh, that’s a nice fluff piece but doesn’t match my understanding or experiences working with X. Once X had more widespread adoption in the 1990s you started to see a lot more hate.

The layers of abstraction are there because X is such a godawful piece of shit. Sure, your application will be fast if you only use XCB or Xlib (and XCB is just a modern replacement for Xlib, made because of how deeply flawed Xlib is, and it can’t even fully replace Xlib). But few people are willing to put in the blood, sweat, and code to write something that is pure X.

So if X worked great for what it was aiming to do, it was aiming to do the wrong thing.
Can anyone explain to me what I'm looking at?
This is clearly not true, because if any company can find a market for their bonds, no company would ever need to go bankrupt.

Puts would be prohibitively expensive if the company is likely to go bankrupt.
Let's be clear here: this is about protein folding.

I almost panicked for a moment thinking they were folding in some sort of business sense, before realizing it would take far more than what's currently going on for AWS to fold.
Apple didn't have mass layoffs when it was almost dead I have been told by engineers who were around at that time. I'd think Apple is one of the safest tech companies to be in as an engineer when it comes to times like this.
No information in the link.
Amazons folding @ home results https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&...
https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=
There are companies out there working on swabs. e.g. Formlabs designed an autoclavable, 3D-printed nasopharyngeal swab using biocompatible Dental resin, in concert with local hospitals. They received FDA Class 1 Exempt status from the CDC and are printing some 150K per day.

https://formlabs.com/covid-19-response/covid-test-swabs/

https://www.plasticstoday.com/medical/formlabs-3d-printing-m...

https://formlabs.com/covid-19-response/

I'm not associated with the company, I just own some of their printers. They've also got some 2000+ volunteers who own printers or have CAD expertise signed up and looking for ways to contribute. Apparently we can't make medically-approved swabs (most of us aren't ISO 13485-certified or FDA-registered), but there's other stuff (e.g. hands-free doorknobs). I'm even contemplating shipping one of my printers back to them to help in the effort.
Would it be possible to get an updated recipe link? I was hoping to try this, but it looks like the paste has expired. Thanks!
So... can we add "@ Home" to this title? Cuz I was like "WHOA how is AWS possibly going out of business?"
The Dutch police is now free to use them as spit masks. Unfortunately there are people who like to spit and cough in the faces of the police (and then being charged with weeks in jail).

But I doubt it will work well against coughing because the airflow can just go around it.

LaVision had this great visualisation about the coughing airflow:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJvU81DKgk
As usual ... Wikipedia [1] has a better explanation than the actual site [2], sigh.

"Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics. Its initial focus was on protein folding but has shifted to more biomedical problems, such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, COVID-19, and Ebola."

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

2: https://foldingathome.org/
Click though to https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&...

I'm still not sure what this is. Who is ec2spot??

My guess is that maybe Amazon installed the Folding client on some part of ec2 capacity in an idle pool waiting to be launched?

I'm not sure. That would use quite a lot of power... and setting up networking and getting approval to do this would be a ton of work.
The teams are quite fascinating. A diverse bunch of national teams, and community teams from tech websites to the skeptics community to Bronys to Free Republic, the Republican mega-forum?

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php

HN should start one.
Hello, I am a Civil engineering student in my final year of Bachelor's degree.
I am very interested in the field of machine learning and ai.But i am trying to determine how can i integrate my academic knowledge with machine learning.
Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.
I think you've got it completely backwards. There are quite a few broken Tesla short sellers who lost billions trying to assign an automotive valuation to Tesla.
How can you determine that the 67% is due to Airbnb shutting down as opposed to all the other current insanity?
But with the federal stimulus it's $1050. Plus the payments are exempt from several taxes that are normally deducted from wages. And you don't have to look for work. And of course separately there's the extra $1200 federal stimulus check.
This was brilliant, and being in the trending youtube list, a majority of viewers will never have found that.
Hierarchical threshold signature open source by AMIS
I once stayed at an Airbnb condo in Toronto that was relatively new. I saw many, many tourists coming in and out of the building, the lobby looked like a hotel with about 20 different groups with luggage, etc. It looks like this entire condo was mainly for investment purposes and for people to Airbnb these condos out. It's not surprising that Dublin saw a huge increase in rentals and I bet the same thing has happened across the world.
Is amazon the corporation putting in the cpu time or an individual paying for aws to do this?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Same. I was wondering, "How could amazon be doing poorly when much of the world is dependent on AWS and their delivery?"
Forget kids, I'm an adult that's missing some early adulthood games.

Flash, man.

iOS and Android have been dominating for a decade - i bet there will absolutely be ROMs out there.

The flash games I played as a teenager at the turn of the century are about to be completely gone, like tears in the rain.

* https://www.kongregate.com/games/scarybug/chronotron
* https://www.acno.tv/acno/
I don't know, but it's likely they also freerolled him. As in, they decided not to pay him if he won, but let him keep winning in case he lost. He could easily have lost a few million, his edge wasn't that big.

I think they're the sleaze.

Anyway the matter is settled, not in Ivey's favor. The fact that Ivey isn't in prison should settle the debate over the legality of what he did.
Developers: Don't Waste Covid-19
Also for international users browsing in English labeling the fields "given name" and "family name" are way more clearer than using first and last names.
Show HN: Snappy, Secure, On-Device OCR for macOS
Docker introduces all kinds of performance issues. I for example noticed higher latency even with just pgbouncer. It was very visible when running integration tests, which normally took 15 minutes, but as a container it was 45min - 1h.
> but it doesn’t say something like “SoftBank can cancel the tender if lots of customers cancel their WeWork memberships.”

There's a squishy clause called a "material adverse effect" clause that exists in many corporate contracts, and often has precious little specificity/definition. If I had to guess (as a former lawyer), I'd speculate that an MAE clause is at least part of the justification for SoftBank's pullout.
Any sufficiently advanced simulation will be indistinguishable from reality.
exists since 2-3 years, inspired by it maybe?
Microservices to Serverless Architecture Implementation in AWS Lambda
Proton offers free Mail storage and VPN servers
Correct, capped at $450.
Automated speech recognition is more likely to misinterpret black speakers
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. While I do not think this is the main source of risk (their insane burn, and losing N weeks of income from tenants who cancel are much more concerning) there is a very real possibility that many companies who were resistant to allowing work-from-home are now more comfortable with the idea and could consider it as an option to when they outgrow any office space in future.
ServiceNow currently has debt that is paying 0% interest. I think a lot of companies are in the same position. I don't think Apple's bonds are paying very much interest at all either. If Airbnb is selling junk bonds at 10%, that is catastrophically high. The World Bank's Pandemic Bonds were paying about 13% interest, so there's a high amount of risk built into that debt. And I wonder how many warrants were issued because that has a real dilution potential for other investors and employees.
Facebook is also classified as Communications, and Amazon is Consumer. In fact, of all the FAANG companies, the only tech company is Apple. Microsoft and IBM, too, if you include them.
I am not desperate at all, it is no different than WebAssembly advocates spreading false information about its "safety" or novelty.

In fact I rejoice that WebAssembly, despite all the attempts to be presented as safe and novel, is becoming the mechanism to bring back to life all the plugins that where killed in name of WebAssembly.

I will give 5 years time for WebGL/WebGPU + WebAssembly to rule the majority of multimedia driven websites, with a new generation of Flash like tooling.

Then you call tell the world how much safer and novel WebAssembly is.
I was intrigued by SwiftUI last summer and have been building this app up for a while. The first version was released about a month ago and I just released the third version this week. The TLDR version is that it is a simple OCR application for on-device OCR that can handle image files, pdf files, screenshots and iOS photos/scans. The OCR is done using Apple's Vision framework.

The app is built for Mavericks only since it is using SwiftUI, PDFKit, Vision, and other latest Apple API goodies.

The application is still free at the moment, but I'm planning to add some fair business model to it in the near-future so I could put in the time to maintain and improve it. I'll be super grateful to get any feedback regarding the application!
For even more memory efficiency there's Transpose Jagged Diagonal Storage format (TJDS) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00200...
So good - submitted mine :)

Really cool that you all are doing this. This will immensely help bootstrapped startups.
I think if every company, especially not yet profitable "startups" planned for 3 black swan events we won't have many new companies. They'll just end up spending all their time, energy and money on the once in a hundred year events.
Not sure how much "helping" of hosts Airbnb does, at least when it's really needed. They quick and thick with platitudes but thin on support when push comes to shove as they almost always side with guests.

I'm a superhost with only 5 listings one has over 100 reviews with 4.98 average rating. So far Airbnb has remotely adjudicated 2 guest disputes (on my 4 years of operations) that cost me $5k. Not trivial.
What are the best AI tools for recruiting?
EC2 "Spot Instances" are unused instances that you can bid on if cost belows x price. I would assume they are using those unused ones.
Some oauth systems will give you a user id or an email but not permission to see a name, for example.
The factory will restart one month into the quarter, but the pay cuts will persist for two months after that. Classy.
Multi Character Delimiters in Spark 3.0 Source
> Was there any rational for them doing this?

Conference ids are numbers for easier dial-in?
I think you've missed the point; this is a blog post by Uncle Bob.

Everything he says is profound, right?

(No, it's not, but to be fair the parent comment also about people assuming just because someone famous says something, it is necessarily also profound).

Also, unrelated...

> but if you're looking for something profound at the surface of things then carry on shaving your yaks.

Doesn't 'yak shaving' refer to the same thing as 'going down a rabbit hole', 'pulling a piece of yarn', etc?

Ie. Looking at something that looks simple and then finding it much deeper and more complicated than you expected?

Isn't that... exactly what you're talking about with the syntax?

Like, you're literally telling the parent to keep pulling at the syntax comparisons, like oh hey, bet you'll find nothing interesting here... then literally also telling them that it is a rabbit hole when you look at how functions are lists?

That makes absolutely no sense to me when you use it in that context.
Nice! I wonder if there will be a mapping between compose and the cli maintained as part of this?

(Disclaimer, I maintain https://composerize.com/, hoping this helps us track parity)
There's a market, there's not a market of unlimited size (or even one large enough to make a meaningful difference to solvency). As one upper limit, if you borrow literally every publicly available share and sell it short, that limits you to hedging bonds up to the total market capitalization of the company.
Probably some sort of double trigger RSU, where the trigger event is likely an IPO or acquisition.
An attempt at making a fast AES-128 implementation on MOS 6502
Reminds me of the CGP Grey video that shows how much the video made in ads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0eUrUiyxo)
There are a few good options for androids.

Outside of all the normal methods, I've found a couple of the live wall papers via google to be a good in-your-face reminder to put the phone down (Ironically as I type this on my phone)..

I did have the 'number of unlocks' wallpaper, up until earlier this week where I changed it to the 'screen stopwatch'

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/digitalwellbei...
> we can create a mailbox via HTTP GET request to https://api.unverified.email/create

Shouldn't GETs be idempotent? (Sorry for not having feedback on the idea, skimming it it seems nice, though there is fierce competition as others have shown here)
They're donating a million face shields by the end of the week to hospitals and medical facilities with the greatest need, and 20m by the end of the month, designed by Apple and sourced via their existing supply chain.
If you are into SIP this is pretty well known.
They’re $30B, with YoY growth in teen double digits.

https://www.sap.com/docs/download/investors/2020/sap-factshe...

Acquisitions gave them some breather.
Slightly better context: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=938560
Meanwhile, Elon’s private yet burns $5K an hour and has flown an average of 2,200 miles per day, every day, for the last three months.
No danger if ~username/ can only contain static pages. No tokens to be stolen etc. in XSS scenarios.
That's why I almost always use the Web app, and I don't even consider services that don't have one.
Probably true on the control and more flexibility in dealing with this by the hotel chains. But if this pandemic lasts for 18 months, they'd all be in serious trouble too.
How to Build Machine Learning Pipelines with Airflow and Papermill