skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, that happened years ago (10+?) to other people I know. And this is the main reason that, to this day, we do not use any Google product other than search and AdWords (when we have to). After seeing what happened to people who's accounts were shut down summarily and without recourse (not even a way to communicate with a human being) I have less than zero interest in exposing my businesses to that nonsense.

I mean, who does business like that in the real world? Even the IRS will pick up the phone, talk to you and help resolve issues. You have to wonder what kind of personal and corporate culture leads to having such contempt for clients, customers and partners that a company would think it OK to treat them this way.

Facebook is another one. Someone I know was advertising exercise clothing for women. Tank tops, spandex shorts, that kind of stuff. His account got shutdown without recourse for showing too much skin. As she tells the story, she was treated to a daily dose of ads from Victoria's Secret while browsing FB, and they show far more skin and in very suggestive ways than she ever did with her workout clothing. Three years later she is unable to reach a human being to have, you know, a human-to-human conversation and attempt to get the account back.

This is wrong. I guess it's the new normal.
I think it's very natural to want to work. Women having the option to work is a wonderful thing, and we need to keep making progress towards equal opportunities and pay.

I think a good amount of the problem then became, these new normal double income households then decided they also wanted children. So we slowly convinced ourselves that both parents can work while raising children, which doesn't really work. Your child ends up being raised by day care.

It's a good example of having your cake and eating it too.
Netflix and Spotify don't seem to have any problems. Cloud hosting is also at least a semi-important part of these businesses. I'm sure the contracts prevent outright abuse of the relationship, but more than that, if a cloud provider took advantage of that relationship, no one would host their again.
how is the maintenance of these planes being addressed?

in general, i wonder how much maintenance in overall infrastructure has been canceled or delayed and how that's going to affect things long term. it really brings into question the u.s.' "let's drag this out as long and as painfully as possible".
Yeah, that's pretty interesting for sure:

> A previous project to replatform and rebuild the site that was aborted in early 2017, has yielded a significant amount of development work on the design, creating multiple assets including content models and front-end design that we would like to repurpose.

> Earlier this year we conducted a new discovery phase to re-establish what we were setting out to achieve and this has culminated in a new vision and objectives for the website, high level requirements, user stories and technical options and recommendations.

Phew. Reading that and trying to imagine the circumstances, I feel for those previous-platform people too.
We do extensive testing including stress testing and make use of tooling that can catch bugs early. We also partner with internal security teams to do fuzz testing and security reviews for all networking code. That said, none of the networking stacks deployed widely today are completely immune to security vulnerabilities. Responsible disclosure also plays an important role.
Show HN: A sound-effect chatroom for meeting engagement
There is no doubt a confluence of the factors you’ve put forth. Also, I’d imagine if videos like these encouraged some kind of anti-lockdown rioting, that would be very bad for business; there’s an incentive to maintain social stability. During this time I’d be willing to bet people are watching YouTube more than ever before.
So, this is an anti-pattern in conversation, where you come up with an alternate hypothesis to explain something, and then someone tells you your hypothesis is wrong, and then you just jump to another one, and make them work to disprove that as well. What do you have against the obvious explanation?

If you have another hypothesis, it would be better to at least do the napkin math and show that you've put in a tiny amount of work, rather than just tossing out random far-fetched stuff. For example, this new hypothesis of yours is even more absurd than the last one, because the relative demographics of New York have not changed much in the past year. It could not explain a large spike in deaths this year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23001748
Yes. They should for others as well. If something is provably false and puts lives at risk, I’d say they have a moral obligation to “censor” it.
Hey HN. I was playing around with SignalR and built this webapp that lets you create and join chatrooms and send sound effects to each other. I've used this in mid-large meetings where you don't want people coming off mute all the time just to laugh or answer questions, etc. Hope you find it useful.

Source code available[1], and I wrote a blog post[2] which steps through the process of building a simplified version of it if you want to build and run your own.

[1]: https://github.com/CurtisLusmore/soundroom

[2]: https://lusmo.re/posts/meeting-companion
> It's like everything has been carefully design to be even less readable than C code.

D is designed to be very readable to the C programmer. Some changes, like replacing:

(int)(expression)

with:

cast(int)(expression)

is designed to make the code more readable, and greppable. Cast is a fundamentally dangerous operation, so being able to grep-and-check for such is worthwhile.

The D compiler actually recognizes the C form and suggests using the D form to fix it.

Converting C to DasBetterC is largely just a) eliminating use of the preprocessor and then b) making the syntax changes suggested by the compiler.
You can see some of the tooling they're using, .azure outlines CI & /tools has scripts like https://github.com/microsoft/msquic/blob/6fa51a42f69c59748dd...

There'll also be static analysis being thrown at it
Come on folks. There is no magic to this. The science is already known by now.

Lock down hard for 4 weeks (or 28 days). The virus only has a safe maximum 21 day incubation period (the normal is 14 days).

By that point, you will know who is infected.

Get them isolated. You don’t need to do any blood tests, or PCR tests, or MRI tests. Get everyone’s temperature taken daily, like a census.

For those that are showing signs of a fever, you isolate them in a LEVEL 1, general population makeshift ward.

For those that have more severe cases, like difficulty breathing, you isolate them in a LEVEL 2 quarantine zone.

For those that need hospitalization and invasive intubation, they go into the LEVEL 3 zone and get ICU care.

Every state can set up multiple cities and regions for these facilities. Transport the sick people to the given area, so that they can get the care they need. Then transport them home, when they are recovered.

This sounds expensive, but it sure as hell, is far cheaper than the $4 Trillion to $10 Trillion dollar bailouts, that the Republicans are handing out to their buddies, like candies.

Can you imagine? Trump just got another $569 Million [1] for his wall. Sneaky bastard. How does this even help fight the coronavirus? By keeping out infected Mexicans? (Well.. maybe..)

For everyone else, they must stay at home. Groceries will need to be pre-packaged, and delivered to them. Or they drive up to the grocery store to pick it up, and someone drops it into their trunk, with minimal human contact.

All of the infections in the community must be happening at supermarkets, or public buses, subways, trains, and airplanes. Places where there is minimal ventilation happening, and you can walk into someone’s death cloud, or breath in their infected air. And make everyone wear masks.

The basic transmission science is already known. Now, we need to just do a hard 4 week lockdown and make it happen.

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/sorry-hospitals-trum...
Any language that lacks a simple and stable binary interface ultimately can't be used to build reusable code. If it's not simple, only compiler hackers will be able to work with the objects produced. If it's not stable, compatibility between two binaries isn't guaranteed and people won't even try to integrate existing libraries into their own software.

A big reason why C is still widely used. A library that's written in C can be used in any other language.
Ask HN: Resources for Decoupling Transactional Systems
I'm trying to untangle a hodge podge of transactional systems that are married, data-wise, together and bolted onto a 25 year old ERP system in the hopes that we can piece-meal a migration to new platforms.

One of the challenges is that a lot of the analytical reports and data come from the transactional systems of record.

I'm aware of the need to have a Data Warehouse / OLAP that feeds off the transactional systems.

Another problem is that we have disparate systems like a CRM and a mobile application that share data with the ERP (customers, etc) and it's hard to decouple.

I guess I'm really looking for some literature if anyone can recommend that deals with solutions to this problem: untangling transactional systems and migrating them to new platforms. Not a cookbook but maybe best practices.

We've started evaluating the data dependency from the database and web service perspective of these married systems as a first step.
You might want to look for a provider who is a member of the "Bandwidth Alliance" [0].

---

[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
> Hard to say what that means exactly, but it doesn't sound to me like Zoom is making a big bet on OCI.

So, which is it? Is it hard to say what it means exactly or is that Zoom isn’t making a big bet on OCI?

I can understand that you can be skeptical of a company deploying on OCI because of whatever biases you might have, but you’re making quite a leap that doesn’t add anything to the actual discourse on the topic.

If Zoom weren’t making a bet on OCI, they wouldn’t care to put this out into the media. They wouldn’t go on record and provide a quote if they were beholden to AWS or Azure. Zoom is a relatively small fish vs. AWS; they wouldn’t want to piss off their Cloud infrastructure provider for what you’re calling “not a big bet on OCI”.
Torpedoes?

Why not make a submersible sea drone that surfaces and fires middles?

Mirv warheads?

Modern states can deter carriers outside their useful range.

And there will always be a drone strategy deadly enough and far cheaper to take out capital surface ships.

And in a real war, our weapons are so expensive that just getting us to use them on anything is an economic victory
Let me guess what's next - they send some staff on unpaid leave and government cuts taxes to pass on these savings to middle class taxpayers?
Qantas had originally scheduled to retire their last 747's over the coming year, but the pandemic shutdown pretty much made them re-schedule their plans for immediate retirement.

Qantas now no longer operate the 747. Which is a strange feeling when you consider that at one point in the 80's, they were exclusively an ALL 747 fleet operator!
I got curious about the airplane wheelie record. Seems it was set the day before this video was posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLRZDDORFcY

So, one runway filled with dozens of airliners, the other one has someone doing three-mile wheelies in a Cessna :)
I'll be honest. I like working in companies where the top executives are good at making money. Sometimes that coincides with working for people who treat others terribly, but are good at extracting money out of situations. I often wonder if certain people I've worked for are actually bad at their job. You've got survivor bias, so the fact that the company is successful is not necessarily due to the actions of the management. However I have to say that I've seen a really impressive number of situations where I think management has made the most incredible cock-ups and yet end up with considerably more money than they started with. I'm left with the impression that I'm actually a poor judge of what makes a good senior executive.
So many lawyers.
I made my blog dither the images last year: http://sprout.rupy.se
If you’re okay with servers located in Germany, Hetzner is a provider I can vouch for and they offer additional egress at 1EUR/TB. 20TB included, too. (Billing has been rather painful, though.)
I wonder if you and the rest of these commenters extend the same amount of compassion to the hundreds of thousands of non violent people stuck in prison that you do to the multimillionaire CEO of a state surveillance company. Someone who literally got away with shooting up a place of worship.

And if you do, great. Lets work towards fixing the mass incarceration problem in our country. That way, many more people can be given the same second chance that allowed Patton to attain a material wealth that vastly surpasses the overwhelming majority of humans on the planet.
> Because dominant media platforms have a huge crosshairs on their backs, with different groups criticizing they aren’t doing enough to remove misinformation, and at the same time, they are too heavy handed.

> The consensus is that the platforms have to do SOMETHING, because if not, it becomes a national security issue and regulation is going sweep through the industry.

Personally, I think that education is always better than suppression. Rather than remove these videos, a better option would simply be to inform users that the video contains false information and where they can find the truth.

Not only does this avoid the problem of being accused of doing nothing or leaving misinformation uncorrected, but it also prevents the persecution complex people will get when information is suppressed and allow us to take advantage of the useful information we can get from misinformation.

It's beneficial to be able to see what misinformation people are being exposed to, the specific rhetoric, lies, and facilities being commonly employed to mislead, and the number and types of people who are creating it, falling for it, or just passing it around. Companies like Facebook and Google are in a unique position to get us that kind of data. It could ultimately help us develop ways to identify vulnerable people and where we need to educate them so they are inoculated against this type of manipulation. It could also help us assess how we craft and deliver factual data so that it clearer to these vulnerable groups and less likely to be misinterpreted or misrepresented.

All censorship is failure and missed opportunity
I don't think either side wants to help people, other than their donors.
Apple still buys flash (I think) and sdram from Samsung.
eh? I'm curious why you would ask that.
When the evidence says they help they usually are. Losing weight, sleeping more, prenatal vitamins, etc, are all regularly recommended or prescribed by doctors. But, again, the issue is that most of the time the evidence is either inconclusive or says they don’t help.
Connection migration is part of the current Internet-Drafts. The generalized support for multi-path (i.e. usage of more than one path at the same time) is postponed to a future version of the protocol. You can follow the standards work here: https://quicwg.org/
An old college friend of mine from 30+ years ago used to write his SSN on every college book he bought. He also used an engraver to etch his SSN into every tool he owned. The SSN was't all that important back then. I can't say when it became something of potential value.

Sadly he passes many years ago. His wife called me in desperation. She needed to get rid of and donate a bunch of tools and hardware filling their garage. However, everything had his SSN on it, I mean, he had an amazing collection of Snap-on tools with his SSN engraved on everything, down to the screwdrivers.

She trust me implicitly. We took everything out of their garage and donated it to our local high school's robotics club. The caveat was: The kids had to help me grind off the SSN from every single tool they got. That was an interesting week.
I did not renew my amazon.com prime membership this year and I'm about to cancel my prime credit card.

I think the covid lockdown really made me look at what I was spending money on. 95% of my orders on amazon were things I did not need within 2-3 days, heck even a week. And probably 50% of the things I bought I did not need at all. Not to mention I could have purchased them in retail stores.

While Amazon is convenient to shop, it is also dangerous. The ability to quickly look at products and buy things with the click of a button can be addicting.
FWIW, I'm getting the paywall.

EDIT: Ah, if you click from this article, you get the paywall. But if you follow dang's link to the other thread, and click from there, the paywall is removed.
I don’t think it’s anti-humanist as much as it is simply a result of perspective.

Ask a preacher to solve a problem and they’ll use prayer.

Ask a politician to solve a problem and they’ll draft a law.

Ask a developer to solve a problem and they’ll write you an app.
He mentioned disinfectant, maybe sprayed on the lungs, maybe injected.

Watch the video or read the transcript yourself.
What's interesting to me is that a whole 2% of Democrats are willing to inject themselves with household cleaners, too. I.E. that the number of people who think "this just might work!" is consistent across party lines.
> Braced initialization is crazy and I don't understand it

It's a disambiguation thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse

The simple recommendation is to just always use {} when you want to construct an object, see https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines...
World’s first transformable cargo e-scooter
I don't understand the censorship claims when you can freely watch this video online right now.
Public Schools have been short on money for multiple reasons. Pension obligations, building costs, union interests, grift, and they have replaced education with welfare programs.

Property taxes can only pay for so much school if you have a large population not paying into it, and if the earmarks for the money aren’t actually going towards quality education, well, you get what you get.

My local school district, Mesa Public Schools, used portables when I was a child, and many campuses were simple, boxy, and ugly, now the campuses each resemble mini colleges. I can’t imagine the extra cost this has added while the education has arguably declined and budgets have sky rocketed.

We were just dinged with a huge property tax increase that was voted in because the schools claimed a funding shortfall. Their response to passing the vote was a huge pay increase to administrative staff and bonuses that resulted in the superintendent quickly and quietly resigning.

It’s these things you see in public schools that raise the ire of people and why they don’t mind chopping the legs out.

Conversely, these same parents are happy to pay money into a private school because they know what they are getting. Quality and their moneys worth.
Understanding Evolution 101
I agree. Ironically, 4chan of all sites has an upvote-only (bump, really) policy that, in my opinion, works well.
Following your line of thought people without a Web site should receive even more awards.

And perhaps people who create energy-wasting Web sites that get their power from data centers powered by renewable energy should also be rewarded because they are helping bring cost of renewable energy down and save the world?
Deflating the value of my dollars by increasing the money supply is no different than taking money right out of my pocket.
One day a computer will fit on a desk (1974)
That math seems correct, you do have an extra space on the fourth line of your statistics.
It should take more effort to shit on somebody. I definitely prefer traditional phpbb-style forums with like buttons over threaded reddit-style communities with a "fuck you" option attached to every post. It's a shame the latter seems to be winning out.
A friend of mine was a ferry pilot for the airlines. But essentially, a crew flies the plane out to its storage destination, and there is usually transport arranged out for them - either a bus, or a smaller corporate jet or even a piston engine a/c would be flown out with them to carry them back home or to their next deployment location.

As for them returning to service, yes, you guessed right - they have to be checked while still on the ground by a maintenance team, then if they have been there for a while, they have to be flown to a maintenance base for fairly extensive servicing before they can be declared airworthy enough to carry passengers again.

With luck, this airport probably has a service hangar capable of handling these aircraft types and make them airworthy again, so I expect that the airline might find it more economical to ship an entire maintenance team with spare parts to be based out of here for a month or so while they get their planes back in the air.
> MsQuic is shipped in-box in the Windows kernel in the form of the msquic.sys driver

Does that mean that a HTTP.SYS Webserver will also Support QUIC?
See here for other QUIC implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC#Source_code

Maybe this one can be added to the list.
It doesn’t help that the experts started 2020 by downplaying the threat and telling people not to wear masks.
Most businesses aren't charging normal prices via apps. They're marked up due to platform / middleman fees. The notion of giving 30% more likely is not reality. Leave a larger tip, or buy more, to support them in these times.
Bunch of random engineers in this thread talking about business when they have no clue how companies are run.

Yes- Uber was making loss before. But their ridership was growing and they were giving incentives on the supply side (drivers) to bring more players in. Thus it made sense to continue investing in headcount to grow. Now, though, everything is disrupted. It doesn't matter that they are losing money slower - if the outlook of the business is weak then they cut costs and reduce headcount.
It's too bad that we are so quick to silence those who we perceive as wrong. Apparently, the doctors in the video were using incorrect facts; I wouldn't know, the video is gone. Discussion is being prohibited, wherever there is an approved expert to say the viewpoint is wrong.

If dissention is labelled dangerous, and dissenting voices on important subjects are silenced, then we are creating an echo chamber with no respect for anyone but those who accept the perspective of the majority. How will we ever discover if the official message is wrong?
They'll be coming after OP for the staffing disclosure, especially when someone in HR sees the comment
YouTube gets a tax exemption because it has "public forum" status, which puts some restrictions on them, basically they cannot censor anything they want, they must uphold free speech.

So, they cannot have their cake and eat it.

https://youtu.be/d6C6_NVj964
I watched the videos. Just like many others have said in this thread, the doctors took the percent of people who tested positive for covid and assumed that percent of people overall in the whole state had covid. Then they took the total number of deaths from covid, and divided that number by the population of the state.
Reducing carbon emissions is one of the main motivating factors why I enjoy speeding up code. So it happens, but maybe not often enough.
At what point do you say shit is objectively, legitimately harmful, and has literally negative value to society and humanity? Does this deserve punishment? I'd say yes.
What makes these two doctors experts in epidemiology and statistics?
Parent probably means that Trump didn’t use the word “bleach” but disinfectant. There are different types of disinfectants: https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Book%3A_...
There should be an option for weight.