skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carbon repairs are relatively easy as long as they don't damage any internal structure. IIRC they usually just patch and sand.
Take 30 times 0.15 you get 4.5. I wouldn't draw any conclusions due to the low quality of current data.
I don't think this is fully accurate. They wanted CERTAIN companies to get these loans for sure. They got to make easy commissions and give free money to companies that owe them money. But yes, they got a ton of free leads AND incredibly valuable business information which they can use to sell services later.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

Those bullied N.Y. buffalo take their rage out on the general buffalo population.

Did you set me up for that? :-)
Shit all. New style JSA is £74.35 a week plus you could also potentially claim Universal Credit (if you've got under £16k savings) which is £94. £730 or so a month is not enough to live on if you're having to pay for your accommodation in most of the south.
Mixed in with some general solipsism & selfishness: “The government said not to do something that I want to do, so I’m gonna do exactly that even if it causes people to die!”

OP going to the park or boarding a train without a mask might not cause anyone to die. But if everyone shared OP's view and went to parks and crowded onto trains, people certainly would die.

Some people are just bad at extrapolating beyond themselves and their own immediate wants.
From what I've heard, the US federal government agreed contracts fairly early on in the crisis where they'd buy up any excess US production of N95 masks that goes unsold in order to guarantee a market for exactly this reason.
Well, his question was "Who is Monte Carlo?", a witty reference to the fact that Monte Carlo is named after a real prince [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III,_Prince_of_Monaco
I'd go for something larger like an emu, personally. :)
Ask HN: Thoughts on elementary OS?
TIL about elementary OS

https://elementary.io/

I am immediately interested, but because this is the first time I’ve ever heard about it, despite frequenting hacker news, I am skeptical that it could be less to be excited about than what it seems to be.

Any thoughts from any of you about why this project is great or terrible, or anything in between?

I’ve been on Mac since Snow Leopard, and every time I think to myself, “I need to get off Mac because of X”, I remind myself how terrible Windows is, and how terrible a UX Ubuntu is.

Note - thanks @hamaluik for this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902795
Keep in mind, this is a totally unprecedented government mandated shut down to the economy, not the result of overly aggressive fiscal management.
We run an e-commerce platform and have seen our traffic/signup numbers jump from initial launch fairly dramatically in recent months, which we can only attribute to the current climate at the moment as we're not yet doing a hard marketing push.
The technic is pretty awesome, but in the video with tomato harvesting ... the robot is about a 100 times slower than a human at picking tomatos. So while there is potential for it, it does not seem ready yet. At least not for the real economy, where manual labour is still quite cheap.
Is this not something that just an optics equation in Physics would give you? Specially if not taking the radius of the ball into effect.
I hope he is not on the paper for that reason as this is basically honorary authorship. If he just reviewed the paper before submission then he should be in the acknowledgements.
The company's goal is overland supersonic flight. Profitably, ideally. To make that even a legal possibility means demonstrating they can be somewhat quieter than prior supersonic aircraft. This aircraft is a proof-of-concept.
Aluminum aircraft go together more or less the same way. There will be some inspection panels but the interesting stuff is already exposed, there's very little reason to go inside the wings, particularly on a composite aircraft where corrosion isn't a problem. If you really need to see something, use a borescope.
Elementary is great! Grab the image, boot your usb memory and see it yourself. Very polished experience.

Last release discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719028
> Forgive me, I'm ignorant -- what's erlang for

Since one computer can fail, your programming language should be designed to be run on multiple computers. Erlang's the only language I know about that puts this philosophy first and foremost.
I can't believe that cut-n-paste can be modified by websites and it isn't easy to regain control. For some sites, when you copy a text selection it adds the url as well.

I really wish you could tell your browser to disallow this kind of modification. I only want to copy what i see with my eyes. (WYSISYG)
Of course it is possible to live there without WeChat. That's an illusion I get tired of hearing. Been there in 2019, done it, had no problems using cash. Probably Mastercard would also have wirked for buying a train ticket, if I had persisted and acted as if I did not have it in cash. (And no, no one robbed me.)
It makes sense if you consider it as a piece of content marketing designed to generate tech blog articles that mention “Mozilla” and “privacy” in the same sentence. It’s not an earnest attempt to offer a useful resource.
which e-commerce platform ?
Only way to verify no internal damage is an X-ray. I'm sure they've thought of that, though; this is carbon manufacture 101.
From their web page:

“Faster travel brings the world’s people, cultures, and experiences within reach. Life happens in person, and at Boom we see breaking the time barrier as a moral imperative. XB-1 is the first step in bringing supersonic travel back to the world.”
-- Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO

The life happens in person part currently sounds like a relic from the past. I hope Boom makes it through the travel recession.
Marcel Salathé: I am personally disassociating from PEPP-PT
It's hoarding though. Nobody is going to be wearing that makeup right now until they can start going out. Sales are going to crater once everyone has their 4 years supply.
And that too will be devastating to companies
Helping the Kids Post
That is so cool! Looks like it was filmed on a bullet time rig. Well done!
I think you'd call individuals(using a method with far less self selection bias) and get them to fill out the same questionnaire and then do the same types of adjustments you'd do with race or gender.

But I also agree they 100% did not do any of these adjustments if they did it would be listed right here

> We report the prevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in a sample of 3,330 people, adjusting for zip code, sex, and race/ethnicity. We also adjust for test performance characteristics using 3 different estimates: (i) the test manufacturer's data, (ii) a sample of 37 positive and 30 negative controls tested at Stanford, and (iii) a combination of both.
Separation of duties is the root of so much evil. I'm very glad to work in an environment where anyone can submit a change to anything - it just has to go through code review. Same security property: malice requires conspiracy. But also safety against mistakes.
I use zsh and found https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions to be very comparable with fish autocomplete, while keeping zsh niceties.
> The Spanish-American War is a prime example.

Where is our John Quincy Adams?
Yes we listened to the SBA about not applying to multiple banks and it screwed us. Was your smaller bank a local bank? Regional? Credit union?
> - For America/Europe: WeChat would never happen, unless there was severe monopolisation that allowed a company to roll something like WeChat out successfully, or the federal government / national governments mandated it

Isn't Apple ecosystem basically US/European WeChat? It's not a single app, but they use tight integration and single device lock to create essentially a full copy of all WeChat services with iMessage, Apple Pay, Health, etc? Apple basically control communications, payments and health data of their users and works with other vendors to integrate them primarily as payment, content and preferred identification provider.

You get all of that nicely packaged into a single box. The only difference is that you can't use it on a cheap phone.
I like the experiences. It's a great way to discover things I might not think to do. Last month before the lockdown, I went snorkeling with a marine ecologist and stargazing with a working astronomer. I quite enjoyed the experience of chatting with people who had a side hustle related to their primary profession.
Hi! I'm the author of Gleam!

Originally Gleam had a more Haskell-like (or rather a more OCaml-like) syntax. Over time people generally expressed a preference for a more familiar C-like syntax, citing the unfamiliar syntax making it seem unapproachable.

Originally I thought these thoughts on syntax were unimportant (after all, syntax doesn't really matter) but after looking at the success of ReasonML (an alternative syntax for OCaml) and how it brought FP to a much wider audience, I decided that it would make sense to use this more C style syntax.

Gleam aims to be very accessible and welcoming to as many people as possible, so in this area we've gone for something I personally prefer less as it it may help others more.
Wait what? You think security fixes are a sign that software was built 'wrong'? Every piece of software has security bugs - it's the ones that never have any security fixes that I would be scared of.
There is a link close to the animated gif to another post (https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/can-you-belie...) where this is shown with more details.

When you fold the dodecahedron into a cube, inside the cube there is an empty space having the form of a stellated polyhedron, which has 8 pointed vertices on the 8 vertices of the cube. In the center of the stellated polyhedron there is an empty icosahedron.
Most straightforward progression:

1. establish desired categories

2. group existing photos into these categories

3. finetune a pretrained model on these categories

You can also partially automate step 2 using a pretrained model, but in this case some of your desired classes should be similar to (some of) the classes that model was trained on.
This is great!

My company has been getting musicians in our morning meetings on Zoom, it's really an awesome way to start the day.

Recommend checking out https://www.spresence.com/ if you're looking for talent (I am not affiliated)
Howard Marks’ latest memo [pdf]
Link is in my profile.
If daft punk had been staying in the chalet with us and offered to put their next unreleased album up next to our snowboard footage, I still don’t think anyone would have stayed to watch it.
Yeah, but the other side would like to have that much bases, too. And is increasing influence wherever they can. (big in africa and increasingly in south america, too). Also there are still some other sides, who probably join forces, if the US pushes too much.
Crank Native: JSX components with functions, promises and generators for mobile
Hi, I'm the author of Gleam.

Thanks for giving it a try! Rust compilation can be very slow, so we provide pre-compiled binaries for common platform. See the website and the releases page for more information:

https://gleam.run/getting-started/installing-gleam.html

https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/releases
They have the concept of "minus", which is just another way of adding with a negative.

Also deficits and surpluses seem like normal accounting terms.
> Now when you're trying to build an app that has a modicum of consistency across sizes from phone to desktop, whether you're using a mouse, trackpad or touchscreen, whether you've got a hardware keyboard of software one or are using dictation, and so on...

Maybe we shouldn't strive for uniformity across many different interfaces.

My office has switched to MS Teams, which is an abomination on the desktop. But would be perfectly fine on a tablet. I can't have multiple chats open simultaneously. If I open a shared document in a chat or team, then I go back to the chat, I have to click several places to get back to the document (rather than having it, you know, opened and in a separate window). A desire for "streamlining" the experience or some other such bullshit has produced one of the worst productivity/collaboration tools I've seen in 25+ years of using networked computers.

I wouldn't expect a remote server to present the same interface as a desktop as a tablet as a phone as a watch. It's absurd, acknowledge the distinctions and design for the system that it's executed on. I'd rather MS Teams on Windows be like, well, a desktop application:

Contact list, chat window(s), documents opened in the application that can edit them, all with multiple windows taking advantage of the actual capabilities of my system. I have two monitors at work, but with MS Teams I may as well just have one.

And that's just one of the more egregious examples, many others are like it and it's the result of laziness or hubris or ignorance on the parts of the designers/developers.
This site is a hot garbage of "yes but no but yes actually no"...

This webcam[0] with a doggy treat dispenser attached to it gets the wreath, but when you scroll further down they tell you what's bad with it. On 2nd reading the wreath means "It meets our minimum security standard!". Woah, that's like giving a crown to someone finishing a 5K run 4 hours behind the leader, because "Reaching the finish means you're special!".

And it's enough for the manufacturer to promise shit in writing ("Yeah we have a privacy policy, and we have a button that says 'Delete my data'.") to "meet their minimum security standards".

It smells to me like the foundation is using their reputation for a money/favors grab ("That's a nice product you got, it would be bad if it didn't get our wreath.") -- maybe that's not their motivation, but that's what I'm smelling. The whole thing stinks it makes me wonder if I should uninstall Firefox...

[0] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/product...
Here in the western USA, I recall distinctly that washington mutual (before death) changed the order of check clearing in my account, to create an overdraft and charge fees on multiple checks .. just before Christmas 2007 iir.. other info in YNews about the PPP suggests that companies with current financing open (product-less dot-com) got money, while others (on main street) wait in queues ..
Extremely unlikely that the DNA they found is really that old. More like some recent dirt DNA.

And they tried really hard to get something out of the really good Mammoth DNA from Siberia. The blood was still liquid.
No chance so far.
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-road-to-ultrapopul...

is my guess, or

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16668268
Then I know I’m being phished!
Depends on the event. I've never heard of anyone doing an xray on hangar rash type damage, at least not within a part 91 environment. Taxiing into a pole would be a different issue however.
> That'd be like me saying you should be fired from whatever job you have for posting this comment.

No it isn’t. It is like saying the parent poster should be kicked off hn because of the content/bias in their hn posts.
> Goes to show there has to better ways for judging the viability of something without resorting to a strict binary of “do or do not”

It's not just a question of how to judge but who makes the judgment. Part of the point of the article is that wearing a mask seems like something you should be able to conclude is a good idea based on common sense; you shouldn't need to wait for an expert to tell you, and if the expert is telling you something that seems to conflict with common sense, you shouldn't automatically disregard common sense.
Only on iOS. On Android and all desktop OSes, double-tap selects a word.
The problem is the amount of pictures you'd need. It's much easier to use available datasets if you know how to preprocess the data.
No https? :-(
So, your comment actually supports the narrative.

These masks failed quality tests, but they were made by private manufacturers in China, that had no relation to the China government.

However, because they are stamped, “Made in China”, then they tarnished China’s international image.

And the European countries really didn’t help themselves here, when they did their media blitz, and claimed that the China-made masks were defective. Thereby insinuating that every single mask that is shipped out of China, is under the control and responsibility of the central China government.

Then, the entire Twitterverse lit up in laughter as: “Ha ha! See, we told you so! China only makes piece-of-shit crap! Now, they are selling us crappy medical products too!”
How do you parameterize something like 'WHERE foo in (a, b, c, ...)' where a,b,c... is a variable length list of parameters?
iOS/Mac also experienced a significant decline in usability after Steve Jobs died. Here's a comparison before vs after: https://uxcritique.tumblr.com/
Where are you getting the assumption that only 1 in 50 infected are confirmed? That seems like an especially low confirmed case to infection ratio.
commence jurassic park 2020
No. Monte Carlo is located in Monaco. It's very classy place.

It's the type of place where James Bond likes to play in the movies and books.
EFS is intolerably slow and keeping your php files on it is a bad idea. It's a little more complex but using packagist to install everyy except locally and then put wp-content/uploads/ on EFS works okay. fs-cache/cachefilesd helps.
You can always use a Postgres materialized view.
If you fix the position of the 'thrower' and just throw them at ridiculous speeds so gravity doesn't matter you'd end up with a hyperbolic backboard.

So annoyingly for an 'optimal' solution you'd need to specify where people can throw from and how fast. Frankly you might as well just use a hyperbola with one foci on the hoop and the other on the middle of the court, or maybe a point slightly higher than the court itself as the balls will be coming in at a lower angle (or maybe even a downwards angle?).
I am curious where does it say that these hackers are white hat hackers releasing walled scientific information to the public for the greater good.

These seem like dangerous ransomware attacks from the very little information provided.
I sell wall maps: https://ramblemaps.com

Just started 3/22. They aren't exactly flying off the shelves. We're getting good traffic but conversion rate is very low.

Would you expect a business like mine to be doing well in this climate? Since we're a new business it's hard to tell if it's our product or the market that is our problem.
Probably part of it, but I'm pretty sure they did it because they essentially saturated the current market and in order to grow (and/or pump up their valuation) they had to reach outside their core.
I see, you are right. Creating new rent-seeking chances is indeed an important piece.

I'm more on the other incentive behind the action. I agree it might not be primary, but to apply this top-down there had to be something more.
> fuck.me is a

> premium domain name

> ...but it could be yours!
Lack of RCT is a crutch (in this case), the practical reason is that as hard as it is to get face masks now it would have been much harder if the entire population was scrambling for them in the early days of the pandemic and given the US size, purchasing power and worldwide visibility it would have made it more difficult world-wide - all Western countries did the same, de-emphasized masks as they were imposing a lockdown and are now emphasizing them when planning for gradual release.
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On face value, this seems like a no-lose proposition. Loan forgiveness, minus 1% interest, so basically free money.

What are the downsides, theoretical or otherwise, of taking this money?
No, it's a good bit more upmarket. Monaco is known as a tax haven for the wealthy, and the casino has a dress code.
Not every culture values brash thuggish belligerency as a social good.

Most counties are trying to work collaboratively and collectively on these things. US is the wacky outlier and they think everyone is like them.

We're talking about a country too arrogant to adopt the metric system, meters are just too much for them. The optics of possibly using international standards is too high of a political cost because then they'd use the same thing as everyone else. The Horror! America is like an executive who insists on having their own private elevator.

Basic things remain completely unadopted because that would look too much like collaboration. There's clearly an insane actor here, like some pearl clutching out of touch aristocracy riding around in town thinking the peasants love us as we argue how generous we should be wording a letter of forgiveness for wanting a revolution.
I don't think that's right. My wife puts makeup on before her video conferences every day.
Maybe, but as he explains a normal parabola (like a satellite dish) wouldn't work, since the shots themselves are arced because of pesky gravity. I thought using a Monte Carlo analysis and finding a fixed point was actually a very clever way to solve it.
Google Meet Grid View Chrome Extension
it's too strategic for the UK to want to give up and there's no mechanism to force it to do, so there's no particular reason to be worried that it will

similarly the linked Guardian article makes a fuss about the UK's security council seat, which again, the UK will never give up, and again, there's no mechanism to remove it
The implementation may be bad but it seems like the same idea to me, “user must interact with UI before entering credentials”.
It seems to me like this article should be titled "Decline of UI Consitency".

I think UIs have gotten better in general... but now instead of learning one difficult interface, users have to figure out many different interfaces. For power users who already had the difficult interface figured out, it definitely seems like a downgrade.
Erlang is the functional language, but the OTP (Open Telecom Platform)is the collection of Erlang libraries or middleware that give it its concurrency prowess. It runs on the BEAM, a VM for Erlang. It goes back to 1998 or thereabouts, and was mainly implemented Ericcson by Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding and some others to handle telecom switches hence the Telecom in OTP. Joe passed away just last 20 April 2019.
If Boeing wants to sabotage SpaceX they aren't going to do it with a bomb. They'll do it with Congress. Make up some crazy requirements that SpaceX has to go through to launch people, acres of red tape that somehow Boeing has already done type sabotage. Maybe point out to all of the congressmen how many jobs their districts are going to lose if SpaceX gets the contract and Boeing has to dump the SLS program entirely.
This app is really neat, and I'm curious about what your app is doing beyond FFT analysis.

(I spent like 15 minutes playing a 'simulated' church organ and watching the frequency pattern with the dots. It appears that each line is an octave with the leftmost dot in each row tuned to a G. Super fun!)

Edit: I'm thinking how cool would it be to add some kind of visualization like you see here: https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/
Everything is on GCP
If you go into a McDonald's in China there are self service touch screens. If you want to use these, the _only_ way to do it is with WeChat. You cannot use a credit card, if you don't have WeChat payments, you queue and pay in cash (this was my experience anyway). That's how ingrained WeChat is in Chinese society. You should think less about features and instead look at how it is actually used there.
I made an app with an eye that follows your face
It's why I am learning Zig instead of Rust really. I think it is more like C, and is a lot less to bite off. Probably a wise choice for Gleam, but I do like Haskell/Idris syntax too wrt to types.