skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very sad that we have 150k dead people in the world (34k in US) who could have produced more than 150x (35x) the data in experiments that weren't controversial, and saved many lives. Still, we'll probably have to wait for targeted medicine to really make a difference.
Um, bitcoin, anyone?
All li ion batteries work this way. If the battery mapped 100% to the chemical max capacity, your batteries would degrade very fast and die very young.

This whole discussion is colored by confusiin between the heavily simplified model presented by the charge indicator with the raw battery properties.

Fun fact: there is no "80%" level either as seen from the battery controller POV, that's just a forecast about how much energy the battery might be able produce if run until the cut-off level (and the 0% level here is also a fair bit above the chemical empty state), and the battery controller is constantly updating its model about how the battery behaves when discharging to keep the forecast accuracy reasonable when the battery ages. When the batteries come from the factory, the calibrations for 0%, 80%, 100% are at certain voltages, and they constantly move throughout the life of the battery. (Maybe not the 0% voltage)
It alleviates that problem because your hand doesn’t have to grip the corners of the phone to be able to hold the phone with one hand anymore. You can pivot the phone from the center without dropping it or having to shift your grip.

If you can’t imagine it, seriously, it’s a $10 thing. Just try it. Give it a week for you to get used to it. If you hate it you’re not out a lot of time, money, or effort.
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I've experienced this first hand when I was a know nothing try hard at a office job that didn't matter.

I learned fast to document.EVERYTHING!

Not that management can always have your back, but they most certainly will turn a blind eye when someone bitches or complains.
But that works with equilateral polygons as well. How would a square lid fall into a smaller square hole?
Hey HN!

I'm reposting this due to the unfortunate situation that we're in right now. The reason I came up with it now is because of this post [1]. It made me realize for the first time that this project might be more beneficial than usual during these times.

Doodledocs.com is an open-source [2] frontend web app that establishes a peer to peer connection for your stylus data. The idea is to draw together and/or annotate on websites together.

It's a proof of concept. Not a lot seems to be happening in this space, considering that this particular app has features that things like Google Jamboard doesn't have (e.g. pressure sensitivity, website annotation). But using a stylus on web pages gives the idea of a "web document" a whole different meaning. We can treat web pages a lot more like paper and I think we should in certain cases. Free form drawing/writing is sometimes the most powerful tool of expression there is.

Anyways, if you happen to be unable to draw together with someone due to the lockdown, now you can! The only limitation is that it can't punch through corporate firewalls unfortunately (hosting it for free at the moment, currently not paying for a TURN server).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22894407

[2] https://github.com/melvinroest/doodledocs
2 days ago.

"New York City raised its likely death toll from coronavirus by 3,778 people on Tuesday afternoon"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nursing-homes-remain-a-concern-...
The problem was the phones battery couldn't deliver enough current to run the cpu at full power, even though it had charge remaining to run the phone for some period of time in a lower power mode.

Without power management, when a high demand task came alone and the CPU tried to draw more power, the phone would crash or shut-down.

The firmware update capped performance not to extend the run-time when the batteries were low, but to allow the phone to run reliably when the batteries were worn.
Congrats to the Phoenix team on another milestone win. Your rising tide is lifting many boats.

For those of you working in Rails, you will be excited to know that we have StimulusReflex:

https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/

SR was inspired by LiveView. It's built on ActionCable, CableReady and morphdom. It is fast like a demon and works well with AnyCable. You can see demos here:

http://expo.stimulusreflex.com/demos/tabular
I believe you mean Melt Blown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melt_blowing
I would move away from url shorteners.

- It’s a single point of failure.

- If the database breaks, you loose all your links.

- If they get attacked, they can redirect to malware.

- If they go out of business or gets shut down, you have another issue to solve.

If you’re using markdown, asciidoc, restructuredtext you can create a link and hide the url with text.

Equivalent to,

<a href=“http://example.com/some/page/here”>Example</a>
I know tidal curves have increase the moons orbit, I’m struggling to think of anything (outside massive collisions) that would cause planets to move closer to their stars, or move to new ones.
A shame. Are there any alternatives to Purse out there?
ZNC and earlier implementations have been around for 15+ years to provide queuing proxies. Pretty much all of the "unique" features found in current chat systems were also implemented in one fashion or another in the IRC ecosystem decades ago. Ease of use has definitely improved, in exchange for for-profit company control over communications in these systems. IRC's decentralized nature still argues for its relevance even now.
Ooh, ooh, another thread where I get to use Betteridge's Law of Headlines! No, it was never useful.

(This kind of headline doesn't really fit the Betteridge's pattern, but the answer is actually "no" all the same)
This post inspired me to repost [1] my side project that I open sourced as a PoC a while ago. I saw "note-taking" in the title and my project allows the type of note-taking that I envision should happen a bit more often (using a stylus).

The code is open-source, so I invite the co-founders of Grain to take a look and see if the idea might be useful to them :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22896157
Only if testing can detect the infection at t=0.
For what it's worth I've never heard of a company or industry that actively avoids new grads. If anything, many companies seem to prefer new grads because they're cheap, don't have families taking up their time, and can usually pick up whatever technology they need to on the job.

The hard part is developing skills later in your career that a new grad can't just pick up, so that you continue to be worth your salary.

That said, sub-industries do vary in terms of how easy their work is to just "pick up" for anyone with a generic CS background, versus ones that require more experience. Some rough categories in rough order:

Basic CRUD apps (most startups, mobile, web)

Enterprise

Systems

Embedded
> Why even go that far? Software emulation is good enough for the vast majority of the users.

To replace a failed ASIC on a physical Amiga (or a Amiga replica), which will be unavailable in the future. Don't forget the original topic of the article is a recreation of the physical Amiga.
There's a lovely article from 1886, written by Henry Rowland, who made the first decent diffraction gratings. He wrote about his process of lapping the screw threads to take out minor local errors. His screw didn't have to do a lot of work, but it had to be damn uniform.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,...
> Sure, I know that. And you know that. How many muggles know that? The argument can't be "switch to mutt" or something along those lines. Even Thunderbird does not to the best of my knowledge run on mobile, today's premier platform. You can't win people over that way.

No one said switch to Mutt. There are multitude of quality email software for both mobile and desktop, including webmail frontends to IMAP. In fact, you can even configure Dovecot with virtual folders to work like Gmail, and there are multiple frontends and even enterprise Helm charts for email servers that also include ActiveSync to work with calendar integration and contacts.

> I think it's pretty obvious I meant the command line tools. They most certainly have a UX and a UI. Painful ones.

How painful can a CLI be to you? If you want encryption for your grandma, then automate the deployment of the software and configuration for your grandma. There are multiple email apps on Android alone that make setting up encryption easy. If you thing GPG UI is painful, then you should look at the rest of the Linux and Go Lang CLI ecosystem. They are all the same, and for what it is GnuPG does a great job at it and for developers and CLI-inclined individuals it works well and is easy to understand.

> Absolutely not. Unlike gpg, successful software doesn't require you to understand its internals to operate successfully. How many people use Windows? Android? iOS? What percentage of those users really understand the internals?

Again, you'd probably be better off not trying to with GPG and just using Thunderbird or installing an Android app with encryption. It sounds like you have no interest in configuring anything more complex or working on solutions to these problems without trying to complain about GPG which isn't the problem at all:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-e...
An intern definitely wrote that. Source-was an intern for a public official at one point
The SF Bay Area has a population that is 75% of Sweden’s entire population.

SF itself is more densely populated than Sweden’s most densely populated city which appears to be Stockholm (7700/km^2 vs 5000/km^2). Stockholm has a population around 20% larger than SF.

According to Wikipedia, California is smaller than Sweden.

So there may be some dense pockets in Sweden but it certainly isn’t more densely populated than California and it doesn’t appear that there are large cities that approach the density of NYC/SF.
maybe there was a slight delay getting them in this count
Actually in SQL you can restrict what data is accessible through views and row level security. You have much more control that you have in GraphQL.
http://aaqr.org/files/article/668/36_AAQR-13-06-OA-0201_991-...
I have a strong suspicion it's come from user surveys, and is tied to data science or analytics.

Sales were down and the butterfly keyboard caused so much complaining it was impossible for Apple to not eventually take note.

If people are complaining and sales are down, the reasonable solution is to listen to your customer. They've done it for every product as of late, like the new Macbook Pro, the new Mac Pro, and while the Apple SE is more a budget project so it may have been inevitable for it to turn out this way, the iPhone 12 is supposed to be smaller, much closer to the iPhone SE.
It would have been the same outcome regardless of what SMS app you were using.
In my experience, sometimes you have to lie because being sometimes situations arise where being honest hurts my immediate credibility which ultimately can hurt our relationship.

Lying to me is a tool that has to be used effectively. It's a fine line where if you do it too little, people think of you as a tool or you hurt yourself. If you do it a lot, nobody trusts you. It's a socially something that should be expected, but something for you to consider to yourself.
Going by the downvotes there are a lot of very anxious people out there who desperately want to believe that they can MacGyver their way to personal safety.

Compared to chloroquine this seems like a mildly risky thing, but until they conduct a double-blind physical test, get it reviewed by experts, etc, it shouldn't be out in the public. A good engineer would know that.
" delivery is more risky health-wise for delivery workers (who may have to visit 10+ different stores in a day)."

I've been researching this as part of a brainstorming effort on things like non-profit alternatives to pickup and delivery to get more folks out of stores. I also regularly talk to employees of any place I go to about behind-the-scenes stuff to understand it. Based on how each operates, the pickup people seem to be most at risk because they're:

(a) told where to be by their handhelds at any moment even if people are crowding around that area or them (sadly common)

(b) store the stuff in tight to medium spaces full of other people with similar level of exposure

(c) forced to be at a desk, use phones, or computers that all kinds of people are touching

(d) talk to more people face to face on deliveries if they're a delivery person

Way, way more risky to work pickup if any of the above applies. It might also be more risky to order through pickup if they're not doing lots of sanitation. If you're wondering about that, all you have to do is ask anyone who has worked retail how minimum wage or barely-above people follow the rules if every day is a shit day. Hint: many will care less than the customers they're serving.

All that is just for risk assessment. Far as your app, I have mixed feelings on it like the parent. What I like is that you all put time into doing something to help people do something that might reduce the spread of the virus. So, thanks for doing that. :)

Heck, I had thought about doing the same thing with it just being selectively given to immuno-compromised, older, and/or nice folks. I also have been thinking someone could do some of these online shopping ideas for more well-off folks with differentiators with that money covering cost of both physical space and IT to support more orders from the other people. Kind of like freemium.
The ones that are self-hosting are more-or-less doing it specifically so that they can use non-publicly-accessible servers. So I guess that won't work.

I was thinking that you were imagining that they would need to set up some kind of internal ACME infrastructure or something. Now I see you were just imagining certbot. Maybe half the domains I've seen used aren't actually publicly resolvable. Once I saw one that was, but was actually owned by someone else.

Anyway, there is no easy way out.
Ask HN: Where do you get your news, and why?
I'm trying to replace my filter-bubble with https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page though I realize there's bias everywhere.

Where do HN readers get their news, outside of HN?
Something I've discovered by accident is that the lathe sits idle in most machine shops these days. If you can design something that can be made on the lathe, you can often get it done with virtually no waiting time.
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0979303605

This book fixed my posture. After reading it, I understood for the first time what it actually means to have good posture.
Please send me an email at harlan -at- dds.mil or file a report on https://hackerone.com/deptofdefense and we'll get it closed.
Lay person here. As I understand it the problem is in order to stave off deflation over the past decade we’ve continued to provide cheap government debt propping things up in the US and Europe and most of the western world. After the 2009 bailout we never really were able to put the genie all the way back into the bottle.

Companies have been loading up debt like crazy cuz it’s cheap. And buying back stocks with that debt. Cuz why not.

And now we have world wide huge government debts and we are in a situation where once this pandemic is done they’ll all pretty much more than double.

We would right now be entering a deflationary period for certain but for the massive fire hose of cash coming off the government printing press. In fact the reason we probably weren’t in deflation prior to the pandemic is because of western government providing that continuous supply of cheap debt to keep inflation up.

The result of our massive printing run here is that government debts are exploding rapidly on top of already insane levels.

To fix that we will need to tax that money back but no one is going to start taxing billionaires. The printing presses are running hot to print money primarily to rescue billionaires right now not ordinary people (just look at where the fire hose is pointed).

Massive inflation will be the inevitable result of all this printing and the only way the government will get its debts paid off.

So we will enter a period of massive inflation and low or negative growth. The worst of all worlds.. stagflation.

Most people will be worse off on the other side of this, but the billionaires will be saved.

Currencies will fail or be seriously debased. The US will not be immune to this but it will last longer than all of the others.

The end result is everyone who currently has debt, congratulations, the government is planning to inflate away your debt at the same time as they inflate away their own debts.

To anyone who has been responsible and saved and not taken on debt. Sorry we all get fucked.
fwiw I think that a single letter probably would’ve your original comment clearer, specifically pluralizing the first instance of “moral”:

> The problems at work often comes down to morals

It is relatively uncommon to use the singular moral in a sentence, in my experience. You can maybe remember this by associating it with the idea that people have a set of morals, not just one.
Simply that each of us define evil differently. What is evil to one may not be evil to another. I'm not talking about extremes like murder, but for example capitalism or communism. Or writing code for the department of defense.
She's 86 and just started another 6-year term last year.
Makes you wonder how much those companies really compete.
Ask HN: Are there any careers quizzes you would recommend?
I'm 29 and feel that I've hit something of a wall in my career. I'd like to consider other options and thought that a careers quiz might help me come up with some ideas. I was just wondering if there were any you'd found useful. (I did use the Algolia HN search to see if anybody had suggested quizzes and the links seem to be dead now!) Thanks :)
Given the misery and problems associated with long-term ventilator usage, I'm not sure vents for covid is a good idea at all
No, there is only one Host who governs the video, everyone else has no ability to change the timestamp or stop the video.
No, it shows there is a widespread problem. Like cockroaches, for every one you see, there are ten you don’t. Thankfully, once content is found, it is added to a database so that it can be quickly removed from the public internet. Emphasis on “public.”
I think a point is that when you create software there are so many choices how you could create a given piece of program. Trying to figure the best way to do it before you actually do it could take very long, and you still would not be very much wiser because it would all be in your head not in software. Whereas if you just do it you have something you can learn from, and make incrementally better
You can still use your headphones, unfortunately you just need to get a $10 adapter.
Having only one model would mean you can streamline everything since you’re always doing the same.

The cost of every car is the same in terms of hardware and Human Resources. Easier to work with.

If you ever decide to upgrade, you’ll just pay them. 0 effort on their part.

Repairs are also easier regardless of upgrades since there’s only one model.

If the car is resold, they can enable more features too.
I don't think anyone is that sure there will be a vaccine but there is some promising work being done, I believe there are around 70 different vaccines being developed ATM.

One that looks like it may work is from an Israeli group working on a milder corona virus that seems to use the same spiked protiens as the one killing everyone and there is hope that once infected with milder one, the bodies immune system will be able to fight off the deadlier one too.

I makes me wonder, scary as it is, that is if the milder virus can make us immune would it be worth the risk releasing a live version into the population? This would greatly reduce the time required to produce and distribute a life saving vaccine and effectively make it free for everyone.
Are there services like these that also “rent” the software (aside from the OS) licenses to you? I wouldn’t mind paying a pro-rated license for sharing photo or video editing software for example.
If people will stay home anyway if need be, then there really is no reason for the authoritarian lockdowns, is there.
'Like a spiral UFO': world's longest animal discovered in Australian waters
The company I work for basically relies on use scripts to make any of our internal tools usable. Its kind of insane and makes on-boarding new employees somewhat difficult when they aren't even looking at the same UI as tenured people.
It's quite troubling, too, that the senator does not provide a baseline against which to assess the 70 million figure. How many of the pictures are duplicates or substantially duplicates? What is the report actually counting? How does that translate to number of victims? How many more images does the senator believe that the EARN IT act will uncover?

The senator quoted the 70 million figure not to inform us, but to shock us and make us suspend judgement. It shouldn't be the norm for senators to respond without carefully sourced statistics, and it shouldn't be the norm for them to present a single statistic without a baseline or without something to compare it against, leaving it to our imagination, what the effect of their policies will be or what the scope of the issue is.
>The U.S. has bungled its response to this (ongoing) crisis much harder than China did, and I think our economy is going to suffer more. For all the corruption, China's bureaucracy displayed a reasonable level of competence in tackling the issue once they actually got rolling.

You are making a huge mistake trusting the Chinese numbers. Just as cases here are drastically underreported, there were a host of documented reasons to suspect China's numbers. They currently have a northern region locked down now and you can be sure without a vaccine or prophylactic there will be another wave.

Edit: BNO newsroom earlier today tweeted that China is revising the death till in Wuhan by 50%, claiming what "rumors" have been saying since January, that people couldn't make it to the hospitals. The tweet is a partial truth. It neglects the fact that China locked down it's citizens in a manner which effectively kept them from going to hospitals. The revisions have only just begun. There was a paper out in I think February which talked about orders of magnitude underreporting of numbers.

https://mobile.twitter.com/bnodesk
https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/125098653627288780...
You may note that ICANN only really got into these sorts of games after gaining independence from the US government...
Kind of glum. How about: the rich are donating to those in need, the coders are creating tools to help others, the tall are handing items to others that can’t reach. Life isn’t fair and we should help others when it is not self destructive.
Yea in vitro you can just douse the virus in bleach and you’re all done.
They are case-sensitive.

> The "alg" value is a case-sensitive ASCII string containing a StringOrURI value. This Header Parameter MUST be present and MUST be understood and processed by implementations.
Youtube sync should work for lots of people.

We tested video calls in a group of 8, it was working well. I heard that having around 35 people in one room can make it unstable.
You never saw that so you never accounted for it.

You didn’t see it when you bought it. You didn’t make decisions on it. You didn’t know about it when you sold it.

If the price didn’t reflect it, what did you loose?