skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Funding is spread out across the U.S. esp. Texas and Florida to ensure broad political support

Heh, maybe now. But when NASA was created, the reason Texas was involved at all was because Senator Johnson (future President Johnson) was the head of the committee that pushed the bill to create NASA.

Technically it made no sense for mission control and training to be in Texas. It would be far more efficient in Florida.

Florida was chosen because it is the best spot to launch rockets in the US from a physics perspective (closer to the equator is better) that still had easy access from the rest of the US (which is why Hawaii was ruled out even though it would be technically better).

But yes, as a side effect of the political posturing to get NASA funded, it ended up spreading the money around the country nicely.
What's the difference between this and the current situation where countries can also sell or lease their ccTLD to the highest bidder? Are the gTLD registrars held to stricter standards when it comes to continuity of service?
This demonstrator is a 1/3 scale model of their final design.

It allows them to prove their exact final design will be quiet, along with verifing the rest of the aerodynamics.
I was surprised to see the title "System Architect" was the second most-common job title among respondents. Use of that phrase is culturally taboo within Google. Are there regions in the world where its common to use that title? I see that the respondents were from all over the world in 14 languages.
Huh? Not on Firefox for Android at least. I don't recall much from my pre-Firefox days on Android, but double-tap to zoom in on a paragraph has been in my repertoire for a long time.
I really hope vs code wasn't electron. So that I could use it.
A few thoughts below as a medical student with some ML background. I'm quite interested in hearing what others think:
1. The majority of clinical ML applications are still focused on narrow (e.g. binary) image recognition tasks. This makes sense because it's where CNN's excel. Also, many of these tasks are well reimbursed. I expect the performance to continue improving as datasets and annotations improve.
2. There is less activity on broad image recognition tasks, like reading a CT Abdomen and Pelvis. Here the domain of possible diagnoses is rather large. For example, patients sometimes have unusual anatomy from prior surgeries. Or, a cancer may obliterate common anatomical landmarks. An experienced radiologist or surgeon can figure out this anatomy in a few minutes, whereas ML may need new approaches to get to this level.
3. The history and physical exam are clinician-generated, not just for dataset annotations but for every new patient. This is notable because the history and physical exam determine the majority of what a patient needs. It is not only a matter of knowing which questions to ask, it also requires follow-up questions and a degree of mental processing before findings are written down in a note. A lot of patients will not fully cooperate without patience and empathy. So "AI" replacing doctors actually trend perilously close to AGI. This is both interesting, and difficult. Of course, NLP of human-generated notes / unstructured data is a very interesting area, but it still requires a human in the loop.
I use Bank of America too and so far crickets.
I'm on Android and double-tap works for me to zoom-to-paragraph. Double-tap again and it zooms me back out.
It will be really interesting once large random samples of people are tested -- quite possibly we will find out that the virus was spreading super widely in certain areas for Jan / Feb / March before lockdowns started happening.. the model might end up being something like given X person has the virus, what is the likelihood that they will interact with somebody over the age of 60..
Surprised to see backend web apps as top use of rust by a large margin. I guess many take the common opportunity(web dev) to learn the language?
Trump demands swing states with Democratic governors loosen Covid regulations
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Great but if the vaccine takes a year before it can be used it’s too little too late. You can’t keep these lockdowns up for a year so they’ll have to be lifted and then everyone will get infected and either die or become immune anyway.
The gTLD transfer rules already supposedly prevent this. But this is a risk with the transfer of any gTLD.
Correction, he can blame most things on the previous leadership. He can blame everything else on the coronavirus.
1) dynamically adjust the number of parameters in your prepared statement

params = ", ".join(["?"] * count)
template = "SELECT ... WHERE foo in (%s)" % (params)
# proceed to prepare a statement from the query template

2) use a subquery, insert data somewhere if necessary

SELECT ... WHERE foo in (SELECT foo FROM foos WHERE some_value = 42)

3) if the maximum number of parameters is low, you can keep it variable by enabling parts of the query with boolean parameters:

SELECT ... WHERE (test_param1 AND foo = param1)
OR (test_param2 AND foo = param2)
OR (test_param3 AND foo = param3)
macOS hides the password field to encourage people to use Touch ID instead, but Ubuntu probably doesn't even support fingerprint login...
Unfortunately a timely comment since the video of the dog being cooked alive has been going around
It's functionally the same but removes government control for a one time cash infusion, so it makes the incentives a bit different.
Chase Bank client. Received a text from our relationshiop manager 1:20pm PST to apply on Portal. Submitted prelim application 10 mins later. Received loan approval Midnight of April 15. Funds in the bank account April 17.
The world where some media outlets reduce the overall quality of information and are a net negative to human growth.

I think it causes more harm than good to try to exploit my censor or remove trash media. But when it fails, that’s a plus, I think.
Yes. What in my concerns with Vox would imply otherwise?

Vox should call itself 'the progressive lens' or something along those lines, it would be more transparent.

And FYI I think the 'left/right' demarcation is far too simplistic for the categorization of the media landscape today particularly as classical ideologies splinter into movements given new trends. The entire world's political landscape has been upended so it'd be nice if we could agree on some new language.
> starting and stopping sshd needs to be a checkbox

That's how you get something like this: https://www.jensroesner.com/wgetgui/
Mathematicians report 1+1=2. Where do you draw the line? At some point you need to draw the line and say "Actually, my article isn't an expose on the CDC." It's not the job of every journalist at every second to be challenging literally everything. At the end of February the US Surgeon General was not just telling people that masks don't help - he said:

> U.S. Surgeon General
@Surgeon_General
Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

>They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!

I completely agree that someone should be questioning when the CDC says "Masks don't help", but firstly, you need to be really damn sure if you're going to second guess the CDC on the eve of a pandemic, and secondly, it's not everyone's job to be writing that story. Someone should, but for every earth shattering pullitzer prize winner, there's going to be 1000 articles that just adhered to the status quo and that's not neccessarily a bad thing.
I think within a range velocity and mass can be ignored ie. if the velocity is too small the ball won't reach the board to begin with and beyond a threshold most likely the bounce curve will depend almost exclusively on incident angle.
In 2006, the US Congress funded the integration of protective equipment to a Strategic National Stockpile: 52 million surgical masks and 104 million N95 air-filtration masks were acquired and added. During the 2009 flu pandemic, tens of millions of masks were used, but during the Obama administration strategic stocks were not “significantly restored”, neither have they been during the Trump administration
Actively looking for co-founders for my startup
Hi everybody, I'm actively looking for a co-founder to join my team, my startup is a service to meet new people, the difference with others is that i created a new moderation system so the quality of the people in my app is better than the rest of apps the main problem to resolve is the 90% of users in apps to meet people are scammers, spammers, fake accounts, stalkers and rude people

so the users are happy using my app because with my new moderation sytem they can know who are good people and who are bad people and my moderation system can detect and delete and block the bad people automatically, that is my competitive advantage

traction :

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150K+ downloads

50k+ monthly active users

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APIPass -Interest in a Node.js Rest Client for Most Commonly Used APIs?
hey everyone
one of the things that annoys me about REST APIs is the integration of them. everyone integrates with the same APIs over and over again, rediscovering what the endpoints are, how the parameters work, guessing what the return fields are, writing the pagination code, figuring out how to get a token, etc. even amongst the most popular APIs, openAPI adherence is poor.

I'm thinking about starting an open-source project around building a REST client in Node.JS / TypeScript that has wrappers for the most popular REST APIs. It would come with types and documentation so you could see the parameters in Typescript.

I think, especially if you work at a SaaS and you need to build a lot of integrations with popular 3rd parties fast - it could be useful.

The great thing would be that you could work with a lot of APIs quickly, with the same syntax, without having to pause and go look up documentation, etc.

To start, the RestClient would be super slim, maybe only including some of the most common endpoints of some of the most common APIs - but let's be real, the Slack and JIRA APIs have hundreds of endpoints, and we all only use one or two of them.

Here's my list of the first ten API calls that I might consider putting in the REST Client

========

slack postMessageToChannel

jira get all issues in project

googleSheets readData, writeData, listSheets

salesforce getAllOpportunities, getAllContacts

twilio sendTextMessage, doPhoneCall

gitlab getLatestCommits

github getLatestCommits

gmail sendEmail

twitter get latest tweets for user ========

The syntax would be, at a high level -

apiPass.slack().postMessage({message:'foo bar}) OR apiPass.jira().getIssues({'projectID':foo}})

thoughts?

if you are interested - LMK by leaving a comment.
Silicon Valley Bank is the worst bank I've ever used and we deeply regret ever choosing them. The archaic tech, few physical branches, limited hours, expensive services, and little unique offering other than venture debt makes it a poor choice for the majority of startups. There is nothing "Silicon Valley" about SVB other than their staff salaries being the highest of any public bank.
> There are plenty of manufacturers who can take those plans and build the machines in a few weeks (I'm guessing on time line but it seems reasonable) from there we can make as many masks as we have raw materials for.

If it was reasonable, why hasn’t it happened? Seems like it’s either not possible, or not worth it at whatever price points the masks would sell at, which is basically the same thing.
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I wouldn't even go so far as to say that the mobile experience is a downgrade. The issue is one of respect for the medium the program is executing on.

On a tablet, MS Teams would be (mostly) adequate. The tabbed interface is somewhat natural:

+----------------------------------+
| |search/command field| |
+---------+--------+---------------+
|Activity |Person1 |Chat Files Org |
|<Chat> |Person2 +---------------+
|Teams | |Some stuff |
|Calendar | | |
+---------+------------------------+

Select the main thing you want in the left column, select a sub-activity in the next column, then another, or interact with files/chat/whatever.

It actually works well as a model for how to do chat/collaboration with a tablet. It makes good use of space (the first two columns take up almost as little space as needed). It's touch-friendly. If it launched files into their own editors, it'd be a perfectly reasonable tablet application.

But on the desktop, I'd really like to chat with more than one person at at time. I'd like to view the files and chat with whoever sent it. The desktop computer offers one of the most flexible GUI systems we have, don't force users into a singular mode of use unless you're running on a kiosk.

---

I'm picking on MS Teams, but look at Slack and Discord as the things it's imitating (or all are imitating each other). Restrictive single-window applications neglecting what makes the desktop so flexible/capable and distinct from tablets, which their present UIs are more suited for.
There's a time and place for everything, but not now.
I think that its a reflection of where much of the market's jobs are: "backend web app" might as just well be replaced with "thing moving data around with RPCs" which is what so much of the value software provides in the economy is tied up, these days. Also, for startups who live-or-die by their cloud hosting costs, reducing CPU utilization by 2x and MEM utilization by 5x versus GC'd languages, the value proposition is real.
Is there a way to use it with Clion? I didn't find anything right away. Although the Clion/Rust story is already pretty good.
> If I was asked about deadlocks, I would say "always acquire resources in the same order".

I don't think that's the correct solution, unfortunately - see e.g. the dining philosophers problem.

Edit: or rather, you have to be very careful what the "order" of resources is.
And it would probably interest OP to know that it's not just basic strength-versus-mass where carbon shines. With metallics, you have that strength in every direction. But most parts only need to be strong in a limited number of directions. With carbon, you can tailor the part to provide strength only in the directions needed, which means you're using less material. More weight savings on top of what you already gained* by switching to carbon in the first place.

[*] It ain't all sunshine and roses. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. Substantial strength reductions due to heat and moisture absorption are real. Other factors exist that'll ruin your weight savings too. A former boss of mine designed a carbon nacelle inlet lip for a popular airliner, but it was a short haul aircraft, which means lots of trips, which means lots of abuse from careless ground handlers. After accounting for that, it weighed as much as his reference aluminum design. The nacelle went into production with aluminum inlet lips.
I'm currently on Firefox 75 on Linux. Clicking in the address bar when not focused consistently selects the entire URL.
Nitpick but the terms are useful: they are not responsive, they are interactive. Responsive (in modern front-end parlance) means they would adapt to different screen sizes. Some mainstream publications have been publishing responsive diagrams and I love it (here's an outstanding example: [1]). But this is not the case here.

[1]: https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
My thoughts as well. During Coronavirus what we need more than ever are not 'daily headlines' so much as 'status/explainer' news, like a dynamic, contemporary Wikipedia article that nails and dissolves the meta-issues of the day. Trying to find out the specific status of Canada's various bailout programs is almost impossible unless you sit there with the news on all day!
yea as some people have stated, if even 30% of the world gets infected and we have a 0.5% mortality rate, then that is 11.5 million people... not a trivial amount....
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Kits have become progressively simpler to build. The example like the RV below would conservatively take over 1500 hours. A newer Vans RV-12, much less. A Rans S-21, possibly 600 hours. Looking at their wing build:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPJgm7qP3FY

dramatically simpler than an RV-8. My -8A flying cost was about $75K a decade ago, it would probably take at least $90K today. An S-21 would probably be more.

Some kits come with a folding wing option, so they can be trailered.

The primary decider in the difficulty/time factor is community and your Technical Counseler [1] (usually a multi-kit builder and FAA approved). If you’re able to build near a very active community (Livermore has a lot of RVs), these people will show up at your house/hangar and get/keep you going. Amazing people who can teach you a lot.

1. https://www.eaa.org/eaa/aircraft-building/volunteer-assistan...
One (unmanned) mission has already been accomplished without a hitch.
I don't think journalists need to distrust authority, necessarily. But good journalism would involve followup questions like:

* Are masks ineffective in the sense that they don't reliably stop the spread of the coronavirus, or in the sense that they don't impact it in any way?

* Taiwan and South Korea believe masks are effective and are handing them out to their citizens. Why do they believe masks are effective, and if it's not true what do we know that they don't?

* Masks intuitively ought to work; I cough out the virus, but sometimes it'll get caught in the mask instead of going into someone's nose and mouth. What part of this story is flawed?
(Throwaway account, YMMV) We applied on 4/8 and received our PPP on 4/15.

We have almost 40 employees and bank with Chase and Wells but we realized early on that the big money-center banks were a couple of steps behind are were going to be overwhelmed.

We started by looking at the full list of PPP banks and identifying the most tech-savvy of the bunch
https://heavy.com/news/2020/04/apply-payroll-protection-prog...

Eventually after applying with a few we got furthest with by applying via Kabbage and SmartBizLoans. Our company had an existing relationship w/these lenders and they seem to be the most tech-conscious of the bunch.

Our application via SmartBizLoans was approved on 4/13 and the funds deposited on 4/15. SmartBizLoans acts as a broker to a number of smaller banks which might explain why they were quicker. AMA, glad to help.
Seems highly unlikely because there’d need to be global unanimity, right? Geopolitically, I don’t see a possible scenario for the West to convince everyone to kick someone off of the internet.

Say we wanted to cut off access to North Korea. The Chinese would never agree to that. We can’t even get that country to stop nuclear weapons tests, and that arguably has larger potential ramifications if they develop a legit ICBM.
You'd be surpised, he's made $20k so far: https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1249348452095373312
I think there was a HN thread about it already
I mean, at least for the "go back" case, it seems like good sense for any non-reversible action (delete, overwrite, buy, send, etc.) to highlight the option that means that people that are just mashing their way through prompts without looking at what's going on won't be screwing themselves over by doing something irrevocable they didn't mean to do.

Native macOS apps get to be a bit clever for this, in that there are two kind of button-highlight-state per dialog (the "default action" button, which is filled with the OS accent color; and, separately, the button the tab-selection starts off highlighting, which has an outline ring around it.) This means that there are two keys you can mash, for different results: mashing Enter results in pressing the default action (i.e. colored) button–which Apple HIG suggests be the "Confirm" option for dangerous cases; while mashing Space results in selecting the initially-selected (i.e. outlined) button—which Apple HIG suggests be the "Cancel" option for dangerous cases. I believe that, in cases where the action isn't irrevocable, Apple HIG suggests that the default-action and initially-selected attributes be placed on the same button, so that either mash sequence will activate the button.

I really wish that kind of thinking was put into other systems.
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https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/01/22/fuzzing-an-api-with-... provides a little more friendly way (with delta-debugging and save/replay, and ability to use more fuzzers) to do this, via DeepState
I like the idea of supersonic passenger jets existing again. I'm not sure I really see the point though.

Would you rather fly in business class comfort for 8 hours or with less comfort for 4 hours? Almost doesn't seem worth the expense and risk of going supersonic.

I would be so much more excited about an airplane that was large enough that economy class seating was as comfortable as business class seating is today. That would be much more revolutionary.

I would also get excited about an airplane that was vastly safer than the already-quite-safe airplanes we have.

An airplane with a fail-safe fuselage that can disconnect from the rest of the plane, parachute to the ground and land (or float) safely. This could potentially eliminate fire danger by jettisoning everything flammable (gas filled wings, engines, cockpit, and whatever else).

The fact that flying is uncomfortable and still-too-scary to millions of people are the biggest opportunities for innovation that I see.

Flying at 500+ MPH is already quite fast given the size of the planet.
Ask HN: Is This a Case for Kubernetes?
Summary: Should I use K8s for this case: https://imgur.com/a/L0TfAtA?

I'm planning a new app and was wondering if I should use K8s. I'm familiar with AWS and have been using Fargate with autoscaling for most of my projects. This app is going to be my most complicated program, so I'd like some input before I start coding.

The app is a REST api that connects with each customer's datasource to perform an operation.

This is my current plan:

1. Public Subnet

- Elastic Load Balancer

2. Private Subnet 1

- Fargate Service - Auth Server

- Private Elastic Load Balancer (routes request to correct Fargate service)

- ECS

- 1x Fargate Service for each customer (with autoscaling)

- 1x KMS key for each customer

- each Fargate Service can only access their KMS Key

3. Private Subnet 2

- MySQL database

I made a quick diagram here: https://imgur.com/a/L0TfAtA. Is this something I should consider K8s for?

I've created very basic K8s applications, but nothing in production.

Happy to provide more information.
Why, going into space is the social distancing in its ultimate form...
Disposable N95 masks can be decontaminated, researchers confirm
Oh that looks great, thanks!
Why are human test pilots still used in $current_year?
I like Rust a lot. And used it for about half a year in my spare time. But in that time, my impression with it is that it is a VERY hard language to be productive in when its something you rarely use. So I wouldn't mind learning it and using it in my dayjob or if I had more free time. But trying to fit it in between work, family, and leisure time didn't work out so well for me.
Also notice how Vox workers have a union, while Amazon workers don’t.
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