skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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LCD can definitely have burn in
No. This is reasonably predictable in the short term. You would have to have better knowledge than the market to be able to profit.

If the whole market expects depressed gdp grow and you get depressed gdp growth, you have no edge.
What are org-mode files?
The writing is on the wall... TFS is going the way of Silverlight.
Coronavirus knowledge graph to help doctors with diagnosis
It's a massive issue on web, I routinely see Japanese posts on Twitter displayed in a Chinese font when they consist only of kanji.
Why is this post being voted down?
It is extremely impressive what Cloudflare has done since its foundation. My company has been a customer since 2011 because of me, and yet Cloudflare looks like a nice shiny shell with the same total chaos underneath as in any small IT company I've ever had the chance to look into. Unfortunately this doesn't let me sleep well when my company is dependent on Cloudflare. Therefore we hardly use any features of Cloudflare to be able to switch to our own infrastructure at any time. As annoying as Google and Microsoft are, I can sleep better because they have their processes better under control (I know that these companies offer different products, the question of dependency remains the same).
I missed your point.
Using Elastic Maps to visualize Covid-19 spread – Part 3
Sodium bicarbonate is a magic substance which has so many uses, it almost looks like it's a cheat in the matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate#Uses

From the list:

- cooking (leavenant, baking powder, etc.)

- fungicide and pest control

- pH increase

- pyrotechnics

- disinfectant

- fire extinguisher

- medical (addon for laxatives, antidepressant, anesthetics, anti-tear gas)

- hygiene (addon for toothpaste, mouthwash)

- short-term doping

- cleaning agent

... and now deodorant !
Show HN: A poor man's background blurring solution for Windows
A lot of states have de-facto made it optional to pay your rent (and in some cases mortgages), by banning evictions, banning foreclosures, etc. Mine has also banned any late fees during the state of emergency, so there is really no penalty to just not paying the rent.

You still accumulate it of course, and at some point after the emergency ends, everyone is supposed to pay up the back months of rents and mortgages they owe, or face reopened eviction/foreclosure processes. That's where it gets dicey, to see who is left holding which bags. Non-zero chance of at least some cascade: if a bunch of your tenants never pay 3 months of back rent (b/c they have no jobs), and you were already a very leveraged landlord without much of a cash cushion, you're not going to be making your 3 months of back mortgage payments either, etc. Less leveraged landlords will just eat some losses. If the economy recovers quickly, maybe some of this will be papered over by repayment plans (you can pay your 3 months of back rent/mortgage over the next 12 months or something, and nobody has to admit any official losses). How big all of these categories are will make a pretty big difference to whether it cascades into foreclosure waves, banks with junk loan problems, etc.
There is no way that 15% of NY had the virus.
The traditional business mindset says that fancy offices with Aeron chairs are things you buy using profits. If you're not making a profit then everything you do should be laser focused on making more revenue to eventually turn a profit. While VC money obviously existed before the dotcom era, it was usually to buy expensive equipment or to do research - it was never really spent on offices. Consequently when dotcom businesses started landing million dollar seed rounds and spending that money on things that weren't directly revenue generating, or even necessary, people thought it was being wasted.

And, given the number of dotcom startups compared to the number of successes, it kind of was. If those startups had been focused more on making a profit instead of unmeasured 'growth' or some strange notion of 'coolness' then maybe more of them would have survived.
I still think there's way too much naive optimism out there that things will all be back to normal a month or two from now. I found this [1] deeply fascinating. Some highlights:

- Corporate earnings have been pretty much flat since 2014 (this one in particularly surprised me). So the last 5 years has been a disconnect between earnings and valuation and that always comes crashing back to earth at some point, Covid-19 was just the spark.

- The demand for US dollars will likely devastate some developing nations (who borrow in US dollars) with all that entails;

- The US is in a fiscally weak position;

- Because of the strong dollar and huge deficit the US essentially has to print money to buy its own bonds. A real (rather than nominal) devaluation in US government debt is not out of the question;

On the Covid-19 front:

- Making a vaccine takes time. Proving it works and is safe takes time. Even after you've done all that you have to manufacture it somehow. This is a nontrivial problem. For the flu vaccine the US government actually pays billions to grow eggs for this purpose [2]. This is unsatisfactory in many ways and there has been a long search for an alternative but so far to no avail. Influenza viruses reproduce in chicken eggs. Coronaviruses do not.

- It will take time--possibly years--for spending to return to previous levels. We have examples of this already with the SARS and MERS outbreaks in Hong Kong and South Korea where spending took 6 and 12 months respectively to return to previous levels [3].

- Some industries will take years to recover. Cruise lines are an obvious one but airlines, hotels and tourism are in the same boat (at least it's not the Diamond Princess). I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of frequent flyer miles just evaporate or getting hugely devalued;

- Some businesses just won't come back. Those businesses spend money. They paid employees who spend money. All that money went to other people and businesses who then spend money.

- Social distancing may be here for the long term [4].

- My own belief is that the protracted response to this is there will be some permanent changes in behaviour. This will create new opportunities but also devastate some sectors.

For some reason, share buybacks are the latest bogeyman and I really don't understand why. They're just another form of dividend (ie returning money to shareholders). Borrowing money at low interest for share buybacks is just a tax deferment strategy (one that I don't think should exist but it does).

There's still significant market and economic downside potential and at best I think we'll have stagnant growth for several years.

The problem here is that many people now have no memory of what an actual recession looks like. Even the GFC was quite localized (but of course devastating to many).

[1]: https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/

[2]: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/health/chicken-egg-flu-va...

[3]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-14/retailers-warned-not-...

[4]: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/14/health/social-distancing-...
Just gonna leave this here: https://twitter.com/eladgil/status/1250530780666671105?s=21
The U.S. has more resources per capita at its disposal, but if everyone is starting at zero tests, I'd still expect smaller countries to be able to ramp faster relative to their population, and all the countries you've listed are indeed smaller than the U.S.

There's the old adage "nine women can't make a baby in a month". Sometimes there are real-world limits to scaling, and the U.S. does have an incredible amount of tests to create.
For hedge fund managers that are domiciles in the Cayman Islands for tax purposes but reside on Park Avenue or Central Park South, absolutely.
Basically, structured text files. See orgmode.org.
This is a really excellent comment.
Live 24 hours online conference about LoRaWAN
If you're genuinely interested, there's so much reading on this. I'll quote one snippet here for you. Just to give you an idea. (This is not an invitation to reply to it and debate the issue. Just trying provide a pointer for reading more on the topic since you expressed interest.)

> The drugmaker admitted in 2007, when confronted with evidence gathered by prosecutors, that it trained sales representative to tell doctors that OxyContin was less addictive and prone to abuse than competing opioids, claims beyond the one approved by the F.D.A.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxy...
The font sizes and weights look inconsistent and random.
Former Tesla employees brought stolen documents to self-driving startup Zoox
Would you mind sharing what language this is?
Covid-19 Public Datasets by Google
It's striking to see people queuing in cars.
> What do you call it when real wages don’t go up in a system designed to “encourage productivity?

Low skill immigration. Without them McDonalds workers would earn $25 an hour in San Francisco like they do in Zurich since otherwise nobody would want to work there.
YouTube is maybe... <10% of Google?

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp... is >90% of Facebook.
Seaplanes. Coastal cities could be directly served and offload or replace giant airports.
I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgauer is the Cure
Hyper Traps
Huh? Where do you get the 'c'? Typo?
Oh damn, I was always a bit idealistic about seafaring, and now I read that someone would describe it as prison? Yikes. And it's terrible that they can't even go home after their contracts are over.
This had me laughing out loud even though I knew it was coming, thanks ^_^
24 hours of content, I need to ask for the day off!!
It can be irritating though. I tried it and stopped because of this. Also it doesn't last as long as an alcohol or aluminum salt based deodorant.

It's very worth trying though, if it works fine for you it's very advantageous!
Inventor of LoRa technology is presenting in half an hour!
did you ever think you wanted your favorite regex as Fat32? Because if you did you have two problems.
I can't disagree more -- I am completely following all social distancing in California. Staying home, only going out when necessary, having virtual gatherings with friends. I'm also supporting our government enforcing these policies for others. But it's absolutely not because I trust our government to keep us safe, nor do I trust them to decide to keep people home. I trust the greater scientific community, and my own due diligence in understanding the issue, and am making an informed decision.

I abhor the fact that people are protesting the stay-at-home order en masse in some states, but I believe that they're looking at it from the same perspective as me. I feel it was a failure of their education to not understand the issue, and that they're doing the rational thing if they believe they're being forced into authoritarianism. I also believe they're doing the rational thing since we have very little social support system for many of those people, but that's beside the point.

If the government made all guns illegal and said "we haven't gotten rid of all guns from the streets, you must stay home or risk being shot by rogue gunmen, with a fine of $1000 for leaving home", I would also be protesting in the same way as those people today.

I can't speak for other countries, but people in the U.S. are very opposed to being told what to do, especially by their government. Most are okay with it in a pinch for a short while, but I don't think any sort of authoritarianism is going to fly in the U.S. long term.
VPs are a dime a dozen though
<troll>myself</troll>
Github has repositories already.
Not to be confused with the Falcon programming language - http://falconpl.org.
Wappalyzer discloses security breach after hacker starts emailing users
While it is maintained by Atlassian, I found this react library really useful for making customized Trello boards for myself https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd

Creating cards that made sense for my use case was fun... I was going to play with adding a card type that I could work on to create notes with my apple pencil, a bit like postit notes... Anyway, a silly side project for me I guess, but worth a look if you're heavily invested in Kanban format
Thanks for your post. Every news story seems to say "12 to 18 months for a vaccine" as if it's a given, and I always think of all the diseases for which we don't have any vaccine despite many years of effort. I don't have any background in that but I'm hoping we can see some more clear-eyed discussion of the likelihood of that.
Ruma is dead, long live Ruma
Brain Games – Vote on ProductHunt
I knew about it, but I happen to have a close family member who owns Zinq-emblazoned clothing so that might skew things a bit ;)
Yep. IMHO if Google would want to make a move here, now would be a good time. And as the creators of Kubernetes, they have some nice incentive to try to stay relevant.

MS gobbling this one up would not be a big surprise.
The only person in the world who is respected by both the government of PRC and ROC (Republic of China/Taiwan) is Sun Yat Sen. He's the man who wanted to reform China and remove the corruption associated with the previous Dynasties. Each respective government interpreted this in their own way but, it has to be remembered, that Taiwan was also a dictatorship under the White Terror until just over 30 years ago.

Taiwan became a democracy because because the people of Taiwan asked for it and the regime at the time, the Kuomintang, wished to seek democratic legitimacy in response to these demands. Since then, Taiwan has grown to become one of the most socially liberal societies in Asia.
> >[The COBOL] tipping point doesn’t worry David Dischiave, associate professor and director of Global Enterprise Technology, Syracuse University, who says, “I don’t buy into the idea that there is a shortage of Cobol programmers. If there is a shortage, why aren’t employers responding to my calls to get jobs for majors with Cobol experience? What employers do, rather than what they say, matters most.”

> Why should a career-minded student spend their independent study time on COBOL?

First, COBOL is shockingly simple and straightforward.

It's not studied because it's boooring.

You don't do amazing things with cobol. You do simple and reliable things with cobol.

> COBOL articles also often make vague claims that it is better at some business-oriented tasks, but without a lot of specifics. The author gives this list:

> - The capability for heterogenous “record-structure” data

A well defined binary data format suitable for data exchange between heterogenous systems and organisations. Transactions between companies and departments who internally may choose whichever implementation they seem best.

And a simple and straightforward description of the data RECORDs.

> - The capability for decimal arithmetic

Well defined arithmetics on arbitrary precision numbers. Behaving identically on PC, mainframe, Unix.

> - The capability for convenient report generation

This was initially invented relative to tty fixed width printing, but the templating mechanisms also work with contemporary outputs.

> - The capability for accessing and manipulating masses of data (typically made up of heterogeneous data structure).

Batch processing in b2b transactions.

> I work on server-side Java/C++ at a Big-N, doing ETL pipelines and distributed applications, and I have trouble believing that COBOL is better at any of those tasks than a modern language with modern tooling/build system. If COBOL is so great, where are the new adopters?

That's not b2b transactions you work on do you?

> Why is Apache Spark supporting R and not COBOL?

Because it's trivial to transform cobol records into something digestable by other tools.

The gap is people liking boring reliable batch processing of piles of records. People liking to dig into existing 'boring' b2b transaction processing systems.

It needs a very special breed of people who embrace the value of the simplicity and dependability of these existing architectures, who then evolve these existing systems instead of saying how shitty and how 60s they are.

And then also people who live in both worlds and who bridge the gap e.g. into real time data mining and online processing instead of batching.
This article is ridiculous from start to finish.

The point of jira is about usability and visualization (dashboards and kanban boards) and to be usable by non tech people too (support tickets).
I don't think this is going to be a popular opinion, but what is the use of designating something as UNESCO world heritage? Doesn't the protection it would require keep budget away from other things, like COVID? I understand that its nice to get recognized though.
I naively assumed the amount of spying going on on the platform was common knowledge, my bad.

And sure, no reason not to use it, as long as you're 100% certain you're never going to utter anything on the platform that isn't 100% aligned with the CCP party line.
I think he made a mistake, it should have been "if it weren't for my horse I would have spent more than that year in college."

English can be tricky that way.
I led a project for validating customer-provided data against a json schema. The structure of the data was moderately complex, and it was getting bound to pojos by a pretty lenient binder. This caused issues when making additions to the API since customers were sending arbitrary fields, and duck typing the data wasn't that reliable. The easiest thing to validate before binding with a json schema.

What's different this and Python type hints is that this was a public-facing API, so you have far less control over what data you'll see, and the server code was Java, so getting things strongly typed and validated early on makes your life easier.
This post [0] persuaded me that I need multiple SAML IDP signing keys to prevent badly behaved third party apps from accepting every user authentication as an authorization. Keycloak supports this configuration, but can anyone comment on how reasonable this is from an ops standpoint? Is it difficult to configure this way? Is it harder to back up?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22739626
I like the idea of futures on everything.
> I wonder how many people swore at him for what they got put through ;)

I heard him mention in an interview that he received a lot of abuse (cathartic, not mean, from the way he described it). I think the mobile version actually used text messages, which must've been fun for him after the game took off.

EDIT: It's here, in a GDC presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4UFC0y1tY0#t=39m20s -- the whole presentation is worth watching.
Robert Kegan's Constructive-Developmental Theory could be useful in understanding this.

It basically defines an evolving relationship between Subject (what one is) and Object (what one has).

Criticism targeted at objects (what one perceives) is tolerated. Criticism targeted at the subject (what one is) is frequently a source of stress.

For example, criticism towards one's religion elicits different reactions if the religion is part of Subject (what one is) versus if the religion is Object (what one has).

The same with programming, if the piece of software gets entangled with one's identity, criticism of the software becomes criticisms targeted at one's identity and losing a piece of identity is akin to dying. For someone who only views software as objects, the reaction of a person that has their identity entangled with the software would appear blown out of proportion.
There's also https://packagist.com/. I don't know how well the business is doing.
Like this: https://ff23.be ?
spooky music

Maybe to be able to be "legally compelled" to distribute backdoors onto linux servers / developer machines running npm in exchange for being awarded the JEDI contract.
This is really cool to see.

Hopefully I can debug why the Bridge pegs two cores and writes out 10gb+ of a single log line over and over when I try to transfer one particular email through it overnight. :-)

(same thing happens in the dedicated mailbox migration program, which is probably using the same shared libraries)
This was really interesting, but also it just as a byproduct of the explanation actually explains how the core circuit elements are actually implemented (resistors, NPN vs. PNP transistors) which I found really interesting. I had a general idea of transistor implementation, but always just assumed resistors were varying dopants or some such, rather than the now obvious "make it longer/thinner".
in all this talk about form-factor and sizes, the two most comfortable phones I ever used, in terms of their physical feel in my hand, were the palm pre2 and pre3. They felt like a little river pebble that was warm to the touch. I wish companies would go back to small phones that feel good in your hand.
keyvalues.com has a really nice bunch of topic and ideas that are worth asking during an interview
why not? There's a REST API and I don't think Amazon devs actively developed modules for terraform or pulumi, but the way around...so the pulumi devs seem to have no interest in Proxmox support.
That looks cool! Does it have APIs?

Edit: yes it has!

I'll be trying this tonight.
A $300 (EUR500) phone in 2020, and its screen resolution is 750 x 1334 (according to GSMArena, because Apple doesn't mention it). Sadly, that's not enough to watch FullHD videos. An attractive form-factor aside, weird resolution of the lower-tier iPhones (XR, 11, SE 2020) is a non-starter for me.
I'm impressed how well the huge GOL pattern runs in Golly, but it's not clear where the actual Tetris board is on it. Not many of the metapixels are live at a time so there's a lot of zooming in and out to see what's going on.
On the other hand ;), it stands to reason that confinement or restriction is something many species including fish and reptiles will grow impatient with. After all, there is no evolutionary advantage to letting yourself be locked in, for nearly any animal.
I chose Kanboard[1] for personal user because it's PHP and supports SQLite. I hate becoming an admin for these kind of apps. Also chose FreshRSS over Tiny Tiny RSS for the same reasons. Works by just uploading a directory to my shared hosting.

[1] https://kanboard.org/
Architects and engineers are turning old shipping containers into mobiled ICUs
I really like kanban boards for organizing my work but one feature I really miss in nearly all solutions is a way to schedule my day using existing tasks in a board. And preferably in a stand-alone way rather than adding it to my google calender.

I'm currently using paymo [1], which does a great job at this.
Example of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/3Re9sXn
But I'm open for switching to any alternatives.

[1]: https://www.paymoapp.com/
Matter-antimatter symmetry violation in neutrino oscillations
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, unfortunately, and it's not what this place is for. In fact it destroys what it is for, so we ban accounts that do it. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Amazon employees aren't slaves. No one is forcing them to endure my actions.
It costs millions of dollars to hire someone at a place like Google. If you get it wrong you’re making an extremely expensive mistake.
No, it is an NPM fault. Their team is highly toxic and selfish.