skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also wonder how easy it'll be for founders to put in 16+ hour days while working from home. It's easy to 'stay late at the office', but I think it is harder to contain myself in my office while doing that. Maybe that's just a me thing, but I think it can be a real issue...

Yeah, I think that's just a personal preference thing. I've always found offices to be much more distracting, and actually I tend to put less time in overall when there's an office involved. Mostly that's because commuting (even if it's a relatively easy commute, like a 15 minute walk) takes extra time, effort, and planning - and because there are more auditory and visual distractions to tune out in an office, which makes me fatigue more quickly.

I also felt just emotionally on edge from going to the office every day. For example, I would feel very resentful when I was phoned outside of work hours, because I felt that my limited time to enjoy myself and re-coup my energy with my family was being threatened. Now that I've been working primarily remotely now for about 3 years, I don't feel bothered when I need to step up and do extra work outside of normal hours. I'm less grouchy in general because I control the environment I work in and don't have the overhead of a commute looming over me.

I think most of the YC Founders will be able to do fine, since learning to work effectively remotely is a skill like any other. From my experience too, remote working is 10x better when every person involved is remote. The worst-case scenario is to have a split group of people (part remote, part in-office), because it leads to the in-person group having side convos that leave out the remote people, which harms the remote people's ability to bond with the in-person group and generates resentment when the remote workers inevitably get left out of a conversation that matters.
Krebs links to a google doc in the article as well here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k-GgWMNhg1se5302MCBh...

To note, Krebs has ~700 sites listed. Go ahead and ctrl+F for a city near you to see. The format of each of them is pretty cookie-cutter but the articles and pictures had a lot of work put into them.

For instance, here is one: https://metroeastsun.com/

Looking at this, I would never suspect that it was just a fraud. Looking at the headlines for the articles, it's pretty corruption heavy and seems to have a thing about government workers being paid, also a lot of white people smiling or pointing fingers while in suits. TinEye reports that the few photos that I bothered to check are all unique, whatever that may mean. Googling for lines in a few of the articles gets you back to that site and not others. Still, it's not even remotely out of line, just a bit odd when you look at it.

But we know it's not just odd, we know it's fake news. Even a bit of digging on the articles and photos points to it passing a sniff test. Without Krebs telling me that it stunk like a fish market, I'd never know.
It's worth noting the "My experiences with NixOS" discussion from a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22877355

As someone just getting into Nix and NixOS myself, I found one particular comment there offers an excellent summary after talking with a few others in person as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22891648

Essentially, after an initial investment of time for learning curve, the huge payoff comes when migrating to another machine because of system-wide configuration being reproduced with precision.

In my case, moving back and forth between laptop and desktop/workstation was a pain point with Xubuntu. A delta of less than one hour between `apt-get dist-upgrade` on two devices was enough to translate into divergence of versions in some packages.

We've come a long way since days of tsx-11, but I digress.
Anecdote: Kotlin uses val/var, but IntelliJ (the de-facto standard editor for Kotlin) will underline all mutable variables.
What level of machine hardware will OEMs use to market these CPUs? Typically the Intel lines brought the best overall components and AMD machines were...lacking.

Will they have similar machines, but with the choice of AMD or Intel (XPS 15 / X1 Extreme)? Microsoft went in this direction with the Surface Laptop 3 by marketing the AMD line to their business customers. This will be expensive to maintain, but may allow OEMs to breathe a little easier not being reliant on Intel for their premium lines.
I would say that the most promising way to prevent politicians and criminals from trying to censor through killing journalists is to retaliate the killings by killing them back. It is not something that I necessarily support but I do not believe that you will get anywhere by trying to go through the lawful route. At best it will be ignored (see the wikileaks revelations, did you have many people go to jail?). At worst you might end up getting killed, just like the previous journalists that they murdered.
> It's funny how quickly the goalposts moved from "flattening the curve" to "vaccine or widespread immunity."

There has been no "goalposts moved".

Flattening the curve has been and continues to be effective to maintain hospital capacity. Period.

Social distancing and shelter-at-home prevent viral contagion. Eliminating social distancing and easing shelter-at-home restrictions may spike the infection rate, which would undo efforts to flatten the curve. Hospital capacity would diminish or possibly disappear.

Your objection about "goalposts moved" makes no sense in light of the basic logic that flattening the curve is ongoing until the virus can be nullified.
I believe the biggest thing to worry is your application dependencies, if you also depend on packages that come with your system then probably fine (although I noticed that these are largely ignored even if there bugfixes they don't update them)

Otherwise even if your python has security patches for next 4 years, it won't do you any good when you find a bug in one of your dependencies and bugfix is in a version that's python 3 only
CI will always be product specific unless you're going to create your own scripts for your pipeline. Even then, your script for executing tests, deploying, etc. will still be dependent on your stack.

Some general guidelines:

When a developer's branch is pushed publicly, compile it and run tests. It must pass before being allowed to merge into develop/master/${specific-branch}. Require that merges to those branches are only fast-forward merges.

The types of tests needed will be dependent on your application. Make sure they're all green before proceeding. If not, log the failing tests. Depending on your application, you may want to have certain testing metrics also fail the build. For example, require that at least 50% of new lines of code have test coverage and 60% of your overall source code have coverage.

Run any static analysis tools and linters. Configure which rules should trigger failures or warnings.

Run any other scripts that aren't related to code quality like minification or building binaries.

Deploy your application to the proper environment.

This is a bare-bones list. Your application may have many more steps, but this should get you started.
There's a world of difference between an IFR of "under 1%" and a claimed IFR of 0.1%.

It's been clear since the Diamond Princess that IFR would end up, very roughly, around 0.5%. But 0.1% is further outside the reasonable range than even 1%, because 0.1% has already been entirely excluded by the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in NYC.
There are alternative options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
Oh! I actually used this before switching to histdb. IIRC it works-ish but there was less polish than histdb.
The failure of a mathematical approach to Shakespeare’s authorship
Thanks for the link. It does indeed illuminate business utility. A problem (for you, not me), is that people might realize they need a dedicated graph database down the track after they've built their infrastructure around a typical RDBMS. Might be a foolish question, but do you have any tooling/strategies that help an org transition to Dgraph, or use it parasitically? Seems if an org could get a taste of what Dgraph could do for them, they'd be more likely to invest in it.

> My comments about Google were accurate.

Accuracy wasn't the issue.

I look forward to seeing where Dgraph goes, and I might give it a try in the future.
> I haven't seen any of these tools doing anything that anki doesn't — why not contribute to it instead?

For the same reason that your area likely has more than 1 pizza restaurant. Other people want to take a stab at their own vision of a thing and that's awesome. Personally, I find Anki to be pretty uninviting to the general public.

Fluent-Forever.com is an example of an application of spaced time learning applied specifically to languages and their app is pretty great.

We may disagree philosophically, and that's ok, but I tend not to buy into the perspective that if X already exists and Y is like X then Y should not exist.
I found this to be a very interesting read and I just bought two pulse oximeters (one for me, one for parents).
As we do serological testing, it is being revealed that the death rate was even lower than previously imagined -- potentially by a factor of 50x [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01095-0

Most places (outside of super dense metros) actually don't need quarantine at all. Maybe for people working in eldercare.

With these new statistics the risk of death for those <65 is about the same as the normal risk of random death through other circumstances over the course of 2 months.
> Now that You could be paid like $37 (west Texas crude closed at -$37.63) dollars/barrel, maybe the US will reconsider.

Indeed, it looks like the US is reconsidering:

President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. is "looking to" add as many as 75 million barrels of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Trump spoke after an historic day in the oil CL.1, +103.61% markets, in which the May WTI crude contract closed at -$37.63 a barrel, a one-day drop of 306%. Trump said he was considering the move "based on the record low price of oil," and that the action would "top it out." Speaking at a White House press briefing, Trump said, "we'd get it for the right price."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-says-us-looking-to-a...
> "Arms" in the context used by the second amendment is AFAIK generally understood to mean "small arms"

No, it isn't. In the time period in which the Second Amendment was passed, privately owned warships of similar capability to the ones in national navies were common enough to play a pivotal role in two wars (the American Revolution and the War of 1812).
I perhaps should have elaborated further. No programming or engineering skills, but almost all have degrees but in business, marketing etc. I like the internal idea market idea, I am in a position where I do a lot of "ride alongs" so I have seen a lot of these folks in action and was impressed at their cleverness in how they approach mostly sales and marketing. Your idea is interesting, put them to work figuring out what they can do. These are motivated people who don't like sitting this out.
Anthony Fauci has stated multiple times in the past that he thought the "fatality rate" of Covid-19 would end up "around 1%." He didn't make a distinction between CFR and IFR, but the general public's understanding of "fatality rate" is obviously that of IFR.
Some unofficial details on NYT: "...A formal order temporarily barring the provision of new green cards and work visas could come as early as the next few days, according to several people familiar with the plan... Under such an executive order, the Trump administration would no longer approve any applications from foreigners to live and work in the United States for an undetermined period of time, effectively shutting down the legal immigration system..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/us/politics/trump-immigra...
The Fed gets a lot of hate, and heck, even economists get a lot of hate, but a good place to start learning about macroeconomics is by understanding what the Fed is doing and why they are doing it. The Age of Turbulence and the Courage to Act are autobiographies written by two former Fed Chairmen, which is the highest rank in the Fed. Greenspan and Bernanke likely get negative publicity, but they wrote books for the layman to understand their decisions. The Courage to Act goes into detail about what Bernanke and co did during the Great Recession and at least gives you context for the decisions which can help you determine if what they did was for “Wall Street”, “Main Street” or everyone.

You’ll likely be surprised at what facilities are at the disposal of this pseudo public institution, and it’s certainly interesting. The Fed collects inordinate amounts of data from each of its branches, and in times of crisis, as the books elaborate on, it seems they mostly go off the cuff with custom solutions to large scale solutions. Anyways, it helped me understand the US economy better. Greenspan’s book has more info on global policies.
Because the government evidently does not have the tests due to incompetence/bureaucracy. Amazon is assembling a lab and will start randomly sampling employees https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/04/17/amazon-covid-.... MSFT will probably copy this strategy for its workers.

Give it 6 months and I can imagine corporate COVID testing labs for most large companies coming online. Damn this is a weird timeline.
Trump Says He Will Temporarily Halt Immigration to U.S.
Integrate `goimports` into your editor.
Sports Can’t See the Finish Line
You can, that's what RedHat is doing. It will be still Python 2.7.18 + security patches.

You probably confusing it with Tauton (a Python 2.7 with backported Python 3 features) that tried to place itself as Python 2.8. By backporting these changes they created essentially 3rd version of Python that was incompatible with other 2.
Coronavirus Misinformation Spreads on Facebook, Watchdog Says
I work in blockchain (exchange) and the business is fine. BTC is holding up, and we make our money on volatility. Not sure why crypto would fall when the stock market tanks? We exist in a parallel financial system, that’s the whole point. If we need money, we can print our own!
Oddly the Subarus dealers I’ve contacted don’t seem eager to sell anything to me, maybe because I’m asking about the hybrid. I’ve contacted 5 of them and they really don’t try to sell at all.

And the ones I’ve emailed have put in zero effort to actually pay attention to what options I ask about. It’s weird.
One of the great insights told to me was that popular people in high school are popular because they spend all their time being popular, to the detriment of their future.

Likewise, crappy people and managers in organizations have one full time job: surviving and defending their positions in the organization, and only performing their jobs enough to survive.
> No need for a separate abstraction on top of it

I'm guessing the abstraction has now been internalized. Unless the representation and operations underneath have been customized, and provide the same transaction guarantees and parsimony that a native graph database would for graph operations.
You’re talking to someone who cringes at even paying for Netflix, let alone an IDE
Who’s Behind the Partnership to Success Event?
Both. I am working on very different ideas. The most recent is the first time I have something that can be explained simply, which lots of people suffer with, etc. But I only came up with it a few weeks before I submitted my application.

My last start-up is still going, and making some money, but still after 4 years it's difficult to explain and understand the market for 3D mapping, volumentric video, and where that intersects with outside sports.

Come up with a one-liner for that https://ayvri.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-driven_phrase_structure...

That’s the best I can do, sorry.
Supreme Court opinion:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-5924_n6io.pdf
I unfortunately don’t qualify
Buying a car is never a sound financial choice.

That being said, if you buy a new car from a company that is known for solid resale value, you keep it for a long time, and you maintain it well, you may end up with nearly the same TCO over 10 years as a used one.

Timing can also work in your favor. If you buy a new car when car sales are down, once demand picks back up, the value of your car will rise along with demand. Not saying you'll make money on the deal, but that depreciation can reverse. Take 2009 for example, car sales in the US fell by nearly half. So if you bought a new car for $20k, it might have been worth maybe $13k or so on the used market in 2011, but by 2013, used car prices were going crazy and the same car might have fetched $16k.

I've been tracking the monthly value of all my cars in a spreadsheet for a decade now. It's kind of interesting to watch how much the KBB value fluctuates each month.
What Do Turtles Like to Play With? – The Turtle Hub
That is technically termed sonification, FYI.
Proxmox. ESXi client is windows only and most of KVM's clients are either linux only, cli only, or dogshit.

Proxmox is great as long as you have the mental fortitude to ignore the tickler that pops up on login if you're on community support only.
The thing that gets me is the whole "apply early to have a better chance" is almost certainly not true. My team's unlisted video had all of two views from mid-february, when it was submitted, and that's it. The world is a very different place today due to covid, and I regret not waiting til closer to the deadline to submit so we could factor that into the plans.

Edit: Also because we made a lot of progress between February and March, and while I was able update the application with some of the biggest stuff, I recognize that the initial impression was still the important one. If and when I apply to the next batch, I might start he application early again - but I don't think I will submit it more than a week before the deadline.
> What part of a nuclear warhead wielded by a militia contributes to the security of a free State?

Depends on who's attacking and what might deter them.

> They're useless for guaranteeing your liberties against a tyrannical government

Which is only part of "the security of a free State", not all of it. The militia was also for repelling foreign invasions.

Given our current modern world, I would agree that weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, biological, and chemical) shouldn't be available to anyone who wants them; but the correct legal way to make that happen in the U.S. would be to amend the Constitution to explicitly add that exception to the Second Amendment. As the Second Amendment is currently written, it does not admit of any exceptions. As I noted in another comment upthread, privately owned warships were significant at the time the Second Amendment was passed, and the framers of the Amendment did not exempt them from the category of "arms".
The questions read a bit like you’re trying to phish my security questions...
They work with graphics memory rather than regular memory if my memory serves. Hehe.
> Now, the government should inform people with data, and let them take a decision.

The problem with this argument is that there isnt that much data around, and what is available is only understandable to a subset of the population as it's in scientific papers. If you let everyone decide, what would happen is most people would listen to their authority figures which would be their governor, mayor, pastor or news anchor. The problem is those people will each have their own agenda and aren't going to give an unbiased recommendation, and those people don't necessarily have the knowledge themselves to understand the data.

What you are saying is similar to saying people should have a choice of whether to smoke or not. The risks of smoking are pretty well known, and its easy to make that call. This is more like deciding whether to take a new party drug - your friends take it and everything is fine, but you've all heard about the story of that couple that died from taking it. (And that doesn't take into account that you can infect others who are more vulnerable than you)
Settle down. They're not comparing COVID-19 to the Flu, they're using the Flu as an example to talk about transitive infections.
I love so much about Python 3.

Python 2 has paid the bills for over a decade, but I love writing Python 3.8 so much more. I even love the walrus operator. We’re in the process of upgrading, finally.
This is cruel to international families. My wife and I cannot live in the US (I am a citizen) because Trump banned immigration from her country in his previous ban, so she cannot obtain a residency visa. Luckily her country isn’t cruel towards families and allows me to live here.

The US also doesn’t allow residence for in-laws (only blood relatives of citizens). Meaning we would have to leave my wife’s mother alone for 5 years until she could become a citizen and finish the application - if we were allowed to move to the US.
When a survey is a critical aspect of your study & data gathering, then yes: consultation with someone familiar with best practices in survey design is pretty common.
It would be a shame if someone were to misuse all the data you're collecting about people's first grade teachers and mother's birthdays. Better keep that data safe! :)
The fact that legal realism--which says that the law is whatever judges say it is, even when what the judges say is patently ridiculous when compared to the actual words of the Constitution or statute--is the mainstream viewpoint in today's legal environment does not make it right.
How would you rate your overall fitness? Is this a lean, defined build? Do you think it helps with things like hiking endurance?

Just trying to get an idea where that would take me.
NZ and Aus wasn't in flu season already, this has a big impact on outcomes, we got lucky in that respect with forewarning.

Singapore's resurgence is pretty unavoidable, there's simply nowhere else for these foreign workers to go. Despite the case numbers deaths are remarkably low, basically all of these dorms are getting tested leading to resurgence in case numbers, it's tens of thousands of people.

So despite all the socio-political criticisms in your post how about addressing the quoted comment?

They are far lower death rates, it's undeniable. Singapore has had 11 deaths. Malaysia 90. South Korea and Japan ~230.
They're super-blurry without javascript, which probably means they're very small, enlarged by the IMG tag dimensions, and loaded in full res by JS. As an encouragement to use JS, I guess.
Other more squishy factors are important, too: I don’t think Facebook posts for recruitment are a good idea. This could lead to more people taking part who have been sick or who had contact with someone who had the virus, over-representing that group of people in the sample.
How the virus cleared the world’s most polluted skies
One of my favorite essays on this topic is “Meditations on Moloch”[0]. Does a great job of introducing the topic and pricing a lot of compelling examples, all while tying it in to Alan Ginsberg’s famous poem.

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
If Trump is talking about immigration and work visas alike, I simply can't imagine how large parts of the American economy is going to function without foreign workers.

For one, no labor could be hired to perform many farm duties, and certainly not for the amount that farms pay foreign temp workers.

Similarly, Silicon Valley is also hugely dependent. Indeed, if firms could hire locally, they won't jump through the extra hoops to secure work visas - yet we see so many folks on work visas all across the tech industry.

Last, investor visas also inject a sizable amount of capital into the US capital markets and pulling the plug on that when many businesses can't access capital just doesn't make any sense. Most of these people do not even need to work anyway.

I am afraid this is going to accomplish precisely the opposite of what he set out to do.