skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many companies are disproportionately affected to varying degrees. Not all up. If you are referring to this news (1), take it with a grain of salt. Look at the % recovery, look at those N's, look at those p values. Gilead is pumping today, but imo this isn't a smoking gun study. The drug needs to be administered to more patients to get more statistical power and draw meaningful conclusions on efficacy.

Then again, wall street doesn't know their N's and p's. Gilead could have put out anything today and the stock would be flying on speculation due to none of the hungover 24 year olds moving millions at goldman sachs actually reading the study, much less interpreting it. Of course, this is just my take. Maybe you are right and this does explain the pump, I guess we will read about it this evening.

1. https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea...
IPFS need a way to get paid for a block over a period of time. Does not need to be real money just token you can use later to pay for your file to be seeded.

Basically I host your file and you host my file. With some algorithm to make sure number of seeder for each block never go to 0
> Since you don't have eyes sensitive to the EM wavelength of Wi-Fi, you can't shine a 'wifi light' too brightly next to you.

This is dangerously wrong. Vision damage is not prevented by the wavelength not being in the visible spectrum. Even if you can't see it, and even if it is non-ionizing, electromagnetic waves still impart energy.

Eyes cannot efficiently dissipate heat, so sufficiently strong EMF will damage the eye. This is a well-known risk when operating with strong microwave signals, for example.

"Effects of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Radiation on the Eye", J. A. D’AndreaS. Chalfin, NATO Science Series book series (ASHT, volume 82)

> Most of the early research was carried out in the lower portion of the microwave spectrum (at 2.45 GHz) and demonstrated a high dose response relationship between microwave exposure and cataract induction. For example, Carpenter and Van Ummersen irradiated anesthetized rabbits at 2.45 GHz and showed a decreasing threshold for cataractogenesis from 4 minute exposure at 400 mW/cm2 to 40 minutes at 80 mW/cm2• Guy et al. ... repeated some of the earlier research and found essentially the same threshold for cataract production in rabbits exposed with a near field applicator at 2.45 GHz. At minimum, they determined that 150 mW/cm2 was required for 100 min to produce a cataract.

Not saying your Wi-Fi router is going to cause cataracts, but don't think just because you can't see something it can't hurt your vision. In fact, it could be argued invisibly strong EMF is _more_ dangerous than visible light because it doesn't trigger the self-protective blink reflex.
Microwaves are not ionizing radiation.
Not if you want to pump and dump a stock.
This will play our more like the dotcom burst than the 2008 crisis.

For most younger people here this may come as a shock but tech jobs can disappear, for years.

The job market in 2019 felt a lot like the job market in 1999, people rushing to get upskilled so that they could get into software and make ridiculous money. After the dotcom burst huge number of people left tech, or at least left the world of software development. Salaries also went way down for nearly a decade.

A common comment here on HN with layoffs is "well they're just getting rid of superfluous employees, so this is no big deal". This assumption is both ridiculously callous about real people losing job, it also underestimates how much work is superfluous in SV.

It is very possible that tech will take a serious hit this time, and that the total number of software engineers, data scientists, dev ops people etc will go do... for years. And likewise salaries will also drop (TC automatically does this thanks to the magic of RSUs).

Certainly people will need software and software engineers, just likely not nearly as much as they do now. Once FAANG realizes there's no longer a need to keep talent off the market, expect salaries to take a dive.
They won't survive this pandemic..
If someone making 1m/yr pays 1% in taxes and someone making 10k/yr pays 90%, the millionaire is still covering over 50% of the tax burden despite being impacted far less by the taxes on his wealth.
I suspect internal political dysfunction is likely to blame for that. Many would rather have their bonus, unchallenged fiefdom, or to not have to learn things rather than success so that is what they wind up with and afterwards rather than admit fault by changing their ways they double down.

An online store would "take away" business from their retail fronts and would face plentiful sabotage. It isn't like they had a frontier out west to ship to as the "new domain" that respected their nice little boundaries.
This so much. The narrative seems to pitch an either/or situation, why not both or some of both
While I think that you are legally correct, grabbing that dataset to play with doesn't seem to carry a high realistic risk of punishment. I may be wrong, but that's my sense of things.
I can say one of the ones that horrified me the most shortly after I transitioned off of Gmail was Smart Reply. To my knowledge, nobody was able to confirm at the time that even paid G Suite accounts were immune to being used as training data. (If you have insight on this, let me know!)

I definitely don't want my email used to train Google's AI models, which might unpredictably cough up sensitive data since machine learning is pretty much a black box.

A big issue is that at any time, Google may introduce a new "feature" and decide to use your data to power it. I also think of how purchase data gets extracted from your receipts to store in your Google account profile and the like (https://myaccount.google.com/purchases although the text on this page has changed... did they stop?) and I feel a privacy-first service would need to at minimum have switches to control what kind of data processing is performed on their email, and default new features to be off.
> Suppose we have an S&P 5, if the top 5 companies remain the same, but they on average do worse, we'd see the S&P 5 go down. You seem to imply, if I understand correctly, that the S&P 5 is not down as much because 1 company did really well and stayed, 4 that did poorly left and got replaced by 4 companies that did really well, too. Thereby the S&P 5 changed its composition.

No that's not what's happening. Think of S&P 500 index as a basket of stocks. What does that basket look like? If I buy one "unit" of this basket, does it include 500 shares of stock, across the 500 companies? NO. The distribution of the basket is weighted, and it's weighted by market capitalization. So if all stocks were worth the same, you would have a unit amount of every single stock. But if, say, 5 companies do really well and 5 companies do really poorly, 1 "unit" of the S&P500 basket will actually include more of the "really well" stocks, and less of the "really poorly" stocks. The capital is automatically reallocated based on the market capitalization. Because of this, the market value of the S&P500 has stayed relatively stable.

> And that makes some sense. However, that would mean that if you had an all-world or all-us stock indexes, which did not exclude any companies dropping out of a top 100 or top 500 or whatever, would have to see a large drop.

Again, that's only true if this index is naive enough to not apply any sort of weighting. Most indexes in the world are weighted indexes, in fact we are generally instructed that indexes that do not apply any sort of weighting are bad indexes.
Dial it down. You have no cause to treat me like an idiot.

Submitting a startup is very much permitted on HN. [0] Startups are the business Y Combinator are in, after all.

I assumed, as you did, that amig0ld works for this project, and is cynically ad-spamming HackerNews. My comment was intended to invite a meaningful reply. This now seems unlikely, but it was worth a shot.

(The amig0ld account was created January 2013. Its only other activity was in May 2013 - another self-promoting submission.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can't do it (unless it's a mechanic's lein) if there's already a lein on the title.
Academically, there is a link, but it has not been born out in recent times by central bank policy and the resulting economic observations.

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
Yeah, that's what really sucks about this pandemic compared to more physical natural disasters. Since the pandemic hurts people directly and not material things, it effectively increases inequality. Those living at the margins are hit hardest while those will lots of money and capital see most of that stay preserved.
It allows you to use Windows apps without needing to install them into Windows, so you can sync it between machines in a cloud folder like Dropbox/Google Drive, carry it on an external flash/hard drive, or use it on a machine you may not have install rights to. You can also keep separate copies of the same app for work and personal on the same Windows account. It's packaged as an app manager with a start menu, app store, automatic software updater, backup/restore functionality, etc.

On the technical side, we make use of an apps ability to direct where it stores its settings if it has one, and also move settings into/out of the registry and/or APPDATA on the local machine when needed. Our open source 'launcher' acts as a helper app to handle this for each app so it doesn't mess up a local version that's already there and so it adjusts paths if you move around between PCs and the paths to your apps or documents change.
The UK's Covid-19 crisis
TL;DR

> "I'm tested for the coronavirus on a regular basis,"

> "Since I don't have the coronavirus, I thought it'd be a good opportunity for me to be here, to be able to speak to these researchers these incredible health care personnel and look them in the eye and say thank you,"
Microservices in terms of code organization was always a redundant concept.

You can organize code with functions and namespaces, why do you need hardware to segregate code? It only makes the segregation permanent but offers nothing else beneficial in terms of code organization.

The underlying reasoning was always that developers tend to move outside of boxed software modules if it wasn't enforced by hardware so the modules will end up not being modules but everything will be blurred into monoliths.

I always figured that if you want really hard lines drawn between software modules you can still do the same stuff in software itself, like why do you need actual silicon or VMs/Containers to do it?

The only real need for different services is performance, otherwise all the benefits and downsides of microservices can be replicated in software.
The link is assumed to be marketing. We all know what it is. Hopefully the site will tell us why it is interesting or useful. But, we know it's a landing page trying to get people to sign up.

However, when you use marketing babble in a comment, it adds no value to the conversation. "Join millions of..." that is just not helpful to the HN conversation.

Now, if the comment was -- "we developed this to try and solve X problem for Y users. Let use know what you think or if you have questions..." -- then it might have been a useful place to start the conversation. Marketing copy is not.

(And they probably did more harm than good by posting that comment)
> one perceives as deplorable

There is no reason to bring that reference in an otherwise non-political discussion.
This looks very, very close! I may end up trying it as it seems I may be looking into a 'perfect is enemy of good' situation here.

This does not support handwriting / free-inking AFAICT but does have a very promising feature set:

* save to local sqlite

* desktop, terminal, mobile app

* E2EE

* Portable app for USBs

* WebDAV sync

* Dropbox, Evernote sync

* File attachments, and if they are images, the images are rendered
Looks good. Checking it out.
Speaking as an above average looking person (or so I’m told), I’ve found that here in my 30s, physical attraction has taken a major back seat to the personality factor. Maybe I’m in the minority on this one, but I don’t really think of people as attractive or not any more based on facial features or anything else that we don’t have control over with regard to our bodies. What matters is physical fitness and whether we can have a mutually interesting conversation.
You could move to Oregon...

...In all seriousness, the parent comment was probably referring to the Federal Income Tax.
I use firefox and chrome today, and even after all the perf improvements firefox is still a slower browser. On my 2 core 2014 macbook, only chrome and safari run with enough performance. On my other 4+ core devices it runs fast enough to use as my main browser. On those 4+ core devices, chrome is still more responsive than Firefox :(

Main reason why I use firefox is container tabs.
Exactly! You can have a competitive market economy (i.e., not central planning) with a functioning social welfare system.
I had a client that didn't like to use passwords on their server because he could never remember them when he wanted to check something. His security solution was to put the server in a steel locker with 1 hole just large enough to pass a cord from a power strip and a CAT5 cable out of the side. Then lock the locker so no one had physical access to the server.

He did all this on his own on a Friday and then he left the CRT on all weekend. I got a call on Monday letting me know that "my" server had failed and I needed to get out there immediately. And of course, when I got there he was gone with the only key to the locker.
Exactly. That powder keg never went away after Rodney King. It's always been here, institutional racism exists to this day. Systemic inequality can only be tolerated so long, and patience runs thin when money runs out.
In general, yes. In an emergency when there are no other obvious better alternatives at hand, looking at results with relatively poor p-values might still be a pretty reasonable thing to do.
Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism
>I am not advocating lowering any bars.

Sorry, I misinterpreted your reply. My comment was a reply to a comment about lowering the bar and I thought you were arguing that same point.

>I'm just saying that those kids are as screwed now as they have ever been, and that this particular misfortune will not play in their favor in the future, as employers, government, and nongovernment institutions will be just as unsympathetic then as they are now.

I completely agree with that assessment.
"""Audio recording and playback alongside with handwritten notes"""

"""enhanced support for image insertion"""

I think they are working on a new file format and those sound like features that might be gated on that.

"""We are currently introducing a new file format that can efficiently store attached PDF files and other attachments internally. We will still allow for attachments that are linked to external files. Please refer to #937 for futher details."""
I honestly do not understand what the interpretation means:

"In this study of adult patients admitted to hospital for severe COVID-19, remdesivir was not associated with statistically significant clinical benefits. However, the numerical reduction in time to clinical improvement in those treated earlier requires confirmation in larger studies."
I was doing KeePass over Dropbox for years. Keeping android in sync was a pain. The integration was too disruptive for my wife to adopt. Dropbox also started limiting the number of devices I can have synced. Bitwarden solves all of that. Cleaner UI, easier to use, always synced between devices, etc.
Sorry about the other response. It was flippant like yours was, but two wrongs don't make a right.

The real issue is that in many industries you don't just walk into a top job with no experience. If I'm hiring a technician, it's going to be someone with experience because in this profession they will have started as a kennel keeper, then moved up to assistant, then started doing more technical work, usually as they are in technician school, and then they will be able to work as a registered technician. Sometimes experience can be almost equivalent to having school, although there are a few things that an unlicensed/unregistered technician cannot legally do.

All that experience is much more valuable than just the book learning, and you can't make up for it with a few months training.
will this be integrated in some rpc framework like gRPC we all can use ?
No, OOP is not "Bad." I'm not feeling particularly argumentative. I apologize if what I wrote upset you. I suspect that we may actually agree on most things.

In some cases, it is not the best tool for the job, but I find that I tend to use OOP for almost everything I do; large or small.

It isn't of much use in small utility scripts, though, and some languages are just not written to natively support it. In those cases, procedural (or FP) is the way to go.

There are new-ish methodologies, like functional programming, and protocol-oriented programming, that deprecate "classic" OOP. Some folks are using these as backing for declaring OOP "dead."

I suspect that might be a bit...premature. My current fave lang is Swift, which pretty much allows you to use any methodology you want, or mix them together (Will it blend? That is the question).

I have found that it isn't helpful for me to "write off" any methodology, and most of my work is actually a hybrid approach; with elements of multiple methodologies.

BTW: I'm a "lots of words" kind of guy.

Prolix, JAMES Prolix...
Nice responsive site. How is this site implemented?

Oh no, you say. The article didn’t say “all” apps should be done with server-side rendering, it said “many.”

OK then, which ones? Well since we’re quoting the article, I’ll just put this here:

“the less complex your client-side is ... the less justification there is for client-side rendering.”

Now again, tell me, how is this site implemented?
It's nice to see people sharing - but this seems like a terrible way to install the needed packages, with a separate install per package, rather than a list of packages..

https://github.com/efazati/i3buntu/blob/master/run.sh

Something like:

https://wiki.debian.org/AptCLI?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryPack...

apt-clone: https://github.com/mvo5/apt-clone

Or indeed like it's done here, but supplying a list of packets to apt, rather than a list of apt command lines to run one after another...

But the best way would probably just be a fork of regolith, and create a meta package.
Because then code compiled separately can’t interoperate.
I have been contemplating ripping the onenote notebook out of OneDrive and onto the local file system, then using syncthing to sync it between my various devices.

While this solution will let me get back to business with OneNote 2010, I am still only buying myself time since long-term, I want to be using FOSS software or at least an open format file format like Sqlite.
From the Azure side, I'm also pretty happy with it. I only really have 2 gripes.

First, the docs make it sound much harder than it really is, especially around certificates and device registration.

Second, the limitations. I don't know what AWS is like, but Azure loves their limitations. For a service that's meant to scale globally, it's a real PITA for some deployments. It's not an issue for many, but when it is, you're constantly trying to come up with clever ways to avoid them.
For people searching for similar tools: I can highly recommend Stoplight Studio. https://stoplight.io/studio/

Depending on your actual API structure you may be able to generate a complete specification without ever touching any yaml. Been using it for the LinkAce API docs and it helped me a lot: https://stoplight.io/p/docs/gh/kovah/linkace-api-docs
Snuffing out the virus would be a pretty impressive feat and it might just work. It might even be awesome for a while - but wouldn't you have to completely eliminate any potential vectors for the virus to get into the country again? Does that really mean virtually no immigration? Even with rigorous testing, if there's a single false negative, wouldn't that completely eliminate the gains of having gotten rid of the virus?
Scam YouTube livestream pretending to be Linux Foundation
This popped up on youtube today, it's a Livestream with 24k live viewers, claiming to be a Linux Foundation Livestream that gives free bitcoin to people who send them some first.
I believe it was LinkedIn who took a hybrid approach a while back. I have no idea if this is still the way things are done, but somewhere in the 2012/2013 time period they would in general render things server-side. If the site was having load issues, they would turn the server-side rendering off and then the clients would render instead.

This was achieved using their fork of DustJS: https://github.com/linkedin/dustjs

Asynchronous Javascript templating for the browser and server
Threads don't have to start with a blank page. There should be a way to surface background context.
is this using BBR congestion algorithm ?
Trying to do something about homelessness and actually doing something about homelessness are two different things. Many of the policies that those trying to do something about homelessness in Seattle are trying to implement are similar to those policies that were enacted in San Francisco that made homelessness worse such as rent control.
The R0 of Measels is 10-3x as high as COVID-19, at 12-18 as compared to 1.7 to 5. The total number of people affected to achieve herd immunity is fixed. Distancing reduced the rate at which people get infected. And contrary to what you claim, several countries are not engaging in social distancing. And they're not experiencing death rates several times higher than the US.

Where much of the western world is seeing cases peak, China has been seeing them rise again [1]. The idea that the virus has been eliminated is incorrect. China aggressively flattened its curve, but concluding that they will eliminate infections without herd immunity is not a certainty at this point.

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Why do all the rich people want to "free America now" ? Would it be because their factories are not running ? Get real people. Do not follow the wolf in sheep's skin. If something happens to you because you contracted the virus, you will be no more than collateral damage, as long as Tesla's roll off the production line.
Ask WeWork or the ride sharing companies. Mountains of cash is no guarantee of success. And again - Amazon is not a monopoly.
RESTful pagination in Spring using Link header
TypeScript annotations can also be put into comments. I like TypeScript's approach (JSDoc) better, actually, because it's how you'd want to annotate them even if you didn't have a typechecker, anyway.

Although I still hit enough annoyances that I'd go straight to `.ts` files for my next project.
I use Google don't track me for that
however the same exasperating routine with someone over a long time might be described as boring. Boring is, like many things in English, a flexible concept.
Yes, because the ordinary HVAC service runs on a "best effort" basis where some downtime or reduced capacity is acceptable and you can try and fix stuff if someone complains; but for a datacenter you suddenly need 24/7 99%+ uptime with rapid response in case of failure, because losing AC is only just a bit worse than losing power, and it's easier to have redundant power than truly redundant AC.
Amazon bought cameras from Chinese company on US blacklist to screen for Covid