skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it takes them years to turn around.

or until they need something to throw out for investors. "dark mode" did not come about because of a technical breakthrough
Bend the Curve – Pandemic Response Simulator
Bangladesh claims Covid19 cure, 4 days recovery using a combination of 2 drugs
I think there might be killer apps that companies aren't publicizing, because it's part of their competitive advantage.

Example of WASM being used in a major product:

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

You can infer from this that it's making them 3x faster than anything a competitor can make, and probably inspired a lot of those 'Why is Figma so much more awesome than any comparable tool?' comments I remember reading on Twitter months back.
Maybe do not use HN as a stackoverflow forum.
This is definitely the right thing to do.

The move is also brilliant in two ways: 1. More Netflixsters will realize now and start watching again. 2. Netflix is getting a lot of free publicity.

The Combined value of these two is worth far more to Netflix than whatever pennies in revenue they’ll lose.
That's not a systems language, that's a native language. There's a lot of overlap but they're unrelated concepts. Also, Go does compile to native processor code.
> indoor air quality sensor system with co2 and pm levels

What do you use for monitoring this? I've been looking for something decent here for a while now.
For me it's only my cat walking over the keyboard or mouse.

The third allowed option (Linux) is wake on lan, which is only triggered through my laptop. I automate WOL events sometimes over cronjobs, when the big machine needs to do some work overnight for some minutes, but very rarely, because it's too loud. But I do those wake up, sleep cycles occasionally automatically when the machine processes big events like the Berlinale, Cannes or Sundance Film Festivals.
well it is a pretty transparent use case : the app declares it can respond to any http intent.

The user has to agree to use that app to open http links.

Sure Google could kick this dev butt and ask them to use a more focused intent filter but that's way less of an issue than an extension siphoning all your web browsing.
I’m quite sure hellosign does this as well. I did not receive a single email from them for two years, but they charged me $140 two times. I never used their paid offering. The second year, I never even logged in. I received no marketing emails, no “you’re about to be billed” emails, no “we received your payment” emails. It seems wrong.
To save others the search regarding a nursery: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial.html#okay-let...

I don’t see much more useful here than understanding the asyncio primitives and available synchronization abstractions, just a different API mostly overlapping the same need

To be clear, trio also has more than one way to wait for a task - any await is the same (e.g. `await trio.sleep(N)` (e.g. `await asyncio.sleep(N)`). I think maybe you’re getting at waiting for a group of tasks?
If someone is giving you their money, how do you know they don't want to use your service?

Many people give money to ensure that a service is available when they need it.
It’s supposed to balance it out.
> I’m not convinced breathing exercises by themselves do much good for physical health, but rather that good breathing habits are a consequence of overall good health.

The causality is clear at this point. Breathing and focus exercises like meditation are deadlifts for your brain. Like most other organs, it adapts to various stimuli.

If you're not convinced that breathing can affect your physiology or your mental state, try hyperventilating for a few minutes. I strongly advise stopping before you pass out.
iPhone Hackers Got Their Hands on the New iOS Months Before Its Release
What about Border Patrol within the 100 mile perimeter zone? Do they still get a blank check to wipe their ass with the constitution?
Ask HN: Effective Voting Mailers?
What would make an effective mailer that would prompt you to go vote? I'm asking everyone but specifically the under 20 crowd.

I was thinking something like a postcard that you could put on your fridge.
"
VOTE: Tuesday Nov 3, 2020 at 4321 Elm Road.

Hello John Smith,

You live at 1234 Main street, your poling location for this next election is at 4321 Elm Road. Below is a map from your house to your polling place which is a 4 minute drive.

Remember, 82% of people who are similar to you voted in the last election!
"

Also this is non-partisan, just trying to find ways to contribute and get people to vote.
No evidence of increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2
Washington went from being the first state with an outbreak to being the 21st state in absolute infection numbers, and 150 new cases/day, down from a peak of 600/day. New York brought daily cases down from 11,000/day, to 500/day.

Whereas, places like North Carolina, Texas, and Florida not even peaked yet. Seems odd to declare victory, when their numbers are steadily climbing.

I wonder, what is the economic cost of people falling sick, and needing medical treatment? Are the red states including that in their accounts of human well-being? Or is it a 'screw you, you're sick, it's your problem now'?
This exactly.

The PS5 and Xbox One X are commodity PC hardware, optimized for gaming, packaged with a curated App Store.

Sony also won’t just sell you hundreds or thousands of them for some kind of groundbreakingly cheap cluster. They will say no, unless you’re GameStop or Walmart.

Everyone with a high-mid-range PC already has more horsepower than a PS5 and it’s not doing anything particularly innovative or groundbreaking.

The PS5 is going to equivalent to a mid-range $100 AMD CPU, something not as good as an RTX 2080 or maybe even an RTX 2070, and a commodity NVME SSD (Probably cheap stuff like QLC) that would retail for about the same price as a 1TB 2.5” mechanical hard drive. It is not unique.

Data center servers optimize for entirely different criteria and game consoles do not make sense for anything coming close to that sort of thing. For example, servers optimize for 24/7 use and high density. The PS4 doesn’t fit in a 1U rack. It doesn’t have redundant power. Any cost savings on purchase price is wasted on paying your data center for the real estate, no joke. Then when the console breaks you have to pay your technician $100/hour in compensation, benefits, and taxes to remove and replace it.
What would be the essence of that zen? A ridiculously slow interpreter? Littering your directories with .pyc files? The world's worst package and dependency management?

Don't get me wrong, python is a lovely language when the universe aligns perfectly. But buggy libraries with fragmented interfaces are everywhere in the python community, and any zen that could have been had by pythons expressiveness gets obliterated by the various other warts and faults of the ecosystem. It's just a tool, not a form of enlightenment.
How easy is it to get distribution over social media sites like facebook or Twitter? The distribution costs would be close to zero there right?
Android share is pretty sad.

It used to be miles ahead of iOS but it has been pretty stagnant and for a while has shipped with an implementation that would ask at share time which apps can respond (Which explains why populating the share menu was pretty slow for several android versions)
That takes me back to the bad old days of browser toolbars. I remember seeing someone's screen almost completely filled with them.
Unikernels - seems promising and yet ecosystem is not there. I think it's matter of time.
…with everything to do with the sandbox left out.
Tamil Nadu Pongal – Indian food series
hey, fuck the new york times
A good reason to not use your checking or debit cards. I only use my credit cards, then pay them off every month before incurring interest. Makes scanning your checking account for fraudulent charges easy. I report my credit cards lost once a year and get new ones in case those have been unknowingly compromised, kinda like changing my password.
It looks like you're correct.

* systemd-resolve --status -> 74.40.74.40 (my ISP)

* dig archive.is -> 212.80.216.76

* whois 212.80.216.76 -> Serverio technologijos MB

* Firefox -> Preferences -> Network Settings -> DNS over HTTPS: enabled

I don't recall doing that...

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/02/25/firefox-continues-p...

Unbelievable! Apparently Mozilla unilaterally enabled DoH in my browser sometime within the past 2 months without so much as notifying me! WTF?! This sort of thing is completely unacceptable no matter how pure their intentions might be.
and is absolutely encouraged by google and amazon, as delivering that bloat makes them money
> Bing got it right, with bonus of analog clock.

I tried Bing and wow, the search UX is pretty awesome, it's like pixel copy of Google nowadays, they got the sign in button on right top corner, a image search icon on the right of search bar, and images of London on right side of page etc. But I just haven't been using Bing for years. Am I going to use Bing? Probably not, unless Google becomes unstable, which I don't foresee. For a commodity (free) Internet service like search engine, foster user habit is the key for adoption - if you got a piece of mind in users, they will stick around. Typing a different url is just counter productive since it has to deter mussel memory.
Ivermectin + Doxycycline reportedly cures 60 of 60 Covid patients in Bangladesh
Use a finger/thumb to close a nostril and then breath from the other. If you can't really breath with a nostril due to some physical issue that's a different thing.
I intend to stay on Mojave for as long as possible, but I am curious to try out Catalina. I believe it is easy enough to install Catalina on an external SSD. My concern is whether this would be safe enough and if my computer would remain unmodified (e.g. could there be changes to firmware settings or firmware updates?)
Some feedback. I think I stumbled upon Zerotier a while back and didn't really get what it is. IIRC it felt like something that is only useful for big companies, exactly what I felt today.

I think the website could do a better job showcasing how it's used.

Hope my feedback is helpful and wish all the best!
This. If someone is paying for your service and not using it, perhaps they have an inaccurate idea of what your service (and their payments) actually entail. If that's the case, then you have a customer who's going to come to you eventually to figure out what the hell they've been paying you for all this time, and/or in need of a particularly expensive crash training course (because it's coming out of nowhere). Better to drop them and then onboard them again as new customers (which, functionally, they would be) if they decide to come back.

There ARE industries that survive on the, "One loud sign-up multiple silent payment extractions," model; everyone hates them and they have to ju~st skirt regulations to get by ("I'm sorry, we didn't receive your cancellation, please fax it with proof of necessity, last month's payment is still due.").
> Do NOT do breathing exercises to curb anxiety, because that will just reinforce the pathways in your brain and your anxiety will keep recurring.

This sounds speculative. Is there actually empirical evidence that this is the case, or at the very least that intentional, focused breathing exercises interfere with handling anxiety?
I'm surprised the FBI doesn't care about this. Maybe they do. Sure, $40.00 is nothing but that is an amount that scales very well. How many other $40.00 charges are the same people running?
True. This one's shown to treat for SARS-coronavirus on newborn mice, delivered through the mother's breastmilk, as well. https://aac.asm.org/content/53/8/3416
> “It’s not a best practice to share that information publicly,” said Eva Velasquez, the president and chief executive of the Identity Theft Resource Center. “If you don’t have protections in place, there are sophisticated schemes and ways someone could access those funds knowing the account and routing number and the individual person it belongs to.”

Ah yes, identity theft. Otherwise known as bank robbery. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Not just for games. Imagine VR tourism, meetings... or even escapism. Especially these days. Last time I used one the graphics isn't as immersive yet. I don't mind tethering it to a powerful computer. But image quality is a must.
Gaze tracking. I've used the dedicated gaze tracking sensors from Tobii and it's really natural and responsive. I think we're going to see a lot of touchless interaction become popular in the post-covid world.
wow, and a coat rack.

open offices never have coat racks. I've been told it's because they don't like they look nice. In one office I worked in people just threw their jackets on the floor, especially when it was rainy out and they couldn't be kept on the back of a chair.
Very true. I use my debit card for the sole purpose of making sure I can meet requirements to get the 2% interest rate on my checking account (one of the requirements is $300 in purchases linked to a card with the bank, of which my debit card is the only one). Other than that, I have PG&E linked directly to the account, because they're so far behind the times they either can't accept credit cards or charge a fee for doing it (I forget which). The only other things that touch the account directly are my actual credit cards, and the site I use to pay my rent.

I wouldn't personally go so far as reporting my cards stolen once a year, but I could increase the security of my setup by having a checking account that all the things I just named access, and then having a second account that holds all my excess reserves, and transfer from the real account to the public account when things need to get paid.

Unfortunately, that negates most of the benefit of having things on autopay, like I do now. Besides, my bank actually treats my debit card the same way as the law treats credit cards (it's either max of $0 or $50 liability, I forget which), so it's entirely not worth it for me to go to these lengths.
I'd like to see the lawyers censured for barratry.
Well NFS and SMB exist, you can exec() on such mounts.
This just doesn't seem like a terribly difficult problem. Web browsers have figured it out. Any webpage that isn't served over SSL says "Not Secure" right at the top.

I can think of a dozen ways which the OS could prominently display "Not Secure" for non-sandboxed applications, in a way that wouldn't preclude or hinder users from using such applications if they really wanted to.
I'd be cautious here. Especially this year, polling locations are moving around in response to COVID (mine moved for the primary, and its unclear if its moving back for the general election or not).

A mailer with the wrong polling location could do more harm than good, especially for the under-20 crowd that may not have voted before.

Perhaps reaching out now to ensure they are registered is more effective (and less error prone)
This is what most companies do. I worked for companies 20 years ago that would let you move to anywhere they had an office but you would be paid according to that location.
I wonder if it is different if you were never a paying user? I did the free trial in February 2019 and then cancelled. If I try to login now, it starts going through the whole set up a free trial for a new user process, with no indication that it recognizes my account.

In fact, if I try to login with the email address I used for the trial and any random thing for the password, it goes to the new user trial setup.

If I hit thee "need help" link on the sign in screen and try to initiate a password reset, it tells me there is no account for my email address.
I use a Esp8266 microcontroller reading a MH-Z14A NDIR CO2 sensor [1] and a Laser PM2.5 HM3301 from grove [2]. Pretty easy to code up in C. Once tge sensors data is read, the esp sends the it over the MQTT protocol on wifi to home assistant which puts them in SQL db and does plots and stuff.

[1] https://www.winsen-sensor.com/d/files/infrared-gas-sensor/mh...

[2] https://www.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Laser-PM2-5-Sensor-HM3301....
https://mightyapp.com/

I think it would be incredibly cool if this tweet especially was turned into reality:

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1253781213363363840
Solar panels you buy today just go down in efficiency - if you are installing them on say a house, they will continue producing good power output for the lifetime of the house (bar physical damage). Typically they will come with a waranty that after 25 years, they produce at least 80% of their rated output.

(You will probably need to replace the inverter during that time, but the panels will be fine)
I think the biggest problem with cubicles is they seemed to either come in the colors of prison gray, 1980s beige, or 1970s green. Cubicles were fine for all the reasons this poster mentioned. Just try not to make them look like despair is all. And yes, fuck open design.
I've also served on company boards which believed "if the product is cheaply available then it will be considered low quality by the end user regardless of how much better it is in comparison to the competitor, so we must not drop the price and keep our margins high, take out more in profits".

They also say, "competing on price is for losers, it's race to bottom and at the end we'll have no margins left"
Magic is sorta okay as long as you stick to low-performance digital or very small analog transistor counts.

The problem is that most of the "interesting" circuits for old tech nodes have a significant analog piece or RF piece--generally either ultra-low power(nanoamps) or higher voltages(15V+) or higher frequencies (2GHz+).

Both the simulation models as well as the tools to extract parasitics are extremely weak (or non-existent) on the open source front for analog and RF circuitry.
I'm on mobile so cant type a long response but IME its quite different in terms of ease of use, complexity, and correctness.

For a theoretical take see

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

To be precise, to wait for a task its actually just await. Theres no ensure_future etc. Trio doesn't have the concept of futures or promises at all, and await f() is treated as a single piece of syntax, so in practice it doesn't have "awaitables" either.
Conversation on Cyber Security with Tony Blinken and Jeff Moss(Biden Fundraiser)
I'm guessing that "if you stop watching, we stop billing" helps a lot in getting users to sign up for a trial with their credit card. Not sure if it's been tested, but it does seem like a reassurance that might go a long way.
Ferrari definitely pays the best.

The other advantage of Ferrari for race drivers was that their testing, they had the Maranelo testing track right next to the lab.

But this now forbidden, it was an "unfair" advantage. So I see no other reason why anyone wants to work for the crazy Italians with their unusual language. If they would not pay more. I don't see the Ferrari dream being much better than the Mercedes or McLaren dream. Lots of marketing money, but as race driver above 18 you mostly go for the engineering culture.

And exactly this engineering culture got lost with Google and Apple lately. That's why people want to leave.
You'd be surprised how little law enforcement cares about even a few thousand dollars worth of fraud. My girlfriend was scammed out of a couple thousand dollars by someone a few years ago. She filed a complaint in San Francisco, because that's where the fraud took place, and even managed to track down a ton of other people who were defrauded by the same person. A couple of the other victims were taken to the tune of $15-20K each. The detective she'd been working with has been trying to push a request for a warrant through the SF DA's office for years, and they just don't do anything.
Amazon scout is way ahead of them in technology
Holochain: https://developer.holochain.org

When you eventually grasp it, makes blockchain look like we took took a wrong turn in 2008.
> [...] but the idea is that geometry shouldn't depend on a choice of coordinates

Indeed, in "Tensor Geometry" (Dodson & Poston), they note:

> Most modern "differential geometry" texts use a coordinate-free notation almost throughout. This is excellent for a coherent understanding, but leaves the physics student quite unequipped for the physical literature, or for the specific physical computations in which coordinates are unavoidable. Even when the relation to classical notation is explained, as in the magnificent [Spivak], pseudo-Riemannian geometry is barely touched on. This is crippling to the physicist, for whom spacetime is the most important example, and perverse even for the geometer. Indefinite metrics arise as easily within pure
mathematics (for instance in Lie group theory) as in applications, and the mathematician should know the differences between such geometries and the positive definite type. In this book therefore we treat both cases equally, and describe both relativity theory and (in Ch. IX, §6) an important "abstract"
pseudo Riemannian space, SL(2;R).
The post-apocalyptic quiz broadcast has really come back into relevance recently. Love Mitchell and Webb. Remain indoors!
The Zero Theorem has a brilliant treatment of open seating toward the beginning.

It’s really worth watching the film (that one scene is worth it on its own) but you can get a glimpse of the seating arrangement and the manager after “We is stressed” in the trailer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHrQ30oT9o

I see now that there are plexiglass dividers between the desks. Terry Gilliam is a visionary.
At some point the cost-benefit calculus has to flip. Users on the extreme right-tail of the months-paid-but-unused distribution are a negligible amount of revenue but very likely to complain when they noticed they’ve paid for years of unused service. If the company refunds these users as a matter of policy, it creates uncertainty in the accounting and negates the value of them being allowed to keep paying. If no such policy exists, it creates a reputation risk: “YoungPersonApp bilks $2000 from grandma with Alzheimer’s”

“Doing the right thing” and “managing reputation risk” are often indistinguishable. The details of Machiavellian self-interest can be difficult to codify, so a semi-sincere effort to do the right thing can be safer.