skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scale of the search interest is hard to understand because no numbers are provided, just percentages.

Searches are up 250%. Percent of what? 1000 searches? 1 million searches? I understand that this post is content marketing for the company, but I haven't heard of it before, so I don't know if they can simply toss out a YOY % and claim that it's a trend. Reading the article, it's also not clear that the queries were coming from users based in NYC.

I think looking at something like Google Trends might be more representative of interest, as you can filter the data by State, try different search terms and see the % change by day, week, year or 5 years.
No vet I have ever spoken to has volunteered any opinion on my cat going outside. Perhaps this is common in the US but it certainly isn't in the UK and Norway.

Here is the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals advice regarding cats: https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/cats

Notice how it has a link to another page titled "Help keep your cat safe outside"
> Do you really want to discuss that being a software developer requires at least a glimpse of being "smart"?

Pretty sure that'll be a topic of conversation on HN for decades to come.
Also full. The proportion of the global tanker fleet that is just full of oil sitting off coast near refineries is at an all time high.

A lot of speculators were betting that oil prices were going to go up and had rented ships and filled them with oil they though was cheap, before COVID-19 even hit. Since then, oil prices have absolutely cratered.
I think that most of those people are not familiar enough with the system that they are complaining about to understand why its so complex.

I have been involved in paying off many kinds of tech debt, and I see a lot of people scream maintainability and then realize the problem that the horrible thing solves is itself a horrible problem.

If you can fix it, fix it, if you think its going to take months to years of work to fix it to be maintainable the truth is likely you never will.

Any product that is static long enough for you to do this is probably not making enough money to justify the cost of doing that kind of refactor except as a hobby project (or was really well designed in the first place, or is a literal hellscape you should let die.)
> You are arguing for the sake of arguing.

Nope. I actually just disagreed with you. I think JS is a robust language and I said why very clearly and politely.

You, however - well I stopped reading after your first sentence.

Good luck to you!
How Important Is Data for Global Pandemics?
Rust and WASM to improve Node.js performance
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I think a employer should just pay fair wage and not suggest the employee to ask for benefits from the government to have enough income to cover bills.
The whole structure of the "it's ok to be white" thing is to (it it were accepted by the left) to start delegitimizing the attempts to build alternate power structures that aren't available to non white people. For instance, the NBER found that literally changing a name from Tyrone to Chad on a resume increased job callbacks 3x, and stuff like affirmative action is designed to address exactly those systemic inequities. Normalizing "it's ok to be white" was designed to attack those head on if it was accepted.

You don't see that half, because the left didn't take that side. There was no winning either way.
Considering that the front-month oil contracts went negative today (paid to buy a barrel of oil), I think more (well funded and adept) players will try to hastily arrange more storage facilities. There's just no place to put the stuff right now.

It's quite difficult to turn-off an active well. Deep-water wells are all but impossible to stop.
What could be said a little more clearly is that the frequency 90.1 is actually the channel 90.0-90.2

Not strictly. The main channel is 90.1. But many FM stations have sideband channels for various audio and data services, like reading books and newspapers to the blind.
YC is a 1% acceptance rate - so there bound to be plenty of complaints and horror stories.

> literally hundreds of accelerators

Yeah. But $150K/7% is a superb cool deal. A couple of alternatives give you $100K. And then its down to "$25K stipends" even pay-to-play (e.g. OnDeck?!). Am i wrong ?

YC also has (perceived?) network value, u r competing with full-traction or YoY-revenue-growth companies. SAD !!
I think you could make the same argument about.... everything? Farming and selective breeding vs. hunting and gathering? Inventing modern materials rather than using wood and stone and animal parts? Pretty much everything. "Mistakes from the past?" Which specific ones are you speaking of? I don't doubt there have been many, but if you are talking about choosing not to simply take things as nature gives them to us, well, I guess you want to return to the stone age or something, but the world doesn't support 7 billion people doing things that way.
For me, productivity killers are PRs. This ruins my flow so much. Side projects I can code forever, but at work being stuck having to wait for reviews and trying to juggle what I can do without having to wait for the first review kills me.
OK, but what if an Amazon algorithm has actually learned that people who search for "shirt without stripes" are more likely to buy more things if the first image they see is a picture of a striped shirt?
There are other densely populated areas in the US, namely LA Metropolitan Area, South Florida metropolitan Area and Boston metropolitan area. E.g. NYC area is 26,403 people per mile^2, and Boston metropolitan area is 13,841 people per mile^2. But NYC seems to be doing much worse than 2 times worse than Boston. Maybe it's because NYC population is older? E.g. in Boston 52% of deaths are from LTC facilities (yesterday's data), which seems to imply virus hasn't penetrated into community that much.
I know that I shouldn't contribute to this, since a dozen others also latched onto that introductory statement of the OPs to say, essentially, that software developers aren't intelligent. But I feel obligated to respond in defense of my profession.

> Way too many devs have kind of a god complex just because they can tell a finite state machine what to do. This is especially ridiculous because a large portion of devs are writing glorified CRUD web apps in some opinionated web framework.

The role of a software developer is to refine ideas of business people, codify them, satisfy stakeholders, and otherwise serve and protect business interests. It's not just writing code - you have to make decisions large and small that can have significant impacts on your company and customers. In any CRUD app, this quickly reaches a very high level of complexity which requires a high degree of engineering and social ability to manage.

It's easy to diminish any profession (oh you just use numpy, oh you just go golfing with executives, oh you just type in symptoms and prescribe pills that have been marketed to you for years, oh you just use formulas discovered by other people). Let's not do that, because one might start to look foolish quite quickly.
You missed the Seattle Tower Building. It has windows, but very little in the way of visible glass.

https://www.emporis.com/buildings/119453/seattle-tower-seatt...

Windowless is a superset of glassless.
On the other hand, California has a much lower death rate despite having cities with a population density in the same magnitude as NYC, which seems to suggest some level of luck of the draw here in initial unrecorded spread before lockdowns came into place.
"pictures" and "pictures without color" show that it does get some of these, although not the way I expected.
if the image doesn't sit superimposed in the center of the vision no matter where you look, that's not a retinal display
Gilbert Garcin
Which groups are most likely to lose from this crazy development. A few weeks ago there was a story about plunging oil prices exposing Capital One to scrutiny for its surprising exposure to futures.

What others are out there?
I tried that the other day when I had to use Zoom for work. The sound was stuttering (in a consistent straight pattern). Luckily the group was small enough that I managed to convince them to switch to Jitsi.
It seems to me that I want heterogeneous replicas of my databases. Partial indexes on this copy, full indexed on this one, no deletes on this one.

But a simpler solution might be to have a standard WAL format, and use that as a basis for having replicas of the system of record be a first class citizen in my data center instead of something we all cobble together or pay for.
So I looked at one example (the VPN misconceptions one) and coming at it from the perspective of someone looking for an argument (the "Sea Lions" referred to in the OP) the whole thing really just feels like a giant straw man. Few if any of the "questions" in the FAQ are stances I'd actually take in a debate about VPNs, and the flaws I see in the arguments the FAQ presents aren't addressed at all by the follow-up questions that are present.
I've noticed this too, and frequently wonder why there aren't new and better search startups...
There's also regular ryzen with up to 16 cores and 128GB of RAM.
I don't think it makes sense to have a heuristic of summarily rejecting any analysis from people who make policy suggestions.
There is currently a really interesting paywall-bypass bug on NYTimes.com:

- Take a paywall'ed URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-sil...

- Add a dot after the domain: https://www.nytimes.com./2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-si...

voila, no paywall. Would love to hear an inside story about why this bug appeared.
Boooo click bait.
It's not the seizing that bothers me. It's that I have not seen any (credible) stories of where the seized PPE goes.
What new power(s) are enabling the current administration to do this that previous administrations didn't have?
This was 7 years ago. It was also on the top floor of a building with no elevator, so there were contributing factors to the $/foot. Everywhere I lived in Chicago got much more "bang for the buck" than Seattle though. Better summers and winters (I enjoy snow), and much better food as well. The difference in the homeless situation was shocking as well. The only thing Seattle has going for it, imo, is the nearby nature, but I honestly haven't taken advantage of it to warrant the cost of living increases on everything else.
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Has the link been updated? It's what the story is pointing to.

Anyway, nice work.
A Closer Look at Disentangling in β-VAE
That's US oil (WTI). Canadian oil is WCS.
I like the freedom of not having to maintain my own services. That said, the easiest thing is to just not need services. Then you don't need to host it and don't have to worry about who is hosting it and everything that could go wrong.
Also a junk/high-yield bond https://www.npr.org/2020/02/19/807544557/meet-our-junk-bond
Parallelizing and auto-scaling bcrypt (2016)
One of my absolute favorites is multi-cursor editing. I first stumbled upon this in Sublime Text, but now I can´t live without it.
But a key part of this is simply how much Russia and Saudi Arabia want to pump. The whole purpose of the price war was to drive high cost producers out of business, but that combined with the severe drop in demand sent the price to oblivion.

Also, this could catalyze a shift to people doing more things remotely. But will that reduce oil consumption significantly? Don't forget about induced demand.

Right now, I can head down the freeway in what used to be rush hour without any traffic. If that persists for any length of time, people will start buy McMansions on former farmland until the freeways get packed back up again. They will perhaps order their products that will be produced with petroleum in China, and shipped on container ships, and trucked to Amazon facilities, and then delivered in gas-burning vans.

I think as long as the economy keeps growing oil consumption will keep growing, until something cheaper than oil comes along (either through technological breakthrough or subsidy).
I'd love to apply for 20-things.com. Would this be a waste of time, given the interest YC board has in Reddit?
Densely urban ... obese[1][2] and sedentary ... contagion free.

Choose two.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/obesity.p...
Or the need for a working supply chain. It's a dysfunction on a couple of levels here, not just in the power of the government - if it was able and willing to provide supply this wouldn't be an issue at all. Instead hospitals are scrounging on their own.
One point I don't agree with the article on is that Zoom doesn't deserve the scrutiny. They absolutely do. The more and more I hear about their issues, it sounds like their entire stack is a mess. I've said it elsewhere, but security is not something you just bolt on after the fact. Security needs to be considered from day one when you're designing any sort of networked application (even non-networked). It's becoming painfully obvious that for the longest time security just was not a concern for Zoom. It doesn't matter that their user base has changed due to COVID-19. The problems were there (and remain to be there) before the virus was even a thing.

My wife uses Zoom to communicate with other people involved with the nonprofit she runs. I'm honestly concerned that her Mac she uses for Zoom is on the same network as my PC. My concern has gotten to the point that I'm considering putting her Macs on an isolated network.
It's at -$30 as of 1:15 Mountain...
> Where NYC is a city that doesn't sleep, Seattle sleeps

Are there any other US cities that don't sleep?
Lambic beers are the ones made without adding yeast. They get yeast from the "air". I always like the story that when a fabric wanted to expand they would transfer the walls from the old one to the new.
> Penalizing all companies and then only bailing out some is picking winners and losers.

Without going into the semantics of the word, I will point out that yes, that is the role of the government. They provide incentives for certain behaviors, and lack of incentives (or even disincentives) for others.
SF Bay Area is the best.

Corona already widely spread for months before lockdown, so no need to feel alarmed now. Grocery stores are packed and very few reported cases!
No audit trail whatsoever, disgusting.
There's so much content on the internet that, if I stub my toe on a paywall, I move on to the next link.
The nature of relationship between a business and an employee is such that it is not reasonable to expect that a business would even have the information necessary to take on that responsibility. Furthermore, many of those information gaps are intentional, to prevent discrimination.

If you were interviewing me, how would you determine my appropriate wage?
Which part of "The paper I linked to below describes a technique they call "deep parsing." Check it out for more context." could you not parse?

I mean if us humans have a difficulty parsing each other's statements, then why should machines do any better?
Thank you, I knew my effort was not for naught!
From my experience, using the web in lynx or with emacspeak isn't an option in 2020. You just have to have a modern browser in conjunction with a well maintained screen reader. I wish I could use linux for everything, but if I want to be productive on the web I have to use Windows.
Long-term NYC resident here (I haven't hit my decade yet, so I'll avoid calling myself a New Yorker to dodge any ire).

I've heard rumblings from a lot of people about moving out, mostly from people who haven't really set down roots here - which makes sense. The appeal of New York is largely all the stuff to do, and without being able to do stuff you're just stuck in a very small space that you pay a lot of money for.

Most of the people I hear this from expect social-distancing type measures to continue for quite some time, so especially those with small children/etc. are really thinking about whether they can do this for another year.

Interestingly I haven't really met anyone considering leaving the city because of the virus itself (i.e. because of concern due to population density), only those really feeling the lifestyle restrictions. They're responsible and social distancing, etc. so the thought of continuing that lifestyle without significantly more living space is getting to them.
It's a shopping problem, not a language problem, according to these companies.
A source that people believe that psilocybin helps them achieve a mystical state? Or a source about something else?

Isn't the defining feature of a mystical experience that the participant feels that they had one (its a concept about subjective internal states, not an objective thing to measure beyond i guess self-reported surveys). Given that its going to be self reported anyways, i think the general acedotes about psilocybin inducing spirtual "states" is pretty compelling.

Anyways, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772431/ is a study on the effect of psilocybin induced mystical experiences.
I've lived in the US for many decades and work in commercial radio, and this is the first I've heard of there being channel numbers for analog broadcast FM radio

Then the station you work for must not have any repeaters or translators.

When you hear a legal ID like "KHNH/Randoville, K226AR/Hacktown," the translator it got its call sign because it's on channel 226. All of the AM frequencies have channel numbers, too.

I worked in radio for ten years, and wasn't even on the technical side, and I knew this.
> Google has not yet discovered how to automate "is this a quality link?"

Google has so much more data than just the keywords and searches people make, it seems like this should be a problem they could solve.

Through tracking cookies (e.g. Google Analytics) they should be able to follow a single user's session from start to finish, and they also should be able to 'rank' users in some vague way where they'd learn which users very rarely fall for ads or spend time on the sites that they know are BS. Those sites that are showing up on page 5 or 6 of the search results, but still get far more attention than others on the first few pages, could get ranked higher.

But I don't think many of Google's problems these days are technical in nature. They're caused by the MBAs now having more power at Google than the techies, and thus increasing revenue is more important than accuracy.
Unfortunately this bug will probably get fixed from your post
I was more referring to the "conspiracy theory" that such a tactic is currently in use by the powers that be. Not a topic I am familiar with so I certainly won't dispute that it occurred historically.
It's been pretty clear for awhile now.
CME website itself crashed for over an hour.
Here's June: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CLM20.NYM?p=CLM20.NYM
This is a single cohort, and they make no indication that they are changing their policy for future cohorts. No one in the Bay Area should care about this one-off change unless they applied to this batch and are worried about the extra competition.
This seems like you're attributing motive to google here, but I don't believe that's right. For example, Terry Crews appears in the query "person" because his "TIME Person of the Year 2017 Interview" article was very popular online. I get a lot of Greta Thunberg because she was TIME Person of the Year 2019 and received similar online attention because of Donald Trump.

The TL;DR of it is that google crawls the internet for photos, associates those photos with text content pulled from the caption or from the surrounding page, and gives them a popularity score based on the popularity of the page/image. There are some cleverer bits trying to label objects in the images, but it's primarily a reflection of how frequently that image is accessed and how well the text content on the page matches your query. There's some additional localization, anti-spam, and freshness rating that influences the results too.

The majority of pages with "人" and a photo on it that has a machine labeled person image would be a photo of a japanese/chinese person, and if you're being localized to japan with a vpn, that would be even more true.

Google doesn't "know" what you're trying to search. It's a giant pattern matching game that slices and dices and rearranges text to find the closest match.
If only I'd known...
My dad thankfully had all his documents on floppies... :P :)
Ask HN: Is Reddit Down?
Getting lots of 500s on reddit today and this page indicates there's a huge spike in errors https://reddit.statuspage.io/
Every Application Fails in Unique but Predictable Ways: A Study in Zoom
Go Developer Survey 2019 Results
Responding to "you'll find a lot of people do not agree with your definition of penalized" with your preferred definition of the word doesn't exactly further the conversation.
Why do I have to demonstrate anything? I've made my argument and nobody has refuted anything I've said. They've just kept on with their post-hoc rationalisations. Tell me why it is okay to take from those that do work and fund those that won't?

> There are economic models that support a variety of liberal crackpot and old school approaches plus everything in between.

More economic models. That have that never work. When are people going to learn that you cannot make wealth out of thin air?

> There MUST be a better alternative to what we have today.

There is. But what I consider better alternatives are very different from what you would consider better alternatives and you definitely won't like what I would propose.
Yeah that's interesting, I called it a hot take because a lot of people get up in arms when you talk about sterilization, yet the pill does has widespread acceptance, though of course it is somewhat different and has a number of drawbacks, notably that it has significant side-effects and has to be taken continually.

I'm thinking more along the lines of something like Vasalgel/RISUG, basically a shot you get once or very infrequently, that could become a sort of automatic or default health procedure like vaccines.
Correct. In finance it is the norm to store all currency amounts as int.
I am posting this because I have just discovered him in the news on the occasion, sadly, of his death.
It is inspiring that someone could take up photography at 65 years old in order not to get bored upon retiring, and then to become an internationally recognised photographer.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/rpitskhelauri/gilbert-garcin/
`Ctrl+W` is awesome, but after it has been ingrained in the fingers it's easy to close browser tabs by accident :D

Another one (not mentioned) is "Dobbel tap and hold Ctrl" to add multiple carets using the arrow keys (might need to enable in settings (Under smart keys)).

Another "smart keys" settings I recommend is "Surround selection on typing quote or brace" (not sure it's default or not)
You should apply. Whether there are companies we've already funded doing something similar is not a factor in our decisions.
It's counter intuitive to have negative prices, but I think this sums it up nicely: "If you have a thing that lots of people want, but that no one wants right now, it is hard to put a normal price on it."[0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-20/there-...
Yikes. Maybe you should pick up web development. I'm sure it's less cluttered and simpler over there.

Oh wait...
The funny thing is that this search is pretty easy to put into first order logic (shirt(x) & ~striped(x)). I guess we now have computers that are bad at logic.
Thats the difference between a domain name and a fully qualified domain name.

If you've ever administered BIND, you'll note that you need to add a ending . to A records. Thats the FQDN.

Now, our browsers link cookies to domain. And interestingly enough (example.com)!=(example.com.)

That's why sites like nytimes.com. gets around the paywall, because you don't have a cookie history with that site.