skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want all domains including something like thisgeekyishwebsiteisminethanks.com? I haven’t thought it through. But just to make something like thecar.com to cost high $XX per year (not sure if you meant that price pt or $100+), that random useless to anyone else domain above should also have to cost that much?
I know folks that a few weeks ago rented places outside the cities for a few months to do just that.
For some reason the Amazon delivery people love to leave my neighbor's packages on my steps. Sometimes my package ends up at someone else's door. The one plus side of amazon delivery is that they take a photo of the package so I can roam my street trying to find the right house and then steal my own package.

I live on a street with a lot of townhouses, so there's lots of places with similar addresses (3334B vs 3330B) so I understand how it could happen. However, it's never been a problem with UPS, Fedex, or USPS.
> "What situation that could conceivably arise from a pandemic requires an automatic rifle?"

Good thing that automatic rifles aren't available for sale to the civilian market[1] then, I suppose.

[1] Yes, the pedants will point out that it's theoretically possible with special licensing but it's very uncommon.
I don't think fixes it. Once you fall into the pay-for-google hole, I don't think you can get out of it.
I came in to my undergrad institution (Georgia Tech) as a CS major but switched out after the first year for reasons similar to what you've described.

A lot of my classmates had been programming for a while before coming to Tech for their undergrad and compared to my peers I was having trouble keeping my head above water with my CS classes and was struggling to access support.

Sometimes I wonder if I should have just stuck to the program but in retrospect I didn't really have the resources/guidance/support (in more ways than just academically) at that time.

I wish you guys success!
The SBA loans will be FORGIVEN if you spend them on rent and payroll.

Please excuse the all caps, but I think 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.

https://restaurant.org/Articles/News/How-the-CARES-Act-SBA-l...

The program is not perfect and there are restrictions, but if you qualify, this is basically a grant, not a loan. It uses the existing SBA loan infrastructure so that the money can be disbursed very quickly through commercial banks.
Prison phones are a hot emerging market that benefit from drone delivery.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786385
These studies were done well in advance. Every bit of research we have about the 1918 Influenza points to social isolation being the only effective way to combat a pandemic.
How this self-made billionaire built a pandemic-proof business
Very cool to see mention of "one name only" case. My wife had only one name before we married. She's Indonesian. When we got married in Australia our forms pretty much crashed the Government's Birth's, Death's and Marriages system. We got bounced around between all different people trying to compute the reality that in some parts of the world, people have only one name.
What time frame are you talking about? Eventually, human-driven cars will be the equivalent of today's horses - recreational vehicles operated mostly by wealthy people in specifically designated areas. That's a long way off, though. In the medium term, manufacturers will still offer their trademark performance and in-cabin experiences with cars that either drive themselves or be driven by a human.
Most of the cars listed aren't all that fun to drive while obeying the laws in most jurisdictions. If you're going to drive a car that's best enjoyed while endangering those around you, being restricted to private property is overdue.
This is a godsend. Zoom screen share doesn't seem to work at all on Wayland.
I was imagining more of a face shield with a filtered blower at the top blowing air onto the shield. I imagine this would reduce the amount of air coming around the edges of the shield and hopefully increase the effectiveness of the shield. The PAPR definitely looks interesting, and surely more effective, but it has the drawback of probably being less comfortable.

I find masks uncomfortable. My face or nose itches. My glasses fog up. I feel like a face shield might be more comfortable.
When you write it like that, they sound generous. In reality, they tried to pass the hit for Coronavirus related cancellations to the hosts and then realized they were in for legal trouble if they followed through.
I don't think many companies in software are fighting to get them to respond. Our want candidates to respond? Offer more money.

Usually it's the opposite where job seekers are fighting to get companies to respond.
Turning down $8M? Like that offer never happened you presume, correct?
Technically speaking, there could be a security vulnerability on a dynamic site that is being hosted with mod_userdir, even though the owner of it is "trusted". With that model, if the security vulnerability is exploited by a third party to attack a different mod_userdir user, then it's not really about who you trust to invite, since the entire Internet is technically invited.
You underestimate how much Trump has motivated the Democratic party and basically anyone not on his side. Voter turn-out went through the roof in 2018. Without the Covid-19 crisis, it would certainly stay that high or get even higher.

According to polls, Biden does have a better chance among independents and swing voters, even among disillusioned GOP members. The only chance for Trump is a massive depression or even suppression of voter turnout. Otherwise his base doesn't matter.
Sounds more like it simply doesn't work very well, rather than any of the reasons you listed.

It's often the case, I remember when that stupid Amazon infographic was going around about decreased load times meaning big upswings in conversions.

A client paid for a significant project to reduce load times, which we succeeded in to a huge degree with most of the pages going from 1.5-3 seconds secs down to 250-500 ms. Absolutely no meaningful swing in conversions at all. I've done this a few times since, but never seen conversion move at all when I've done performance improvements.

Nada, zilch. I honestly think it's absolute bullshit. I've always suspected since that it was someone massaging figures in Amazon to justify their job.
I disagree with your thesis. When coronavirus was extant only in specific geographic hotspots, limiting travel makes sense. However, when it's present across the entire world at a low level - which seems quite likely to occur within the next month or two - then people traveling between regions is not going to increase the spread that much.

Right now it makes sense to tell people to stay in their homes. Once you lift that restriction, whether they're leaving their home to travel 20 miles or 1,000 miles is not that relevant.

Travel will be limited only as much as overall economic activity is limited, and there's no way we can maintain the current level of restrictions for the ~18 months it will take for a vaccine to become available.
I expect the delivery fleet of the future to look like an Amazon Locker on a self-driving e-bike trailer frame. You get a ping when your package is on your block, and use your phone to open your locker.
> Maybe it "feels good", but it's just too slow.

The speed of product delivery is a combination of how quickly you can make it, but also how quickly you can deliver it.

3D printing loses on production speed, but wins on delivery because it can be made a few minutes' drive away from the hospital.

Ping matters as much as bandwidth.
A lot less than you think. Huge swathes of the country don't have Apple stores. Even living in the Puget Sound region, my nearest Apple store is 25 miles from me.

By and large Apple distribution is "UPS". Both to wholesale and retail.
yup! noted in the form!
I guess because my parents gave it to me
They’re both a bunch of BS virtue signaling.

I’ve yet to join a company that operates anything like it says it does from an external/marketing perspective.

The only way to know what you’re getting into is to join, or hopefully learn it during the hiring process.
Zoom admits calls got 'mistakenly' routed through China
You can specify Path attribute for cookie and it will only be sent to URls with this prefix. I'm not completely sure, but I think that it should solve those security flaws.
In the US, she would have been forced to use the infamous "FNU" (first name unknown)

https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-errors/name-appears-as-f...

because governments prefer not respecting people names and customs, just so they can push their own customs (and in that case their name too, because "FNU" is the 30'000 most popular name in the US now)
He is still serving.

Australian values:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenou...

From the Vietnam War:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
hahaha, feedback comes in all flavors. no worrries
The same also applies for the structured address format. I've seen some stupid decisions in the name of this.

Post codes: 5 years ago, my country brought in post codes. prior to this there were none. It was not for the benefit of our postal system, who stated they didn't really care, but for badly designed web forms (and the occasional rural house with an unhelpful address)

They also may not fit your convention of what addresses in your country are. The obvious examples are stuff like Japan and one or two central European cities that are addressed "Building number, Block Number, City", but the aforementioned unhelpful rural addresses include a former friend of mine who had to give his address as "House name, near village, County". Actually the village was not near but it got the mail to the right post office which knew what to do with it.

As a counterpoint, I've had places that have very strict fields like "Street Name" (20 char limit), City, County, Country. For a few years I lived on a street who's name appeared three times in the same city. The actual form to get it delivered was "Street name, Locality, City", but because of the length limits I had to sneak the locality into the City field, which luckily worked as the City and County shared a name.
I'm super excited for this. Back when Docker Compose was still called Fig, I got annoyed at how it handled volume-only containers for databases, and wrote Dup [1]. Nowadays Compose is way WAY more useful, but there's a number of projects that still rely on it -- the spec means I can write a converter for the config files (from Dup to Compose) and be sure that it will work :)

[1] https://github.com/girvo/dup
It would be interesting to hear from the whiners what in their mind would make a rich person not human scum. Obviously making an effort to solve real problems that affect people falls short of the grade.

The answer is nothing. They hate them on principal because they don't like that someone else has more than they do and they are bitter that they can't find whatever they need in life. It's literally the stage of development that preschool tries to get people through.

There is nothing more obnoxious than someone who needs to use an attempt by someone else to do something positive to bolster their own self righteousness. Disgusting.
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Alt-right extremists helped design Clearview facial recognition database
Thanks for the clarification. I didn’t see the details, especially about the warrants.

Honestly this sucks. AirBnB is a great product and company.
I'd love to hear this one.
Coronavirus: California scrambles to issue extra $600 jobless payments
>the amount of viral RNA in a patient sample is too low to detect directly,

How many tests have you run on patient samples?
thanks! Someone else also pointed at lack of 128-bit long support. It looks as if long128 might help here.
I honestly can not even parse out what the general direction of your argument is here.
> IMHO, every org along those lines would benefit from an independent IT tiger-team whose sole job it is to find business problems and apply technology to solve them

You're describing external consultantcies. Some are good and do as you describe, but some are bad and work simply to find more work.
Even with chloroform, it is not like the movies, "here, does this rag smell like chloroform?".

It's probably five minutes of steady inhalation while your mouth and nose are covered by a rag (not held above your face).

Not particularly practical.

Source: my EMT class on poisons and ODs, thank you very much.
Is answering questions on HN really a good use of your time right now?

Thank you for doing something about the pandemic. It's quite heroic.
Yeah, an earlier draft had something like that but it's so hard to capture all the kinds of projects people need. After more people sign up we will have data informing us what overarching problems people are seeking, and we can feed it back.
Poor take. There are plenty of good engineering organisations in Europe, just as there are more than enough terrible ones in the US.

That being said I agree I wouldn't want to work somewhere like what was described above. It's certainly not a style of interview I would approve of or conduct myself.
Woot!!!!
I wonder if this is by any chance the same Michael O'Connor who wrote the Mac application CompuServe Navigator back in the '90s?
I'm running jitsi meet in a docker container on a Scaleway server in Amsterdam. Had 5 friends use it in the states and it was fantastic.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/deploy-jitsi-meet-with-dock...

Running it on the DEV1-L which is 16 Euro's a month.
Exactly correct. Even in the early 90s best practice was to house your user webspaces at users.isp.net/~user. Even now the most exciting thing you could do with this is use JavaScript to submit a contact form from another users webspace.

This is like complaining that Geocities users shared a security domain. Surprise, there was nothing of value hosted there to start with.
It can take the Telsa approach and record millions of hours of manual "highway in the sky" trips. Then compile and go from there.
The phrase "tore through the internet" implies that regularly people actually saw it.

I was barely aware the conspiracy theory even existed, other than some people I knew making fun of it.
First normal form:

> Then the “areas” column has values that aren’t atomic. ... So this table is not in first normal form. ... To be in first normal form you should store a single value per field

Second normal form:

> In this design employee name can be directly inferred from employee_id because the idea is that the name of an employee is uniquely defined by it’s id. ... So we have two examples of columns where the columns can be inferred from only part of the primary key.

Don't include those fields. It's not explicitly said, but I think the author assumes that if you're told don't include data that can be inferred otherwise, these fields can be inferred otherwise, so they cause a problem, the solution is to remove those fields. You aren't losing data, it's already been covered that it can be inferred.

Third normal form:

> For a table to be in third normal form then it must be in second normal form and there should not be a non prime attribute* that depends transitively from the primary key. ... In this table the department_number can be inferred from the employee_id, but the department_name can be inferred from the department_number!

Same as second normal form. These fields cause problems, you already have the data elsewhere, get rid of them.

Perhaps you expected an article that said which commands to run to alter the tables. It's pretty obvious that wasn't the goal of this article. That said, it had everything you asked for, as long as you read it all and payed attention.
To reinforce the warning at the end, the put/call ratio on HYG is currently 12 (!) Lots of money is betting on it falling in price.

The Fed is also not buying non-IG bonds (yet) so nobody will be supporting HYG/JNK in the way LQD will be. If they start buying those, HYG will soar. An oil price spike and recovery would help HYG too.

To be fair, I did make money on weekly HYG calls today, but that was a hedge ;) 4/9 76C from .50 to 1.18
Any one have any idea why the screen capture and cam apps have low-ish stars? I know how flimsy and unreliable App Store reviews are. Still wondering.
I had never thought of it that way. What is a practical use for using TXT records a distributed KV store?
I am not really sure who got the best of this deal.

Definitely, this looks like an attractive investment. Limited downside, nice rate, and some nice optionality with the warrants.

But...this is AirBnb. At the very least, they should have got either an improved strike or more shares. The warrants just seem to say something very different to the bonds.

At best, this is a B rated security and maybe CCC.

And they are really going to have a chainsaw to costs here. I would expect at least 50% of the workforce and probably closer to 75% given the fat that some of these SV companies have been rolling with. Definitely funding that screams: we are near bankruptcy.
Do you think that every dollar accounted for in the world is represented by a bill?

Currency is not money. It's not even a major component of what money is by almost any definition.
Please provide the doi for the articles which tell us the prevalence of covid-19 in the general population.
Also, example.com/~username style URLs usually are 1990s-style static web sites where the only Javascript is something like a marquee. They are not the kinds of sites which have extensive Javascript or a web forum people can sign in to; at most a site like that would have a guestbook.
Event Horizon Telescope: Black hole produces twisting jet
The number of countries they operate in and the assumption that the next few years would be growth years. This isn't really rocket-science.
In the more casual-ish Zoom rooms I’m in. It’s pretty disliked for someone to natively Zoom screen share. Takes up too much space and initially focuses too much too.
That's well known in exfiltration botnets.
Apparently they do. It's not nearly as simple as you'd like it to be.
Light a cigarette and see if you can smell it from six feet away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI is the non-clickbait-title version, hosted by the channel with other popular recovered films in the same genre.
It says iOS 13.1 or later required. Brand new or refurbished at least, iOS devices that can run iOS 13 aren’t that cheap yet. So yeah for sure I’d be interested in an android equivalent. Little knowledge of the ecosystem but I assume getting an okay Android device mostly just for this would be pretty cheap.
https://www.bambora.com/en/us/ looks like a modern web site to me; if there was a URL we could look at, it would be interesting to see this.
How does this help with RNA decay?
Why pandemic problems should get colleges to admit by lottery
What Covid-19 will leave on us
Could you get some of those Sanger machines loaned to you temporarily?
The attributes are overridden by CSS. You should have:

max-width: 100%;
height: auto;

What the other user is talking about is a new feature that FINALLY uses the attributes to preserve the ratio before the image starts loading.

Kinda ridiculous that we had to wait 8 years of “responsive design” before they realized that this was always supposed to happen.
Two reasons occur: personal guarantee on the note (I have no idea whether this occurs where this person lives...it isn't something I would ever do, no matter the circumstance) or fraudulent conveyance (i.e. the executives start stripping assets when the company goes into BK, afaik this is a civil action that can be brought against executives either by creditors themselves or trustees).
Based on this paper. There seems to be merit to the argument.

Essentially these researchers claim that they modeled the corona virus surface proteins and found that they will bind to hemoglobin and cause it to release the iron atom - making it non-functional. This leads to the other symptoms of COVID-19. Given the severity of the outbreak it is certainly a hypothesis that others should test to validate or discredit. But based on scientific analysis, not just twitter snarking.

https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf...
Not trying to be a jerk. On my iMac, it’s like looking up close at a billboard. so much so that I didn’t even know the page was for good. I just bounced. Welcome to the internet.
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Is Covid-19 a Geopolitical Game-Changer? I hope and pray that this is the case. This may be the best time for us to make a change in the way the world works. Our lives have been disrupted, and we need to strive to make lasting changes for the greater good.

The internet, and our world is over-commercialized. The pandemic causing an economic re-evaluation which may be the best opportunity we have to re-evaluate our position. If not, and you think the advertiser/marketer/retail market was invasive before... you aint seen nothing yet. They will need to try every trick in the book x10 - repeatedly, at lighting speed - and invent new tactics to boot. I know, this type of talk makes it seem like the Max Headroom blipverts are the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg45ub8bsk
What specific assembly line is Apple dedicating to the PPE?
The biggest mistake I had in grad school (which I didn't survive) was to talk to other people in the department. I was building a parallel discrete even simulator (using an optimistic strategy with rollback). There were a couple of people in the department doing work that needed simulation. I naively went around to them and showed them what I was doing and asked them if there was anything they might find useful. I had read up on the research of the other people in the group, looked at what they were doing and the simulation side was decidedly... um... not robust, shall we say. I identified a bunch of issues that they were certainly having and showed how what I was doing would help them out.

OMG. What a shit storm that caused. My supervisor was thankfully very good about it (I had not cleared my wonderful idea with him). But after a few months of being accused of being a spy and people being cautioned not to talk to me under any circumstances, I decided that industry was the way forward for me. I realised I was not suited for the cut-throat nature of academic life ;-)

I say this knowing that some people will be shocked, but that anybody in academia will be mostly shocked at my naivety. Seriously bad idea, but one that idealistic, younger me thought was natural.
Biden is attractive to anyone who hasn't seriously looked into his as a candidate. He has great name recognition. He's associated with Obama, which has so far proven to be his golden ticket. The trouble is when he speaks, nonsense comes out.
Why are the owners and managers of Twitter and Facebook and a Google not held to that standard?

Perhaps if Twitter thought critically about why they give white supremacists and folks seeking to hurt people with crazy conspiracy theories things would be better. Maybe if YouTube didn’t syndicate and promote antivax messages through their algorithms, some children killed in an outbreak last year would be alive.

Political speech has nothing to do with media platforms. You have a right to speak. You don’t have a right to be heard.
WordPress does this by default and that’s the most common platform to date. I’d dare to say that most websites have those attributes, but most SPAs don’t, because that’s too hard.