skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding aerosolized transmission is a greater concern in healthcare settings, especially where ventilators are being used.
How to use NPM packages with REPL sessions – Node.js
I believe the frustration is more due to the fact that even though the laptop is plugged in, the battery gets drained and after a while, it will simply shut down.
I have had that issue with 2012 15 inch, 2016 15 inch, 2017 15 inch and heard similar stories from 16inch users.

Reminds me of the early brick-sized mobile phones. Sure you could be wireless, but if you wanted to use it more than few minutes, you had to find yourself a power socket.
I think it's because it makes them able to react much quicker if hit by a second infection wave
Apparently because he compromised national security.

For comparison, the french air carrier did not leak about the situation even though the same number of soldiers got it
I've built a pretty complex and high performance go-based microservice architecture (~12 services) as backend with testify and gomock for testing. Pretty happy with those choices, never had any issues. The backend doesn't use HTTP, so no opinion there.

I recently started migrating some of the services to Rust for performance reasons. I would say that Go's biggest strength is perhaps its biggest weakness as well: It "just works". Types are loose (no generics), concurrency is extremely easy. This means I can write working Go code really quickly, but as project complexity grows, code tends to become kind of a mess.

For example, channel-based concurrency can become hard to reason about if you have a complex service. A few times I ended up putting mutexes at various places just to make it work despite knowing that it's not the "right" thing to do. Mutexes then come with their own issues. Once you have a deadlock or race condition, good luck debugging it. There exist multiple packages and tools to detect race conditions and deadlocks, so this seems to be a common problem. I must've spent days or weeks worth of time looking at pprof output. You may say it's my fault as a developer to write sloppy code, and that may be true, but the Go language encourages such code with the decisions it made.

The same goes for types. I never needed generics, but the fact that typing is so loose means you can get away with a lot of sloppy code without being punished for it. This can be great for moving fast, but may come to bite you later on.
Interesting! I didn't knew the Tioga editor. All these pioneering work is really inspiring! Our goals fits very well into the paradigm of active documents and we have already many features implemented and beautifully typesetted : https://www.texmacs.org/joris/icms14/icms14.pdf
Yeah, I've been burnt more than once because of "bad" co-founders.

And "bad" can have many definitions: they can be great friends but lack the entrepreneurial spirit, you may feel like they do less than you – even though they have just as many shares, or they do something that proves you can't trust them... plus so many other scenarios.

In a perfect world, you would be able to pick and choose from people who are trustworthy, great to hang out with, super skilled and willing to give up a stable job to risk building a startup. But in the real world, most people lack at least a couple of those things and you have to compromise.

I would be super cautious starting a company with a stranger. But... Finding a developer who's a friend willing to work for free (for a promise of future returns, that is) is super hard, and I'm actually talking to a potential co-founder met via FoundersList now.

My first three steps to verify whether building a startup together makes sense would be:

1. Get to know each other, talk a few times, see if you like each other and the vibe is right. Travel together for a few days if you can (which may be tough right now) – that can be a real test of whether you can stand to be with each other and how you react to different situations.

2. Work on something small together. Maybe a pre-MVP version of your app or one feature. No commitment until it's ready.

3. If it turns out you worked together well and delivered something good without jumping at each other's throats and you feel good about it, then go ahead and build that big thing as co-founders.

Just make sure to have a written agreement that determines what happens if one of the founders decides to leave, how decisions are made, etc. – it may seem like too much in the beginning but it will save you a lot of stress and fighting over "silly" stuff later on.

---

"Choosing the wrong co-founders" is actually one of the top startup mistakes for me.

If you would like to read about more, here's an article I wrote some time ago about the top 11 startup mistakes I wish I don't ever make again: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-fail-can-less-making-othe....
Totally void of content. Think of the children sweetness, no proper legal, civil or even political reasoning.

Just: hey, you must agree if you are not a pedophile.
Giving brewers tech to make beer from any plant material, Province Brands raises
Wow, thank you!

Rib records are an even deeper rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribs_(recordings)

On vinyl postcards, there's at least one current label pressing them: http://www.vinylpost.co/releases/ (not affiliated).

There goes my morning...
> Emergency measures being valid for the duration of the emergency would be pretty straightforward.

Deciding when the emergency is over is less straightforward than a fixed time period. A government that wanted to extend the measures indefinitely would just claim there's still an emergency.
What would happen to non-US based platforms? Could this lead to offshoring of social media or does the bill cover this case somehow?
Then again you probably aren’t at the receiving end of that cool one billion dollars!
Folk say ct all the time. I went to a very international uni and was shocked by how offended Americans and English folk got by it. Americans also got weirdly offended by saying fk. That made working with them at the start of my career somewhat difficult as it barely registers in my brain as inappropriate.
MIT’s AI predicts catastrophe if social distancing restrictions relax too soon
It's just splendid how a lot of people will criticize an estimate of deaths assuming no mitigating measures, and then say "see? no problem!" when the outcome is much better after stopping most economic activity for a month.

War-time level mitigating measures.
Very useful, thanks! I'll put them at the top of my list.
Lots of red flags. These guys apparently have very little clue what they're talking about.

I mean "fast + virtual" already makes me doubtful. And I'm sure that with the internet being overloaded by everyone working from home, using remote desktop is going to be even more painful than usual.

But when they claim "Get a new computer in less than 5 minutes, zero configuration required." and then mention 3ds max, I am 100% convinced that they are clueless. Pretty much nobody uses the stock 3ds renderer, so you'll need to install something like Redshift or V-Ray, too. And setting up the plugin licensing alone will take you hours. Plus you have to re-do it every time the underlying hardware of your virtual instance changes.

Oh, and then there's pricing. "P6000
For extreme 3D apps, rendering" starts at 50GB SSD? WTF? I have a 8TB storage raid here to keep the scene files around. And then "Only pay for what you use" but "For hourly plans, if your machine is powered off, you will only be billed for your storage."

OK, so you pretend to cater to 3D professionals, but you fail to mention licensing, the number 1 cloud issue, you provide too little storage to load even a hobby-sized rendering project, and your on-demand service will bill me for storage unless I download and re-upload terabytes of data every time I switch projects.

I'd say you can greatly improve your pitch by NOT promoting it as a professional solution. It's probably great for hobbyists and gamers, so I would focus on them with the marketing.

Oh and how are you going to be "Delivering every frame in less than 16.6 ms" when there's 50ms of latency (due to speed of light) between me and your closest server?
https://madewithvuejs.com/blog/vue-3-roundup
Doesn't seem affordable.

E.g. in Germany it costs
8GB DDR4 RAM (ECC), 2 dedicated cores, 40GB SSD / 320GB SAS 9€/month
I am looking at https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/89580.Solarpunk

I have only read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow, which I highly recommend. I have seen the Mars trilogy recommended elsewhere, but haven't read it myself.
I mean, your explanation makes sense, but fundamentally YC felt a lot more meritocratic and open back in the smaller days.
That's what we thought a month or so ago. The science with SARS-CoV-2 is developing, and currently we think people need to be careful with large and small droplets. Large droplets fall out of the air quickly; small droplets can be blown further.

The infectious dose for covid-19 is very small, so getting hit by a few large droplets or more small droplets is about the same.

There's no real standard definition for "aerosol" which makes these conversations trickier.
Looks like that stake went to Disney when most of Fox was sold to them. Interesting.
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Blacklisting while you should have been whitelisting is harmful. Choose what you allow instead of trying to list what you don’t.
Are you comparing them to fries? Chippy chips and fries are two different things
I get connection timeout when I try to load the page :(
The answer is: "both".

Where do Mathematicians look to discover Mathematics? In the depths of their own minds.

The part where you "look and think deeply" is discovery.
The part where you "express your discovery in a coherent language" is invention.
Could the same be said about just about everything?

Like Music. Is a Song just a combination of notes, beats, intervals, voice etc. waiting to be discovered? Or is it something that a musician invents in her brain through talent, experience, practice and trail and error.

Or for that matter, a startup idea? A product/service that would bring immense value to its consumers, but it is not there yet, waiting to be discovered.

I guess philosophers must have dwelled on such questions before.
Is it too late to sue P.T. Barnum?

http://www.ptbarnum.org/egress.html
Hey! I'm another Stripe working on tax compliance pain points. Would be keen to chat about your experience with Paddle and specifically what type of solution you are looking for w/r/t tax and/or product fulfillment. If you're up to chat, email me at kmoriarty@stripe.com.

Either way, thanks for the feedback!
In Australia we are testing people with symptoms (recently expanded in most places to hae no additional criteria). Some counties with a bigger outbreak/ lesser lockdowns are going to have more people with symptoms to test. 1.7% positive rate is one of the lowest in the world and combined with high testing suggests we are detecting most symptomatic cases.
I think one of the most interesting questions today is what are people really thinking when they profess X. I don't believe most antivaxers actually think vaccines actually represent a risk in any logical way. I think they want to be different. I think they want to feel like hero's or people with inside knowledge (special people in some way). I think they want the attention. I think they want to feel more control over the world.

This is why logically explaining risk and rewards to them has no actual effect. Facts don't change how they feel, whether a vaccine is good or not does matter when someone wants to feel special or "make a stand".

This is the same as political extremism or religious or other illogical group forming processes.

Normally we just ignore these groups: if you join a sex cult or a far right militia then society at large doesn't really care. And that's still generally true for anti vax. But they are on the edge of becoming an issue (because it makes a material difference in my life if you don't vaccinate).

We've seen what happens when you try to break these groups up by force (Jones Town, Wako, etc). I wonder if we're any closer to actually preventing this issue (ironic given we're talking about vaccination). I wonder if public opinion will remain strong if and when we have to send in SWAT to drag kids out for vaccination...
Show HN: Find Problems Worth Solving for Your Startup – Probstack
They're recommended for anybody who needs to be in close contact with others.

There are lots of people who aren't medical staff who are in close proximity with vulnerable people by necessity. Vulnerable people should be wearing them also.

For example, every employee at a retirement home wears a mask at the moment.
You think logic, the art of making distinctions, the study of critical thinking and the foundation of mathematics only matter in the same way art does?
due to purse.io closing down, https://t.me/joinchat/HlGv6xuVHJkgpe_L_kKjwg please join to telegram group until we create new platform like purse.io
This raises the question, why didn't AirBNB and Stripe go public when the market was ready? Looks like the strategy of staying private for longer isn't really working out for anybody.
> But to complicate things a bit, some things don't exist unless we observe them.

Is this intepretation of quantum mechanics still the canonical one?
This is exactly what I was trying to say in a fraction of the words :)

I prefer TypeScript. And I enjoy using it with React. But I cannot justify the overhead of the build process and, if react is included in the artefacts, the asset overhead.

The main assumption is that I have lots of landing pages. But I’m commenting on a landing page template, which I can only use on new landing pages. And in that event, I don’t have loads of LPs, I have one, the one I’m building.
A yes, sorry about that. I haven't changed the main page so it looks the same as the results. I'll fix that today and place the buttons in better view. You'll notice that when you enter 7404 links appear below the distributor/hobbyist names. They are country code for now so the user can select the region on each site.
China denies cover-up after revising upwards its Covid-19 death toll
I solved my few Windows dependencies with https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM... and a secondary GPU. (Might not fit your current setup but it was a game changer for me and my productivity so I can highly suggest it.)
How would one implement this kind of thing? Grow a 1-VM cluster to a 2-VM one and migrate pods over, update dns etc, and then downscale back to 1 vm? Does k8s handle this use case well?
Apple Music on the web now out of beta
I have seen successful failures with most of my projects since last few years except 'How's It Like' - www.howsitlike.com which is doing great! ;) This took me back to the first step of understanding if I'm looking at the right problem at all that needs a solution. Often times, I found majority of the products are solving something that is not actually broken and not worth fixing it.

I started curiously searching for some real problems from users so that I can pick the most pressing problem in that list and work on that. I ended up finding thousands of articles and content on how to find problems that are worth solving but there is no actual platform where this can be initiated. I've seen loads of time, effort and money going into products that ended up failing and most of the times, the reason being the product is not of interest to the users!

This is where our initial MVP started off in 2019 Feb..

Kicked off in February 2019 with a small community of people raising, discussing and sharing problems in an excel sheet.

In April 2019, we have launched 'ProShareUs' - 'Share your problems with us' through a minimal product and that helped us reach more people.

And in 2020, we are redesigning and rebranding our product as 'Probstack' - 'Find problems that are worth solving' to better reflect our mission and stand out.

Are you thinking of turning a potential problem into an idea for your product? Validate your problems on www.probstack.io before writing a line of code!

Eagerly looking for your valuable feedback to grow this together!

Just launched on Product Hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/probstack

Thanks!
Considering how well index funds perform in practice, even if your description was correct it sounds like a Great Thing.
I'll never understand how someone otherwise so apparently intelligent can be so religious. Weird, the systems that we spent massive amounts of energy designing to precisely describe reality do that better than all the ones that we threw out along the way!
Surgical masks do not filter the virus. Here's one paper: https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764367/effectiveness-sur...
Ola opens its tech platform to Indian government to combat coronavirus crisis
Yes, and it will take weeks before we have decent numbers, so it's dangerous to draw any conclusions just yet.

The numbers aren't looking pretty, though:
https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html
The FAA has no restrictions on chargers, the restriction is on battery capacity which is irrelevant to this problem. They use 100W chargers because that's the highest allowed by the USB-PD spec, but Apple providing power supplies incapable of handling peak load on their laptops is much older than their use of USB-PD. They just seem to not care very much about the heavy sustained load use case.
Thanks for the recommendation!

I've also found this list, which might be useful: https://best-sci-fi-books.com/16-best-solarpunk-books/
True. The former hasn't been a problem for me, the latter's becoming increasingly less so now that more and more people have switched, and people are starting to more consciously use it every now and then for one of the few Signal groups we have - but it certainly was a problem at first.
Patents cover inventions that are applications of knowledge. For example, chemistry is certainly discovered, but applying the use of a certain molecule as a glue or as a drug is very much patentable. Physics is also discovered, but a special lever system that is a direct application of Newtonian mechanics is patentable. The knowledge that a certain mathematical formula could be written and has certain properties is not patentable, but a device that employs that formula as an algorithm for, say, predicting stock prices, is (in certain countries at least).
A deep-sea creature spotted that is 150 feet long
The C language standard makes certain guarantees, such as no out-of-bounds array access, or no modification of memory accessed through a restrict-qualified expression by other means.

If such things happen during program execution, the program does not conform to the standard, and its runtime behaviour becomes undefined.

This is exactly the same situation you have with Fortran, which makes certain guarantees about, say, the aliasing of function arguments. If all such cases could be detected ahead of time, it would be impossible for programmers to write non-conforming programs. This is not possible.

I repeat, there is no essential difference between the Fortran and C situation. The best one could argue is that given that the Fortran guarantees are universal (instead of limited to restrict-qualified pointers), a Fortran programmer is less likely to write an incorrect program, but that's it.
Ah right, then that specific measure sounds rather similar (except for the running out, maybe).
I don't understand your question, because you cannot seal surgical masks.

Here's one test. They got people with covid-19 to wear a mask and then cough onto petri dishes. Only 4 people, but the methods are clear.

https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764367/effectiveness-sur...

> Discussion: Neither surgical nor cotton masks effectively filtered SARS–CoV-2 during coughs by infected patients. Prior evidence that surgical masks effectively filtered influenza virus (1) informed recommendations that patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 should wear face masks to prevent transmission (2). However, the size and concentrations of SARS–CoV-2 in aerosols generated during coughing are unknown. Oberg and Brousseau (3) demonstrated that surgical masks did not exhibit adequate filter performance against aerosols measuring 0.9, 2.0, and 3.1 μm in diameter. Lee and colleagues (4) showed that particles 0.04 to 0.2 μm can penetrate surgical masks. The size of the SARS–CoV particle from the 2002–2004 outbreak was estimated as 0.08 to 0.14 μm (5); assuming that SARS-CoV-2 has a similar size, surgical masks are unlikely to effectively filter this virus.

> Of note, we found greater contamination on the outer than the inner mask surfaces.
>It matters for philosophical inquiry.

I was thinking more of tangible implications. Maybe there are some.
Go solopreneur? If it was your idea, you will probably have a hard time getting anyone on board with it to the extent you care about it.
I’d say they don’t matter nearly so much as art. The most cosmically significant export of humanity to date is Voyager’s golden record.
Are you really using that left wing partisan shitrag as a source?
That's my issue, they keep launching these close to useless features because they're being developed for another product.

That's why this feels un-Apple
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The era of fossil fuels will go down in history, if any history is preserved, as the point where human ignorance was no longer held back by lack of capacity. We are so doped up on carbon-based fuel that we are completely oblivious to the total dependency our way of life has on it. A simple thought experiment by the way of "what does it take to produce a pencil"[1] will give anyone insight in this. Sometimes I feel like we just don't have the collective mental capacity to handle mega-issues like these. And in the end, just like an addict, unless we kick the habit we are collectively, as a species, going to walk hand in hand into oblivion.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2153998.I_Pencil
Ask HN: Why experts discourage using masks to combat Covid?
This is something that has been baffling me for a while. Typically the argument seems to be in the line of "There is no evidence of benefits for using masks". This, of course to me sounds like a very carefully crafted claim. It is never "there is evidence of no benefit of using masks" and definitely not "there is evidence of masks causing harm" So, what is the actual reason for the dislike from experts? I can think of couple of possible reasons:

1. Experts are afraid that people use masks as a kind of "get out of jail" -card and start doing stupid things if experts say masks make you safer, thus discounting any benefit gained by using them in the first place.
2. Experts are afraid that widespread usage of masks causes supply issues for health care workers where they are needed more.
3. Governments are worried that making masks socially acceptable cause trouble for their facial recognition dystopian dreams.

Or something else. Can anyone ELI5?
different teams, and plus the macos team at apple is notorious for releasing buggy and half baked software.
The adapter claims some of the power for itself and downstream USB devices. I think it has to reserve power statically, so it's always claiming 5W or so.
Why not just deal with this in the same way as we deal with other goods and services that are in short supply - increase the price until there is an equilibrium?

Ideally, one should be able to bid on delivery slots. If that is technically difficult, the delivery company should just increase the price.

They could then increase the pay of the staff involved in making deliveries to attract more workers, especially those that are now out of work. More deliveries made overall!

Or, if it is infeasible to increase the number of deliveries, they could donate the surplus profits locally.

Not increasing the prices seems like just pointless virtue-signalling that helps absolutely nobody.