skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't expect France to know what it's doing at all. Not long ago they had massive protests for a very long time and it was handled poorly. And this seems like a regular occurrence there.
What's hard about it? I cancel my prime membership every other month (always switching between Netflix and Amazon). Click cancel, five times okay, and done.
whoops, sorry it's 567 infections in passengers with 13 deaths. 2.3% CFR. Expected IFR 3% from Imperial College (17)
KeyDB is compatible with existing Redis libraries and tools. If you use some of the newer features your library may lack direct support but most have extensiblity features built in.
1163 Comment right now, ~800 Are about Size of Devices. I thought there was another important point.

The current entry level iPhone; iPhone SE 2020 with A13 is now faster in Single Threaded performance than ALL current shipping Android, including Flagship Android. And judging by the Qualcomm roadmap, this will likely remain the same in 2021 as well.

This is important if you are doing or using Web Apps like Discourse which requires JS processing. The Cost of javascript is still huge. [1] [2]. And While Mobile Apps are well optimised to take advantage of multiple cores, it will still be bounded by Amdahl's law[3].

And a point on devices size.

Japan, the nation which prefer single handed usage and small size Smartphone, and has a hand size smaller than average, median or general US / EU population, has overwhelmingly voted with their pocket on the 4.7" Devices, and not the previous 4" iPhone SE. Even During the iPhone 7, iPhone 8 era.

So I do suggest before people writing off 4.7" as being large, please try and give it a go first.

Another Point worth pointing out, once the tech for FaceID Shrinks to small enough or could be done under display, a 4.7" Edge to Edge Face ID Design would be exactly the same size as the previous iPhone SE. I believe this could be the long term goal for Apple.

[1] https://medium.com/@addyosmani/the-cost-of-javascript-in-201...

[2] https://v8.dev/blog/cost-of-javascript-2019

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Yes. This is something I think about quite a bit, since I did used to work on climate-change related geophysics. If we started combating climate change decades ago, we wouldn't need such a drastic change. Realistically, no real change will happen for another decade, but our backs are already up against a wall.

Having waited so long, the changes required are unbelievably radical and painful, in that our entire way of life must change. AOC and Bernie's Green New Deal is woefully inadequate, and that's considered extreme. I can't see that happening when we can't even figure out how to make paper face masks.
Worthington or Morningstar Farms ‘vege-meats’
Brazil finds possible COVID-19 anti-viral
Well, it's certainly nothing like a catastrophic famine, yet it bares the existing problem with food security in US, and it came really close to the level of something genuinely concerning.

Watch for reports of wholesalers going through many month worth of food staples. In Kazakhstan, where I am stuck now, the government came out and asked "where will we get 8 month worth of grain now?" in response to panic buying. Full shelves now came at the cost of many months worth of supplies. Biggest food silos went through 1/3 of annual throughput volume in just 2 weeks here.

> I lived in an American food desert for about six months. I hated it! All I could get was cheap burgers and hot dogs and chicken...

> The main health problem facing the poorest Americans is obesity, with opioid addiction a close second. Famine is not an issue here and I hope it stays that way.

I spent 6 years of my life in between Vancouver, Canada, and Seattle in US.

It was a big surprise to be that finding what otherwise be "normal" food was relatively hard, and you even had to pay extra for it. I was later told that Vancouver is considered very good on that side, and Seattle is actually better than most other US cities.
> In fairness, 4.7 inches is now a very small phone. So small in fact that you have basically no options that small in the Android line, and no recent iPhones that small either, if I'm not mistaken.

You have to look at the physical dimensions though. A 4.7 display edge-to-edge would be truly compact, but this one has a huge bezel so it's closer in size to the flagships and not really compact.
Some quick bits for non-brazilians:

Out of more than 2000 tested drugs, six presented good reactions in-vitro, and when "mixed" together showed a 94% decrease in viral load.

Human tests approved this tuesday (14th) and to being next week on 7 army hospitals in Rio de Janeiro (5), São Paulo (1) and Brasília (1).
thank you for sharing your experience. i hope you feel better
Reflection on John Conway and His Game of Life
Google is a one trick pony that just took a baseball bat to the knee. I hope covid knocks them from their heights and forces them to create better products. Years of easy advertising money from their search monopoly has led to internal rot and fat, a thinning of the heard could force them to use their employees productively. Or alternatively, nothing will change, they will experience no pain, and the world will go on in six months.
Watching a family member fade and the glimpses of them here and there can be horrific.

My father died when I was 9.

Decades later I watched my mother in law dissolve (and she was very much aware / terrified all the time) over the course of a decade. I think it altered and traumatized my wife's entire family in a way I'm not sure they understand or have dealt with.

Sudden death seems so much more humane.
What do you recommend for Crucial and Kingston SSDs?

I’m familiar with Crucial BX500 and Kingston UV500. They are both SATA and are decent performance considering the limitations of SATA 3. If price isn’t a factor or performance is important I’d go with a Samsung 860 EVO or Pro on SATA. I’ve also used a smaller number of SanDisk by WD SATA SSDs and they work fine as well. Had a bad Samsung 840 series but I think failure to implement proper overprovisioning was to blame. Also had a bad Intel SATA SSD but it was an older generation product and had a small sample size of only a few Intel SSDs, so not writing Intel off; yet it’s suffice to say their products don’t seem price competitive with Samsung’s offerings.

As for NVME SSDs I have used and installed probably ten so far but I think every single one so far has been a Samsung 9xx m.2 and I’ve been extremely satisfied with all of them, especially the 960 series EVO and Pro and moreso the current gen 970 EVO Plus and Pro.
I personally can't stand using a phone without a thick case. They give you a really comfortable grip on the phone. Modern phones are horrible to hold without a case.
The key to animation on the web is to at all costs avoid using JavaScript to manipulate a DOM object on a tight timer. To achieve a smooth animation, you need between 24fps and 120fps depending on the device, so between 43 and 8 milliseconds to get everything done. Doing DOM stuff that fast is going to be a headache compared to using CSS animation or even using the Canvas API.
Hey James. I'll bite - if you have some spare time, could you come up with some nice graphics/svg for a local cuisine/restaurant recommendations app? All the best, friend.
People can increase their attention by controlling certain brain waves
I understand. But with enough "smart" people, enough money, and enough time, she may have really believed it was possible, eventually.

Were all those investors duped?
I once spent over $2k on a second-hand 21" CRT at an IT auction. Took two of us carrying it up/down stairs because I was worried about one of us slipping if solo. Needed a corner desk to fit the thing. I remember having 2-3 CRT screens pre-2000 and the desk required filled the room.
As an everyday user of FaceID IMO it is superior in every way to TouchID.

However, that’s just an opinion. What’s indisputable is that FaceID enables removal of the Home button, which is also a massive positive in and of itself.

Every iPhone I’ve ever owned that had a Home button ultimately had the first thing to fail be the Home button. Not always a complete failure, but at least a partial failure that would make the phone highly annoying to operate.

Besides the Home button wearing out, it also limits the screen size. A full screen is better in every way. In particular by giving significantly more space for the keyboard to be shown without taking up most of the available vertical space.

And so having a biometric unlock which is (arguably) better is really just 1/3rd of the benefit of FaceID. You get a more durable phone, a phone easier to waterproof, and a more usable phone with a better aspect ratio.

That said, the lack of FaceID on the new SE is extremely disappointing to me. I gather they just couldn’t make the margins work at $399.
Sorry for being nitpicky, but there is no free healthcare in France or anywhere else. French citizens pay for their healthcare with their taxes. That's cool. No criticism of that choice intended. Just please don't call it free.
His old college roommate met up with Lee when the "looping thoughts" symptoms first started to present and the roommate (who had been overseas for 10 years before that) commented that he almost called 9/11 because he thought Lee was having some sort of a stroke. Lee's short term memory seemed to wipe and he restarted the same conversation 3 times in an hour lunch (this symptom is pretty common in my experience with other dementia sufferers).

I met back with them a year later and he was very dependent upon his cell phone to look up people on Facebook, places on Google Maps, movies on IMDB, etc. (basically all nouns) in real time during the conversation to fill in the gaps in his memories. I lived with him for maybe 5-6 years and he had to look up my Facebook profile and pictures to try to pick up on any nostalgia that might catalyze a memory.

I suspect there is an underlying current of frustration, but probably not a high level cognitive realization (at least not a sudden one) that his mind is degrading.
Thanks a lot for the simple explanation of the keyboard combinations (and the underlying logic) as well as the part about yanking. As a vi user, that might’ve tripped me up the first few times. But now I know better.
There are no elements in the page for style to be recalculated, so I doubt the reflow is what's slowing it down. I'm curious on what could cause bad performance for you though. It runs smoothly at 60fps on an iPhone 11 and the iPad, using Safari. Did you open the standalone page at https://wwpzj.csb.app/? My only guess would be that the CodeSandbox UI is too heavy for mobile.

For science, I went ahead and converted the code to ES3 and ran on the 10-year old first generation iPad (with setInterval) and it's still pretty smooth.
I just use yarn. V2 forces PNP by default which speeds up the installation by 2-3x.

https://yarnpkg.com/features/pnp
The 6/6s/7 had an aluminum back, but the 8 and now the new SE have a glass back, presumably to support wireless charging.
To distill that to one sentence, home-manage is NixOS for dotfiles and you can use it on Non-NixOS Linux, I believe, too.
Is that a problem? It's there whether you use it or not, and it's not like the asm is running in a vacuum either.

If you go to an embedded point of view where there is nothing already supplied, you can get a hello world, even with a basic printf, down to that size.
How many jobs will go to India?
This is glorious. I'd love to have one of this at home, just for the novelty
The vast majority of users would find a 50% performance improvement and a huge price reduction to be worth the extra effort of replacing the mobo, especially since they already have to replace the cpu and likely put the mobo in to start with.
I do go through a lot of it. My hobby is baking. The day after I got home I made 2 2-lb loaves with my mother starter.
I would be looking into some kind of ship that can crash into a pad and leave a wreck that could serve as a pad itself instead.

That would not be playable tetris, but would be much more pleasing and elegant to me.
I think there is a lot of truth to this caricature, but it rubs me wrong the way you are painting the "later" programmers as blinded by fashion or tradition. "Geniuses vs ignorant sheeple" is a false dichotomy.

Yes, in some similar situations, some programmers will see things that way. But have some faith and respect for individuals' abilities to reason and apply their experience. As you implied, these kinds of systems are often optimized so that one person could run them.

So it's often a trade off — "this would not be easy for a medium or a large team to work on, but it's the easiest thing for me as an individual to maintain by myself that gets the job done." And that's OK. And yes, it is natural to shift over time. But this is precisely because you now want 40 developers maintaining it instead of 1.

Overengineering is real. But architectural tradeoffs that don't work well for large teams are real too.
> "Gah... I really regret not taking some philosophy courses in college. I'm sure this issue has been covered ad nauseum for at least 3000 years."

It's 2020; there's a website for everything. Try going to https://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_ethics.html and scroll a couple of paragraphs down to the "An alternative division of meta-ethical views is between:" and dive into the links there.
FWIW Google hiring is just generally really slow. Give it a few more days.
Developer Ambassador and Developer Grants
I have been following this blockchain project called Algorand and they have just announced a really interesting program for developers.

You can become a developer ambassador and receive grants to help you build something on their network. If you have been on the fence about blockchain, I think this is a pretty cool opportunity to explore and get some rewards during quarantine :).

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The vertical I work in is Legal. It is probably one of the least elastic when it comes to demand. Courts are closed, but that’s temporary. I have spoken to a lot of firms across the nation. The firms who are in better financial shape see this as a time to acquire market share. Some practice areas will see a bigger demand in the coming months.
I think everybody who interviews at Google gets “stuck in the final process for a week”. That’s kinda how they do things. I interviewed there and they rejected me at the final stage after many days of no-communication; but they told me I almost made it, which made me feel good until I talked to other people and found out they say that to everyone. Still: best of luck to you :)
Funny you should mention that, I've been in contact with the creator of that project and totally agreed, it's a great project!

I think that's a good point –– figuring out safety and screening in a manageable way is our main focus right now. We're solving it by having screening calls with the seniors, or accepting via referral. In addition, we're working on a reporting system which should further help with removing bad actors. Thanks for your feedback!
How trustworthy are MedCram's videos?
You will have latency due to network effects. Streaming video/images is always going to be slower than streaming just coordinates and player metadata.
Specifically, I have been watching their Coronavirus series and while they seem fairly legitimate (with claims often backed by reputable sources), much of their recent content seems to include alternative medicine which makes me question the validity of their method.

Has anyone else been following this series and if so, what are your thoughts?
Google has a notoriously slow hiring process. For new grads and internships, the time between initial coding assessment to final hiring confirmation is often several months.
Damnit, now I have tayebbayri.com burned into my monitor... ;-)
Attrition
Imagine not having to rewrite all the docs every six months...
Correct. SMR should be sold to tiered storage providers OR SMR drives should include a scratch flash or pmem device to hide the large write amplification of rewriting a block (ala back to tiered storage).

HN is fringe, I am not making statements about people with drobos.
It wouldn't surprise me if alcohol sales are up. People are stuck at home with nothing to do. The aftermath of this is going to be disastrous in so many ways.
Thank you for pointing that out. I should’ve checked that out first, but I thought the collective mind here may be a lot more helpful (so far all the comments here have been very helpful to me, including yours).
FaceID does work quite well, but what if wearing masks becomes normalized because of Covid-19? I don't know how well FaceID would work with a mask on. (Of course the same thing happens with gloves and TouchID, so maybe there's no good solution)
That’s how much it was before the collapse, it’s a little less now. Also, endowments aren’t like checking accounts. You can’t withdraw money arbitrarily. Income from the endowment is expected to defray the costs of operations, and most of the funds are contractually earmarked for specific purposes. When the income goes down, it’s a problem for the university.
I’ve used spacemacs before and have coworkers that uses it and, I’ve never found it pleasant to use. Unlike plain-evil-mode, it changes too many of the default emacs keybindings and it’s easier to build up a nice config (I.e. I ported my vimrc to emacs in a couple afternoons just by porting the keybindings and finding packages to replace my vim customizations) than it is to pare away unwanted features from spacemacs
The parent was talking about LCD vs CRT displays. The parent is confusing throughput (240 frames/second) with latency.
Barr actually got his start even before the Reagan admin. In the 70s he helped the CIA fight the various measures that came out of the Church Commission to impose some measure of accountability on the intelligence community.
Not exactly similar the top scientists of the EU, Mr Ferrari recently resigned, because he tried to push for a Manhattan Project like scientific project to find cure/vaccine for the virus, whereas EU wanted a bottom up approach of funding specific projects that come up organically..

Anyways Mr.Ferrari is a medical doctor, but it appears he was a Mechanical Engineer. Then at age 43 after his wife died of disease, he went back to university joined medical school and became a respected medical scholar and tried to find treatments for what affected his wife..

And later was selected to be the top EU scientist on the basis of his medical credentials.
Makes me wonder why we're having such a hard time accommodating the social distancing rules mandated by the current pandemic. Humans are capable of a lot!

I think it says something pretty impressive about our society that just being cooped up with our families in our McMansions, not being allowed to go out to the bar, seems to be the worst thing that many of my neighbors are capable of comprehending. Our ancient ancestors, many impoverished people around the world today, and some of our peers in jobs a little more extreme than a cubicle farm are making epic efforts on a daily basis, and you are incapable of just staying home for a month?
What a read.
Um... I think you might have me confused with someone else?

I looked through my own post history and it looks like I did reply in a thread about this topic a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606843

(same thread that I linked above)

I can only speak for myself as to why I posted here. And I really just want an answer for the question I posted (I'm not naive enough to believe a post like this has any chance of changing project priorities at a megacorp). I wrote about this in a bit more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875388

And judging from the upvotes, a decent number of people want the same question answered. If you don't care about the answer, my recommendation would be to simply collapse the thread, downvote if you must, and move on.

I'm honestly puzzled as to why so many people seem to be actually offended by the very fact that I'm asking the question, and even seem to be taking it somewhat personally, even though it's not directed at anyone other than the OP.
I very much don't have smaller hands, and still think 4.7" is the best phone size I've ever used. I currently use an 11 Pro for the features, but still think the 4.7" 8 is the best form factor they've ever made.
> I don't think cloud-gaming prevents you from writing an aimbot.

This isn't true for a number of reasons:

1. Good players are exceptionally good. In pro gaming you'll hear the term "pixel shot" because someone fired at essentially one pixel. The shooter is holding an angle where they know that a change of one pixel is someone running by. That sort of thing; and

2. If you watch any streams you'll see aimbots from cheaters (eg when the streamer gets killed and spectates who killed them) and it's pretty funny to see just how blatant aimbots are, like shooting through bushes that don't block bullets but have no visible indication of an enemy.

But I agree with other comments: I think cloud gaming is 100% never going to be relevant for competitive esports (of this kind) because of latency. That's not a technology problem. It's a physics problem.

> I think games have to move away from the mechanical aim aspect and focus more on ability management,

It's interesting that you bring that up. That's actually a criticism a lot of people have of games like Overwatch (that you mention) in that it's not about gun play but ability management. That's actually seen as a negative by many. Riot Games apparently has made a deliberate design decision to focus more on gun play than ability management in Valorant, as just one example.

> This is how the combo was balanced; not by a hard limit on resources, but by timers on the client.

This is surprisingly common actually. Timers on many games are really just approximated with frame rates. Good players will do better at a game if they can get 200fps over those that get 100fps.

An example of this is the much-beleaguered Fallout 76. Bethesda games use this pervasively and, at least for awhile, Fallout 76 had a cap put in place of 63fps to avoid some of the benefits high frame rates gave players (eg faster movement), such that I took to calling it Fallout 63.
One cryptocurrency for all rewards and points from Merchants?
Hey guys, we all have reward points from Starbucks, AMC, etc. Imagine if we will be able to receive one type of reward point from all retailers: (1) These points will be crypto coins created by Users A, B, and Z for an exchange for their time. (2) Merchant 1 will buy these coins from User A for an exchange for a gift card. (3) Then Merchant 1 will reward User B with these coins. (4) After that, User B will buy gift cards with these coins from Merchant 2. (5) Etc. The idea is to replace all reward coins/points by 1 crypto coin created by users in exchange for their time. What do you think?
OP here, so I’m completely useless for this. It sounds wonderful. Whenever you get this done, please do a Show HN or Tell HN on this.
Can we login to a remote database through ssh ?
If you are past team matching phase then it is likely that you would get an offer.

Note: I don't represent Google.
Model 33's also didn't have lowercase. It was not that common in terminals until the early 70's at least. The DEC VT05, for instance, didn't have lowercase.