skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be no fast recovery, period. We have deprived businesses of oxygen for 3 months. Cash flow is the life blood of businesses. We've sucked all the cash flow out of the worldwide economy. The bankruptcies will start rolling in and we will lose at least a decade of economic growth just to recover to where we were. 40+ million unemployed in the U.S. Near record levels. WWII caused 50+ million deaths. Are we on that track now? Hard to say. But I certainly fear worldwide economic instability more than I do Covid-19. My reading of history is that those events cause far more death and destruction than viruses. We know by now that Covid isn't the plague.
What grievances?
Say a 0-60 start needs 20KW for 10 seconds. That’s 200,000 joules? How far away are we from a set of capacitors that can store that?
The sad truth is that it's much easier to make money on people who are less savvy and not good with money. They are less likely to switch, more likely to take a loan or overdraft, and have to pay higher interest rates.
I found his manifesto very insight and opened me up to new ideas about technology.

Technopolis by Neil Postman is an in depth analysis of the way technology shapes society. It’s an easy and looks at technology in the broader sense and how the tool shapes the user.
Serious question I've had about dog doors:

How does a dog door prevent rodents and other riffraff from coming in?
Video of hundreds of police attacks on peaceful protestors
When I had my passport picture taken, it was in a booth with software that assured the resulting image conformed to all the rules.
Also consider aligning the images to process them all with a single model, the different sized/shaped heads in the world and correcting for their different angles and little bits of movement. That's not even considering differences between brains.

I am continually amazed at the level of automated preprocessing tools to deal with this alignment problem. You can play around with fMRI data using some popular packages without thinking too hard about it and produce visualizations almost as nice looking as the ones in the article.
A while back (I'd guess about 15 years ago, so suddenly I feel old), Jack Ganssle (http://www.ganssle.com/tem-subunsub.html) said he was selling his embedded tooling company, SoftAid because after doing it for so long, he had gotten tired of "pushing the same bits around."

At the time, I simply couldn't understand that. Sure, I hadn't been writing code as long as he had, but I couldn't imagine enjoying anything more than that. I absolutely loved twiddling bits and watching mechanical systems do what my code told it to.

Fast forward to now. I still really enjoy software/hardware/mechanisms/coding/design etc., but if I had to give it up tomorrow, I know I could find something I love just as much.

It's a really big world and there are a lot of sandboxes to play in.
It's pretty useful for most day-to-day things, but (1) who you are can absolutely be changed by external circumstances - see TBIs and other long-lasting traumas, and (2) there are medical illnesses where you can be mostly robbed of your ideas - which by this mantra leaves you powerless to change your world.

I'm not saying that to take away anything from the well-being brought by this interesting personal prayer, because it holds some insights about resilience. Only adding some context for the people out there whose depressive disorders, schizophrenia, or brain injuries, could leave them on the curb when it comes to these thoughts. Those people might need surgeries, medical treatment, or external support, before being able to strengthen themselves with this sort of thought.
Maybe it should be, but the very fact that we're discussing whether social media companies should be censoring their elected president demonstrates that it's not meaningless.
Do you know if they've achieved fusion yet? I remember reading about them in PopSci way back in the day, and wondered how they were doing.
Thank you. Also, regardless of whether I end up using this, this looks to be an excellent and beautiful application. Well done!
Thanks, serjester!

AI Writer helps when you are writing a lot or longer texts.

As well - generated content is SEO friendly because words are collected when crawling the internet. Although, of course, a generated content won't always be perfect, so you may have to make some edits here and there, but it's more convenient than starting from scratch.
I think the general fear of modifiers is that the traditional keyboard puts them in a terrible place.

I've been using a keyboardio model01 for about a year now. Having modifiers under my thumb had made them much more appealing.
The democratic system is founded on the fundamnetal rights of the people (live,liberty and pursuit of happiness), the police are attacking these fundamental rights and the people are excercising their right to freely assemble and air their grievances to the government, and again they are being physically assaulted for it. Proteating is a democractic process as is journalism.

If it helps protect innocent people's rights, I am willing to forsake the federal structure of the us government. I would actually be in favor of rewriting the condtitution. I think you forget the american war of independence and civil war were fought over much less.
5 things I've learnt from Kobe Bryant
This post was posted back in January but I chanced upon a video of him reaching out to a fan and spent the day with him. Was never really a kobe fan, but definitely learnt so much from him as an individual that places people before himself. Rest in peace, you're gone too soon! Hope you enjoy! In this time of chaos, I find comfort in knowing that goodness exists.
I used to work on Squarespace's templates team, and this is a very real problem we talked about with some frequency.

There's a few solutions, one of which is designing more around text, but in many instances people still want the media-heavy look. For those cases, the image tool tied in with Unsplash, which made getting high quality stock images pretty easy.
I've traveled to several countries outside the U.S., and never had my fingerprints taken, even at border crossings which required seeing my passport.
The market is still down ~10% from it's pre-COVID high.
https://jamm.app
I loved the Permit A38 (too much specification and process) description.

I once came into an app project that was really bogged down. The team was good, but inexperienced, as was the management. The devs weren't doing anything. When I came on they said they told me there were no specs for what they should work on. I found a folder with several folders with ten, twelve page documents for individual features for the app. They would include nice mock ups, documentation including back end features, analytics hooks and so forth. And we are talking features that were generally changes to a screen or a UX widget.

"Why don't we do some of these?" Answer: They needed to go through some executive review meeting. Or, they weren't really specific enough because some lazy team member could say all the edge cases weren't defined. The key was convincing the team that as capable people that if the intent was clear, and important details specified, they were smart enough as a team to figure out the rest. And they were.
Stocks are rebounding globally, not just in the US markets, though are still down over 6 months.
I personally prefer Gandi, but also use name.com and Cloudflare - haven't heard any horror stories about either of those 3 registrars.
Is there any back-end/full stack developer position available with you?
Given Wikipedia's bizzaro rules, I wouldn't be surprised for him to get a page as an author of the paper ;-)
As the resolution increases, the ability to reconstruct a lower resolution image goes up as well, which will be more than enough for most identification purposes.

Security as an accidental quality of a system is not security.
Sad that you get downvoted just because your views aren't "a la mode".
I'm not religious any more but I see no need to be anti-religious
I tend to agree. Those little two-cycle scooters howling down the road at like 110dB are just terrible. Way beyond any reasonable definition of acceptable.
Wait, suicide deaths are higher than coronavirus deaths? That can't possibly be true. I think you misunderstood whatever it was you read.
Lol join the club
A great quote from the introduction, on why Rich took a sabbatical to work on Clojure:

...to give myself the opportunity to work on whatever I found interesting, without regard to outcome, commercial viability or the opinions of others. One might say these are prerequisites for working on Lisps or functional languages.
Yeah I'd appreciate if a rustacean would explain the canonical way of DRYing that up, at least if it's non-obvious, something other "run a loop over a variable holding the dictionary literal".
I've been working on digital archiving for a while now (check my profile for my current project). Here are some points to consider:

1. Don't delete your originals. Your conversion process may end up being lossy in some way (like with color depth or with metadata), and your future self will thank you for keeping the originals.

2. TIFF is a container format. It can hold a JPEG, or a lossless format. Don't think that all TIFFs are lossless.

3. Can dcraw not read all your originals? I've been really impressed by how many different raw formats that tool handles. You may not need to convert them if dcraw handles them. If PhotoStructure can import your raw files, dcraw can (as PhotoStructure uses dcraw under the hood for raw-to-tiff conversions).

4. Know that the default for images is to become irrelevant to the viewers of tomorrow. Add whatever content and context you can to as much as you can.
They've actually fixed that second part: search now shows individual messages mentioning the search term (even if there are multiple in the same thread).
If this baby doesn't SIGSEGV or SIGBUS, I'm not getting it.

I thought the artwork was going to be ascii images made with C programs.
FWIW, around here the breweries were "full". (with full being defined as all available tables occupied. Obviously the number of available tables is less now than it was before)
A friend dipped into his 401k recently. The way it worked is that instead of taking money from the 401k directly, they issued him a loan for the amount he wanted with the 401k as collateral. They framed it as less tax liability for him but I'd wager the bigger reason was to prevent stock sell offs.

If that's happening at scale, then those 401k accounts are getting massive liabilities stacked up against them.. which falls apart if their value goes down.
A link on the home page for how business can access your talent pool would be nice.
> I came to the conclusion that the postmodernists touched something deeper than their critics, something which we have yet to reckon with.

I would be very interested in your thoughts on what the postmodernists touched on that is deeper than their critics.
Until this law you could simply bring your own picture for German passport/ID and the clerc taking the application would maybe eyeball you for verification, unlikely to reject anything but the most obvious fakes. Handing in a picture of Mickey Mouse wouldn't just get rejected if they have a particularly bad day, but anything somewhat plausible would likely get through.

Driver's license is an even lower standard iirc, because it isn't abused as an ID in everything but name. Driver's licenses merely document qualification and most don't even expire so you will occasionally see some frail elderly person hand around their licence to show off how they were looking at 18 years old.
ISCA20 happens despite alleged peer-review fraud and student death at ISCA'19
There is a lot of land in the world. And definitely have the capacity to build the supply chains. It's just that it's slow and expensive while oil, gas and nuclear is fast and cheap.

We need policy changes. Or in a very ideal world, fusion.
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for
I am. You need fewer trucks than drones to move a given quantity of cargo.
You built this without writing a single line of code yourself? Awesome work by the team!
My daily driver is $350, so yeah.

Just saying that you can charge some pretty high prices to enthusiasts.
One of the most interesting things I learned from the Brighton veteran car run is that before 1902 electric cars where very much in the running. Along with steam.
When I saw the title, I thought this was brilliant! But I thought they meant a "drone" more like these: https://www.starship.xyz/. (Turns out google responds better to searching for robots when looking those up). A ground robot would alleviate a lot of the concerns about noise and other problems with urban air travel.
So, if we're talking about reworking everything, then ... just burn those middleboxes.

IPv6 already mandates path MTU discovery and min MTU of 1280.
> Just out of curiosity- when Google is infamous for hard-to-reach human support, what in the Internet would make anyone interested to register their domain with them?

I think that, despite what frequenting HN may make you think, most people using Google's services - even the more complex or paid ones - aren't aware of the problems with support.
> You can vote on your way home or wake up early.

That assumes the polls are open when you're going home.

> Not sure about all states but California has been allowing people to vote in different polling places then their own.

This is literally the first time I've heard of a state that allows that. It is not the case in any of the three states I've voted in, and it is quite surprising to me that it is logistically feasible to make work, given that each polling place needs its own ballot design for the local races.

What you're missing as well is the logistics of making it to unusual destinations when you're dependent on often poor-quality bus transit. If bus routes come every half-hour, and only during certain times, inserting an unusual destination onto your itinerary can be challenging. It especially doesn't help if you also live in a state where the polling place is shut down and moved elsewhere because the wrong party votes there.
Of having AS numbers in the IP packet isn't actually all that bad. It's just a matter of where. This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23418691) from elsewhere on the thread suggests making the ASN the top 32 bits of the IPv6 address, which would solve a whole slew of issues.

Clients don't (and shouldn't) care about the routing information built into the address, but building the ASN into the IP address isn't so bad. And to keep things compact, the ASN could be in little endian order.
When all of this Coronavirus stuff was kicking up I found myself having a much shorter temper with my kids and in general more angry outbursts. My heartrate also kept popping up into the 150bpm+ range. I think it was like 177 one time I checked.

Didn't really connect it all together until after the fact, but it was very much related to the anxiety and uncertainty of a rapidly changing situation.

About a month later, I was feeling pretty relaxed and checked my heart rate again. 50bpm.

I think I read somewhere that people have a hard time focusing if their heart rate gets above 100 or 120 bpm (I don't remember which). Definitely proved true for me. I couldn't think straight for most of March.
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> It's cheap, at-cost

That to me is a downside since that means that that is not a core part of their business. Financially, it makes no difference to them if I use their service or not.

I would rather pay a little extra to a company that has domain registration as a core part of their business and actually makes a profit from me.

And domain names are cheap. Even if you pay twice as much as the cheapest service, it still will not make any difference in your bottom line.
Story of XBAND, mid-90s online console multiplayer
They gave that drone a chainsaw. What were they thinking??
After years of using qwerty, I've gotten used to having 'a' on left pinky.

Switching to workman has been absolutely worth it to me.
It's quite an extraordinary claim - among others, it implies these are all premeditated crimes (shot other person knowing that it would not have a gun - without that knowledge, crime wouldn't happen)
Power density on the ground would be way lower than you're thinking.

The leading proposals, like SPS-Alpha, put a gigawatt-scale power station in geostationary orbit. Power is beamed to ground via microwave. The receiver station has to be kilometers wide, which puts the power density low enough so birds wouldn't be harmed; even that amount of focus is only doable by sending a pilot signal from the receiver, so the beam can't trivially be redirected to other targets. Despite its size, the receiver would be inexpensive, since it's mostly wire antennae.
Recording and sharing are different things. If I take a picture of a cop pulling masks off of protestors, I sure as hell want to record the incident, but not necessarily share images of the victims.
Absolutely. Many places in rural Canada don't have great, if any, options for high speed internet and sometimes even reliable cellular. That's great if you want to escape the connected world, but for those of us who would like to at least spend more time away from the city and who don't have the ability to just leave our jobs... it could be a game changer.
My email is [my username]@feross.org
Would mapping to a different coordinate system help? Representing the values as sine of spherical coordinates, for example, then converting back for presentation?
> But I'm honestly disappointed that it's taken people this long to realize that Facebook is not the bastion of good that they thought it was.

The cynic in me says that they haven't realized that at all. They've just made a value judgement that making a loud public statement and switching to another adtech surveillance capitalism corporation is a career move that will make them more money than working at Facebook.
> they support a lot of the new TLDs like .io which is also a lot cheaper.

You might want to pick another example, .io is 23 years old [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
Just to be clear, I am in favor of free id cards and requiring an id card (either the free one or a driver's license) if you want to vote.

Voter ID laws would still be controversial in the US because people would say that poor people would not be able to make it to the place where they can pick up their id card. Poor people are less likely to have a vehicle and are more likely to work multiple jobs causing them to work past closing time at the DMV or wherever they would get the ID.

The other issue is that it is not actually clear if voter id laws actually cause people to not be able to vote. https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14909764/study-vote...
Paint is like the Notepad of Artwork apps.
It can handle anything.

If notepad doesn't open it, nothing will.
It's not wasting battery if you have your pedal in the position where it's coasting, neither regenerating nor accelerating.
Linux_logo 6.0 released – maintaining a Linux util for 20 years
The only change I did to it was removing a sewer drain in front of the car in photoshop(hence why it's called wallpaper fix) - I haven't done anything else to the photo. Here's the original original file, uploaded right now from my phone:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16QEm_kxED2vASTgRv8UvyaV4yTA...
There is almost irrational glee expressed whenever an article like this comes out, not just by the press, but also by HN commenters, who seem primed to pounce on any evidence that supports their preconceived negative views on neuroscience. I often wonder why this is the case.
Want to clarify for the OP that there is still a Windows port available and it is feature complete. The new 0.7 line is the one where more work is required to build an installer.
Atlas Cycles shuts down after 70 years, lays off workforce on World Bicycle Day
> Look for emotional language in articles. Then count up the hard facts. There's an inverse relationship.

This would actually be an interesting empirical study, if anyone is sitting on a news DB stretching back a few decades.
I didn't mean globally, sorry if that's where your confusion was. I said "starting to" to mean it's happening in some places.

> Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they have seen more deaths by suicide during this quarantine period than deaths from the COVID-19 virus.

> "We've never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time," he said. "I mean we've seen a year's worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks."

https://abc7news.com/suicide-covid-19-coronavirus-rates-duri...
Taiwan and South Korea also had first hand experience with SARS, and were much better prepared for COVID. Mask wearing was already a thing there, they had supplies, and they had contact tracing in place and ready to go. They did a good job with this.

Other countries can invest in the same readiness. It's always a decision of limited resources and many opportunity costs (poverty, infrastructure, climate, security, etc).

Different countries with different experiences and difference cultures will make different decisions. That's ok, that's how it should work. Can't have it any other way in a democracy, right?
Eh, going to all the trouble of manipulating the photo and getting around Germany's laws are a waste of time.

All you do is go to Belgium, and bribe a local mayor, where they have the ridiculous system of having local administration and control over the issuing (and mysterious "loss") of passports. Belgian passports are rife with fraud.
Making reactive applications with a Kitten Care Example
Texas or Florida are representative of the density of the US. If the mass shut downs had been limited to NY and NJ, without the media working everyone into a frenzy about beach goers in Florida, people in those other states wouldn’t be so upset.

We’re not a single country. We’re 50 different states with vastly different requirements. NYC and NJ did need the extreme shut downs. In fact, they should have shut down earlier and harder. South Dakota, Texas, etc., did not. Many sparse states like Oregon overreacted and shut down more than they needed to.

Of course, nobody can predict these things. Mistakes happen. What drives me nuts is that the same media that flipped out because not all states were taking the drastic measures that were needed in NYC is going to peddle a narrative about what happened that totally glosses over the lesson that those states didn’t really need to take such drastic measures.