skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying "use Facebook", because that doesn't seem responsible these days. However, you can use it and tune out the puppy picks, and just use chat, events, and maybe picture sharing; ie. what Facebook should be for from the perspective of end-users.
When some big customer or important event is upcoming, then I'm excluded.
Price is per barel. Although o e contract consists of 1000 barells. So the price is $1 for the future but you would have to pay $1000 to buy one contract. It is similar with options, alyhogh 100 pcs is standard there.
It looks like it maps the whole font file into memory and has a lot of (probably unnecessary?) floating-point maths, both of which are going to be a bad idea in a small embedded environment.
An interesting aspect: Protesting a law should be possible without disobeying it. But the usual mass gatherings are kind of a problem in this specific situation.

Thus how to protest responsibly?

Holding a "Its just a Flu" poster while wearing a face mask might not be that ridiculous after all.
The average yearly income in Romania is US$8100 per year. The average income in Mississippi (the poorest state in the US) is $42,000.

That's a fair difference in available disposable income!

(Having said that, I've worked with some Romania developers and they were great. I'd hire there, but there are better markets to sell into)
Covid-19 Research Database
> Data is the same - If I ping my next door neighbor, from my broadband connection to his, it goes via London (my ISP's headquarters) and Manchester (his ISP's headquarters) before coming back to him, with a round trip latency of >20ms. In sound terms, that delay is like him standing in the next room over.

I feel like that would be enough to be basically perfect, though. If only we could cut down on everything else in the chain adding its own latency.
More or less, though it should be pointed out that the negative prices yesterday were for futures contracts that trade in 1000 barrel increments (roughly a railroad tank car) and not some tiny amount (like a blue barrel).
Hey, Oil Traders
Nazis used the German language, surprising.
Better yet you can play hedging games with your oil. Sell a june delivery contract to lock in your profit now. If June prices collapse buy a contract to take delivery in June and sell one to deliver in July. You never have to get to Port until prices are high enough to be worth actually making a delivery, and you make money every month.

Details of the above are important to get just right. It works out if you get all the details right.
Because there's always scabs willing to sell out our fellows to earn a buck when they deserve two.
> I understand that Electron apps tend to be a resource hog, but what other options for software create as many cross platform opportunities with as much work?

Is laziness a good excuse for poor software? For wasting the time and resources of every one who uses the application? For disregarding the conventions of the host platform including any user preferences and accessibility features?
Selectively choosing who to rescue I think is much more of a grey area. Despite the cruise industry being healthy business that would not have failed any time soon outside of something crazy like a global pandemic people are trying to play political games with the recuse money because they don't like certain businesses.

This isn't really about what's right or what people deserve, it's that when we come out of this we don't want to have whole industries wiped out arbitrarily and we certainly don't want to punish the companies that are paying their workers though this despite them not actually being able to work.
To be honest, I wouldn't have opened the topic if the original title (Denmark Extends Business Aid to Increase Spending By $15 Billion) was used as this was somewhat uninteresting overall, "that companies which pay out dividends, buy back own shares or are registered in tax havens won’t be eligible for any of the aid programs" was the more interesting piece of information I might have otherwise skipped.
Amazon Eero mesh WiFi system – router for whole-home coverage (3-pack)
FYI China's numbers were fixed a few days ago, they were off but not by that much from the new total.
Developing a Small Business Disaster Recovery Plan
Just don't host it on AWS. Or any other cloud platform for that matter.
I don't know anyone who uses Telegram. Everyone I talk to uses SMS/iMessage, or maybe Discord (but that's a pain in the butt for individuals).
I’ve yet to see a library as easy to use and integrate as DirectWrite, and produce output that looks that good. OS X has its own native library that is also great but I haven’t played around with it as much.

FTs output looks so damn ugly by comparison. I have no idea why the Linux world has accepted such terrible rendering, because it makes everything from the OS down to every application look unprofessional.
Yeah! A major way people spread things is through their hands, so wearing gloves and taking them off before you get home helps you not bring it inside. You can then remove your mask and wash your hands.
I agree it increases complexity, but this argument makes no sense. You don't need to be a German or British company to target those markets - you can do both from a Delaware LLC perfectly fine.
"A breakfast of a super-processed, vegan, organic waffle, soy egg replacement and faux bacon is not much better for you than the pancake house originals"

Waffle, egg and bacon vs. plant and vegan based alternatives.

Sure about that? Do you have a citation?
If the price collapses for June you buy a june pick up contract, trade it for your June delivery contract, and sell a July delivery contract. So long as you have the oil and can deliver you can make money on it until prices return to where it doesn't work out at which time you deliver your oil.
Herbstluftwm: A manual tiling window manager for X11
I have absolutely no use for videoconferencing professionally (and I work remotely, and have for nearly 20 years), but in the era of Corona I find we're doing Facetime or Zoom with friends and family for social reasons, and enjoying it for the most part.

I still find a video call more draining than physical interaction, but in the absence of the latter I'll take this in order to visit with our friends. We have a standing Friday happy hour with 2 other couples we used to see "in real life" all the time, and we look forward to it. My cycling group has taken to setting up "training Zooms" we can join so we can all suffer together on our indoor trainers, and that's nice, too.

What's interesting to me is that, now that video calling is becoming more mainstream, I wonder how much of it will stay after Corona, and how that will affect long-distance friendships.
How do you approach estimating effort for this sort of thing? I find it awkward enough in Scrum to guess up front how many days of effort research will take and commit to delivering a plan or design by the end. If you have clients and aren't strictly bound by someone else's framework, they still want some rough idea how long research will take. Especially if the client is footing the bill. If the research is un-billed time, then the estimate is critical to you. What do you do?
An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
Marketing probably got involved, decided they should rebrand as a 'Quamtum' computer and just use standard compute.

On a more serious note, I agree with your interpretation.
The Suddenly Remote Playbook
Covid-19 is increasing the divide in life chances between rich and poor
Sure, I’m not saying it’s an easy problem — just that the marketing is once again setting the field up for failure by giving the impression of human-level performance but delivering results only in very narrow scenarios.
Get Payed to Score Test
Legacy products like visual studio and photoshop also suffer from age. Those codebases are both over 20 years old and have a gazillion features that customers start to rely on. Add in that and codebase that old will be slower to make changes on then something fresh and you end up where they are.
It's absolutely insane to me that people think that every business, apparently, needs to bake in a half-year long government ordered shutdown of their operations and sit on cash like a dragon so they can keep paying their rents and employees.
How comparable is an ESP32 to a Spectrum 48K? (apart from memory, the esp has many times more to play with)
I avoid everything else apart from Signal (this includes Telegram) because with Signal I trust that they have:

- end-to-end encryption enabled by default, and as far as I know there is no possible way to disable this even if I wanted to.

- no logs/state stored server side, or at least that's what they claimed.

- no SPAM. The only people that talk to me on signal are the ones I actually intend to talk to. Not sure if this is just because so few people use Signal or because they don't have a chat-bot API they try to push as a commercial offer.

- a non-profit organization structure, not that being a for-profit is bad, but I tend to trust non-profits more when it comes to things like respecting privacy as a core value of their business (a for-profit would scrap that and abuse their market share at the snap of a shareholder finger).
I might be missing something. How does this compare with netlify which I've been using sometime as my 'heroku' for static sites? With that I'm also getting the ability to post-process things, use lambda functions, even get get forms for free (up to a point) which is needed for almost every site. It also provides slick DNS. Has worked wonders with gulp/jekyll/etc builds. This does seem to do all of that with the exception of forms.

If this is just another choice that's good. Perhaps it's faster? I've deployed using zeit and it is a really smooth process but not much different than netlify's build that works with a git push. Either way, congrats on the funding!

Disclaimer: I don't work for netlify, though I did interview with them awhile back.
Doesn’t come from us
This is part of the problem. The delivery service shouldn't allow a markup, just like credit card companies of old didn't allow restaurants to pass on any of the transaction fees by contract. It really helped with adoption by consumers.
> the Edge browser (most likely the old one and not the newer Chromium based).

Chromium-Edge also supports 4k (and higher-bitrate 1080p) streaming because Microsoft added the same DRM used in normal Edge to Chromium-Edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRfwZcLeOm4
If we are both in public and you decide to use your fully licensed and 2A permissible gun to start shooting in random directions then you will be liable for the consequences. Declaring that just by going out in public everyone else has decided to assume the risk that you are a dangerous asshole is not going to be acceptable and you will face legal consequences for your negligent behavior. Just because the weapon is a virus you may carry rather than a gun will not change your negligence.
Show HN: `fpart` – sort file trees and pack them into bags
Not exactly. If you are not sure the glut will last for a while and then disappear you don't invest. There is a ton of money to make but only if you get the details right, if any is wrong there is a ton of money to lose.
To be fair, the only thing that Google needs to do internally is to match this query to “shirt -stripe” and then you’ll get the necessary answer. The bigger question is why they are not doing that.
It's possible to distribute large binary blobs over unencrypted HTTP, and to provide security using hash checks. I believe apt no longer does this due to a flaw in their implementation that would not have been an issue if they'd used HTTPS. I'm unsure if Steam still uses insecure HTTP, but they certainly used to. [0] [1]

I'm all for HTTPS everywhere, but for Netflix and YouTube, that means encrypting exabytes of data. That's going to cost them quite a bit. Seems reasonable to go for more detail than It's good practice in general.

> Are you hinting at something here

No, as I put in my first comment, I think we know the specific reasons (untrustworthy ISPs), it's just interesting they didn't mention them.

[0] https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/

[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamPipe#Server_ad...
Museums around the world are competing over who has the creepiest object
This isn't a first amendment problem. This is what an antitrust problem looks like in the information age.

Privately-run communication channels have always been arbiters of truth. Fanzines and newsletters chose what to publish. The town supermarket chose what flyers it would allow on its bulletin board. The local book store chose what books and magazines it would sell. Social clubs imposed standards on their membership. And this has always been (at least arguably) both their right and their duty.

The problem is not that Facebook does this. Unless and until they seek some form of common carrier status, they continue to retain the same curatorial rights as pretty much any other private organization that isn't a telecom. The problem is that the town bookstore is gone, the town grocery store no longer has a bulletin board, the Masonic temple and the Elks club have been converted to condos, and we have generally allowed the available media for disseminating information to consolidate into a worldwide oligarchy, with Facebook as its most powerful member. The problem is that my mom gets almost all her information about the outside world, including what's happening in her local community, from Facebook, and I honestly don't know where else she can go.

And that's a problem even if Facebook doesn't try to actively arbitrate truth, because you'd still have all the other problems: The tying of access to information to an abusive monetization policy. The tying of most opportunities for community engagement to an abusive monetization policy. The single, easy target for astroturfing and political manipulation. The way that lies and misinformation generally have to be left to spread like wildfire because you can't do anything about it without people complaining about free speech.
Why Oil Prices Fell Below Zero
I don't have a link on me right now but I was reading about COVID and chloroquine and in some patients COVID actually attacks and binds to the hemoglobin, preventing blood from being able to carry O2 or CO2 (which then leads to multiple organ failure and the like). Cloroquine can prevent that from happening but (I am not a medical professional, this is not professional advice, this is just what I read) only if taken early on before COVID sets in.

Either way, this virus is causing some people's bodies to do weird, disastrous things, and others have no symptoms whatsoever.
Why do you think most languages avoid exposing the memory hierarchy? What is the core problem that has not yet been solved?
Example site ( https://bansal.io/pattern-css ) misrendered in Vivaldi, which brings me back PTSD grade memories about the browser war and css bugs, implementation-diferences, etc. So let me ask, how is it possible on the almost completely monoculturized web, where is no Presto and almost no Trident anymore, where almost every browser is kind of chrome-isotope. So let me ask, maybe a web developer cn answer me: what is missing to be able to provide complete support forthe main browsers? Is there still prefixed css tags? OR is it so hard to handle differences between browsers/browser-versions? Doesn't CSS have any graceful fallback functionality for older browsers? Why is this phenomen exists today?
The fatality rate is below one percent. It's quite a bit higher for the old and sick, much lower for healthy people. The only rational and sustainable solution is to isolate the vulnerable and let the other people live their lives with the appropriate hygiene and safety measures as well as extensive testing.
I don't. Why do you think people avoid it?
Simulations predict essentially ice-free Arctic Ocean before 2050
Poignant but accurate.

On Amazon's side of things I would also include the obnoxious "Hey you just bought a pair of sneakers so now I will change all your recommendations to sneakers".
The impact of systematically allowing criminals to go free if they can sufficiently intimidate or blackmail a single juror is also very high.

If courts are unable to punish well connected criminals then it's difficult to keep a healthy democracy.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but it seems like there should be some redundancy in the system.
Maybe, but that's not what the article is about.
if your take a random sample of 12 people in the USA, one of them is going to be way out there.

When i served jury duty, our discussion of guilt meandered into the philosophy of fundamentally unknowable universe (much to my dismay). how could anyone really know what happened unless we observe it with our own eyes?

I brought up the victim's seven stab wounds. Apparently evidence like that is subjective to some...

IMO: unanimous is too high a bar.
I wouldn't call my criticism to the 'suckless' philosophy baseless. I think my comments below provides some reasons why I'm criticizing. This[0] might be called baseless criticism though.

> trying to rewrite complex projects into simpler ones without careful planning of how the new projects will handle complexity makes more inconsistent, divisioned ecosystems.

> Trying to cater to a large group of people will always be complex. And trying to cater to a large group of people is NOT the definition of ‘bloated’.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14553552
I love write-ups on these types of issues. It really is helpful to share the processes involved to understand and debug a problem by experts. Thank you, OP.

As suggested by majke, CloudFlare's blog is another great source of material regarding protocol wrangling at scale.

If anyone else has similar blogs, bookmarks, etc please do share :)
Successful CIOs should lead like a pirate captain
Wow this guy shares how to hack and disable SSL pinning on iOS App store app
Well, as much as I would love to share the excitement, all they've come to is what essentially amounts to another gaming PC. Not sure how 'far' this is, but clearly all innovation happens now on the PC side. (It almost seems now that the fact that the earlier Playstation models and other consoles had the custom architecture that was different from PC may have had to do with the need to provide enough power in a smaller package.)
With the negative price someone will pay you to store it.
A solution: virtual avatars.
I have no idea. They did it decades ago.

I will say that it's easy to say that none of this stuff matters at all. And it's very hard to quantify among a zillion other variables. Is it crucial in the grand scheme of things? Probably not. But things like brand awareness and brand perception can matter--at least at the margins.
There's no practical reason to use this new box for homelab folks compared to some older micro workstations that came out a year or so ago that had E3-class Xeons in them at least. For an entry of $2k it's easily worth it now to find some old Xeon D mini ITX based boards and plop them into inexpensive cases with SFX PSUs. Old gear is the bread and butter of the homelab experience and people dumping. The hard part with AMD building is mostly the ECC DIMM motherboard support experience but SMB-class hardware still is a Good Idea for prosumer and homelab folks due to software compatibility (read: drivers and less cost-driven gotchas ala winmodems) compared to consumer hardware.
I'm not saying the impact is low, only that it's lower than locking up innocent people for crimes they didn't commit, potentially for years or decades.
Because moxie told me it's bad since it doesn't use secret chats by default. All the features in the world that no other messenger remotely approaches still don't make it usable when you actually have to manually toggle a button to start a secret chat with someone. The horror!
They said that they can function with the oxygen levels that low because the lungs are still compliant at expelling the carbon dioxide which is not typically the case with respiratory disease. I read in a different article that it’s perhaps because the virus is actually striking the vascular system causing restriction of blood vessels in the lungs which restrict air supply while the lungs themselves function.
Why do overdue tasks take still a long time to finish?
Note that the linked project was not developed by me.

However I find it extremely useful when dealing with large file-systems, especially in migration scenarios. (I used to achieve this with complex `bash` scripts, but next time I'll give it a try.)
The Chairs of Blake's 7
The problem is distribution: this might be true for the entire world but the time demands to start and maintain such an effort are larger than the cost of updating all but the largest projects.
Is Minecraft not already a factory building game? My son makes the most wonderful machines with redstone.
How does EME change anything?
Where a person and their previous degree are from might provide a different background for needing/wanting a further degree, or for understanding what kind of existing education and credentials they have. There might e.g. be differences in substance or reputation between degrees from different countries.

It might be a small detail, but I can see how it could be relevant. At least I might find myself asking what kind of prior education and from where a person asking about a program has if that information weren't included.

Also, it's a small human detail. Maybe not important, but not a huge waste of mental bandwidth either.
This reminds me a bit of how disconnected IBM's marketing for Watson was from the reality the engineers saw on the ground. I wonder whether it's some sort of consequence of scale and maturity that companies fall into that pattern.
If you are targeting 5-10 people (as suggested) you can easily create this space yourself.
I did a formal model of an event source system used in production and it was quite illuminating. It turns out that concurrency is something one should take into account when designing these systems. Versioning often refers to two things:

1. The event data itself; when business cases change or understanding grows we wish to add, remove, or change the type of different fields in an event record.

2. The current state of a projected model

The latter is what requires some form of co-ordination otherwise you can end up with events being written in an incorrect order and produce the wrong state.

It is a good idea though to avoid event sourcing all of your models. Microsoft wrote about their experiences implementing an event-sourced application and how they reached that conclusion [0]. In my experience it's because of temporal properties: event sourced systems are inherently eventually consistent systems. When you have domain models that depend on one another you will need to be quite certain that A eventually leads to B which eventually leads to C and that if a failure happens along the way that nothing is lost or irrecoverable.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/j...
I agree that people have finite bandwidth but we are talking about people investing in skills that are useful for the primary function of their job. It’s the first thing to consider if you want to improve your productivity at work.
Israeli Holocaust event in Germany 'Zoom bombed' with anti-Semitic slurs
Thiel has by far the strongest relationship with Trump of any prominent tech person, so I'm quite surprised that Palantir hasn't been more front and center to the government's whole COVID response.

Especially given that Trump's brain appears to be wired to try to impress people with "look at all the high-quality people I have working for me"....Karp is at his best when he plays the eccentric, slightly disheveled hacker-genius to large crowds of credulous non-engineers. Would be a perfect fit to put him in the daily briefing mix.