skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That creates a single point of failure. You then have to trust that federal bureaucracy will do a better job than everyone scrambling.

In perfect conditions, it's likely true. But in actuality, I doubt it's better.

I doubt federal purchasing agents would be doing deals with local painting crews who have 2-3 boxes on N95 masks in the back of their truck.
A project like this could be the space race of our epoch!
An updated list of minimum security iot things is a good start. Those get shady fast.
You need the right machines. In the factory. A cnc lathe is no use. The large collection of jigs for whatever they made before don't help.

They can get the right machines and jigs but that means making them which takes time. They you need the right materials, you aluminum supply chain isn't helpful (unless they retool to make your raw materials...)
Confirmed population infection rate in Santa Clara is like 0.1%, and has been on a stay at home order for a month.

Highly unlikely these are all just people who have produced antibodies as part of a yet-to-be overrun immune response.
Semantically agreed, is there anything wrong with hoping lobbyists for oil companies and weapons manufacturers lose their jobs, for example? :)
we will get forest fires in August and everyone will be sitting inside.
Building a 2D signed distance field renderer that works similar to Dreams, setting pixels instead of emitting a pointcloud, would allow for complex object trees with lots of edits and perform well on the GPU.
Welcome to America

The government just handed already rich billions

Dragging its ass on handing out 1,200 a person, complaining about the cost

The emotional culture is the same regardless of class in this country
There’s also the ripple effect of Shopify’s data.

We run an omni-channel API connector service for our wholesale distributors to connect Shopify/marketplaces to our own back-end on-premise ERP, and the distributors that have utilized this service are seeing record breaking numbers that are in-line with what Shopify is saying.

The downside? We launched this service less than a year ago and could’ve showcased some staggering numbers if we launched earlier. We’re trying to show the limited data we have to our customers to convince them to pivot to e-commerce while their wholesale channels are suffering.
It's still a "proof by induction". There is no reason to conclude from the individual cases that it works in all cases.
Then move to another country. You can live a pretty leisurely life in China just by virtue of being a native English speaker.

I knew many expats there with no college education, teaching for a mere 16 hours a week. They were given housing as part of their contracts and they earned enough to eat out every meal of the weeks if they so desired.

With just 16 hours of work per week, you have plenty of time to learn a new skill and better yourself.

Being a native English speaker is one of the greatest privileges one can have in this world. It's usually a foundational skill for succeeding in many of the best jobs in the World.
I was so disappointed when Xfce, long my last bastion of consistent UI design, finally gave up the ghost and announced their move to client-side window decorations. It seems the days of the title bar + menubar + optional toolbar are numbered :(
Michigan company thinks it may have found a coronavirus treatment drug
I'd love to see that experiment played out, but I suspect your "no loopholes for the rich" would cause them to flee to another state. States don't have the ability to tax anyone who is not a resident. On the federal level, this would not necessarily be so, since we can make it incredibly expensive for billionaires to renounce citizenship, by implementing a progressive "exit tax" that includes assets in the calculation.
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That’s not libertarianism; It’s more anti-authoritarian. “The government said not to do something, so I’m gonna do exactly that!”
Well, tell that to the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that are going out of business, that your toy up there is more important than their livelihood.
What does half life of 500,000 years mean? Does that mean any given gene will, on average, split every 500,000 years? Or become unusable in 500,000 years?

65 million years would mean 130 halvings. Basically nothing left, then.

...but this may depend on environmental conditions. this must depend on average environmental temperature, right? Might dinosaur specimens in Antarctic or Arctic regions have experienced significantly lower average environmental temperatures? That could increase the half life significantly.

Maybe we'll find Cryolophosaurus DNA some day...

EDIT: the DNA degradation study specimen was in the south island of New Zealand, which had an average burial temperature of 13C.

Antarctica along the coast has an average annual temperature of about -10C. Further inland and at higher elevation, it's much colder and dryer. Both those increase DNA stability. It's not crazy to me that you might have a factor of 100x greater stability for specimens found where the average temperature over the last 65 million years was 20-40 degrees colder and also dryer.

EDIT AGAIN: Just to support what I said, it seems like a difference of average burial temperature of just 2.5 degrees C doubles the half-life of DNA (and this is multiplicative), so with a 20 degree difference in average burial temperature, that would be 8 doublings of half-life length (factor of 256), so instead of 500,000 years until the DNA was all broken up, you could have 128 million years. https://figshare.com/articles/_Predicted_DNA_half_life_for_v...
Have you tried googling for a copy of that paper?

That might be part of the reason.
XB-1? Is it named after Ikarie XB-1 from the classic Czechoslovak sci-fi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_End_of_the_Unive...
I opted out of the Firefox/Android data collection setting. Then I was recently updated to the new Firefox Beta: https://snipboard.io/139WEH.jpg Privacy not included.
> nor that they echolocate

How can you be sure?
Where do you draw the line? Where do you start to care, or is it all too linked and impossible to unravel?
It's impossible to make those non-woven fabric machines in just few week.

But it's very much possible to expand NWF production at existing facilities many-times-fold.

But even that is not really needed. There are factories in China with piles of NWF that has nowhere to go because of the export ban.

So, it's really a non-issue... if global community could've functioned even on the level how it did 20 years ago.

The world community is no more... and the global cooperation went away along with it

The West had 20 years to do something about this, but it didn't.
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Quite frankly, all covid-19 research should be made public especially if they received government funding.
I wonder how many short-term rental owners are unable to pay their mortgages without Airbnb revenue
> Many are unlikely to get their jobs back.

Their original job? Sounds plausible. Any job? Surely that would be a political choice for their respective governments? Unless there’s a reason we can’t repeat the famous infrastructure jobs programs from a century ago - I’m no economist, so I genuinely don’t know, but Hoover Dam Mark 2 sounds good to me.
Broadly speaking, you have two options. One is, make the server faster so that it can keep operating during a rebuild. You could do this by adding more drives. The other option is, add a second server to handle the load while you fix the first.
Unless slack steals the focus. Happened to me a few weeks back. Then slack gets your password and enter key, and the login screen doesn't.
Very interesting, thanks. I also find it remarkable that most affiliates of both papers are from the UK.
As long as people continue to move their shopping online, I'm convinced no maltreatment of employees considered to be "working class" will stop people from making their purchases, especially with the convenience and price.

Amazing considering the backlash against Uber for sexual harassment of female upper-middle to upper class white collar workers. Almost destroyed the company in the US. But the persistent abuse of thousands of working people - NOTHING!
A startup company that several of my friends worked at many years ago had boxes that continuously monitored routing around that would and would flag and delay BGP updates that caused a significant topological change. They could be added manually immediately, or would be implemented with a delay after they had enough data that the route was legitimate.

My ISP had one of these boxes and was quite proud of it. It worked really well against BGP idiocy. It might not have worked against a concerted attack, but it did stop several of the "Ooops. All the routes are belong to us." problems that seem to be the "normal" BGP "attacks".

I am surprised that these big players don't already have something that does something similar.
Speaking of the Firefox version 75 bar: Why has there been a change in the way the selection works? Now it takes three well-timed clicks to select an entire url. Is this an improvement?
Show HN: JWT terminal tool
That things would repeat after a rewind, given the same "universal state" just contradicts free will from the perspective of looking backwards (to the then present), not in the current present or looking into the uncertain future.
I apologize, did not link the graphs:
power consumption: https://www.ixbt.com/img/x780/r30/00/02/26/21/31power_334783...

power effciency:
https://www.ixbt.com/img/r30/00/02/26/21/33ee_794961.png
i'm in no way qualified to give any praise/criticism, it just caught my attention (from the linked post on their cockpit/fuselage bonding https://blog.boomsupersonic.com/20-hour-bonding-event-speeds... )

"It’s the following morning and bonding appears to be successful, but it’s essential to confirm that the bond lines are shaped correctly or “filleted.” A member of the engineering team, who is certified in the process, begins non-destructive tap testing to audibly listen for voids such as air bubbles within the bond. With several decades experience, he knows what to listen for. Using specialized tools, he taps all bond lines and listens for different and unusual noises. He confirms that bonding is a success."

In general it seems that their main fabrication cost is labor, and it would probably be very hard to scale for production. I wonder why wouldn't they choose titanium - the price of material doesn't seem to matter here, and while it is hard to work with than say steel, i'd think it is still more mass production friendly than carbon fiber.
What if there were a centralized verification place as a public service? Surely insurance would not be the hardest thing to come by. We in the US basically have a "social credit system" but its all implicit, based on credit reports. Why couldn't someone else provide a clearinghouse for "users renting something"? I realize there's a bit of overlap with some draconian "social credit score" government things, but there's some really legitimate economic benefits to having centralized identity - again we effectively have that within financial markets thru the credit score.
Not in this case. With SpaceX they also need high (de-entry, Mach heating) and low temperature (cryo fuel & oxygen) resistance but in the case of Boom the surface won’t heat enough to need high temp materials.

That said, I’m not sure their choice of materials is the good one for a startup.
> "Vox: advises citizens not to buy masks while Vox founder is buying masks"

Vox is not a monolith. Matty Y, the "founder" mentioned, tweeted in February that the CDC mask guidance didn't make sense, right around the time he purchased the masks.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1233806758843383810?...

"I have never understood this message — are the masks ineffective or are they vital for health care workers? If it’s the latter shouldn’t we explicitly ration rather than trying to discourage purchases informally?" February 29, 2020.

he later wrote on March 30

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1245046686621327360?...

> I’m not sure how important the mask fiasco is, but the way public health officials did this is by (successfully!) manipulating media outlets that were trying to be responsible into amplifying misleading messages so I’m personally very angry about it.

So attacking Vox as a whole over this seems misleading. While they haven't been helpful on this issue, they were just repeating CDC and WHO guidance that dates back over 10 years - The CDC was telling people masks didn't work even during the 2009 swine flu pandemic. https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...
It's so sad and frustrating that I wonder this every time I see a site with a fairly generic WP/Drupal/Whatever CMS theme and not a lot of background on the organization running it. But that's the reality of where the internet is today I guess.
Is this based on votes?
If the top 10 bidders are all Americans (which is plausible, given America's wealth and inflated healthcare costs), the U.S. government could use price controls to drive the price down from the 2nd highest to the 10th highest bid without losing supply to other countries. There's still the possibility that driving prices down would push manufacturers out of the business (or more likely, fail to pull in manufacturers who otherwise would have started producing PPE).
ChannelAdvisor breaks it down by industry, which is neat:
https://www.channeladvisor.com/blog/industry-trends/the-impa...
But they knew what they wanted: gold, silver, and slaves to mine them if necessary.
>> Balaji is a crypto bro and epitome of technocrats who thinks just because they are (rich|famous|networked), they are experts on everything. Fact of the matter is, Balaji doesn't know any more about Covid than what is reported. He's using hindsight bias to claim that media reported was false.

This is definitely not correct.

Balaji taught bioinformatics at Stanford and has published papers in the fields of clinical/microbial genomics.

As for hindsight bias, Balaji was promoting the use of masks very early.
I already said gauging helps parasitic middlemen who are just out to make a profit for themselves. It just doesn't do anything to actually help society in a crisis.

For every $10 of masks some wannabe gouger was motivated to buy and store in their closest for years, a professional gouger will buy $10,000 worth the day the crisis starts and help hasten the arrival of empty shelves and shortages. Then he'll turn around and ask those who truly need them for $100,000. If he can't sell all his inventory at his markup, he'll just dump the remainder after it's no longer needed for the crisis at the regular market price.
same. applied very early on and did not get in. i think the banks are prioritizing certain customers or certain loan amounts over others. it's definitely not FIFO approval.
I think you may be talking about the curvature of the surface (the Riemann tensor). It is intrinsic, i.e. does not depend on the notion of the surface being embedded into a higher-dimensional space.
Is number mandatory? Can you signup with email?

Also they basically went from IRL centers to full live (they had limited live classes previously but nowhere near this scale, or with celeb instructors) in a matter of couple weeks. Great opportunity to go international with live, however not sure if this is something they can quickly build, or could have foreseen.
I see what you mean, many arguments on internet forums rehash the same ideological points over and over in a repetitive "religious war". I think the flagged user had a fair criticism despite the majority of posts and overall tone defending Amazon. Maybe the bias towards defending corporations is a product of corporate astroturfing. Maybe it is because white collar workers (most tech workers) would rather not acknowledge the uncomfortable truth of Amazon's anti-union and anti-worker's rights treatment of their blue collar workers.

It is uncomfortable to acknowledge that the businesses we rely on exploit workers and abuse them. It is far more comfortable to "stay asleep" and preoccupy the mind with quirky intellectual diversions and fascinating little rabbit holes. In these times of economic crises, these sorts of pro-worker articles and sentiments increase dramatically. I support the author of this article despite the comforting detractors who would rather rationalize their treatment. The prevailing argument in this discussion is that the warehouse workers are ungrateful and too critical of their corporate masters, and this I find frankly to be disgusting.
Not dumb at all. As best as I can interpret from the FAQ they’re simply looking for a transparent process around any ownership change, at least for now.
> Herd immunity without a vaccine is a pipe dream. Our best bet is to massively ramp up testing and contact tracing and really start pushing the number of infections down to a point where parts of society can start functioning again.

The problem is, a vaccine is also a pipe dream. So we're going to have to all get infected over some sort of timeline that doesn't cause societal collapse. Also known as flattening the curve.
I'm with you. I went in thinking the rim itself would always ensure the ball goes in.
You can easily do origin validation on that type of CPU. It’s a very efficient lookup.
Icon mania... and pretty much every single icon is only possible to understand after you have learned what it means.
That's fair, but since the economics of giant ecommerce companies are extremely sensitive to every step of the funnel, I think they'll discover it's worthwhile.

An 0.1% increase in conversion anywhere along your funnel is significant with billions of dollars pointed at the funnel.
science is about getting better models of reality. facts are mostly a political artifact.
Ah yes. Similar to that feeling we get reading "Sorry. This stream is not available in your region."
Maybe something wrong with the medium app. It works on the web, but redirecting into the iOS app leads to a 400.
It's a bit more specific than that.

'FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz told participants in an online panel discussion hosted by the Aspen Institute that the bureau had recently seen state-backed hackers poking around a series of healthcare and research institutions.

'“We certainly have seen reconnaissance activity, and some intrusions, into some of those institutions, especially those that have publicly identified themselves as working on COVID-related research,” she said.'

from the referenced report at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/...
What is Mozilla doing? They are endorsing the 'Google Home'? The 'Ring Doorbell'? Products from Nest? I guess it makes sense, with the amount of money they get from Google- they have to.

While these devices might have encryption, security updates, etc, many of the devices listed ABUSE user privacy. Many of the devices here ARE creepy!

I could provide 10 links as proof, but it's not even worth the time. You can go ahead and 'Google' the proof.

This is horrible.

Edit- want some proof? Listen to these: https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TD
> Even with perfect DNA, I think we underestimate the role that social structure and ecological momentum play in even the simplest of creatures.

I don't think that's true. We raise animals without their parents all the time, both on farms and in zoos. The animals we end up with are still recognizably horses or rats or chimpanzees, with unique behavioural traits that could be studied for years. Even if you lose the social structure of mammoth society, you would still be bringing back something fascinating.

Animals that can be hatched from eggs have even less dependency on their mothers, too.
Amazon not only recovered their dip, but renewed their 52 week max several times already. And they don't even make much from online retail. To make matters more interesting, AWS seems to be _much_ busier than usual, and spot capacity is all but gone, at least at the price we were paying before. I'm not even sure why that is.
Any physics experts know what the actual optimal shape is? I imagine it would be a pretty gnarly problem to work out.
Add Profile Section -> Accomplishments -> Projects

Attaching it to a specific position is possible but optional.

It allows you to put a time frame, link, and text description.

I believe that should serve your needs perfectly?
> The way people respond to restrictions on use creates new forms and modes of use; new platforms emulating old ones makes sense.

Thanks, that helps me understand.
This is great and helpful, thank you Mozilla!

If anyone that worked on this reads this, a suggestion: Please rank products based on Mozilla's rating and not user supplied sentiment.

For example, it's hard to make sense of products that are "very creepy" or "somewhat creepy" yet have 4/5 or 5/5 overall security rating from Mozilla.

It's not clear unless you really look that creepiness rating is not from Mozilla.
The blog post is hyper focused on the wings and didn't make a lot of sense without context. This link[1] was extremely useful to better understand what Boom is doing and how far along they are.

[1] https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1/build
> I was out bid from someone from France.

This is quite interesting to read. Most of the media coverage in France has been very hostile against the US with little evidence to back it. We've seen claims of Americans waiting on the tarmac to buy our masks and redirect planes, cash in hand ready to be given. And in major newspapers [1, 2].

[1] https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/coronavirus-les-reg...
[2] https://www.liberation.fr/france/2020/04/01/une-commande-fra...
I'm definitely not arguing that the GP comment was an unfair criticism. I have zero issue with the case the user's making. The issue I'm worried about, because it's my job, is what kind of site Hacker News is supposed to be. You can't judge this by looking at posts in isolation, because no single post affects the kind of site HN is. But patterns of posts affect it very strongly.

HN is either a site for intellectual curiosity or a site for political battle. It can't be both, for the same reason that you can't have a tank battle in a flower garden or a museum.
What you say might be true, but it might not matter.

If you were to clone a New Yorker thousands of years from now and put them in an exhibit in a Zoo marked "New Yorker", lots of people would be very impressed, even if they didn't start cooking New York-style pizza.
> The question assumes that there is a difference between invention and discovery. There isn't. Invention is a kind of discovery.

this is self-contradictory. if invention is a kind of discovery, then they aren't equivalent as you say.

invention and discovery are clearly different but related concepts. hence the question. i didn't invent the sun. i discovered it, for myself, the first time i saw it. this is a structure that exists.

the mathematical question boils down to whether the structures that we find are discovered or conjured up. our physical inventions do discover new things, but these are things that existed whether the invention happened or not. the invention is simply a process.
That's exactly the idea behind Max Tegmark's theory which he described in his book: Our Mathematical Universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Mathematical_Universe
I've seen many submission reach front page that had roughly 1 vote/min in the first 2 hours.