skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally, this is reminiscent of the usual solution to Paxos liveness violations: introduce randomness into the timing of the competing proposals.
I'm pretty sure there is a niche market for high res prints of historically relevant dies. 4004, i386, 1st pentium, 6502, 6810, 6809, 68000, 741, the ones listed above, 29000, assorted RAM chips, the synth engine from a DX11 and so on. I'd probably buy a couple printed with high quality ink on canvas.
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Better known as 'Desktop Virtualization'. Established competitors in this space are Citrix/XenDesktop, Microsoft/HyperV, Oracle/VirtualBox, VMware/HorizonView used in combination with remote desktop clients like X11 and Remote Desktop Connect. Is there an angle here that is new and interesting?
unofficial irc logging services are kinda like the "I don't want to pay anyone, but I want to freeload off someone's netflix account" of the irc age.

If the material was important to someone, they would already be connected with a bouncer or logger of some kind. For people who can't run bouncers, etc, this is a good service, but again - if you really thought it was vital to your work and/or personal life, you would have spent some money to either purchase an irc service (like irccloud, etc) or pay someone to run a proper logging service.

The historical aspects are not nearly as dire in my opinion, - all someone has to do is to get a copy of the archive from this person (who doesn't seem opposed to this idea) - and host it somewhere. Again, the problem is costs - if someone deamed it important enough, they will mirror it.

In this age, probably someone like the Internet Archive since no one will pay for the maintenance (legally, technically, and otherwise).
It’s always so exciting when you have an idea, and then get out of having to make it cause it was posted here first, love that about hn. Great job!
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It's usually easy to hire/train hourly employees because they are less specialized. Hiring someone to wait tables is much easier than hiring a software engineer.
It's true Germany uses cash a lot more than other countries, but I wasn't trying to say we don't do card payments. I just said we don't use credit cards, we use debit cards instead which come by default with any standard bank account. However, these cards are neither MasterCard nor Visa and therefore do not work in online payment scenarios.

I have a credit card, but it is paid in full at the end of the month automatically, so for all intents and purposes it's essentially another debit card. Everyone I know in Germany who has a credit card uses it this way. In fact, my bank didn't even ask me if I wanted it set up any differently, so I have to imagine it's not just my social circle handling it this way.
if the US has 33K deaths and the death rate is 0.6% then the US must have at least 5 million cases. If the death rate is lower (most likely around 0.3%) then it means 10 million infections.

Also a good news actually.
Simple answer: Because secure cryptography is backwards-incompatible with insecure cryptography, and the JOSE standards have a lot of legacy cruft that will be hard to jettison.

If you're going to put in the work (which I am), you might as well start with a clean slate rather than trying to piecemeal security improvements into their design-by-committee spec.
>> My advice to people looking for a "technical cofounder" is always to learn to code—and not in a snarky, "learn to build it yourself" way.

> I spent years doing this, but I would still need / want a technical co-founder for my ideas

There's two reasons why a non-technical founder should learn to code:

1: To get past the "computers can read minds" trap, and to have a high level understanding of what's going on under the hood. (Elon Musk knows an awful lot about how his cars work.)

2: For the same reason CTOs need to understand topics like product-market fit.
I initially couldn't find it either as I jumped straight to the running with docker section.

Took a wild guess it was admin/admin and got lucky.
That's not how workouts work, though. Each body is different, and people have different skill levels too. It's not like Just Dance
> We can surmise that GoPro created this cheaper version of the GoPro HERO5 to reduce component inventory without having to pay pricing reimbursements to their dealers. With very little firmware changes, and a two resistor Bill of Material change, they came up with a very sneaky way to reduce inventory before the launch of the GoPro HERO6+ / GoPro HERO7 Black / GoPro HERO7 White.
yah, but this particular service, which is a logging server run by an individual, isn't really all that significant in the grand scheme of things.
Sorry, Immunity to Covid-19 Won't Be Like a Superpower
not starting at all?
Their service does stuff beyond the basic functions of PGP. That is handled by the bridge, and wouldn't be handled by your favorite flavor of email client and PGP plugin.

One example: if you message another ProtonMail user, all of the PGP functionality is handled automatically. I don't think this would be possible with any other solution.
And plenty of small investors like me own Amazon via their manged funds
"This test is further proof of Russia’s hypocritical advocacy of outer space arms control proposals designed to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting their counterspace weapons programs," Gen. John Raymond, commander of U.S. Space Command, said in the statement.

One could argue they are trying to police space by forbidding arms
Thoughts on Gatsby or Next.js for React landing pages?
> a fad outside of a fairly niche market

Sometimes I feel like for HN everything that is not in the bubble is a fad.

Go Pro has a market, and that's why it's a company of this size that has released many instance of their product.
> 2) Letters to you will usually only be read by you, unless someone takes the letter from your mailbox and opens it.

That's not a great analogy because removing a physical letter from your mailbox and opening the envelope leaves physical evidence of tampering. It's also a felony, with a disproportionately severe punishment, if you're not the designated recipient of the letter. Reading an email at rest on a server somewhere leaves no evidence that the content was leaked and is unlikely to be punished. In the absence of physical evidence when a message is intercepted, or practical recourse when the privacy of the communication is violated, I for one would very much prefer option #1—end to end encryption. Frankly if there were a system as easy as GPG for end to end encryption of physical letters, I'd prefer that as well.

GPG does clearly have UX issues. The manually curated web-of-trust was a good idea in principle but too much work to really catch on at scale. Encryption needs to be enabled not only by default but unconditionally, with transparent key exchange and some form of automatic, distributed reputation tracking. The system that fixes these issues probably won't be built on top of SMTP or interoperate with existing email clients, if only because encrypted email cannot be made mandatory without breaking compatibility anyway, but it will serve the same function of facilitating asynchronous, long-form written communication.
I've been doing woodworking with handtools, and it's amazing what 90 year old tools can do. I bought an old stanley plane in good condition, and was able to start pulling cuttings that are 4/1000" easily. My modern lee valley plane is even easier to set, and I just did a 1/1000" shaving. That means you can surface a piece of wood to 1/1000th of an inch.

This is the kind of accuracy you typically associate with modern CNC machining.

Wood is an interesting medium - it's always in motion so it's in some ways more challenging than working with steel. You can't just machine and glue wood together if you want to make something that'll last for centuries, like old furniture used to. The art is still alive, and I encourage people to check it out!
Can you hack your battery to use its full capacity?
And he won't suffer any severe consequences because of it...
Ain't no 2m/6ft between these "socially distancing" ladies:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/16/small-plane...

As to the topic at hand, I dunno, either we just don't fly anymore unless we have to, or we collectively decide to go back to "normal" and changes will be minimal if at all noticeable. But from where I stand, it's all supposition and we'll just have to find out as we go along.
That seems to make sense and seems to be happening to a lot of us. I think the dopamine-being-reward hypothesis has been proven to be an oversimplification[1]:

"Dopamine was originally thought of as critical in the pleasure" systems of the brain. It was thought that dopamine makes you feel enjoyment and pleasure, thereby motivating you to seek out certain behaviors, such as food, sex, and drugs. But then research began to show that dopamine is also critical in causing seeking behavior. Dopamine causes you to want, desire, seek out, and search. It increases your general level of arousal and your goal-directed behavior. Dopamine makes you curious about ideas and fuels your searching for information."

I've also noticed that if I try listening to music and my brain is being very picky with my playlist, then I know that the day will probably be filled with apathy and anhedonia.[2]

How much do you think the instant gratification society that we're living in plays a role in this behavior? The internet has made food, sex, goods, etc so easy to get, which may cause issues with dopamine management that our ancestors didn't have.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-wise/201802/th...

https://www.wired.com/2011/07/sapolsky-on-dopamine-not-about...

[2]https://www.pnas.org/content/116/9/3793
Some politicians have been suggesting we could open up in May, notably the US president. Others have announced extended closures. In the US it's a state by state matter.
Hi there! Absolutely. This is why we are explicitly focusing on curbside pickup rather than delivery. It is not about snatching slots as soon as they become available, but more about being able to check across dozens of stores at the same time. We've found that there are actually plenty of pickup timeslots available -- if you just look a bit outside super-urban areas. Call it human-loadbalancing-as-a-service if you will.
A couple notes on those screenshots:

- In the cars-on-the-bridge image, the red bounding box for the semitruck in the oncoming lanes is too small, with its upper bound just above the top of the semi's windshield, ignoring the much taller roof and towed container.

- In the same image, there are red bounding boxes around cars that exist, and also red bounding boxes around non-cars that don't exist. If false positives and false negatives are going to be represented in the same picture, it'd be nice to use different colors for them, so the viewer can tell whether the error was identified correctly or spuriously.

- I have trouble understanding the "bus" screenshot. The caption says "(green pictures are valid errors) – The pink dotted boxes are objects that have not been labelled but that our error spotting algorithm highlighted." In other words, the green-highlighted pictures are false negatives considered from the perspective of the original data set, and the red-highlighted pictures are true negatives. Or alternatively, the green-highlighted pictures are true positives from the perspective of the error-spotting algorithm, and the red-highlighted pictures are false positives. What confuses me is that all 9 pictures are labeled "false positive" by the tabbing at the top of the screenshot.
Thanks. Your answer and ecshafer point me to start evaluating Fortran.
The benefit here is you pay a smaller fee for the storage and the machine itself is created on demand.
Oh I never knew this. Thanks for the link. I think AMD is catching up in every possible way and thats a good thing. I hope we get more cool stuff sooner from them!
If Freenode was shutting down it would be closer to "gmail is shutting down" IMHO.
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We're developing an electronic health record platform that stores data encrypted in a way that we don't have the decryption key. We don't have end-to-end encryption, but if you got a database dump then it'd be quite tricky to decrypt what's in it as data belonging to a person can be unlocked with a secret that the person has, and we don't; only in memory when serving the user.

So we're very far from perfect, but still better than most providers in this space. However, the fact that we can't easily do database migrations, debugging, etc makes our lives extremely hard, and it's much more difficult to compete in terms of UX.
Other people have replied to your message already and pointed out that we do use cards, just not credit cards. I figured that was clear in my comment, but apparently it wasn't, so I'll go ahead and edit that.

As for why we're so cash positive: one of the factors is privacy. If you pay for everything electronically both your bank and merchants are in the position to build a profile on you. If you use a non-local scheme (e.g. MC or Visa), they can too.
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There is a good chance the CPU on the device you used to write this comment was market segmented in a similar way.
Plenty of people long Tesla via calls are also included in this lawsuit. Claiming a buyout offer of $420 a share takes all of the calls above that figure to zero
I don't get your question.

Curb-side pickup is better as having a ton of people inside small grocery stores considering all of them are not meant to handle large amounts of people attempting to keep a set distance from each-other.

If curb-side pickup becomes more popular they would increase available slots by allocating more resources. What is happening right now is you have one or two managing curb-side and a ton inside managing everyone else.

What should happen is grocery stores should be closed except for employees and your groceries should be delivered to you, or you pick them up curb side.

It would eliminate a whole realm of issues with people not following rules, coughing on produce, not washing hands, moeny exchange, long lines, etc.

And if you implemented a strict health check on employees it would be way easier for everyone.
I sincerely don't know. I have one economist friend and he's iffy on the subject, claiming that minimum wage helps certain low-income groups and hurts other low-income groups. Based on that I don't even think you could categorize him as thinking it's a good or bad idea. That begins to step beyond the realm of economics and into politics or philosophy.
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The iPhone SE (2016)
I don't think it is absurd to exile someone critical of the country's administration.
Exactly. Can anyone name another CEO who could pull this stunt and wouldn't be immediately fired by his board? This whole ordeal exposed the complete lack of corporate governance in Tesla.
Was gonna give the same example. It’s common industry practice sadly. Tesla and gopro are hardly the only two offenders. It used to be a common tactic among cpu manufacturers also.
I would say that if all you're serving is a landing page, with the appropriate namespacing all you really need is SASS or even css. How many things could you possibly be sticking on a landing page that is supposed to be short and to the point?
a little much?
Ask HN: Which startups or companies are misunderstood today?
Two ways for investors to discover gems is to find either unknown companies or misunderstood companies. Obviously, unknown companies are harder to systemically uncover, but misunderstood ones are often hiding in plain sight, shrouded by controversial narratives. Which companies or startups do you believe are widely misunderstood?
I think Apple is already in the process of making their own chips. I'm thinking that they'll release an ARM chip for laptops. They are already blazing out on the mobile side.
I wonder if archive.org would be interested...
I'm no expert, but just looking at the hospital that got built so quickly in Wuhan [0], you can see that some sort of prefabricated modular construction units are involved. Do you happen to have more information on these?

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-51348297/corona...
One tip: add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction. Good luck!

Other tips here, though it looks like you've got them covered.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
Why does India have so few Covid-19 cases and deaths?
When you say dev tasks, are you talking about machine learning? What dev tasks do you need 56G of ram for?

I’m trying to figure out who these products are for. 0.39/h * 8h = $3.20/day, or approx $70/working month. And that’s on top of buying the computer you have to connect to this, with the annoyance of extra latency in all tasks. I can see the use of occasional demanding tasks using very large VMs on inexpensive computers, but I don’t see how it works out in the long term if that’s your man machine that you always live out of.
I just wanted to take a moment and share with the HN community that IRC is definitely very alive and kicking! There are great channels for thousands of amazing projects, communities and teams spread across so many great IRC Networks, from Freenode [1] to OFTC [2], to Rizon [3], to DALnet [4], to tildeverse [5], Snoonet [6], Quakenet [7], EFnet [8], IRCnet [9] among other networks [10].

IRC is no longer difficult to use; there are great software applications across nearly every device that can be named which can work with and present the RFC1459 protocol splendidly, including weechat [11], KiwiIRC [12], Textual [13], Palaver [14], to mIRC [15], and AdiIRC [16], among others!

IRC has bots hosted by the community that can hook into github like bitbot [17] and supybot [18] among others.

You can also stay connected to IRC using an IRC bouncer like KiwiBNC [19], znc [20], IRCCloud [21], Quassel [22], Bitlbee [23] or shamlessplug jbnc [24].

[1] https://freenode.net

[2] https://oftc.net

[3] https://rizon.net

[4] https://www.dal.net

[5] https://tildeverse.org

[6] https://snoonet.org/

[7] https://quakenet.org/

[8] https://efnet.org

[9] https://ircnet.com

[10] https://netsplit.de/networks/top100.php

[11] https://weechat.org/

[12] https://kiwiirc.com

[13] https://codeux.com/textual

[14] https://palaverapp.com/

[15] https://mirc.com/

[16] https://adiirc.com/

[17] https://github.com/jesopo/bitbot

[18] https://github.com/Supybot/Supybot

[19] https://kiwiirc.com/

[20] https://znc.in

[21] https://irccloud.com/

[22] https://quassel-irc.org/

[23] https://www.bitlbee.org/

[24] https://github.com/realrasengan/jbnc

Edit: Added a few that I accidentally left out. Thank you all! If I left anyone else out I apologize - IRC is so decentralized, spread out, and... alive... that it's hard to name all of the amazing projects, networks and implementations out there!
Yes yes, I understand, it makes sense that y-combinator has an imperative to protect the narrative that VC and big corps are good for America. Thoughtcrime is a serious offense, I'll just delete my account, no need to ban me.

edit: Oh... seems I can't delete my account. Nice feature!

Just reading through all my flagged comments... seems like calling out any sort of inequality in America or pointing out unjustifiable valuations for companies like Bird, WeWork, Uber, etc. is "flame baiting." I was half-joking when I said "thoughtcrime," but that really does seem to be my offense.

It's now starting to make a lot more sense as to why HN is the way it is. Average people don't really think this way, but rather HN bans people who suggest VC wastes a lot of money on pointless ideas, or that there is a massive class divide in this country and that some people are very out of touch with how the average American lives...

Guess this is just the world we live in now. There's no place for free discussion, you just have to choose which echo chamber you want to live in.
That punishment was a slap on the wrist compared to how much actions like this poison the public markets. Knowing the SEC won't act with real force in these situations will encourage penny stock CEOs and other characters to do the same thing.
> I think this idea actually has a better chance of working, for a couple reasons:

> • There is less risk in starting the relationship. You're not divvying up shares in a company or even paying a fixed salary. The only thing you stand to lose is the time spent figuring out the comp structure

> • Founders don't have to open up quite as much about the business, and worry that their idea will be stolen/copied. This is partly because founders seeking salespeople will be further along (alpha version or later), and partly because there's less of a fear that a salesperson will start a copycat company than an engineer (because of skills, not intrinsic honesty).

For a salesperson you want to work with, they are making minimum $15k per month. Why are they even going to talk to you when you aren't offering equity or money? Do you think that cold-calling is fun-time?
Even systems that try to improve upon the UX and simplify the process, like Entrust, still suffer from this problem.

PGP seemed almost like magic when I first used it, but I look forward to it being relegated to the history books.
It’s a game of cat and mouse with tools like this, just like with restaurant reservations, shoe drops, ticket scalping, and anything else that’s scarce.
Previously, iOS 13 (released in 19Q4) changed the default iPhone charging behavior to improve battery health:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210512
But won’t the latency kill gaming tasks?
freenode is the place where discussion happens. It is not closing. If it was, it would be equivalent to gmail closing.

The logs - depend on your stance. For what I do, no logs is better. Fewer logs may drive more people back. But here are many other loggers.

FYI, IRC is still very handy to have and deploy in 2020. It is light enough for a small VPS to handle, easy to scale by federating if needed, and the lack of file support and of logs can be a feature to keep everything private for in house deployments.

Just this morning I started to evaluate replacing some Javascript and Go code by some Fortran.

I'm starting to believe in the army motto: "Yesterday technology, tomorrow!"
The linked page is currently not available. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200416183057/https://flak.tedu...

There are also ways to do this on Windows and Mac OS X.

This library provides CMake support to do this:
https://github.com/motis-project/res
IRC is still hanging in there. You can get a taste by using the web UI, no registration required.

1) Go to https://webchat.freenode.net/
2) Type something into the "Nick" box.
3) Solve the CAPTCHA
4) Hit Start.

Freenode has thousands of channels, there's a bot called "alis" that can help you find something interesting. To do that:

5) type "/msg alis list python -min 50", which will open a chat with alis, which will then show the channels with "python" in the name that have at least 50 users.
6) type "/join #python" to join the channel

Some channels require you to register before you can chat, for that, see https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration
https://archive.md/mrDnY
Thanks a ton for the feedback! Hope this could be helpful for your parents.

1. We decided to use geolocation because it removes one more form field. It also makes it easier to expand to additional countries (https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/curbside/issues) we may reconsider in the future.

2. Happy to explore adding additional ways to tackle the problem. For now, we just have a simple map of stores to visualize coverage: https://curb.run/stores

Fixed the typo. Thanks!