skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thing just honestly feels like you had a huge engineering team dedicated to solving this problem with the caveat that you can't just add a kickstand to the iPad itself, which honestly is just a much saner and more useful solution, "Good design is honest" comes to mind.

Instead we have this bizarre over-engineered solution that sounds awkward to use and looks pretty ugly. Compared to just opening a kickstand and flipping down a keyboard and still allows you to use your tablet as a tablet.

and for $300 they could have used some nicer material, it looks like the stuff a $10 "hardcase" generic carrying case would be made from.
That can be easily flipped around though.

From the perspective of people who see the virus as not in fact that dangerous in the grand scheme of things, it looks like a lot of people couldn't care less about the lives of others: the people who are trapped on their own for months at home under house arrest, the people who spent their lives building a business who tomorrow will have to tell their teammates it's all over, the people who are losing everything, and that's before we get to the risks of knock-on effects like food shortages, critical equipment failures due to the manufacturers of a special widget going bust and so on.

I don't understand people who hear "the economy" and appear to think of going on holidays? Or gambling in a stock market? They don't think of a supply chain that leads to a replacement filter in their local water treatment plant. They don't think of the builders who are trying to grow a family by constructing their house. They don't think of food being harvested in the fields or internet companies linking loved ones by video chat. They think it's all "just a couple of bucks".

It's not just user spiderfarmer above - we've seen actual politicians talk like that, which is terrifying. The economy isn't optional, the economy is life support and everything else that makes life worth living.
> a stuffy nose.

Not a covid-19 symptom.

EDIT: I'm wrong, sorry. Thank you to kgwgk for the correction.
6 exoskeletons (yes, they stack) and a couple of personal nuclear power plants and you can outrun cars and some trains for that matter.
>A lot of prominent gatekeepers are all about the status quo.

Who are these ?
Persuasive Design: How to Nudge Users in the Right Direction
Blockchain News: BlockCheck launches onchain ID validation and KYC/AML service
> With video on, the visual cue of someone getting ready to start talking makes that easier to avoid.

You have the possibility of using an actual raised hand to signal that you want to interrupt a discussion that has gone astray. But that only works in settings where all participants are visible even when silent.
Bailing them out of what?

The term "bail out" is usually understood to mean replacing funds after the owner of them lost them through bad decision making. What's happening here isn't a conventional bailout. Governments have destroyed the businesses of private investors deliberately and explicitly - reductions in the damage aren't bail outs.
I've found that I am still willing to play RPGs that have some decent plot or game mechanics, but only if I'm able to skip past the grinding phases—either through cheats or by playing older games in an emulator with a literal fast forward button.

When it comes to city builders and similar games (including Factorio), I'm too easily distracted by the metagame puzzle of wondering about optimal strategies. I can't play them for long before I end up closing the game itself and pulling up documentation about the game's rules and internals, and that usually breaks me out of a potentially addictive cycle.
It's a shame really. I bet GP would never say something so cruel to OP's face, but somehow when it's just words on a screen folks lose all sense of empathy and civility.
Ask HN: Coding Course for Web Designers
Calling all designers,

I'm a front-end developer and I'm thinking of creating a front-end coding course for designers. I wondered if this would be of interest in particular to designers that want to be able to create more of their own html pages/improve their knowledge of coding?

If so, I'd be really interested to know from designers:

1) what do you wish you could create on the front-end that you can't at the moment?
2) if you do do some front-end dev as well as design, how proficient are you?
3) what would you want to gain from a front-end coding course? What would you like to be able to build at the end of it?
4) Have you tried a coding course before and if so, what was wrong with it?

Any feedback would be hugely appreciated, thank you!
I am using this lib too in one of our projects, I would be keen to do this.

How best do you think to structure this, move it into its own new org?

I also assume it would be good to try and get hold of the creator first?
Idea that Putin is going into background popped up when he decided to rewrite the constitution but not the part that forbid him to go on to his third term (he is in his second term now, again). Since then it was rulled by the constitutional court that any change to the constitution would turn the counter of his terms to zero. Now Putin plan is clear - he is not going anywhere.

Edit: Found link to report on it in english. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-idUSKBN20...
Covid-19 death toll in England 41% higher than early data suggested – ONS
> What I'm saying (that it's approximately the same as the flu for the young, with some early evidence pointing to it being better) isn't particularly controversial and well supported by evidence

There are 400 covid-19 deaths reported so far in the 18-44 age group in NYC. There are 3.5 mn people in that age group in NYC. That's over 11 per 100'000.

The mortality per 100'000 for the 18-49 group in the US estimated by the CDC was in the last nine flu seasons: 1.8, 2, 1, 1.2, 0.7, 2.5, 1.5, 0.5, 3.9.

It's a stretch to say they are approximately the same and definitely 11 is not better than 0.5-3.9.
I know that this is a shocking idea, but you can, in extraordinary circumstances, use a variety of government measures, including dipping into reservers to ensure that people don't starve and that businesses aren't forced to lay off people that they will need when businesses restart.

Yes, government isn't some omnipotent god but neither is it some helpless pathetic entity that can't sort things out at a time of extraordinary crisis.
For me it's been seeing the clear skies.
Try to find some 5 year / 10 year averages to see how excess mortality because of covid-19 compares.

Here's one for the UK: https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1252518098047041536
Sony files patent for "joint viewing player" will rejoice in player's victories
Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles (2016)
What you need to do to promote yourself and still sleep well at night is come up with good content, and bring it up when relevant. You can easily become an outrage or clickbait factory, but that’s no fun; likewise, spamming SEO, trying to get people to do things that they don’t want to do, like subscribe to your content, pay you, or even pay attention to you is difficult if they have no reason to do so. You don’t have to “optimize”, either: not everyone ends up being hugely popular, but you can still be known for something you’re proud of.
Show HN: PingPal – Track Habits with Friends
It's like this pandemic is giving a biological counter argument to concepts of ethics that assume a human being is an isolated unit.
Test user sign-up with real emails using Node.js and WebDriver (wdio)
>The latter can certainly cause the loss of human life, but I haven't seen anything but hand-wavy attempts to quantify it.

GiveWell calculates lives/dollars for its charities and I think the most efficient one is like $3k/life.

Not some used up, only 2 years left neither of them good life either. That of a child.
I agree. I'm quite happy to see AMD compete effectively. More competition is ultimately good for all of us. Unless it drives them to cut corners resulting in security issues, like with the recent spate of Intel issues, but then it's good to have an alternative.

I just bought a laptop for my son, and felt this was a good opportunity to try out a Thinkpad with a Ryzen processor.
Hey, HN!

I'm an iOS developer, who lives in an unhealthy life before. One day, I noticed that I need to build some healthy habits since I found my body is not as strong as before. But it's hard for me to stick it alone. So I create the PingPal app to let my friends could push me to stick to my habits every day. On the other hand, they also start to build some good habits with me when they see my progress.

Thus, I found that I may create something useful, and it could help more people who cannot stick to good habits to join this community to track your daily progress with your friends.

Hope you will like PingPal app!

Download(iOS Only): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pingpal-habit-tracker/id149298...
New update on pubg mobile, library mode
My view is that the open source projects for power system simulation available now are approaching a stage where they can perform all of the main functions of commercial tools. In some cases, they even offer functionality that expensive proprietary applications do not have. However, they are typically provided as libraries or with text-based interfaces.

WebAssembly creates an exciting opportunity to combine these libraries with convenient, reactive user interfaces that help to manage the their complexity. The web development community is so large and the frameworks and tools available are of such high quality that an individual, or small team of developers, can quickly create complex applications that would have previously taken much longer. Ultimately, this should accelerate the process of bringing the latest research to industry.
That's interesting. For Safari (13.1) and Firefox for me, the translucent box below 'Sounds of the Bodlean Library' appears entirely empty. However clicking randomly in it will invoke the location selection drop-down.
Not the OP, but for me energy restoring activities are “active” ones, like hobbies where you create/build something. Working on a painting, photo, sculpting, writing, working on a side project, playing intelligent games with your dog, ... Passive activities, like consuming TV or Netflix or worse social networks, at least for me are draining my energy levels.
> is that all deaths of likely-infected people are being counted as COVID deaths regardless of cause of death.

No, this isn't what's happening.

Doctors who are sure to the best of their knowledge and experience that the deceased had covid-19 will put covid-19 on the death certificate, and they will also say if they think it contributed to death.

That's not the same as "anyone who dies with covid-19 is being described as killed by covid-19".
Cloud Native Tools for Developers Recap
See my other comments. This is the best link collection I know of:

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

It's concise, dense and to the point.
I had stayed away from the game for fear of being hooked up, but decided to give it a try when I was confined home, so I downloaded the demo.
I really wanted to like it, but I gave up after an hour or so, because I felt that the game devs want me to be frustrated.
Now, of course nobody likes frustration, but I hate very much everybody who wants me to feel bad.

First of all, I was expecting a sandbox game, and instead I got objectives, and a stupid popup telling me what I am supposed to do.

Secondly, one of the first non trivial objectives is to reach a certain production speed, which, at least in the early stages of the game means hustle (I haven't bothered to check if it changes later on).
The game promises hustle from the beginning: you have to feed coal to a machine that extracts coal; you can use robot arms to feed the coal extracting machine with coal, but you have to feed coal to the robotic arm. WTF?

Finally, I'm really done with games where you have to do your thing but also fight monsters. Compare that to, say, Minecraft: you craft a bed, spam lights everywhere and never, ever have to fight a single monster if you don't want to, while you're still free to go and fight monsters with your bare hands if that's what you like.

Is there a sandbox game that is not hustle for the sake of hustle, that doesn't tell you what to do and in which you can do your thing without being too much bothered by monsters?
The problem is that in safety critical contexts you are using special subsets of C (e. g. like in MISRA C). I would probably make more sense to analyze languages like Ada/SPARK or Rust which already have some safety considerations respected in their designs.
Andy Gavin (in the video) was also responsible for the development of GOAL, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp)
Most self employed people are eligible to claim up to 80% of the average of their previously declared income up to 2.5K for the last 3 years. There are some notable gaps, but the vast majority are protected.

The U.K. government is also backing loans for businesses to limp on with, interest free for the first 6 months or year (I forget the specifics).
> In Italy nobody under 30 died, and only 5 people between 30 and 39, as of April 19th

7 under 30 and 40 between 30 and 39. One order of magnitude more.

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/bollettino/Repor...
Burger King’s new commercial shows the time-lapse decomposition of a Whopper
The fact they put some disclaimer after bragging doesn't discredit the point of the author who says those companies brag with AI but still fail to fulfil basic queries.
"There's nothing we can do" https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-grant-through-the-corona...
> Sadly, I don't think the congress people are that smart. They probably actually thought this program would work in some useful capacity.

At some point, being charitable and choosing incompetence over intention as the explanation for behavior does become willful naivete, doesn't it?
Operation Neptun, the Cold War’s Most Daring Disinformation Campaign
I didn't realize that the percentage is that small! However now that I think about it, mobile could be an excellent place to use this library.
How to Unbreak LTTng
I don’t see our squares with our Australian numbers. How have we been able to bring the case numbers right down if there are as many asymptomatic cases and as high an R0 as these studies suggest. Our overall testing of people with symptoms has an under 2% positive rate with one of the highest per capita testing rates in the world. We have a lockdown but it isn’t so extreme as to be able to stop the kind of spread these studies are suggesting.

The vast majority of our non imported cases have also been successfully contact traced, people by and large seem to be contracting it from other confirmed cases.
And you can run it on your pi-hole for at least a few users, only tried 3-4 users so far though.
It seems like the parent commenter is unhappy that the Supreme Court ruled to end a state practice, likely one that they supported, even though such “interference” is explicitly spelled out in the Constitution.
If there was a fair competition over who gets to live, it can hardly be characterized as unfair. Also, did you already forget that China had a one-child policy? You can look up how that turned out.
Neither is strict constitutionalism.
HarfBuzz seems like it ought to fit the bill. It does come with some freetype-integration code, but you don't have to use that; it's fairly straightforward to use harfbuzz shaping in conjunction with Quartz2d or DirectWrite glyph rendering, for example. I imagine using it with libschrift would be similar.
I imagine they clean more than the toilet when they each put their uniform on. Perhaps do some garden work too.
That's just semantics. Whether you see it as a reward for some or a punishment for others is besides the point. The argument is about companies getting treated unequally with no just cause.
It's not exponential any more. Just 40 new coronavirus deaths yesterday and the curve has been declining for two weeks (from a top of over 100).

> and is instituting more and more aspects of a lockdown

Like what? There haven't been any new restrictions for weeks.
Sorry, can you elaborate? Apple's "A" series CPUs have been out-of-order for years and at least a few years ago had a similar superscalar/ooo structure to Intel's Haswell chips. (Apple poached a bunch of Intel processor designers…)
Because Anki's UI could do with a lot of improvement, and it is probably eaiser to separate out the algorithms, the data and the UI.
It's not opinion is the logical conclusion from literally every random sampling study. Pretty much consistently 50x as many people have been infected that we thought. And if we made the current strategy with limited data why aren't we updating what we are doing with more data.
I dunno, I got a kick out of https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/g50h6m/a_s...
I find more concerning this (from the article):

'A number of other sites — such as reopennc.com — seem to exist merely to sell t-shirts, decals and yard signs with such slogans as “Know Your Rights,” “Live Free or Die,” and “Facts not Fear.'

I mean, that marketing tools would be used for political gain was to be expected, but, it seems that we have arrived to a point where politics is used for marketing. One thing is to sell t-shirts with slogans and another is to create (or amplify) a movement in order to sell t-shirts, regardless of the consequences. I suppose that, as so many things, once you are inside the vortex it's difficult to tell the difference.
No, those organisations do not try to give the impression that they several unrelated local small grassroots organisations, which are in fact one big organisation creating lots of small entities, but this is what is happening here.
2020 World Press Freedom Index
What makes you think the bad actors aren't already within "our" legal jurisdiction. The "Foreign" part of misinformation campaigns is a red herring. Case in point TFA is more likely the doing of domestic neoliberals than foreign actors.
I've never seen a bad programmer who starts to produce good code when project begins to fail.

Excusing toxic managers because the project is still rolling does not make sense, since we ignore how much better would it be with someone who can actually do their job.

Unless you're in sales there is no benefit to being the rotten apple.
It's a common gut reaction to jump to a "rewrite from scratch!" because it's more fun to start something new, but often times a serious refactoring is the more sane alternative.
That channel is legit underrated
All configurable. You can choose not to have objectives. You can choose not to have biters that get irritated by pollution.
Interesting to see. Been a computer-person all my life, but only started programming with Python like 4 years ago.
Switched from Python to Go after about a year. Go just seemed much easier to work with.
I have still, to this day, not made a single penny with Go. Never been a professional programmer. It's so weird to think that I'm still trying to learn more and more about it and use it for _something_.
Go really pulled me in somehow. I blame Todd McLeod and Jon Calhoun ;)
Ultimately the value of Go for me seemed to be quick-access to lots of buzzwordy things I wanted to make use of. Concurrency, web-apps, internet / online - infrastructure things. (Funnily enough I still don't use concurrency much or properly at all. Like, years in and I still don't.)
There is hardly a greater feeling than to make something work, to figure something out. To know you've learned something. I just hope that one day that will actually turn into money. That seems to be the trickiest part. Hmmmm.
That’s a good point. For me, situations with a bad faith actor are edge cases and there are ways to remove bad actors from the decision making process that are separate to the decision making process itself.

Not really refuting your point, and definitely thinking about it in specific contexts. For example a consistent bad faith actor on a team at work can expect to eventually be removed from the team, and avoiding hiring these people (or bringing them into decision making processes) is one of the goals of a good hiring process. It’s usually framed as “culture fit”, to drop another euphemism.
Try searching Google for 'white couples' and 'black couples'.

The former returns lots of mixed race couples, mostly not white couples. However the latter returns black couples.

What is going on here? Similar phenomenon perhaps?
> There is a clear correlation between suppression of media freedom in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and a country’s ranking in the Index.
> If it's a legal loophole for paying less tax, that's fair game.

Legal != ethical.

And even the legality is questionable, but it's hard to investigate those optimization strategies when top officials have extremely-well-paying side-gigs at tax consultancies (which is the German situation) and those benefiting from the loopholes are also donating large amounts to buy favors from those in power (which is the US situation).
It could be that the buyer doesn't suffer the consequences until much later, or that they are suffered only in aggregate by buyers.

For example: cheap smoke detector that doesn't detect smoke, cheap food full of lead contamination, cheap software full of buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
> Shouldn't the ethics be on the government side in such cases?

Everyone should aim to act ethically especially during a crisis.

I think we are generally far too lenient with corporations regarding their behaviours. Both stockholders and executives should be held accountable. By always viewing corporations as faceless entities, abstract monsters lead only by profits, we give these people a free pass.

I don't think we should.
> The idea you can simply shut down the economy at will and balance it with relief doesn't make economic sense.

Of course it doesn't. Governments all over the world aren't making decisions for the benefit of the economy right now, they're doing it to save the lives of their citizens.
Hi Sean, thank you very much for this article.

We really appreciate the kind words and knowing our research is useful to the UX community — that’s our whole purpose for existing. It's also greatly appreciated to get an outsiders perspective on what you are doing well and where you can improve.

Below I’ve tried to provide some additional context for some of the points in your article:

for your point “why aren’t there more Baymards”: as you point out conducting this much research takes time, and I guess that’s one of the reasons why more companies aren’t doing this. At Baymard we’ve so far spent around USD 5million on conducting the UX research needed to create the Baymard Premium research catalog, at the needed level of accuracy. All of this is self-financed UX researched, so it’s not client-specific projects that we’ve just repurposed (to ensure the research is unbiased, relevant, etc). That said, others wanting to do something similar, maybe don’t need the same level of accuracy and depth, as that’s really what makes it costly.
for your point “limitations: Context is Key”: our customers that have Baymard Premium research access generally have more data available than what we show in our public articles. In our Premium research access, all the UX research findings have meta-data to indicate the observed test severity and test frequency, there’s generally more user quotes, sometimes also test video clips, and there are some 35,000+ additional implementation examples.
for your point “limitations: Baymard has existed for 12 years” in our Premium research access we continually update all of the research with new examples, user behavior, etc. and we continually deprecate recommendations once our new test data shows the underlying user behavior has changed.

Thanks
3.14159 is often a good enough approximation for pi.
Stockholm is at 20-30% so I find it very hard to believe only a small fraction of Sweden has been exposed.