skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meltblown isn't that limited in supply and from all the masks it is wasted mostly on surgical masks, not N95, since surgical masks use the same sickness meltblown layer, but are produced in much higher quantities.
Are you saying you school isn't transporting students? Also, are you saying the teachers have anything to do with that cost?

My district had to double its busing budget this year due to restrictions on the number of students that could be on each bus. This led to even further cuts into the classroom budgets.

So, I guess your experience may be different.
I've been wanting to run something like OpenFaaS on some low-powered machines of mine, so this looks pretty cool.
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By how much equity stake they get / risk they take on.

To draw a clear line, I like the YC definition others have mentioned in this thread of ≥ 10% == co-founder.
Just limit how many can be sold to one person.
Elon Musk is by far the most important founder of Tesla, and he didn’t even work there for the first few years.
>Building a massive production line with complex equipment and training only to be bankrupt in 6 months is a fools errand.

Not if they can make all of their money back in 6 months via extreme prices. However we are past the "extreme prices" phase of the pandemic.
This is consistent with what Karl Friston said in May (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/covid-19-exper...):

>For example, it looks as if the low German fatality rate is not due to their superior testing capacity, but rather to the fact that the average German is less likely to get infected and die than the average Brit. Why? There are various possible explanations, but one that looks increasingly likely is that Germany has more immunological “dark matter” — people who are impervious to infection, perhaps because they are geographically isolated or have some kind of natural resistance. This is like dark matter in the universe: We can’t see it, but we know it must be there to account for what we can see.
Sidenote, i am with you fully - and you may be interested in `!s` - Startpage. I know very little about them, so please - do your own research, but supposedly they straight use Google, so your results are basically Google without giving your info "directly" to Google.

Of course the question arises, should you trust them? No idea, please - do your own research, maybe let me know hah. But i basically never touch Google these days, as i use DDG for all my searches and !s for any fallbacks.
It's there but dark at night
I think that's the English word for that, yes. In Germany we normally call it "Drainage" which is also a French word. Don't know what we Germans got with France and trenches... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I will help 10 people on this thread to code their first Slack automation
I think there are some real practical implications of being a cofounder vs employee

- Right to board seats
- Access to the company's bank accounts
- Authorized to approve spend on behalf of the company
- Access to HR data, salaries etc
- Depending on role/stage, may need to sign tax statements or other legal documents as a company representative
- Full insight into the company's financial conditions
- Voice when talking/negotiating with investors
- Part of all crucial decisions about the company's strategy
Don't be a dickhead.
As disgusting as what the US/UK does, it leans more towards cloak and dagger, rather than "look at as, we can kill anywhere and no-one will give a fuck about your, or if they do, they won't dare do anything to help you".

Edit: yes, I guess the US has similar optics in countries it operates killing drones as Russia has in Europe. Except probably worse.
No, I'm not familiar. I'll look it up. Thank you.
In the UK helicopters are used as drones simply aren’t fast enough to image an entire transmission line in a reasonable amount of time.

However unlike PG&E we take high resolution photographs of every major component on a transmission tower, and manually inspect and classify every image take. Images of this type would have identified this fault, at least once during inspections taken during the last couple of decades.

Source: Worked for a company that did these inspections.
Apple's surprise OS update leaves app developers scrambling
I note that the rules are "guidelines", not "rules", and I think that's deliberate. There's meant to be an element of human judgement that can't necessarily be spelled out in advance. Allowing things that you might not inspect seems like the inverse of https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/
> this area will likely never be safe without significant policy changes

What policy changes would those be? I've never lived near there so I don't have a clue.
Ah you’re right I was looking for ads ABOVE the SERP. Integrating web monetization is clever! I should try pitching that at my company.
“Massive gains” allow a quicker recoup of the massive investment almost certainly required to procure materials and manufacture masks. Obviously, the current need for masks is artificially high due to the pandemic. And when the pandemic eventually ends, the massive demand for masks will end along with it.

Let’s say it takes 5 years to recoup that initial investment to procure materials and manufacture masks at current pricing. Most experts agree the pandemic will have run its course within a year or two. So common sense says getting into the mask business where it will take 5 years to recoup your losses is a bad bet.

But if pricing was allowed to follow demand, there is more incentive for aspiring mask manufacturers to take those risks. Maybe the cost to ramp up production can be covered in a couple of years or maybe even a couple of months. That mitigates risk and given opportunity like that, existing mask manufacturers will be better incentivized to scale their production more rapidly. And then more masks get produced quickly, scarcity decreases, and pricing eventually finds equilibrium again.

But because we don’t allow “gouging” (whether for legal or social reasons), the mask shortage will continue until existing manufacturers can produce enough to meet demand. And some people that need PPE won’t have it easily available until then, but we will feel awfully good about making sure nobody got gouged. After all, nobody gets gouged if there is nothing to buy.
Because America has become destructively capitalist and if there isn't enough profit in making N95 masks, people aren't going to make them, even if it saves lives.

It's the same reason talking heads were discussing how many dead grandmas and grandpas the stock market was worth in the face of COVID-19. It's because our society cares about money more than it cares about human life.

We can blame our country's leadership all we want, but America has a culture of cruel, uncaring selfishness, and we never needed the financial incentives or the Defense Production Act to make us do the right thing: we chose not to.
> shut off the screen when the phone is moving faster than 5mph

I like this idea

Maybe need to figure out how to avoid shutting down the passengers' phones?
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I'm not concerned with the counter itself, either. I'm concerned with the implementation of the synchronization at that level. I'm afraid the solution at that level is a strawman. There is a better solution for the "system call" level.

I also don't think it's useful to think of this hierarchy as "good, bad and ugly." Sometimes the problem you're solving will require being at one of these levels, and you can't perform the optimizations or re-architecture required to drop down a level. When that is the case, it's useful to know the best options at that level.
The mmap() copy-on-write trick: reducing memory usage of array copies
Working for free and getting a loan to cover expenses is still working for free.
Have you ever actually TRIED leaving Apple's ecosystem? Like doing regular backups and restores of your data, you're confidence level should be equal to your ability to actually follow through.
If Alibaba buys it it's going be the glory of Aliexpress in SA, but since Amazon has recently invested a lot in storage facilites maybe a Amazon / Alibaba greater partnership can occur and that can be huge benefit for all.
One major (and unexpected) issue I ran into with Thunderbird is font size. On my monitor, it's way too small to be usable.

The recommended fix appears to mess with the `layout.css.devPixelsPerPx` configuration and even then, font is inconsistent when moving from external monitor to laptop screen.
$8-10 a month would be awesome, and they would probably make a ton of money using that subscription model. It's short sighted that they don't do this.
Yup. I'm somehow bored by the greatest collection of human knowledge ever captures on video because it can't seem to find anything new for me to watch, even with hundreds and thousands of hours of content created every hour.
Forge is great. Magit is such an enjoyable plugin already, but integration with PRs and issues takes it to the next level.
I think it’s fear of a government response, or possibly to give customers a last ditch way of recovering lost data. Either way it’s a hole they should address.
That is definitely more useful. My version will have a couple of tweets a year at most...
Depends on how many teachers you still want to have a year from now.
There's no such thing as the 'DAO Hacker'. The smart contract was executed exactly as written. Sad how when the going gets tough many cryptocurrency enthusiasts crawl back to statist inventions and conventions, but people should have seen the hard fork coming as Ethereum is a premined ponzi to begin with and the initial backers weren't going to let their payoff slip away so easily.
They’ve promised to spend $40 billion over the next five years on the grid, ~$8 billion of which is wildfire risk mitigation. It’s hard to say that will be in any way “sufficient”.

Because ensuring safety of the lines during very high risk days is impossible, a big part of the strategy was to add local generation redundancy so that they can switch off the transmission lines during high risk events but still keep the power on. These redundant stations would have to be natural-gas plants though, and CA has carbon-free mandates that prohibit them, so they have been prevented from implementing this strategy.

Frankly, it’s not clear that demand for this unreliable grid electricity can support the growth of the ratebase (the property being maintained).

At some point the ROI on switching to solar and batteries is net positive in the first month (based on financing the cost at a reasonable rate), and I’m not sure that point is much higher than $0.50/kWh for a household using 600kWh+ per month.

The more people that just opt-out of a grid connection entirely, the fewer people the ratebase is divided across, the higher rates must be set for those that remain.

Luckily the lithium-ion supply is fairly limited right now, but over the next 10-20 years that won’t remain the case.

PG&E currently has about $40 billion of debt, and recently issued $5 billion of debt at a B1 rating (junk). These issues also drive up their borrowing costs, which further shows up in the rates.

This is a good overview of the challenges they face;

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/four-hurdles-pg...

I predict that in 10-15 years we could hear calls to outlaw or prohibitively tax any new battery/solar systems that take new houses in CA off-grid, because the grid will be in “solar death spiral”.
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At the same time, what is the failure rate of batteries leading to fire? Logic follows the incidences of battery induced fire should be highest when under load, such as when primary power is off due to wind storms.

So now instead of PG&E being the cause, it's now Bob and his Powerwall that set half of CA on fire.

Power is just one piece of a multitude of failures that have lead us to this situation. Lots of houses where they are going to burn is one of the biggest issues, and due to how politics works, no one is going to address that.
I've never felt the need to visualize git scenarios; they just aren't all that complicated most of the time, though I can see how it might be useful to open a graph viewer if you have a tricky merge to sort out.

For me, being able to just note down in a text file an exact trace of what I've done is the gist of why CLIs are superior for my use. How do you even begin to keep track of what you do in a GUI? You could record video, but the information density is way too low for it to be useful, and it's worthless for automation.

A lot of my stuff gets automated by me first doing stuff manually, recording what I do in a script, and next time just running said script. That's just flat out not possible with most GUI tools, and even if it were, it's too cumbersome to be worth doing.
I can't unsee the intro paragraph:

"This is not going to be my normal kind of post, it’s not very focused, and going to be a bit rambley, as I talk about a problem I thought about one day."

The reader's attention is precious, particularly today, and I think it's rude to say something like this. I'm calling it out because it is something easy to fix.
The notifications aren't coming from the Messages app anymore, they are push notifications that are delivered over APNS.
3 x brand new ROBINSON R-44 ~$1.5mil. 3x pilot salary, lets be generous ~$400K. $220/hour operating cost includes insurance and amortized overhaul, flying 5 hours a day = ~1200 hours per year, 3x $250K.

$2.7 million all in all. they make >$500mil a year, they can afford to try harder.
Looks as if the doubling rate is near 12 months, down from 18 a year or two back.

I'd like to see:

- A semi-log plot. Or underlying data.

- Comparison to overall Internet usage growth.

- Comparison to Google search growth.
Normally I'd be upset about Cloudflare getting involved in anything good and pure like archive.org but this relationship, just suggesting new URLs to archive, seems harmless enough.
The Magic of Logarithmic Returns
You really are a piece of shit, you know.
Fusion 360 used to be very buggy. It isn't anymore. Change in speed is harder to judge since improvements have been very gradual, but the days of waiting endlessly on processing that can't be interrupted is pretty much over.

According to friends of mine who do fabrication it is a lot more stable than the high end stuff they have to use which costs an absolute fortune. That stuff is, apparently, "buggy as f*ck".

I don't think Blender is an option or even a useful starting point for a replacement. It solves an entirely different problem and any similarity in problem domain being addressed is purely superficial. (Get a fabrication professional to take you through their CNC workflow to get an understanding of how it is used).

The dependence on the cloud sucks for two reasons: Autodesk can make all of your work go away at any moment and Autodesk have never done much to optimize uploads/saves so they are slow.
SuperAnnotate Desktop: A better alternative to free annotation tools
I have read it. Have you? I'm trying to be helpful. Here are a few key quotes:

Thus, the maximum length of continuous use in non-dusty healthcare workplaces is typically dictated by hygienic concerns (e.g., the respirator was discarded because it became contaminated) or practical considerations (e.g., need to use the restroom, meal breaks, etc.), rather than a pre-determined number of hours.

Extended use alone is unlikely to degrade respiratory protection.

If no manufacturer guidance is available, preliminary data(19, 20) suggests limiting the number of reuses to no more than five uses per device to ensure an adequate safety margin.

The most significant risk is of contact transmission from touching the surface of the contaminated respirator.

Basically, the major risk factors for extended use and reuse is contamination of the respirator resulting in infection from handling it and damage rendering the respirator inferior (e.g. due to improper seal). Also, these guidelines are for clinical settings where these specific risk factors significantly elevated. For a normal person who uses the mask maybe once per week (assuming they are rotating), a single n95 mask could last quite a long time.
How much does typing speed matter? (2010)
Well, I guess I'm glad I didn't invest in that Fusion360 course that I had been eyeing.

$300/year (temporarily discounted from $500) is way too much for "advanced hobby use". I think $50/year or $100/major version is my limit for hobby software.
Wow. Great. Would you be able to publish your analysis?
It works well enough for me in some categories. Like if I'm listening to some guitar demo or pedal maker demo or shootout, I'll get similar videos coming through and I've stumbled onto some great ones that way (JHS pedals has a great channel).

But yeah, the music cycle is funny. And for some reason, no matter how many times I say "please don't show me this video", YouTube really wants me to listen to Mandolin Orange. I can't escape that recommendation even though I think I listened to them once and decided it wasn't to my taste and have always removed them from the queue. (Sorry, I'm sure they're nice but it's just not for me)
gotta get that promo tho
"French" actually refers to the (American) popularizer, Henry French.
Maybe you have heard of the "Berateraffären". It's almost funny how they pulled it off without getting into legal trouble.
How about you cut your own hands off so we don't have to read these stupid "dur hur hur Apple is GAY" comments in future?
The twitter thread makes this exact point. The camp fire would likely have happened with or without this maintenance error on PG&E's part. This is because a tree fell on a different power line and started the Camp B fire, and this was determined not to be the result of a preventable error. Just that fact alone suggests that the main component of the problem is not PG&E's neglect.
Why not just massive investment in making masks that everyone can afford, given historically low interest rates the government is basically spending with free money
I said above: because Microsoft (or rather, their Xbox division) owns a bunch of gaming studios, and acts as their publisher. And one of the roles of a publisher, is to get the games the publisher has rights to, ported to more systems, to get them into the hands of more people, to make more money.

Make no mistake: any time an Xbox title isn’t explicitly chosen to be a “console exclusive” for marketing purposes, Microsoft would love nothing more than to port it to every system imaginable. Look at what they did with Minecraft.
It is a difference in features indeed, and I believe the region settings can also be found when using google - they're just 2-3 clicks away in a menu and force you to reload, where DDG has them right on the homepage.

Basically Google assumes that I want stuff that is tied to my region regardless of who I am or what I do to hide/block any history tracking or browser fingerprinting. That has its own logic, and really for the average en-US user that works well enough anyway.

The user expectation becomes a bit different if you're British living in the US or Australia, or if you're Spanish living in Argentina, or if you're French living in Canada, etc. Or if you need to find help about a product that isn't dominated by the US, a programming language that isn't developed in English first, etc etc. Probably not the bulk of the requests from Google's perspective, I guess.
I don't know what product or service you're advertising, but Google has really dropped the ball the last couple of years in terms of ROI. Most get far better results with social media these days.
Without a CLI you can't automate. (I guess you could, but it will be a pain in the ass)
LOCKSS: A Permanent Web Publishing and Access System by
Vicky Reich and David S. H. Rosenthal describes a practical system which guarantees survival of published articles even when the hosting journal disappears.

See http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.68....
Code Platoon Hacktober 2020
Hello,

Code Platoon, a Chicago-based nonprofit coding bootcamp for Veterans and military spouses, will be hosting a virtual hackathon called Hacktober 2020 October 16-18. We would love to invite individuals in Chicago and across the country to join a programming team! You will get free t-shirts, stickers, and even food!

Would you be able to share this information on your slack channel or email chain? Please reach out for further inquiries!

Team sign up Deadline Oct 1 11:59pm
I used an old windows phone that had a full qwerty keyboard and the horizontal screen slid up over it, really old design from around 2007. Well, this phone was a terrible alarm, because it literally went to Sleep itself. Upon first getting it, I ran into my physics exam that was 75% done and had to explain that both my phone AND I overslept.
No Systemd for 2020
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Patents in other industries negatively affected innovation for decades. 3d printers are a prime example where recently expired patents resulted in real progress.

Those patents will affect open source which no other industry has adopted to the extent software has. Even hardware is being open sourced now as a cultural influence.

Can you point me to any other industry where small teams or individuals can build and learn the same cutting edge tech used at big companies without a big fat license and accepting legal jargon? Is lack of that a bad thing for the society as a whole? No idea is in isolation so it doesn't make sense to give exclusive rights to a single entity.

Do you wanna fight Oracle? Of course, you do just like Google.

Current situation won't give you the real picture of the impact because many companies choose not to patent software when they can.

Investors can also see lack of patents as reduced barrier to entering the market and diversify more.
When 'one day' it's presedential it will be voted for by the European parliament.

This is what 'United States of Europe' means. The EU has been on a course to more democracy and more power for the parliament (e.g. Treaty of Lisbon), so I'm not sure why people assume this stops, argue that it is not happening or argue that it is reversing - when it is not - e.g. see GDPR.
Cadquery is a very nice python only API, based on the OpenCascade, much better API then FreeCAD. So someone looking to make parametric models via code, I think it's the best option out there.
Some people are also capable of disconfirming their beliefs instead of just confirming what they thought they already knew. Which one are you?