skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just needed if you want scripts for your runtime to be treated as separate apps by the OS. Otherwise, they'll all be treated as the same app, so any OS feature that depends on the OS understanding what's logically a separate app will be either unusable or at least sort of broken. Ranging from how they show up in task manager as you mentioned, to sandboxing and package uninstall as others mentioned, to share target, notification and background task support as the article mentions, to how they're grouped on the taskbar, etc.

The host needs to be registered as a Windows app, so it either needs to be distributed/installed as MSIX (either from your own website as explained in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/app-installer/... or from the Microsoft store) or if you can't/don't want to do that for whatever reason, there's another recently added feature called "sparse package registration" that basically lets you distribute/install in some other format and then at runtime, register a mini-MSIX that just points the OS at your already installed files: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/10/29/identi... (this is a WinRT API so someone needs to have implemented bindings in your language for those, which exists for Rust - https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust - but idk about Free Pascal or D)
GitHub: https://github.com/stfurkan/gez

#Features

- Lists places by map and list

- Track the visited places by using browser's local storage

- Filters places by place name, country name and type

- Sorts place list by place name, country name and type

- Supports Turkish and English languages (based on browser language)
Well, if they're familiar with beer, and sophisticated enough to pour it into a glass: poured very quickly, the beer will develop a large head that overflows the glass, but pouring slowly creates a smaller head (or none, but don't do that).

There's not more beer, but it fills more space temporarily when poured faster.
The base cost of a Keysight Field Fox spectrum analyzer is $6k. You then enable $60k worth of licenses on it, but all the hardware is already in there. Pretty crazy.
Eric Weinstein on April 2nd posted the lecture to his YouTube channel + at the end of video he goes over to clarify some details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg
Online hackathon – BUIDL tools, services, processes for $9k in prizes – on now
My take on this whole thing, is the Amazon basically wrote the entire scope...so they just thought they were going to win because only they would meet it (this was a bit of a scandal just a few months back.) They bid high, and then they lost. Now they are mad that their lobbying wasn't a 100% success, so they are suing. It's all so very Amazon.
Good writeup. Looks like a very interesting case. The more I read about Amazon, the more I detest them.
> Even if you believe that Amazon may have started as the front runner, it’s clear our team worked hard to catch up and surpass them by investing in our technology and listening to the DoD.

Is MSFT actually ahead?
Basics of Combine
Off topic for the movie review, but maybe more broadly on topic for the thread:

"nobody talks like this"

This is a game introduced to me by a 4 year old. You take turns saying "nobody talks like this" in the most ridiculous and creative voices you can conjure up. I guess the winner is the one that doesn't soil themselves, it is seriously funny hearing what kids will come up with!
> No country except Iceland or South Korea knows how many are infected, everyone else's numbers are horribly wrong.

Is South Korea still consideered an outlier WRT testing regimes? Not to throw shade on their great efforts in leading the way, but many other countries now have extensive testing.
Refund rates that fall substantially above 5% are almost always tied to business quality - and those business SHOULD pay. Seriously, if you are refunding 20% of your business you need to look carefully at how you acquire business - stripe is not driving folks away from doing stuff online - you may be.

Stripe has made the right call here - though the silent and vast majority won't have anything to complain about so won't be on here posting.
I guess we will know in about a week?
I sometimes like to think of Ozark as the darker prequel to Arrested Development. Michael finally got out of the cartel, but not without losing his wife and oldest daughter, and went in to witness protection running the family business. It's Arrested ... Development.
A few points here that might help:

1) It's not quite accurate to say that YC is running out of money, though I could see how the article could read that way. YC is fortunate to be well-funded. However, we saw that if we continued our previous pro rata policy, that that could eventually happen someday, so we made a proactive adjustment well ahead of time.

2) One of the consequences of our old pro rata policy was that it left us without control of how much money we spent. Because we committed to investing in every round of every YC company, our spending was dependent on how many companies raised money, which turned out to be hard to predict. Imagine running a company where your monthly budget could vary by millions of dollars and you wouldn't know until the end of the month how much you'd need!

3) As far as I know, no other investor in the world has a programmatic pro rata policy (what YC tried from 2015-2019, which we are stopping now per the article). The whole idea was a bit of a crazy invention, and while its motivation was good, unfortunately it turned out to have too many drawbacks.
As a full-time skydiver & coach, I would say that's exactly who needs a GoPro the most. When we jump everybody wears at least one camera and often someone jumps outside to get a better angle. The video is not taken to capture an epic moment, it's to review and improve. After every jump the group breaks down every part of the skydive and tries to take a lesson from it.

I have to wade through thousands of videos before I find something interesting enough to post online, but each of those videos has value. The worse the performance the higher the value.
Covid-19: Bats Are Not the Problem, the Wildlife Market Is
Star Trek was ever meant to be Sci-fi (search how Roddenberry and Asimov became friend). Soap opera in space is what CBS want it to become because it is so mush easier to write for (see Kurtzman-verse).
Define "ahead". Is AWS cutting edge? Maybe, but does your business need cutting edge? Likely not. I see an enormous shift in the market towards Azure from clients of all sizes, for a variety of reasons (cost, married to AD/O365/etc, not wanting to give a competitor [Amazon] dollars). Azure definitely has the momentum, it's their race to lose against AWS.

Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions my own, not that of any employer past, current, or future.
Sad to see, they were a pioneer.
I work at Stripe.

Many companies in travel (and similarly affected industries) are having challenges shaped similarly to yours. There is a very active conversation in the industry about what we can do about the standard process for chargebacks to support this better. (Chargebacks were never designed to be a massively high-volume simultaneous event.)

Concretely you could imagine some specific consequences of chargebacks. I don’t have anything specific that I can share as of this exact minute with respect to each of those concrete consequences, but we’re working on this very actively. A lot of this work requires coordination with other firms. Chargebacks are broadly adjudicated by banks with reference to the rules established by the card networks, so we have limited control over per-chargeback decisions, but the industry is moving quickly on trying to decide what to do about this sort of chargeback given the circumstances.

As always, we’re in the corner of companies trying to do the right thing. As you get through this, if there’s specific things we can help on, please flag them to us; we can’t promise saying yes to every request but we can promise you’ll have our attention.
Image Segmentation: tips and tricks from Kaggle competitions
Is it possible that more people are asymptomatic because the sample population is more athletic? I would imagine there's a certain physique that's maintained and required for the military.
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890604
Can anyone tell me what Rigol I should buy and to what I can turbo-charge it through firmware hacks? Is it possible to buy something entry-level (say, $500) and make it into something that I can decode Modbus messages with, and also look at the exact waveform of my house 230V electrical installation?

(these questions probably show how little I know about these things and I know how someone who doesn't know anything shouldn't be messing with electrical installations. Humor me.)
Also a dirt cheap medicine, so would be great news if it ended up being effective.
What volume and dollar value are you testing at? I ask because assuming your time is billed back fully loaded to the client at $200/hr - and you spend 4 hours doing some sort of testing your time is $800... what are the fees relative to this?
The 80/20 of Productivity
You can only know after a few weeks from death numbers.
Even if you can identify good stocks, the effect isn’t so pronounced that you could quickly become a billionaire.

You would have to predict the actual future to do that, and picking good stocks isn’t the same as predicting the future.
I hadn't thought of going straight to json in the db. Do you notice extra load at all?
I recommend "The Dao of Capital", which is written by Mark Spitznagel. Spitznagel also deals with risk (but in a very Austrian + Daoist + Sisu way).

Both Spitznagel and Taleb have known each other for 20 years, and Taleb is an advisor on Spitznagel's fund [1]. But Taleb always appears to be more interested in self-promotion and picking up fights, whereas Spitznagel practices what he preaches.

I honestly believe that "The Dao of Capital" should've been a 3 volume treatise because it covers so much.

1. https://youtu.be/rk6UZB8qFBc
> entrepreneur

I think that's the problem West have. Everyone must be an entrepreneur, which translates to profit and money. Even scientists.

The article mentions Kolmogorov and his work on randomness and how his disciple is more famous for finding useful applications on it. Also another collaborator he only met once at a cybernetics conference in moscow, a 23 year old japanese named Karatsuba, came up with another improvement on his ideas and is responsible for the way our CPUs are able to do fast multiplication to this day. Karatsuba didn't even know his paper was being included in a book by Kolmogorov until he received a pre-print!
Microsoft can offer fully-integrated solutions with their already incredibly popular software. So that's a distinct advantage.
And... how would you pronounce "Cheops"? Kee obs? Chea obs? ¯\(◉‿◉)/¯
Keep up the good work dystopian scum deserve it.
> Is this the case with WhatsApp and Signal? Their implementations have been working great. Why can't email work the same way?

The ratchet protocol that that approach relies on requires both ends to be online at the same time. And those implementations haven't been working great. WhatsApp was definitely compromisable by an attacker who had access to the server. I have yet to be convinced that Signal couldn't be; all the descriptions of its protocol are suspiciously ambiguous about whether the attacker is assumed to control the server or the server is trusted (since the server has to be involved in allowing offline messages to work). Furthermore we've seen nothing to suggest that the NSA isn't reading WhatsApp/Signal messages; given that those systems are tightly coupled to closed-source ecosystems (and in particular closed-source "random" sources for key generation) I suspect that serious adversaries aren't even trying to attack their cryptography directly. Contrast with PGP where we know (from Snowden's leaks) that the NSA was frustrated by their inability to break it when used properly.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/pentagon-amazon-tru...

> The Pentagon’s inspector general “could not definitively determine” whether the White House influenced the procurement process for a major cloud computing contract because senior Defense Department officials were barred from answering questions on the subject during interviews, according to a 313-page report released on Wednesday.
This was immediately after they mentioned 95% of Fortune 500, etc. so I assumed market size.

But, maybe that was the intention without giving any details.

We’ll never know until office is separated out in MSFT reporting I guess.
Gilead drug produced 'rapid' recovery in coronavirus patients, report says
Azure is less friendly as a technology practitioner (compared to working with AWS), but I fully appreciate the value you describe. Does AWS have Active Directory as a first class citizen? Office 365? Outlook/Exchange? No.
I get the feeling that unless Amazon finds some integrity they will not last long as a company. If you read Blind, they're the company that everyone loves to hate - even their own employees.
I'll disagree with some of the other comments here and say I'm very happy that YC made this change instead of shrinking class size. YC is still one of the most exclusive programs around, and always will be. Anyone who has the privilege of attending will always have an advantage over those who don't - even if it's just because they'll learn from the best and make great connections. Follow on funding is great, but with how inflated some series A valuations have been lately - it's just too costly to the core YC program to keep doing that type of funding indiscriminately. I'm sure this was a difficult decision to make, but it feels consistent with the YC mission. And it seems like the right thing to do.
To be fair, that's a lot of places right now. I have a neighbour (Kitchener, Canada) who had all the symptoms and wasn't tested— all they wanted to hear is that her house had an area with a separate bathroom where she'd be able to isolate from the rest of her family. She recovered on her own without medical intervention.
The simple math comment was about estimating IFR, given the sampling in the Netherlands, not about the whole domain.

Maybe you are saying the implied model is too crude. Perhaps, but there's a value in it's simplicity - folks can get a convincing estimate of the rough scale of the IFR, that this disease is serious, not the flu etc.

> let’s see how your prediction does over the next few months: between 14,400 and 80,000 deaths in Ireland.

That prediction, was based on the measures in place over a month ago (very few, which was the point).
We're since in lockdown almost 3 weeks.

However, I think it remains a reasonable prediction for an unmitigated epidemic.

To go back to the simple math: If you believe that 3% of a random sample of the Netherlands have had covid, and that the Netherlands has had 3k deaths, then if 100% were infected they might have 100k deaths (without modeling clustering, and healthcare saturation effects). Their population is 3x Ireland's.

>There’s nothing to prove you wrong yet either, of course,

If the serological sampling had shown instead that their 3k deaths had come from 30% of their population being infected, that would have proved the prediction wrong.

There's loads of subtlety which could improve that estimate (people take time to die, clusters, etc) but there is an increasing body of evidence that the early IFR estimates were not wrong by an order of magnitude.
It happens regularly. COVID-19 patients need O2 for a few days and then are titrated back down to room air and discharged.
American here.

I lived in the Midlands for half a year, and I've spent a good deal of time in the American rust belt as well (via a job where I had to travel a lot). A typical English meal is significantly more bland than meals served elsewhere in the world, and I think it throws people off who don't already have a relationship with it and therefore can't perceive it as comfort food. It took me months to warm up to.

That's not to say "food in England is bad". I'm ethnically Hispanic, and ended up eating a ton of Turkish food and Indian food during my time there, which was spicy, flavorful, not too common in America at the time, and awesome. And a full English breakfast with your friends when you're all a bit hungover is perfection.
It's a fix for a limitation of the Windows app model, i.e. to the OS's knowledge of which executables, processes, files, etc. logically belong to which apps. MSIX is how you register an app with the OS so in that sense it's about "MSIX limitations" but apps/runtimes not installed with MSIX still have the same problem.

The OS knowing what's logically the same app vs. separate apps is a prerequisite for 10X and sandboxed apps, but there are other features usable by non-sandboxed apps that depend on it too.
Why do you think Rust would be different from Java or C#.
I believe that both Java and C# are doing a good job at sharing package using Maven and Nuget.
Maybe not on the raw technology for edge cases, but in terms of actually supporting DoD business needs it is for sure. I have worked for two branches in the past 4 years assisting in migration to Office365 and certain legacy database systems into Azure. The vast majority of legacy IT in the DoD essentially supports AD/Office/Exchange which is far easier to migrate.
Show HN: ClickLock – Lock your screen with one click on the menubar
PASETO has the same "claims" as JWT, except they're ISO 8601 timestamps rather than integers (UNIX timestamps).

They're not required (as they weren't in JWT). If you want to use them, use them. The parser will validate them if you want it to.

https://github.com/paragonie/paseto/blob/master/src/Rules/No...

https://github.com/paragonie/paseto/tree/master/docs/02-PHP-...
Oh, exactly this! First I get lectured about how delivering a solution fast is more important than getting the technical details right... and then I get assigned for on-call duty. Because "move fast" means someone else gets a bonus, and "break things" means I have to fix the bugs over the weekend.
Unless I'm missing something (which I could be, considering the "author" presented nothing more than a one-line bait-ish challenge), this is attempting to compare two different layers of data interface.
I work for MS but don't know anything about the bidding process. I was a little surprised we won, but now it makes sense. I feel like even if they can't get the DoD to let them re-bid now that they have proprietary information on us and our bid, they'll tie us up in court as long as they can to keep us from successfully delivering. They want to maintain the head start they made with GovCloud as long as possible and keep other companies out. Icky.
The rule in question was/is an example of Obama having balls.

The Obama EPA made a rule to limit mercury emissions that could only be legally justified if the benefits of particulate reduction associated with reducing mercury emissions were included as an economic benefit of mercury emission reduction.

Using the economic benefit of particulate reduction to justify mercury reduction was bold and ballsy rule-making. Especially because the economic benefit of particulate reduction dwarfed the benefits of the mercury reduction itself.

People, including myself, may enjoy or appreciate the results of the Obama mercury emission rule (less pollution) but the rule subverted the point of the economic balancing tests that the EPA is supposed to use.

The EPA could have targeted particulate emission directly but I imagine that would be politically impractical. Also, reducing particulate emissions does not target the coal industry which was what Obama was going after in those days.
GoPro has a decade+ old ecosystem built around their products. Go to any mountain bike trail, kayaking spot, climbing location, hiking trail, and ask around if anyone has a GoPro mount you can borrow, or a waterproof case. If there's more than a handful of people the answer WILL be yes. They managed to become the de facto standard for sports videography simply by offering a stupid number of accessories that nobody else thought of or thought was necessary. While each new generation has changed and improved the most important thing is that what they've never done is get worse.

They haven't been displaced because it would take a company fully committed to matching GoPro accessory for accessory. THAT is where the real advantage they have is.
> there is a very specific issue before the court at the moment. It may seem arcane and procedural, but the back-and-forth arguments between Amazon and the government raise a key question of principle and fairness that should matter to us all. Namely, should a company—like Amazon—that bid high and lost, now get a do-over, especially now—as the IG’s report makes clear—Amazon received additional proprietary information about Microsoft’s bid that it should never have had.

Actually, I don't really see the problem. There are two hypothetical models:

1. Everyone gets to bid for the work once, and if they get it wrong, too bad for them. What's right and what's wrong? Depends on your point of view. What matters is that everyone got the same single chance to bid for a government contract.

2. Everyone bids for the contract. If their bid isn't being accepted, they're free to adjust it. What matters is what the terms ultimately are, not what they were at the start of bidding.

You may recognize that second model as the normal way everything is sold everywhere. What's supposed to be wrong with Amazon quoting a price for something, not getting a sale, and then lowering the price? We should hope they do, and that Microsoft responds by lowering their price even more.
This misses the point. All large DoD contract are usually followed by a lawsuit from the loser. I have seen this happens so many times. If MSFT lost, they would have probably sued.
Normalizing daily deaths to population, Sweden is doing worse than California. Both are doing much better that Lombardy or NY. Somewhat encouraging, the # of daily deaths is decreasing across the board. Possibly a mix between [voluntary] lockdown effects and better palliative treatments.

https://covid19.quersive.com/chart?c=M&e=SE&e=US-CA&e=US-NY&...
Show HN: AWS Transcribe and OBS = real-time subtitles
Microsoft is losing big time to Linux and open source. They are basically being forced to implement Linux inside Windows, because Windows sucks at automation and scaling, and Linux is now the dominant technology in enterprise. Vendors like Microsoft don't sell software because it is superior, they do it because they can buy the signature of whoever can make the decision.
Stanford’s study should give us more info soon. They recently screened a decent sized group in Santa Clara County to get a sense of how widespread it is, using their newly developed finger-prick test which looks for both antigens and antibodies (whether you have it / had it and recovered). Currently the test is being prioritized for frontline healthcare workers while they work on scaling up:

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/04/04/stanford-researcher...
As a computer-savvy dev, i feel like its hard to beat building your own given how cheap & powerful desktops are today, and how good software is.

Workstream specs are - 6 CPU, 16GB RAM, 2GB graphics card, 256GB SSD.

You could build a desktop beating that for around $800 today - including a Ryzen 3600, motherboard, case, better GPU etc. At $0.18/hr for Workstream, that means after just 44 hours you breakeven on building your own machine.

With a little extra work on setting up VNC/RDP/Parsec you can then access this desktop from anywhere. I already do this and it works great for the most part. The streaming app/protocol is key, and thanks to teams like Parsec and Moonlight we have high quality software doing this for free.

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But given their target market, this does look really cool. Amazon Workspaces costs 3x-4x more for comparable machines with Windows. Paperspace looks like its offering OSX and some good bundled software for designers, VFX etc.