skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or offered free internet while showing a banner below.

Or those spin wheel / lotto websites where you would get a limited amount of plays daily but would win real money. Then they send you a real 4 dollar check/cheque.

I wonder what happened to company behind the punch the monkey banner.

Those were the days people thought we would all be working and living through the internet (perhaps in second life style) soon and buying everything. Ironicly 20 years later we are being forced to life this way.
Look up there :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22921564
A lot of the big tech companies actually have processes around mentorship. It's one of the reasons I think working at a big tech company can be more valuable than at a small startup, especially early on in one's career.

I don't mean to suggest all startups forgo mentorship, but often, smaller startups simply don't have processes in place for most things, including mentorship. And of course, what you get mentored on depends on the company too: at a big company, the focus may be on growing your career, whereas the mentorship at a smaller company may be about navigating an uncertain product roadmap.

Unfortunately, getting into a big tech company (especially when not doing so right out of a well-known college) requires a lot of luck, so getting access to this mentorship isn't exactly easy...
> Again, this is false. FEMA and the CDC produced guidance for Pandemics over 10 years ago.

What’s the point of having a plan if it’s not put into action?

Reminds me of this timeless quote:

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
- Mike Tyson

We where told we would be punched in the mouth and guidance was not enough to prevent the damage
Same in Poland. Example:
https://www.rmf.fm/radio/
> Diodes exhibit capacitance that varies with respect to their DC bias. I know this is used in GHz RF applications.

Oops, I meant to say varactor, not varicap. And this is used for VHF and up as well.

The GIC-based filters are used a lot for high-Q parametric filters often in audio or general scientific stuff.
Ask Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison ... Interesting that a guy with your background would even need to think about going to a college ...
"Up to date"? The latest version of Windows 10 can technically run on hardware older than anybody would have any interest in using. Like late 1990s or so. Anybody can get a much newer PC than that, like an early Core i5, for around $50-$100, which someone might actually want to use.

Dial up is slow. But if that's the problem you want to solve then how do you do it by subsidizing the postal service?
Are you sure that these precursors aren't just expensive because so many of the compounds that go into them, or which come from them, are controlled substances?

There are a lot of bulk reactants that I'd like to buy for chemistry experiments, but can't (because they're controlled, because they can be used to make illegal things), so I have to make them myself from even earlier precursor chemicals; this adds (via labor costs) to the cost of making the final product. Presumably, even big producers like Sigma are in the same situation.
> I would think that masks can have a positive impact even if they aren't perfect filters.

That is when behavior comes in. If people are more likely to ignore social distancing if they wear a mask then you might get the opposite effect, as social distancing is seen as better protective measure than masks.

This is one of the reasons why the health department in my nation only recommend masks for risk groups, like if you are working with elderly people.
Decoupled State Interface
Bail out money is a death march to insolvency. The unlimited helicopter money the Fed is promising is enabling politicians to ignore fundamental, long term consequences of the economic shutdowns. We cannot run a country or a currency on the bail out model. Our national debt is skyrocketing to higher levels than World War 2 (as percent of GDP). We've got an insolvency crisis fast approaching with boomers retiring and unfunded liabilities in the dozens of trillions. Our economy is contracting dramatically as we speak. 22 million people are unemployed and it's week 4. Millions of businesses are going to go bankrupt from the largest cash flow retraction in world history. The financial contagion is not being addressed. It's the 800 pound elephant in the room, but it will be with us much longer than the virus will.
It's not necessarily an impossible idea to live okay with 80% of a salary, especially a tech one. (Unless you live someplace really expensive, perhaps, but Silicon Valley isn't the only place with tech jobs.)

I don't really know what would be so uncomfortable about that that you'd want to avoid it altogether.

As to whether it should be the same as someone else doing either hours... that shouldn't depend on the number of hours but on how much and how valuable work they get done. You probably don't pay exactly the same to everyone even at 100%.

Seriously, I used to do ~30-hour weeks for a while. Got paid accordingly. Of course I'd like the total salary to reflect the fact that I was still fairly productive, but I still don't see what the problem there would be as long as I was happy and the employer was happy. Both apparently were.
I’m also extremely confused by the parent comment... why was him not knowing C++ relevant? He had a CS degree so he’s surely at least somewhat qualified.
I think the method uses some special enzymes that can only be really be used with yeast. So yeast is just a supporting role in the operation and the enzyme is the star.

They say they tried to get E. Coli to operate the enzyme (E. Coli is used often to make all kinds of drugs, like insulin) but it didn't work and got yeast to work with it.
Great comments! Indeed, "sign your log appends" gives everything needed for authority. Re. transactions, from OrbitDB's perspective this would be application specific, so you could hook into traditional, centralized consensus or use a blockchain or other types of decentralized consensus mechanisms. Or, given the core data structure is a log, build a "custom database" on OrbitDB that models and provides an interface for a consensus algorithm, eg. "append 1: head is X" <- "append 2: ack head is X" <- "append 3: ack from me too that head is X" etc.
Yes, but if I'm honest, I'm also a lot less willing to consider new information.
I don't have this super-power but I can imagine that it could work.

When I'm digging into foreign code especially, I always find myself overwhelmed by the intricacies of the call stack. I get lost in layers, confused by indirections, I lose track of where I was a few steps before or what specific conditions lead me down a particular path.

I guess that if you're blind you need to become a lot better at keeping track of things for basically the entirity of your daily routine. Imagine merely cooking without sight. You need to know where all the ingredients are, you lack a lot of feedback on what you're doing to catch mistakes (did you add the pasta to the water yet or not?). I assume that you need to constantly build a fairly detailed map of the world in your mind where the rest of us can just wing it, basically. I can believe that this skill might make you a better coder.
Date's seems more like a first-course textbook rather than a historical account.
And that is also one possible way into desaster. By the time anyone gets close to herd immunity, the virus has mutated over and over again.
For swiping it’s the opposite: you need to move your finger more to clearly disambiguate which letters you want to “select.” The hardest words are things like “as” and “tool” where there’s letters close by to miss-swipe over. At least in my experience.
Why is letting them stay where they were an issue? The country (an isolated island, Palau) where my parents are from did that even for students and it's kept covid19 from reaching there till now. Given their situation, they can't afford any cases at all until there's a vaccine. I get you care about your citizens abroad but it's clear that's where all the hotspots in sg turned up in March.
Making your own masks is certainly something many people can do, but also many that can't. But many who can, are doing that now. And slowly the supply of commercial masks is improving here in Germany too. As the lockdown is slowly released, people will be wearing masks and that should help a lot with keeping infection numbers down. And hopefully wearing masks becomes standard now when affected by any kind of infectious disease.
This is a great idea! Do you have any plans to add keyboard shortcut support (a/d to go between stories, w/a/s/d to go between categories)?
I wanted to disagree with Marc on twitter about some of his views but for some unknown reason he has blocked me and countless others on twitter even though we have never interacted in anyway
It is harder when the people who knew how to implement the plan were fired.
Can you post the sources? As it stands you're saying one woman's sexual assault allegations are false and those of another are valid, even though both cases (as presented) are not much different from each other.
Detecting 'quality'? Why not request that Google create a Research AI that cures all cancers? That task would be simpler as it is actually something which can be objectively defined and worked towards unlike general purpose detection of 'quality'. Plus if they were to actually achieve such an unrealistic goal it is one and done as opposed to a system which would be gamed constantly by those seeking to maximize their profits.

The problem is fundamentally systemic. It is a price/reward ratio dependent upon users and the satisfaction of the advertising clients.
And I can read them too lol
Chinese on camera facial recognition is able to identify peolke even when wearing a mask.

I think if you combine it with a cycling cap/baseball hat it's more effective, since cameras are usually placed higher than one's eyes.
Yes, if you live somewhere with lots of birds. I grew up on a farm in country NSW, Australia. We almost always had dogs. A couple of cats visited for brief periods, and we'd constantly find dead birds on the verandah on their backs with the ribcage totally eaten out. So we never had cats for long, it wasn't really possible, unless you were to never let them outside.
I'd say that running a successful business in general is hard.

But with restaurants specifically, I'm convinced that it's touted as really hard because they're run by people that aren't that savvy. You have people who are like, "I can cook". Just like people say "I can code". That doesn't make you an entrepreneur. Yet food service attracts a lot of wannabes and they sap up a lot of small biz funding.

What's amazing to me though, is restaurants have found a way to offload the bulk of their wages (via tips) and they still have an astounding rate of failure.

Be known for something. Keep your menu tight. Know your costs. And take care of your employees and customers and you'll get repeat business.

I have no sympathy for restaurants because of their sweetheart wage deal. They made their own bed and they don't even realize it. Eating out is a luxury and we'd be better off with way less of them but higher quality.
Regress instead of progress.

AM had the nice property that it worked somewhat in mountainous areas, but it didn't sound very good. It had the nice property of range.

FM sounded better than AM but had to be more-or-less line-of-sight. It also had the nice property of range.

DAB+ is like an abandoned FOSS project that everyone jumped on like it was Zoom before naked dudes were jumping into online church services and online elementary school classes with zoombombing.

5G is boondoggle unrelated to radio for cellular connectivity that requires much more infrastructure since sub-mmw can't go through many materials at its higher frequencies. I swear it's a conspiracy (theory) to sell 50x more tower gear than 4G LTE. We already have gigabit 4G LTE, sub-mmw 5G just seems uneconomically undeployable at-scale.

Technologies shouldn't be adopted simply because they're new or being pushed by vendors. Heck, Apple doesn't even have any 5G phones because 5G may not survive once the major carriers wise-up.
> This is completely contradictory. You should stop reading fake news or social media reports

The report he linked was Italian state media (quoting Austrian doctors). Not exactly well known for "fake news". The report is anecdotal, for sure, but still no reason to call a respected European news outfit "fake news" or "social media".
Ask HN: YC Pre-Interview
Hi! Some of our friends got a short YC "pre-screening" video interview. We didn't, so does it mean we will not get a YC interview? Just wondering if we should check our emails today, or not. :)
We have huge fines here in South-East Asia, if you leave home without a mask. Even if probability of decrease transmitting 10%, on 1 million cases it's 100 thousand people.
Isolation Forest for Anomaly Detection
Why not? They should have plenty of practice at it from Supermarket Tabloids. If they can't it is a general matter of mental decline and a claim that the elderly are even a population proportionate driver of clickbait is dubious.
Final Bits from the Outgoing DPL
I was waiting for Cory to get to the main reason he had an issue with Marc's article, since most of his initial response was just quoting other random bits and pieces to try and prove him wrong. And then came this sizzler:

> We’ve chosen not to build a system because we’re a racist, classist country.

And there it is. Racism is to blame. All the deaths in NYC due to unpreparedness, lack of funding over decades, a shitty private health system, no decent leadership from both sides of politics ... they're actually because the US is just a racist country. The IRS? Turns out they're actually racist for requiring a bank account to transfer money to.

Sorry. You need to do better than that.

> Or, you know, break the systemic racist, classist policies that form the backbone of repression throughout this country.

Oh look, there it is again. Not enough hospitals being built? That's because we're racist. Core infrastructure falling apart? Yeah, racism. Not enough jobs to go around? That's racist too!

This is pathetic.
Humans get symptoms too (feeling tired, nausea, confusion,...), but the symptoms aren't very specific and with higher concentrations the the time between them and loss of control isn't that long.

Canaries are more sensitive, so they'll fall silent and pass out quicker. German wikipedia cites ~3000ppm as "headaches within 5-10 minutes, death within 30" for humans, while a "canary falls off its perch after 2.5".
Yes! That is a great use case.

One of tooltip item actions is opening URL.

I'm not sure if iTerm2 supports executing stuff through URL. (For example, we can open intellij using idea://.)

If not possible, please open a GitHub issue or reply here. We can figure it out together. We might be able to get Tip to support triggering iTerm2 somehow natively.

Thank you sharing an interesting use case!
How object storage build with which programming language?
How object storage build with which programming language?
What a coincidence. I implemented the exact same thing yesterday. It also happened to be my TIL for that day: how to create a Github Action.

My setup turned up much simpler, as I did not have some of the constraints that you wanted.

https://github.com/aicioara/til/blob/master/github/github-ac...
But in 1918 they were using specifically gauze, presumably because it's easier to breathe through, or maybe just because it seems medical-y.

The study in the NYT article is using non-woven paper masks, which act a decent barrier to ballistic particles. Gauze would be way less effective than even loose woven fabric at stoping the 5um particles they're measuring. Like the paper masks, it would be completely ineffective at stopping the influenza-carrying aerosols.

"nearly 100%" is a pretty big misstatement of the study as well, while it showed a statistically significant difference between the groups, so much of the no-mask control group recorded 0 virus load from droplets that the size of the effect can't be meaningfully quantified
What you are describing sounds like guaranteed income. UBI doesn’t phase out quickly so it would stack with similarly sized pensions. Larger pensions would see little extra money.
What I read between the lines here is that the company hired someone with no experience and gave them more responsibility than they should have at the beginning of their careers.
Holy *#$ What Is Wrong with the React Community?
This is weird, does anyone have more information on how this would happen?
It does say that.

It's wrong, what it says, but it definitely says it.
I think I read somewhere that smaller ISPs aren’t required to implement the restrictions, Presumably they might choose to not manage their own dns servers thus significant overhead. but I could be wrong.
I had exposure to Scheme during my undergraduate years taking courses in programming languages and compilers, but earlier this year I started learning Common Lisp and I'm really enjoying the language. It's a large language and so mastering it will take a considerable amount of time, but just like C++ you don't have to know the entire language to be productive in it.

I use SBCL on macOS as my Common Lisp compiler. Regarding developer environments, although I'm a longtime vi user, I'm starting to get into Emacs and SLIME, which is an approximation to commercial Lisp environments. Common Lisp is best experienced in an environment like SLIME that has a live Lisp environment (kind of like Python's REPL on steroids). I'm pining for the days of Symbolics Genera, the operating system for Symbolics LISP machines, but sadly it's not open source and it's extremely difficult to obtain a legal copy these days.

Regarding resources, the best introduction I've found is the 1990 book "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation," which is available online at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/. This does not cover the entire language, but it covers the basics of the language, including macros. I went through this text and enjoyed its gentle introduction to the language.

I plan to purchase the following books to continue my Common Lisp education:
"Common Lisp Recipes" (2016) by Edmund Weitz (http://weitz.de/cl-recipes/) and
"The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" (1991) by Gregor Kiczales et al (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-metaobject-protocol)

For general references to the language, Guy Steele's "Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition" is available online at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html, and the Common Lisp HyperSpec is located at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/hyperspec/HyperSpec/Fr....

Good luck and have fun!
UK Government to Bailout Struggling Startups
Bravo! Great response. Incredible that people like this are considered “thought leaders” outside of very narrow fields.
60% is absurd. That’s effectively a 60% income tax on the bottom bracket and will certainly decentivize work.

I’ve only seen such a number suggested by South African UBI proponents.
Twitter allows you to import blocklists I believe. Some of these lists have been widely circulated.
I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, Cory is probably mostly right on the specifics. On the other, Andreeson's article was so vapid and ignorant it's barely worth addressing. We only talk about it because the guy's a US ubermensch (a nation & class rapidly losing significance, to everyone's benefit). Yet here I am commenting too I suppose.
I got an option to switch to DAB+ from my (previous) dealership but I just don't see the point. It's much better just to use mobile broadband and stream whatever you want using your phone + bluetooth.

My new car has DAB+ but it also has tunein and spotify built-in so that's a much better option.

FM isn't dead yet here in Norway though you can still listen to local stations via FM and it looks like the license for them will be extended to 2031.
Are Tracing Apps the Path to an Orwellian State?
Just curious, is it harder to read white space indentation code like python versus curly bracket code like JavaScript?
Check your gmail :)
Are you telling me that somewhere in America there's cheese that isn't yellow plastic?
If you've have ever had to keep normalized reducer state (via Redux or useReducer), you'll know that managing relational updates involves boilerplate and complexity.

To save you time, try using Normalized Reducer.

It is a zero-boilerplate higher-order-reducer that takes a schema of data relationships and returns the reducers, actions, and selectors to manage the normalized state. It integrates with normalizr and supports many common use-cases for relational data. To see its features in action, check out its demo app (link in the docs).
Ask HN: What is your home music streaming setup?
For years I've had little Chinese amplifiers (T-amps) coupled to Airport Expresses scattered around the house playing over Airplay - the amplifiers are connected to good quality speakers. It worked great - I could stream from anywhere in the house/office to anywhere else.

Gradually the system has become less and less stable - I don't know if it's because routers have become more modern but now I can't connect much of the time.

Apple has basically abandoned Airports and there are various bugs which mean I can only set them up when plugged into a LAN. Basically I need a better solution! Also there's no multiroom support on iOS devices, only on iTunes for some reason.

Options:

- Sonos: I don't like their requirement for a user account, and it's very pricey. I have the IKEA Symfonisk speaker and it works great, but I want to be able to connect to external speakers.

- Bluetooth: It's become much better over the time that the Airplay has degraded, but I have to be within range of the receiver and multiroom audio is out.
Which western country is that? AFAIK even most islamist states allow alcohol for non-muslims.
It was downgraded from class B. It was never class A. The next government returned it to class B because "drugs bad".
A water tower is highly visible to anyone nearby and will be around for 50 or more years. If you own the tower or its advertising space then you have permanence. This is hard to beat with technology unless you are Google, Microsoft or IBM.

Fifteen year old adverts are about as permanent as you get:
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

A look at the page shows that long term ads are not as useful as they first seem.

Other than that, a short .com domain name can be used to permanently advertise whatever you want if you can afford to buy one.

Other than that, find a popular website and make them a deal. You advert will last as long as your credit card and the website. In reality that's isn't forever.
I feel like this is somehow related to parasite.
Yes, agree about the increasing difference. At the high school level, it’s often better to group more highly gifted students together. They are generally able to live further away from their parents so population size is less of a problem by then.

This is actually a common practice in several Asian countries. There are a couple national-level magnet schools and (highly) gifted classes within those schools where these kids are taught and trained by special teachers and curriculum specialized to their talent—math, science, language.

It’s likely that excessive desire for educational “equality” despite adverse consequences in some other countries squanders the potentials of many such kids.
Surprised to see all your text content is centre-aligned on mobile. Surely that’s not a UX best-practice as it degrades the “readability” of the content?
Occupancy Signs – Retail
> Julia would be beautiful if it had a Lisp syntax.

It don't think it would. Lisp achieves its homoiconicity by using the same structure for data and code: the (possibly nested) list. This allows data and code to be manipulated in similar ways. Julia, unlike Lisp or APL, doesn't prescribe a preferred data structure (and shouldn't, considering its emphasis on performance).