skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that way more effort is put into repression and regulations than actually working on providing a better healthcare system.
Easy to show you suffered financial loss, potentially also makes for a strong contract violation case.
Modern recessions aren't like famines, where there simply isn't enough stuff to go around. We have plenty of stuff, our productive capacity is still available, and the problem is just getting it allocated properly. Magic money creation based on nothing can help with that kind of problem.
Emacs includes a web browser out of box (just saying; I know its limitations).
Its a business. When a court ignores the actual real world and says imaginary things, unintended consequences are assured. Business doesn't work like whatever world is inside French intellectuals' heads.
Ikea desk, with matching wall-mounted cabinets and a free standing cabinet next to it. 15" MacBook Pro connected to 2x28" 4K monitors (Samsung UH750). I just bought a new ergonomic chair from Amazon and it makes a world of difference. Working from home is now so much better than my office in terms of experience. The monitors are bigger and easier on my eyes, and now my chair is just as comfortable as the $1k Aeron chairs we have at work.
This kind of hyper-connected lifestyle seems..... kind of exhausting. Constant barrage of information that you may or may not need; being reliant on many bits and pieces of services that change all the time (when they drop out of support or starts asking for money) in which you have to adapt or find alternatives to.
Back in the 80's wasn't there some issue with Microsoft having to pay AT&T royalties for Xenix and in order to get out of that agreement, they had to agree to stop doing anything related to Unix?
It is expressed as a % of the total tested persons, so it depends a lot how wide is the testing policy of each state.
Show HN: Sign by Phone
This is weird...

> Amazon “evidently failed to comply with obligations to protect the health of employees,” judges said in their Tuesday ruling.

That results in

> a court order banned the sale of non-essential goods, concluding the retailer isn’t doing enough to protect staff from the Covid-19 pandemic.

I think there's something missing from one reason (not good enough health practices according to the judge) to lead to ban non-essential goods sales.

Can some fill in what's missing (with references) please?
Meetings took forever, goals and budgets limited my creativity, have been getting fat on business lunches and life is simply too short to spend it in the office. Couldn't breathe with recycled air.

I got cancer and when I got better I have never wanted to go back to the office.

I have spent last 10 years travelling the world, reading, learning to live on very little. Never looked back. Life is not a bliss but I am happier in general and satified with tradeoffs I have made.

I still do some projects for my own satisfaction. Still enjoy programming and learning new skills.
I think it's too early to make any predictions.
Ask HN: Is quarentine selecting for more deadly strains of COV19
Is quarentine selecting for more deadly strains of the virus? It seems the people leaving quarentine(to go to hospital) are those with deadly symptoms whereas milder cases stay at home.

Could someone who knows what they are talking about answer this question?
In a parellell universe, this would've been me. Electrician seem to be the perfect "manual" labor - not a lot of heavy lifts, work with your head a lot, good mix of in- and outdoors.

Ps. Love the username/post combo.
I did not follow this issue closely when it happened, is there a credible source on who took the website down yet? That honestly sounds a bit quicker than German LE normally acts in IT matters.

edit: ah great, thanks.
The principle is that if your ally has a receive antenna with a gain of X, and you use a modulation scheme with a coding gain of Y, and you transmit strong enough that your signal can be received by your ally with a snr margin of Z, then as long as your enemy doesn't have a receive antenna with gain > X+Y-Z, they can't detect your signal from the noise.

Since Y can be increased arbitaraly (at the cost of channel data capacity), it's always possible to transmit some information to your ally without your enemy seeing a transmission, it might just be a few bits per second, but theres a lot you can do with a few bits per second in warfare.

One needs to make sure that the above holds true for all possible frequency windows and time windows, so no carrier waves or high power sync pulses!

I believe the implementation is much harder than the theory - just one crystal oscillator or PLL anywhere in your radio hardware will leak some of that frequency into the output, and since the bandwidth of a crystal oscillator is super low (obviously an ideal oscillator has zero bandwidth), even a tiny leak is detectable by an enemy.
Hello, Cass and Rikki here, the co-founders of Sign by Phone (https://www.signbyphone.co.uk).

The idea came from Cass's wife having an awkward delivery moment near the beginning of the pandemic lockdown. The delivery guy needed her to sign for a package but couldn’t hand over his device due to social distancing regulations. She wondered if there was a better way to do it. The service is aimed at micro-businesses (mom and pop retailers on Etsy for example) that send lower volume but higher value items via courier. The sender can use the site to generate a unique QR code and attach to the package that can be scanned by the recipient’s smartphone.

The service offers 3 things:

- Contact-free confirmation of delivery via QR code (plus SMS option for non-smartphones)

- A channel to engage the recipient at the point of delivery by creating bespoke ‘thank you’ messages. This could be a discount code, a special offer or a personalised message, a substitute for the printed promotional collateral that these companies put into their packages.

- When a user signs up for a paid plan, we also donate 25p to healthcare charities.

What we’re looking for

- Just general feedback as well as any cool suggestions for extending the service in ways that would better help small businesses
One of my favorite early american history facts is that there were a sufficient number of Quakers among the founders that the US legal system does not actually require oaths to be taken to testify in court or hold office.

You always have the option of making “a solemn affirmation” instead, because Friends don’t swear oaths.
Apple News+ isn't exactly the same thing. It's more targeted at magazines, and doesn't have most of the relevant newspapers on board. But there are other issues:

1. It's run by Apple, which takes a hefty cut, and is thus oriented towards whatever is in Apple's best interests. It should be run by a consortium of newspapers instead and work in their best interest.

2. It's only available on Apple devices, which I don't have.

3. It has an app-based model. That's not what I want. What I want is an SSO passport login that lets me into all of the publisher's pre-existing sites. I don't want an app or a new site or anything, I just want a login that works on the existing newspaper sites.
Your average investor doesn't know yet or doesn't care yet. Also, pre-market.
Growth is always good for the poor, as it is good for entire poor nations. The problem with modern capitalism though is that the rich benefit from growth to a greater extent compared to the rest. The gap is only widening. Then there's stagnation/recession/depression when it's the opposite: the poor lose more than the rich compared to what they have. So no, growth is a good thing, but it needs some serious fixing too.
The Logaf Scale
Seconded on this article. I shout from the rooftops to anyone who will listen that for ML, "the confusion matrix is the product," which summarizes much of what they say.
The only thing I add to that adage now is that a meaningful product is a weighted function of Relationships, Data, and Expertise.

Most ML companies have one, funded ones have two, and profitable ones have the right balance of three. Funding an ML company that isn't 85th percentile on at least two is dumb.
"Anonymous Indians"
GitHub was better even without these features than GitLab tho. GitLab UI is slow and un-intuitive.
By definition, fiat currency is literally based on nothing. Or, more correctly, fiat currency is based on a shared collective delusion that it has 'value'.
I don't know if I would call a 3% drop "to its knees". I don't mean to nitpick, things aren't good, but I think it's important to acknowledge that our economy is absorbing the shock much better than you'd expect from reading the headlines.
To humbly present a wish-list for C++23
I on the other hand appreciate that since 1993, C++ has allowed me avoid C as much as possible.
NASA's Curiosity keeps rolling as team operates rover from home
Just can't get any respect for it, I was trying to quit smoking, a friend who I did some projects with asked if I could do this boring thing in a language I don't know, 3 times I politely declined the job, got angry and lit a sigaret in my living room, so I took his make shift astray and threw it the garbage, he left after that saying I wasn't a team player, all the other contract I helped to secure he took with him saying he'll find some other autist.
That would be true if there was wealth distribution happening, but there isn't. Most of this money goes into the hands of the richest people.
I'm currently on month 18 of a sabbatical. I tried to bootstrap a small lifestyle business with my own money and that didn't pan out.

I really don't want to return to tech, because it simply is not my passion. I'm going to try to start an aerospace startup instead, which is my passion. Perfect timing right?
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook are seeing record usage (i.e. increased costs) at exactly the same time that advertising revenue is plunging. YouTube watches are at record highs while pays per view might be at record lows. This just means that the expenses go up even as revenue falls. It's not a good thing for profitability.
Until then people might learn that an online experience without ads is possible.
Is this really the time? I feel like whatever errors Amazon have made with regard to protecting its employees have largely been realized in France by now, and I have serious doubts in the efficiency of forcing a closure having a near-to-intermediate term impact. More likely this is just going to put fulfillment further behind and halt progress in order to protect people who would already have gotten the virus by now.

At some point it’s just more prudent to recognize that the birds have flown and your opportunity to fix the problems isn’t in the next 24 hours but in the next year or years.
I realized that I was only a so-so programmer. the real ninjas were so passionate and knowledgeable; I was only successful because of brute force and overworking. I moved on to a career in the law - which is a much more natural fit for me.
Even something like flour doesn't really last forever--especially if you don't have ideal storage conditions. Maybe you bake enough though.
Seeing how brittle the SMR Seagate drives are (especially the rosewood family), I'm a little bit concerned.
...France seems to have a pretty decent healthcare system by most accounts?
This is nice, I guess, but I'm still not sure how this has any benefit for anybody except that demoscene now shares a list on Wikipedia with some folk dances and knitting patterns.

I think it's much more newsworthy that the Revision Demoparty happened last weekend despite the corona pandemic. It was fully online but still a 72-hour non stop event. Many of the releases are mind-blowing, check https://pouet.net
Agreed.

What concerns me somewhat about Pulumi is we will lose some of "standardization" that comes with the widespread use of Terraform.

Like anything else, it is possible to write Terraform in an incomprehensible way. However, overall I have found that Terraform "constricts" things into being done a certain way. This allows engineers to jump into a new TF codebase and grok what is happening fairly easily.

Now with Pulumi, we lose that constraint, and now have to grok not only the different languages that infra is defined in, but also the wide variety of different "styles" that a language can be written in. An engineer joining from another company or team now has to deal with a new language and a new code style/organization in order to wrap their head around the infra. Not a desirable property when it comes to managing the infrastructure for a company.

While it is appealing that a developer can use a language they are already familiar with to manage infra, that only holds true if the language being used for Pulumi is one they are already familiar with.

I could of course be totally wrong. Regardless, I am excited to see a new contender in the space.
a... micropayments platform? Maybe regulated by a cryptocurrency or embedded blockchain based on eyeball tracking? That would analyze the articles you like and dynamically assemble articles that are related? That would collect "quality" ratings on the article based on how deep you scrolled into it?

Outside all the tech wordsoup I just spouted, there is real potential in that. Maybe it needs to be couched in an independent rating group that advertisers somewhat trust (aka Nielsen in TV land), that could actually drive legitimate ad revenue/investment.

It is strange, given that all newspapers are facing the same apocalypse now for a decade, and they (I think?) were subject to the same media consolidation that affected other channels.
DM-SMRs aren't good at sequential I/O. They're bad, just not pathologically bad. SMR drives still need to stage sequential I/O to the cache area, but they at least get to write it out without a ton of write amplification.

With extra inefficiencies, yeah, SMR drives will only be a few times slower than regular drives for sustained sequential write workloads, as opposed to thousands of times slower for random writes.

Real host-managed SMR with SMR aware filesystems and storage engines might be OK, but that's not a thing in the consumer space.
My experience with NixOS
They did random anti-body testing in a small town if I remember correctly and found it to be 0.5% or so.
Leveraging ULIDs to create order in unordered datastores
> Planners rely on 3-D images from Mars and usually study them through special goggles that rapidly shift between left- and right-eye views ... But those goggles require the advanced graphics cards in high-performance computers at JPL. ... to view 3-D images on ordinary laptops, they've switched to simple red-blue 3-D glasses.
Turns out competition is good for end users.
You're not even in the position to see the change, is the issue. The cost per click on all these ads could be way down from what it was a couple months ago and you'd have no idea.
Assembly language gets you a detailed definition of behavior that isn't a moving target.
T-Online reported that the hoster (1&1 Ionos) did it after a "police request" (other media reports referenced T-Online for this detail): https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id_87685030/...
Just following orders has been a nice excuse thorough many black periods of the human history.
Both these are tabloids and uses "considering" & "is looking at" just below the contradictory headlines. I'm Swedish and are browsing Swedish websites. Including the Public Service svt.se.
I don't think it increased the amount of discussions, just centralised it. Before it would happen between developers in the same repo, now it's all in the same place.

I think that a good thing. Formatting discussions are important (arguably), but it should be decoupled from a specific project.
Oh I see the pre-market is down a little, maybe there’s hope.

I still find it hard to believe no one knew about this until this day.
A Data Provider Pattern Using React Contexts
It's a fair question - when you're presenting an oral argument the goal is to teach/convince/explain. The ability to see your audience is huge: do they have a quizzical look, are they trying to jump in on your comment; do they look at you with incredulity? an experienced attorney (which all of the SCT bar are) will use these visual cues to focus their argument.
It will fix it by making all of us pay the bill. In the long run QE will lead to nothing but inflation. In the beginning you may not notice it, but then after a while you will start asking yourself, why is real estate so insanely priced. And then medical care, cars etc. And while a single/small country can't do QE for far too long before going into hyperinflation and people resorting to another currency / currency board, FED+ECB can actually go much longer. Scale matters. On the moral side though, I find it quite totalitarian an non-democratic to do QE at such a scale and in such away. Just ask yourself where the newly created money supply will be poured into. I bet the SMBs won't see much of that.
I do not understand this kind of brand loyalty.

Even if you're not interested in using Gitlab yourself, the competition and user migrations are clearly turning Github into a better service. You benefit from Microsoft's need to court those users, even if you never touch Gitlab.

Just take the newly reduced prices and free features in your favorite service and be happy.
> Because nothing is as fucked up as I.T.

In all different companies that I have worked with, the finance department seemed to be consistently the most stressful, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants part of the company. I am curious for people to tell the horror stories that they had to go thru.

Should I do an Ask HN on the finance dept?

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> Even if you are an elisp expert, emacs is by now quite inferior to VSCode for most things

I've been impressed that VSCode has managed to implement features Emacs has had for decades. One day it might catch up as long as MS keeps pumping millions into its development.

For me though it's still not even close.
Is there a way to append/extend a MACRO value ?

For example, I have a arbitrary number of includes, each of them declare a struct that need to be listed later on.

#define MOD_LIST // start with an empty list

#include "mod/a.c"
// MOD_LIST is: a,

#include "mod/b.c"
// MOD_LIST is: a,b,

Module modules[] = {
MOD_LIST
}
Is there a good news site worth paying for today that actually has ALL news. It infuriates me that when I go to CNN.com's "news" site, there are ads at the bottom with things like "Before you review Amazon Prime, read this" and "America's #1 Stock Picker: 'Must buy now'" How can anyone be okay with this?

This is like picking up an astronomy journal that has ads in the back for psychics.
Almost none of the company leaders or even VCs fully understand what AI even is or does. They just like to hear thats its there.

If you don't have some AI in your company, you won't get investors.
They are, but the problem is much easier. Typical load factors (% of filled seats) were 80% prior to all this.

They are now single digits. And, that's after massive amounts of reductions to flight schedules.

Boarding 10 people onto a plane with 130 seats with social distancing isn't so hard.

Similar for the ticket counters and TSA.
AsmTwo[0] is a decent currently maintained fork of that.

[0]: http://coppershade.org/articles/Code/Tools/AsmTwo/
You may want to pick a less terrible example. UK went into lockdown very late, tried to insist on some bullshit herd immunity theory, very nearly lost even its PM, and is now paying the price in blood.
They did - https://www.axate.com/ for example
Less sales leads to less activity and deliveries
I'm not sure about that. I've self hosted gitlab for the past four years and have had no issues performance wise and the UI feels pretty much the same as for github in terms of bein intuitive.
> what prevents or prevented Emacs from being even more successful?

Because is big, stuck in it's own past, with many useless quirks. Additionally the malleable system has a price, which for most is bigger than it's benefits. Emacs is always stuck in a loop of fetching up with the rest of the world, living in it's own utopia and creeping away everone who can't dive deep fast enough.

Most people are pracmatic about their tools. Tools should just do their job and don't get in the way. Emacs doe not deliver that, and the people can be quite dogmatic about certain things. It changed in the last years, fresh blood and concepts are spreading their influence, but we will see in another decade whether this actually had some longlasting effect or was jsut another circle of quirk-building.
Blisteringly arrogant of a US company to police the language of another natively english speaking country.

This is not the Scunthorpe problem, this is a culture one.
This is awesome. A great way to bring attention to and protect humanity's cultural heritage - especially in these times of self isolation.

I thought this list of other Living Heritage items - referenced in one of the article links [1] - was pretty cool:

Playing and building the kantele
Playing and building the jouhikantele (bowed lyre)
Playing the musical saw
National Culture Days of the Deaf
Ryijy tradition
Making of Tommi knives
Puppetry
Bedtime story tradition
Demoscene
Living Christmas Calendar of Käpylä
Horsemanship of the Roma
Kalevala bone setting

[1] https://www.museovirasto.fi/en/articles/demoskene-sahansoitt...
Hi! Makers from ArduBee here. Thanks a lot for this comment! As we have never heared of HoverflyOpen and we couldn't find much more than on this site, we can not really comment on it. But if you have more information, we would love to hear about it!
Just based on the facts we can get from that site, it seems a quite priced Flight controller, where you do not know in which flight stack you could use it. Also you can not see how large the community of developers is around it.
Arudupilot, which is our foundation for ArduBee, is Open Source and with a large user base and active, high talented developers working constantly on maintenance and improvements. ArduBee not only is a Flight controller (based on Ardupilot) but it's a full micro uav platform, with 4 x ESC BLHEli32 with telemetry, WIFI ESP8266, Li-Ion based with 18650 holders from easily swaps the battery, 1 facing down rangefinder for low height altitude, and last generation inertial sensors
Reddit says the company is run by 4 high school students.

Which I'll just take as true since the fact that they are actually more polite than most companies in replying to job applicants just adds to the humour.
What happens when a tech conference and a Kpop concert have a name collision
What is a full time parent? I remember as a kid that I was always encouraging my mom to take up hobbies so that she's leave me alone so I could get on with my own stuff. I can't imagine putting all your identity into being a parent. Kids grow up extremely fast.
My calculation leaves out a lot of factors. 20% was a number I pulled out of my arse, many lockdowns are lasting less than 2 months, some things won't go back to normal after lockdowns but normal economic growth won't stop either. I was just trying to say that it's within the realm of reasonability - the number's going to end up being closer to 3% than 30%.
My small org will be moving back to GitHub. While GitLab is a fantastic product, we have been looking for a low cost global search ability, and well, you can't argue with _free_.
I think the warning here is that most people will drop out of the pilot program and/or aren't qualified for it in the first place (eyesight, blood pressure, age, fitness to a lesser degree since it's "fixable" within 6 months). There's always army rotary, I guess.
95KB using MinGW's GCC on Windows using default compilation.

When I tell it to emit the assembly with "-S" I get 28 lines of code when I have a feeling assembly is much shorter.
I agree, Jeff Bezos should definitely be working on getting better healthcare for his workers, rather than supporting union busting.