skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you're aware of PPP, but it's the more advantageous program (by far). EIDL grants were reduced to $1k/employee, instead of the flat $10k/company. EIDL interest rates are higher, the grants are smaller, and if you eventually enroll in PPP, you'll have to reconsolidate your EIDL debt with the new bank.

Better to ignore the status of your EIDL application and apply for PPP, in the hope the program gets additional funding. (Both EIDL and PPP are out of funds, at the moment.)
1) The examples cited are valid UX/UI design criticisms.

2) The author makes quite a few important points about UI problems (I especially appreciate the point about the importance of maintaining high standards for free software).

3) Concluding that "usability" is "in decline" from a handful of anecdata is an irritating, insincere, clickbaity absurdity that serves only to make the author and those who agree feel more important, that they're Older and Wiser™ for having grown up with CLIs, while the Children Today™ are ignorant fools who ought to Get Off My Lawn™. I'm so, so tired of this attitude getting in the way of sincere design critique. If the author had instead titled this "Some Problems With Various Software UI Design" I wouldn't have a problem. But then no one would click on it, I guess. (The author anticipates some of these and the following objections but doesn't actually make any satisfying argument against them.)

4) Design (among many, many other things, like art and language) are output by cultures. Cultures evolve unstoppably. Any argument that suggests that cultures should just "stop changing" are arguing the impossible.

5) Cultures CAN be steered deliberately, but generally only with massive efforts, such as civil rights in the 20th century (and even then.... :/). But saying "It's people like you and me who decide to change UI design" is completely insufficient. I understand and very much appreciate the idea, of course—be the change you want to see in the world—but insinuating that new ideas are dumb and useless is itself useless.

6) Cultural change is absolutely critical to continued survival of the culture. Many new ideas will fail. Many people will fail to learn from history. But some people will, and some new ideas will succeed wildly. Stagnating in a perpetual, rose-tinted dream of everything running on a command line doesn't help anything.
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Compared to any 'modern' website this is a fucking pinnacle of usablity.
Kind of Maoist and inefficient to have all your specially trained valuable first world labour do manual work, badly.
That's the halflife of each bond between nucleotides. After one tenth of a half life you're left with strands of average length ~20 nucleotides. After a full half life they are of length ~2, i.e., mostly just scattered GCs, ATs, etc. After several half-lives, it's almostly completely single nucleotides, and the chance that there are any surviving strands longer than a given length N falls exponentially in time and N.
Fortnite and the Metaverse
> its a brutal capitalism and race to the bottom

This "race to the bottom" argument is so tired. The only way you can make that argument is if you don't consider the welfare of all 7.6 billion people on this planet as worth improving.

Generally people live more comfortable leisurely lives now than at any point in human history. This is largely thanks to capitalism. I understand that not everyone's life is great yet, but for the most part the number of people in poverty or extreme poverty keeps decreasing.

For the most part, the overwhelming majority of people's whose lives are worse today than in the past, it is because they are competing with others who are willing to do it for less because even doing it for less, it's a lot better than their alternatives. Those who are worse off now are almost invariably still better off than those that were at the bottom of the barrel that are now doing better.

Basically capitalism is a rising tide that has for the most part raised all boats. That is far from a race towards the bottom.
Why? They do a pretty good job of distilling information and presenting them in a way most people can understand.
This is cool, I'll check it out. Thanks!
Moving in the US virtually provides no wage premium for non-college educated people any longer. This is largely the consequence of breakdown of what would be considered 'good jobs', over the last twenty to thirty years.

"As the geographical pattern of work has shifted, so has that of wages. Economists have long acknowledged the existence of an urban wage premium: workers in more densely populated places earn more, in part because of the productivity benefits of crowding together that nurture urban growth in the first place. This pay premium used to hold across the range of skills. In 1970 workers without any college education could expect to get a boost to their earnings when they moved to a big city, just as better-educated workers did (see chart). Since then the urban wage advantage for well-educated workers has become more pronounced, even as that for less-educated workers has all but disappeared.

[...]

Most jobs in the first two of these categories are located in cities, open mainly to holders of college degrees and decently paid (frontier work is particularly lucrative). Only the last-mile jobs are occupied disproportionately by workers without a college education. They are better than nothing, but only just. Both wages and the quality of such jobs are typically low, which is just as well, since they are unlikely to avoid the creeping tide of automation for very long."

Bifucration of the economy, automation and the shift towards ever increasing knowledge sector and endemic housing shortages have largely destroyed the benefits of moving towards economic clusters for uneducated workers. This is not a solution in this day and age, it's a romanticised fiction. It may have worked for mom and pop who came to the US with nothing else but their clothes, but this is history. The world today is a different one, and it has largely left this segment of the population behind.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/01/10/t...
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Code
Saudi Arabia's religious project transformed Indonesia
One tip for Blender at least... It's very hard to discover, even if you know it exists, but you can drag out from the side of the main icon bar and turn on text labels as well.
quite unfortunate that there is no alternative with the same great user experience like zoom.

Linux, Windows, Mac, every device all just working without a problem. Delay free screen sharing (Not like MS Teams/webex), even remote support is possible.

Fantastic product from a user perspective. I hope they will fix the issues or some other currently crappy solution will take over the user experience centric thinking.
After a number of amateurish attempts at setting up a personal e-mail server over the years, I ended up resorting to running a poste (https://poste.io) docker container, which has worked great so far.

But I found the section about SPF/DKIM/MARC still very useful, and wish there were even more information about this. Testing whether e-mail is sendable or receivable is pretty easy. Understanding these scores is much harder (presumably because, if this were easily testable, it would also be easily gameable).
Case in point: Parts of Spain look like a winter-resort on Google maps [0], but that's actually greenhouses.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8292745,-2.7821357,115749m/d...
You can choose not to read it without them having to sack anybody
We just take the missing pieces and fill in frog DNA, right?
Not to accuse James O'Keefe of sainthood, but I've an order of magnitude more regard for him and Veritas than any of the cable news networks.
I have had success with PayPal in the past to power payments for my service [1]. Their API and documentation (or lack thereof) wasn’t great but it worked in far more countries than the likes of stripe.

You could also try gumroad.

1. https://errorship.com/
Gouging helps those who have the foresight to stock up long before. If I knew I could see large amounts of 2 cent masks for $10 every few years I could stock up, and throw away expired masks. Every few years my profit more than makes up for the losses every other year.

Of course it is unlikely someone would take the risk, but gouging laws make it impossible.
Figma in Talks to Raise at $2B Valuation
How is that the future and not just a description of current social media apps on mobile/tablet devices?
I'm unsurprised but the commitment to Orthodoxy here on HN.

I've experienced copious carpet bombings for deviations from the Received Truth, however mild and documented.
France's unemployment numbers don't include the many contract workers that are not full time employees under French law. A lot of them are out of work right now and receiving nothing from the French government.

Because French law makes it so hard to fire a full-time employee, many businesses only hire workers on a part-time basis.

In contrast, most US unemployment numbers generally include all individuals seeking work, regardless of the type of employment they previously had.
I swear, I wish we could remove the downvoting privileges of anyone that downvotes a comment that does nothing more than ask for sources and evidence. This is HN, not Reddit.
I'm not going to watch a video to find out what he said. Anybody got a TL;DV?

But, it all depends on what's actually proposed. IIUC, in Britain, the "shadow government" is the opposition's specialists on different aspects of policy, who critique the ruling party's policy proposals and offer their own alternatives. That's fine. Biden can and should do that.

Anything beyond that - like, actually trying to govern - is, let us say, legally unsupported.
Does it bug anyone else not to have the analytic solution?
I’m suggesting that long-standing credible rumour said they intended the price to be $399, well before the pandemic. The same rumours accurately predicted the phone’s major hardware features.

I would agree with you if rumours had said $449 or $499. But, they didn’t. So there appears to be zero evidence of a change in intent.
I also live in WA. Many parks (except playgrounds) are officially opened, but the parking lots are mostly closed. See [1] for:

> "Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office announced Thursday that the city will allow major parks to remain open through the weekend [...] Parking lots at larger parks will remain closed, and additional rules are in place for Green Lake, Seward Park, Alki Beach, and Golden Gardens such as no fire pits or picnics, no gatherings or beach activities, and loop trails remain open to pedestrian use only. You'll also notice new signage at Seattle parks about social distancing and the #KeepItMoving initiative. Seattle Parks and Recreation will also be deploying 60 new "Social Distancing Ambassadors" at major parks who will remind people to socially distance."

I've gone to some parks to walk my dog, and you have to park in the surrounding neighborhood instead of the big parking lot at the park, which puts additional strain on the community. It's kind of weird, but entirely legal and within the established rules.

The weather in Seattle is ridiculously nice right now. I'm going to go skateboarding this afternoon, somewhere that won't be filled with sand by self-righteous assholes.

[1] https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/washin...
I agree that the web is a bunch of potholes with autoplay sound and video, pop ups, in your face ads, etc. I find an adblocker, turning off autoplay in firefox, and pi-hole fix 99% of that. So I don't think you can say "often" that you have to fix things, unless you refuse to use similar methods that I've used. Literally the only site I will jump through hoops for and turn things off for (whitelist) is my bank, and they don't have anything other than a couple of annoying popups.
Sure, but the bay area has very few detected infections, in general.

It seems pretty obvious that we need to do the same experiment on samples from New York, Washington, Michigan, etc.
To everyone worrying about AirBnB surviving, didn't you see the 1 Billion loan they got last week?
I use TypeScript a lot and I only write in transformations of types in functions, rather than classes, so having ADTs is a big part of my workflow. I also write Python for machine learning but that's more glue code for Tensorflow, not full applications. I feel like once you go to FP land it's hard to come back :D
It's not a requirement, it's a choice, and one with catastrophic downside risk.

Refusing protectionist trade policy became popular among the people who make these decisions, a trend which accelerated after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We're in the middle of a crisis which brought to stark light the lack of resilience created by this relentless focus on efficiency and productivity at any cost.

But this is policy, not immutable law. Markets do predictable things in the absence of trade protection, subsidy, and state investment, true; but they do predictable things in the presence of them also.
Optics: Closing the computation to hardware gap. Yes, it is a 'solved' science, very much so, decades in fact. We still struggle mightily in making anything practical out of the equations. It's a bit backwards from most engineering. With bridges and milk-jugs we can get pretty close on paper to the actual product. With optics, we kinda get the theory after we've built it and made the light/photons go all wiggly. It's tough stuff, but would be very useful.

Mathematics: A generalized solution to n-order partial differential equations. Laplace, Chebyshev, Hamilton, Wave equations, sure, ok, yes. But I mean any n-order partial differential, not the 'lucky' cases. You get that, and you've solved a great deal of the outstanding problems in other fields (hydrodynamics, optics, economics, turbulence). I'm not sure up to date on this, and it may have been proved that a general solution is actually impossible, but I'm not sure.

Physics: Braver grad students. Quantum Gravity is a long was off, we need much bigger machines or a constellation of satellites that use the sky as the particle accelerator. As such, having these brilliant minds labor on obscure portions on some niche interpretation of physics, well, it's useless really. The data will make it all clear as day, whenever the data gets here. Until then, the grad students need to be braver and strike out on their own, leaving the golden age behind. We need them to work on other things. I know that's tough as nails, but I think it's what is needed. Great work has been done in neuroscience by physicists (despite their best efforts :P), and the quants on Wall Street are a meme now. More of that, but in, I dunno, weaving or something.
The autotranalation says:

> From the beginning, our intentions were clear: to ensure local production for Czech hospitals and help to release IP devices as open source as soon as possible.

I'd blame a cueless buzzword-heavy marketing team, instead of intentional fraud.
I suspected the asymptomatic rate to be high, but not by a factor of 50-85! That's very great news no?
Ideally never. The only reason to work with CF tools is through Hashicorp packer or legacy staff that doesn’t make sense to setup on orchestrators. The infra should be immutable
Visualizing every layer of a neural net [video]
That was a pretty cool video! I loved how he used 3D Monte-Carlo and side-stepped all the complicated math. I wonder if he was using a Physics engine like Bullet or ODE to calculate the simulated trajectories. Also, a good intermediate step might've been to build the backboard in something like Unity and shoot some hoops to catch the radius error before actually machining it out.
For most healthcare workers, it is unknown to them. N95 is the standard.

And P100s were sold out early into this adventure.
I keep wondering if planes could benefit from the new materials developed by SpaceX. If they really have a stainless steel that's significantly lighter, it could be a game changer.
At this point, anything is an improvement. But, the minimum should certainly include the "basic needs" of physiological needs and at least partial fulfilment of safety needs, which are at the bottom of Maslow's heirarchy [0].

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[0]: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
Okay.

Cure.fit/Cult.fit or whatever is the brand is apparently only available for India/UAE phone numbers. Great.
Look at the LTS versions of firefox (plug for my favorite browser). However similar is available for Chrome and shouldn't take more than a day to test and deploy for a small-medium office by any competent IT person.
I made a stupid game as LiveView POC [1] which I posted the other day and tested it on different conditions and can comment a bit on the latency.

On a LAN you really don't feel it 99% of the time. However in the game I have a countdown that I initially updated each seconds with LiveView (probably with send_after/4) and I couldn't make it totally reliable, sometimes the updates would queued up, so in the end I "faked it" in javascript with hooks.

Over the internet there is an added latency obviously. I feel it most in the game part because the button has a instant feedback. On the other parts, forms etc, this does not perform worse than a typical SPA.

So I guess it would be very dependent on the kind of application you use it for. Nobody said it would replace all SPAs and javascript. Also the official demo runs an animation at 60 or 100fps IIRC, so there's that.

Fun anecdote, my devops colleagues tried to ddos my app, they failed and all along people were playing the game without any hiccups.

I wonder though how it performs on mobile networks. Aren't some of them terrible for websockets, when changing towers etc? Would the reconnect and session restoring be too much noticeable?

[1] Demo
On a free Gigalixir instance: https://every-weak-tapaculo.gigalixirapp.com

On a Raspberry4 behind my FTTH: https://nameguess.funkybits.fr
And there it sounds much less specific: "the bureau had recently seen state-backed hackers poking around."
Great paper. I believe it's possible to do this efficiently in Vulkan + SPIR-V, and also adapt it to WebGPU given the caveats mentioned above, but it's hard to say for sure without doing it. Clearly that paper uses very sophisticated techniques and would not be trivial to implement - it goes considerably past the [2] I linked.

I agree 100% that prefix sum is an excellent litmus test for this platform.

I'll give one example to fill in more specifics. The fence-free descriptor updates described in section 4.4 of your linked paper depend on 64 bit atomics. These are available using the VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64 extension, and appear (using vulkan.gpuinfo.org) to be available on NV and AMD hardware but not Intel (and basically not at all on mobile). On Vulkan, you query at runtime for the presence of this extension, and swap in the appropriate kernel based on the result of the query; optimizing for hardware without 64 bit atomics might give you a different approach.

Not having to deal with all this is the reason NVidia owns the space :)
> Instead, the government could institute price controls and distribute directly to those in need or allow all private purchases to go throug

Every country in the world is hunting for N95s right now. For the US to institute price controls just means the supply will shift to another country that doesn’t.
Hi, I looked around the website and it looks like a cool service.

But I was unable to figure out;

1. What countries are supported for sellers.

2. What countries are supported for buyers.
Really? You're going to zero in on a _single_ contract, reported by Bezos Post from information provided by a bunch of Obama appointees? And just because they paid it doesn't mean at all that this money can't or won't be recovered. And just because a company is bankrupt and doesn't have any employees, doesn't mean it doesn't have a stock of masks.

This is stage 4 TDS on full display. I've worked with USG in the past (through a prime contractor). I'd MUCH rather they pay some companies which can't deliver than run this shit through their usual procurement process that takes months and compares unfavorably to pulling teeth. And some companies won't be able to deliver even then. You can get the money back. You can't get lives back
Is there any indication that pressing a key is an option? I've been swiping up with the mouse the whole time as well.
Commercial application is irrelevant to a patent law. Patent applications need only demonstrate "eligibility, utility, novelty, and non-obviousness." Math and other basic research are ruled out on eligibility grounds, not for being non-commercial, but rather for being "abstract ideas."

Also, algorithms are a bad example, as they are just mathematical functions, i.e. "abstract ideas." They should not be patentable. Although I realize patent law is not actually logically consistent.
I'm actively on the hunt for PPE on behalf of hospitals and I can tell you the mark up comes from several places:

- First, manufacturers have marked up prices. What used to cost 5c from a Chinese manufacturer now costs 30c or more.
- Aside from supply being keen on the shortage, demanders are also willing to push prices even higher. I have even had people /outbid/ my place in line for product.
- Airfreight costs $14.50 a kilo. It's typically around $2-3 a kilo.
- Financing is hard. In many cases, no one wants to pay up front at all or make deposits because of all the scams and counterfeit products. Suppliers similarly want money up front, often 100%. The transaction itself becomes a more risky proposition. I can't find anyone willing to finance part of a 30 day transaction for 5% returns.

The Federal seizures have made everything even more risky. Price controls will not fix this. A manufacturer in China has enough demand from the rest of the world to charge. (I was out bid from someone from France.)

The only thing we can do is ramp up supply.
I’ve been monitoring Amazon’s stocks through this whole crisis, and how they’re going through the roof while almost all others are taking huge losses.

I can’t help but wonder if it will someday implode from the terrible, unsustainable conditions their workers seem to be facing — even prior to the pandemic, but exacerbated by it — and Amazon’s complete dismissal of it.

And this isn’t even including the increasingly poor state of consumer trust in reviews, third party resellers, counterfeit products, and the myriad of ways resellers can game the system. All of which Amazon also seems to continue to dismiss as if it’s immune to the long-term impacts.
Sadly enough, even if the FBI says it you will have to consider how much you trust the FBI first before believing it.
We also bank with Mechanics. Submitted our application on Sunday the 5th. Called many times and they kept saying they can't give us status. Was patient most of the time with them but I wish we were not. The story is too long but I can tell you that they were not processing applications first come first serve. Finally got someone to look at our application and now its in underwriting. Hoping congress passes phase 2. We will be moving from Mechanics. 45+ people on payroll didn't let anyone go in anticipation of us getting the funds. Did everything I could to give them all the information they needed within minutes of them asking. I was always fist in line.
It's not simple though in the sense that you'll then have more ongoing paperwork to do each year for taxes and your accountancy costs will be higher (I wouldn't recommend doing company tax filings by yourself). The OP mentioned testing an idea out so creating a company only for this might not be worth the hassle and you risk doing your taxes wrong if you're not careful.
Working for me here.

Although, it isn't listed on their Medium profile page yet so maybe something is up with it: https://medium.com/@boomsupersonic
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