skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the clarification, the analogy clearly isn't very good.

Out of curiosity, have you found a better ELI5 analogy that doesn't bend over backwards with a rube goldberg setup of pipes and waterflow? I've struggled explaining this phenomenon to people buying EV's, where charging behavior become a regular thing people need to figure out.
To some extent this is true (and a lot of the software involved is god awful) but most of the US grid has plenty of redundancy so as to be resilient to the various storms, earthquakes, backhoes, and other damaging phenomena found in the US.
I wouldn't be spruiking 'built atop of' a product being banned by so many companies and schools.

If anything you should be pivoting to support as many of the other popular video conferencing apps out there.
That is true, but I still don't get why this YC announcement wasn't accompanied by an announcement to reduce the class size, which will definitely help in the long run in terms of retaining funds.

I do wonder whether this was actually a strategic decision -- if it simply is more profitable to pick winners in deciding whether to participate in follow-on rounds; or perhaps YC would describe it as not picking the companies that don't have a clear path to monetization.

In other words, I wonder whether the "we didn't realize how hard it would be to raise the quantum of capital implied by our initial commitment, and also, it turns out we don't like running a big fund" explanation is not the real reason they're doing this; and whether the real reason is in fact that they've realized that being able to exercise discretion in follow-on rights has a tangibly positive effect on fund returns. Which makes sense!

The question for YC leadership is whether, in a world in which there were no issues with fundraising or fund operations, they would commit to follow-on participation for every company. If that's the case, and they would like to maintain a YC culture of committing to all future funding rounds for all YC companies, why not fundraise a special purpose vehicle for the funding shortfall to fulfill the commitment that was just abrogated? Give first dibs to current LPs....I bet it would be multiples oversubscribed. With that covered, YC could downscale class size to the point they can continue the full funding commitment using LP funds.
AQUOS sense3 supports B1/3/5/8/12/17/18/19/39/41.

And You can find more examples via translate:
https://kakakumag.com/pc-smartphone/?id=12153
People reading here may be interested in recent UK statistical office data, analyzed here: https://youtu.be/F39kVKSCP40

This is data that examines among other things the overall death rate irrespective of reported cause.
On this chart you can see that this peak is normal for the period, even lower than 2016.
Disqualified from signing up, but you can age surely?

I thought that smokers had elevated risks too, are smokers allowed in the military? As far as I can tell they are.
Vaccine fears brought measles back to New York
I can't believe I'm the only person who sees this.
The cases where GraphQL make sense are the ones where the front end is making tons of intricate, complicated calls. If it’s a simple REST api you’re interacting with it probably doesn’t need GraphQL and might actually be harmed by it.
I'll take your word you are an expert, and what you say sounds alarming. I cannot make all the connections, though. For instance, much of the Middle East lives in temperatures that fry eggs during the midday. I was in Afghanistan during the summer, not always with A/C. Not pleasant, but I wouldn't say uninhabitable. I also wonder about being unsuitable for agriculture, since plants flourish in greenhouses, which are quite hot and humid.

On the other hand, I can accept there will be large droughts, famines, and huge human migrations in the future. Our population continues to both climb dramatically, while congregating in a few very dense areas, mostly the cities where living is easier. That is clearly an unsustainable model.
It's in the major league of deaths/million pop (along with the UK, US).

I have to say, as someone usually loathes my generally scientifically-blinkered federal government (Aus), it's relaxing and pleasant to be able to think quite well of them for once. Australia at this stage seems almost like a case study in how to handle a pandemic like this intelligently. Time will tell, of course.
While it does make for an interesting read, most of the conclusions seem too far-fetched to me. In fact, I expect everything to be back to more or less where it was within a year or two, with only a couple of major lasting changes related to: (1) the political dynamics within the EU, (2) the position of China in the world economy, (3) specific industries and regions being disproportionately impacted (cruise ships gone, airlines forced to consolidate further across country borders, tourism-dependent economies heavily affected and slow to recover, etc.).

In particular I don't believe anything like the following will happen:

> We will see moves away from ‘just-in-time’ manufacturing, and major shifts towards practices which reinforce resilience (e.g. stockpiles, redundant capacity, duplicated systems) at the expense of efficiency.

Perhaps, for a year or two, at which point all the "resilience" will be optimized away.

> We anticipate lasting interest in remote working models

> The normalisation of remote working might also slow the trend of people moving from countryside to cities, whilst prompting more interest in distributed organisations

People working remotely will be the first to get fired, at which point they'll have to get another job, and it'll likely be a traditional one again.

> More people will voluntarily surrender personal data (such as medical and genomic data, contact data, location data, etc.) to help the common good.

People already surrender all of their data, most of which happens involuntarily. Governments might attempt to use more of this data but they're unlikely to have the wherewhittal to do so consistently.

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Many of the changes on the list have little to do with the virus and were already underway before, at most the pandemic will have only accelerated them.
I guess I'm not sure what to say in response to that. Swedish officials simply don't agree that strong short term measures are required to ensure a sufficient number of ventilators.
Hardly. It makes the headline something we can ignore. Much as if the author complained about driving their car into a tree because the steering wheel wasn't giving them feedback.
Could you explain more, or provide a link?
Quibi: Hollywood's $1.75B bet on short-form video streaming can't bit Netflix
I bought a GoPro after sticking my old cellphone inside a running CNC machine to get video of the milling process. It was all well and good until the cutter started heating up and we decided we needed to turn on flood coolant after all. Phone's not waterproof, so that was the end of that.

When you start pondering the optical clarity of Tupperware, perhaps it's time to just buy a proper camera. So I did.

Since then, it's been stuck to CNC machines, laser cutters, car bumpers, car wheelwells, car suspensions, toy cars, Power Wheels cars, drones, rockets, and kites. It's been nestled into the sand between the launcher tubes of a fireworks show. It's produced documentation of countless projects, produced a record of machine assembly in case of warranty problems, and taken timelapses of packing and moving several houses and offices. I've used the wifi viewfinder as a "periscope" to keep an eye on the birthday boy's arrival for a surprise party. I'm about to buy my fourth battery for it, because those do wear out.

People who buy a camera and let it gather dust lack imagination.
As others say or imply, you'd want to get data for a seasonal curve and then use it to adjust.
Workers having to die so their masters can add another zero to their bank accounts.
WhatsApp and Signal require the user to verify some identity numbers to prevent MITM attacks. No one does that. If you are OK with that level of protection then everything gets easy, even email encryption.
At this moment, full recovery is expected to happen no sooner than December 2022. Small business already bled out. If governors extend the lockout for another month, it will make it pointless to go back to work, as there will be no work to go back to. People will stay home until something else happens.
PowerPoint Slide REST API?
Anyone found a good powerpoint REST API? We want to send a JSON payload describing a basic slide and receive back the powerpoint file... does this exist? Anyone else looking for this?
I remember one of the "ancient aliens" TV shows back in the 70s which claimed that the precision with which Inca masons fitted stones together was impossible without alien technology.

Then an archaeologist showed how fit two stones together with the same precision in about a half hour, using no tools at all. Just rubbing and banging them together.

I asked my mom once how the Egyptians could have possibly made the pyramids straight. She replied pull a long string tight, that's the reference. Figuring I had her this time, I asked how they could have leveled the pyramid foundation. She said dig a trench and fill it with water. The water level forms the reference.

Mom: 2
Me: 0
I was pretty excited to give this a try because it might be a good fit for some frustrations I've had with running a GPU-dependent task on my laptop without discrete graphics.

Onboarding experience is terrible. Registered for an account from the Workstream page linked here, and was taken to a console with absolutely no mention of Workstream. Went back and forth a few times trying to figure out if auth provider had redirected to the wrong page after registration only. Ultimately searched through comments here to find out that Workstream is a variant of the CORE product. Having figured that out, went to the Core product, was rejected on creating an instance due to no payment on file. Not a huge issue, but would have been nice if I was prompted up front to complete this. Once I'm past that hurdle, I go back to the CORE product and find out that I'm not allowed to create GPU instances until I put in a ticket.

I'm hoping that this was some accident where this landing page ended up on HN when it wasn't supposed to be public knowledge yet, otherwise the lack of thought on just the setup process here is pretty concerning. I'm also pretty confused at the requirement that I put in a ticket to have GPU instances enabled when they've already taken payment info, and it seems like a test auth would be a better anti-fraud measure than the half-sentence I typed in.

Man, my excitement here sure was short lived.

Edit: got an email that I had been enabled. went to look. Three of the GPU types still show as locked but one no longer shows the lock icon, so I guess approvals are per-type? But I can't select the "unlocked" GPU type, it's disabled. There's no explanation of why. A couple of minutes of trying different combinations and I find out that it's due to the DC, if I choose a different DC I can select it. So I guess they're only available in one DC, at least right now? It would have been nice to be told that.

Edit: got the machine to provision, installed the client from another HN comment. I logged into Paperspace using a Google account. The client does not list this as an option. Only email, github, AD, and SAML. I give up. Except for the machine is still provisioning and I have paid $10 for storage. Great.
True! Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s why Lamport was originally thinking about the problem.
Far too early to say this is "devastatingly wrong." The number under the curve matters more than random spikes (that don't oversaturate the health system, BTW).
Completely agreed. Sweden is worth observing in terms of number of deaths and how overloaded their hospitals get. But their number of cases, like in a lot of countries, is essentially garbage data that can't possibly help our understanding of the situation to consume.
But, is it significant compared to 2016 ?
For Thinkpads running Linux, you can do this (somewhat manually) with tpacpi-bat:

https://github.com/teleshoes/tpacpi-bat

I set mine to stop charging at 85% and not start again until it drops below 75%. If I know I'm going to be away from power for a while (e.g. traveling) I manually tell it to charge up to 95%.

Anyone know if there's something like that for Android?
It is hard to predict the future, but despite the former Health minister indeed have being fired for clashing with Bolsonaro views, there is not much indication that the policy will in fact change now.

It became a ego dispute in the last days, but original rumors that the role would be occupied by someone without health expertise that would follow Bolsonaro orders to the letter were wrong. The new minister is also a doctor who hinted that lockdown is necessary before.

I believe Bolsonaro leadership is a disaster and more people will die because of his actions and speeches. I just don't think today's announcement will change much. It will not get worse.

The governors here don't have that much autonomy as in the US, but they have enough to define what will indeed happen in the streets. This won't change with the new minister.
A Reddit-like forum helped Taiwan prepare early for Covid-19
"Large" phones in 2006 is too small in 2020.

Most Japanese people uses Flick input rather than Qwerty. Flick input is not getting benefits(or getting bad) from larger screen, unlike Qwerty.
My issue with "traditional" cloud gaming providers of the like of Nvidia (on top of non stellar perfs), is they they have a limited catalog and offer no system control. I like to play old games that only run on windows and could therefore use a service like workstream. (Currently playing Warhammer online which requires dx9 so unless you have a way to manually install old drivers etc you can't really play)
Same method essentially. You need three roughly square pieces that are checked for bearing against each other repeatedly, but this time you also have intermediate steps of checking each face for flatness against the master.
This turns out not to be the case. Ventilators don't actually help much with COVID-19. If you end up severe enough to not be able to breathe on your own you're likely to die, and the ventilator only prolongs it. So running out of ventilators won't actually cause many more deaths.

The way to prevent a lot of deaths is simply to prevent people from catching it at all.
Interestingly online payments with Maestro (what cards are commonly co-branded with right now) are possible as well with quite a few sites, but the Maestro card number is not exposed and even if you manage to get it, I believe the cards are typically not enabled for that.

That's a peculiar choice, but I assume the decision was made to appeal to the typically skeptical German market. I do wonder why it wasn't made opt-in, though.
Thanks! We think so too.

We actually spent 9 months building a prior version of Grain that was basically a Google Doc w/ Zoom integration & time stamps. Ultimately, we threw that version away (kill your darlings as they say). People told us that what you described was the bigger problem b/c it was too much work to unlock a stream of recorded video w/ traditional post-hoc video editing tools.

But if it's easy enough to break the best content down into just the good parts that live on their own, independent of the parent recording file... well that unlocks some interesting things you can do to combine those blocks and share them in feeds w/ teams.

But it all comes down the the quality of the content you make with the tool. So that's where we're focused first.
Not a Swede but an Aussie living in Sweden here

Sweden is at 118 deaths per million vs 53 per million in Denmark or 94.5 in the US

Australia is at 2.52 per million

Sweden has a population of something like 10 million while the greater Sydney area alone has a population of 5.98 million so population density isn't the reason why Sweden has so many more deaths.

Voluntary lockdown means that some people still stand too close at the supermarkets, still plenty of people socialising around my area as normal & different companies apparently have different ideas when it comes to work from home policies

To be fair many countries are locked down as much as Australia and are also doing worse so I'm not sure what it is that is working so well there.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
JavaScript and WebAssembly. See MDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampli...), a non-exclusive class of vulnerabilities of which ZombieLoad was but one proven exploit, Portsmash (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/portsmash_intel_sec...), and others.

Here's a good paper (pre Spectre) that surveys various timing attacks and how they relate to specific architectural features: Qian Ge, Yuval Yarom, David Cock, and Gernot Heiser, "A Survey of Microarchitectural Timing Attacks
and Countermeasures on Contemporary Hardware", https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/613.pdf.
> It's entirely possible to have an RDBMS that does not use SQL

It’s not just theoretical. That’s what Postgres was.
The problem with how Apple did it originally was that it was completely opaque to the user. As far as the average user was concerned, their phone was slowing down for no reason.

The Battery Health menu should have been implemented from the start, and the controversy probably would have been completely avoided.
I'm guessing that segment needs to market in ways that doesn't look like advertising. Or at least not "hard sell" advertising.
It can make it pole dance if they like, I won't upgrade macOS during a lockdown. No way.
It's the job of the health minister to give his boss useful policy options to choose from and that requires some level of understanding and accommodating the other variables that the boss has to consider. That means that the health minister has to consider the economy and the economy minister has to consider public health.

I don't know much about this guy but if he was as bad at balancing the variables he had to consider as the GP suggests then I can see why he was removed.
Uber Withdraws Forecast and Will Write Down About $2B
Let’s assume 100% in NY are or have been infected. 12,000 deaths / 20 million = 0.0006% fatality.

Then scale that up to US population outside N.Y.: 18,0000 deaths / 0,0006 = 3,000,000 infected out of 300,000,000 for an infection rate of... 1%.

Herd immunity takes about 66% to 70%. So: only 65% to 69% to go, or about 200,000 deaths.

Lower the assumed infection rate in NY to anything realistic and it only gets worse. For (still high) 20% you’re looking at a million deaths to achieve herd immunity.
One more brainstorm,

The provider can serve key escrow and still have the end-user application perform the encryption, which may or may not technically qualify. It certainly wouldn't fly without skepticism in a popular service/standard.

I haven't looked into it deeply enough to present a confident statement either way.
On average, people who start out older tend to end up older, after a given period of time. That's my theory, at least.
Congrats, it sounds like you have everything figured out. I wish you the best.
Yes. Scroll down to the code change in UrlbarResult.jsm.

The option to control stripping was removed, and the code, rather than checking that option, /always/ strips.
If they at least did testing + contact tracing (like NZ) they probably could have saved a tonne of lives even without locking down
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Rent in some Brazilian cities has been massively lifted, specially for the elderly.

Regarding starvation, I don’t see it happening because people is starting to steal, shoplift, local stores. I saw it in front of me last weekend. And they use minors to steal, so nobody goes to jail. I live in São Paulo.
It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
YC partners doing a lot of introduction during the fundraising process.

It puts them in a tough spot. If YC partner writes to an investor, this company is awesome, plz invest and then investor asks if YC is going to invest?

And they get back, you commit first and then we decide, it just doesn't look/sound good.

It is important to remember is that a lot of companies in YC batch fundraise on SAFE, so when a priced round comes along probably 90% of them are not even in a position to fundraise, because a product didn't work out, team issues etc.

Also, there is YC Series A program which basically is going to be the sign of approval for investors and I am pretty sure YC is going to follow in 100% of cases for that one.
Singapore got a 20% increase in cases today, they have not controlled it and they have not reopened.
In principle nothing stops you creating such a CA.

The problem is, nothing stops anybody else creating such a CA. Why should I trust either of them? Why should anybody? Unless a critical mass trust the same CAs it's hopeless.

What you need there is a PKI, a Public Key Infrastructure. A PKI has two components, firstly some technical agreements like what sort of certificates are used, how to write email addresses and so on, for which you can mostly rely upon PKIX in this scenario - but then you also need some consensus on the much more difficult and political trust problem.

Mostly what happens is that PKIs are relatively small and private. EMV ("Chip and PIN" cards) has its own private PKI managed by EMVCo, the RIRs have one for route management called RPKI, lots of businesses have their own. Apple and Microsoft operate PKIs for "code signing" of various sorts.

And there's one obvious public PKI, the Web PKI, which is why your browser agrees with mine that this is https://news.ycombinator.com/

But there isn't one for email. So the far trickier problem than spinning up some "LetsEncrypt like service for personal certificates" is building that PKI.
Unfortunately, those "certain circles" seem to include the World Health Organization...
The "bible" though, is "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" by Moore. Machinery's Handbook is more of a practical reference used in the shop (like when you want to know what a certain spline or thread profile should look like), whereas Foundations is more theoretical.
Collapse nations, create millions of homeless maybe the short term economic result of the health advice. But it's very highly likely to be a much better long term economic result than not taking the advice.

Your commentary reads as skeptical of the value of the advice of healthcare experts during a pandemic, which, to me, is truly a confusing position for anyone to take other than someone who only understand the splash, and not the ripples, of this global situation.
It's possible but I see that as a short term (< 5 years) problem not a fundamental and permanent shift to life as we know it.
"More picky"
I am quiet impressed by Facebook R&D and whole technology stack they use.
This is really cool! I'd love to get this into some apps, and the LiveView dependency might be a nice excuse to sneak that in at the same time...
Moderna Snares $483M U.S. Funding for Covid Vaccine
Morgan and Grand Iron Clojure
You can’t. The political machines of these areas need to have significant political issues (think bankruptcy and stewardship to a larger organization Detroit being taken over by the state for example) to cause a change.

Places like Illinois are financially insolvent and are cutting back on all sorts of things.
You do if you don't want companies lying to get a bigger share.