jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So there are some things that are 'slightly off' in your statement, enough to cause some odd conclusions - especially in the context of public communications.

With respect to timing, there was no pandemic in January, we're not going to see 'public fear and pandemonium' until it hits home, which wasn't until March. It wasn't until this point could there have been a true run on anything at least in the US.

The delineation between HCW PPE and 'civilian' PPE is basically moot: both N95 and surgical masks are widely used by civilians and HC.

Given the above, if there were any real impetus by 'the nations top doctor' to buy masks there would have been a massive run on all kinds of masks.

The reason that 'you are able to buy something' is precisely because the policy was 'masks are not important'.

Understand that in 2020 (and arguably today), nobody knew the difference between the various kinds of masks. 'N95' was not in the public lexicon. Masks are Masks. If the 1/2 of Americans that seem to be concerned about COVID felt that they needed masks, they would have bought them.

It would be impossible for Dr. Fauci or anyone else to say: "Buy this kind of mask over here, but that other kind of mask, don't worry about that, you don't need it" - this is beyond the threshold of complexity of something you can effectively message to 350 Million people.

The amount of pricing pressure etc. would have made it clearly more difficult for HCW around the world to get access to much of the gear they needed - we know this because even without face masks doctrine, there were a lot of shortages.

Doctors in many facilities were resigned to having to re-use a lot of gear - including masks.

If there were a public stampede for those masks, they would have had critical shortages that would have materially affected outcomes.

It wasn't until summer 2020, when COVID numbers started to come under control, that 'resource sharing' started to become effective, and that supply chains truly started to be able to handle demand did things start to seem more reasonable.

Only in June/July did a lot of HC centres across the nation start to receive major shipments of PPE.

At that point 'we made it through Phase 1' - at which time, it started to make sense to make masks part of the public health strategy.

So then the communication shifts: they start telling us how great masks are, how they can help us, and that we should wear them.

Obviously, this feels disingenuous, but it's not.

Given the risk in the system, even in hindsight, it was a perfectly reasonable strategy.

Finally, it was not 'Dr. Fauci' - it was the same across the Western world. UK and Canada started mandating in July, France in August.
I have a toddler in a facility too. But I'm not at all convinced that this is a real threat. I'm having trouble even imagining it as a theoretical threat.

Pedophiles are bad for sure. But internet people watching nursery footage doesn't seem to make that any better or worse. I expect roughly all of nursery footage to be uniformly boring. Even if a pedophile got access to it... then what? Where's the threat?
No one downloads JREs from anywhere for versions later than 8 because they no longer exist. They might download runtimes that various vendors, like IBM (under the brand AdoptOpenJDK) call JREs, but aren't. Also, IBM's Adopt team is not involved with OpenJDK and are a bit confused about the project in general, but it is true that even more trustworthy JDK vendors distribute runtimes that they confusingly call JREs to provide a sense of continuity. Rest assured, though, those aren't JREs, and they do not support the old deployment models.

Also, that "line" is from the actual developers who develop OpenJDK.
What would handle the click on the client browser? How would you handle all the user events in the client browser? clicks, mouse overs, selections, etc.

The Javascript platform is used to capture user behavior in the most efficient manner. This is the fundamental basis for all the online business processes and resulting business value.
This is a great article. Note it's from January 5th, and it's extremely speculative. But certainly at least worth adding to the overall amount of signals that stock investors are thinking.

I think I remember someone saying that in 1929 when the shoeshine boys were giving stock advice that that's how someone knew the bubble was about to burst.

Lately I've been discussing investment strategies with the people that work at the gyms I'm going to. Is this the equivalent signal? The 2021 equivalent might be "When your personal trainer is giving you investment advice, that's how you know to get out?"
Like your friend, I couldn't cut it in the classroom and burnt out. Now I get paid almost 3 times as much with half the stress to program.

>So I think the solution is to look elsewhere entirely. Break up the problem. Remove the dependence on good teachers and good schools.

I think this comes to our fundamental disagreement. I just don't think this is possible nor a good path to pursue.

Thanks for taking the time to engage in the back and forth!
Nah. That's a good rule. Pooling of vials has caused contamination and severe consequences to patients in the past, and it also compromises traceability.

Having bad outcomes from pooling and not knowing whether it came from the combining practice, a certain vial, an entire lot, or even worse-- the fundamental vaccine-- could take the entire vaccination program off the rails. That's not worth it to stretch supplies a few percent.
I think the best tips for non-savvy people are:

1 - use an iphone for all banking. It's the single hardest system for someone to install spyware on: they are more careful about which apps are in their store than android, and the apps are more isolated. Android apps often have spyware; android install prompts on websites are super sketchy (and cover 1/4 of the screen, perfect to trick older or unfamiliar users into installation), and the permissions are far less granular. Windows is a disaster for secure computing, from viruses to "install this to get 500 smiley faces" to flash with monthly zero-days to fake software installs advertised via google sem.

2 - use gmail, and use 2fa

3 - pay the $30 for the hardware login tokens for your brokerage (and ideally, banking) account

4 - don't use any wifi except home wifi; just use wireless

5 - NO, your friend/cousin/grandchild is not stranded in an airport in Europe
Wherever you store the product would be my guess. In my case, the paper towel/toilet paper one could go in the closet where I store these things.

The razor one could go on the side of my medicine cabinet.
If you're referring to yourself, you are being downvoted because you have a reading comprehension issue, you're not discussing what he said but what you think he said and that's a huge difference.
There was only one first time to hear “Return to Forever”, and it was a trip
In order to solve the “forward” compatibility option you could have both Specialized binaries and a generic version in (wasm) bytecode. Then you can have all the performance optimisations you care about and retain compatibility with all platforms.

Optionally you could consider a binary that on first run (&prompt?) removes the binaries irrelevant to the current host.
Modularity is avery cool feature! :drooling:
My problem with UHK though that it's not ortholinear...
Pac-Man ghosts did not moved all that much randomly. Each ghost had special follow up strategy. You likely learned their movement patterns without realizing it.
We made a concious decision to keep the revenue share margins under wraps, but rest assured it is - and always will be - in the users favour.
What are some example of things you learned getting your MBA?
As for the part that is copyrighted, it’s not just the code that makes the fonts (like what metafont would be), but also the bytecode embedded in the font file (for kerning and other things).
I’ve yet to use it personally, but renv [1] seems to try to solve the reproducible builds problem in a way more similar to other modern package managers (e.g. by generating a lockfile).

This approach enables stricter validations against tampering with the package repositories as a hash of the package can be stored in the lockfile, however it is obviously a bit more complex to use than the groundhog approach.

[1]: https://github.com/rstudio/renv
On the topic of things going on in other people’s heads, you seem to be arguing against a point I wasn’t trying to make at all. When I hear “the tools to understand what is reasonable” and write of “finding the truth” and “collaborating using the tools of reason” I think of things like statistics courses and advancing the theory of systemantics. Reading your reply, it’s hard for me to tell exactly what you’ve heard, but it sounds like you may have instead understood this as my desiring to impose my beliefs of truth on others, which is not what I meant at all.

It sounds like we’re actually in violent agreement; I also think that we should be seeking each others’ perspectives. We’ve approached this conversation from different angles; the tack I’ve taken is to assume that is a given and consider ways to encourage it to happen productively. Of course people are not “just(!) unreasonable”; but even if the things they feel strongly about cannot themselves be reconciled by reason, it is still a useful tool to effect action based on those beliefs. I (and, it seems, you) seek tools to help reconcile differing beliefs and ensure that shared goals—whatever they may be—might have the most effective plan of action.

With that said, a few comments on particulars:

> When you read threads like this one, do you get a strong sense that a large percentage of the people in here have actually ... perform a comprehensive and careful examination of the other styles of thinking & belief systems that are out there?

Not really, no, but I also didn’t get the impression that you had done that, either, so there you go. I haven’t, either, very much; it’s an incredibly large field, so I rely heavily on encountering them by happenstance (though I do try to increase the chances of that occurring), which brings me to my next point:

> 75%+ of the people in here are running largely on heuristics

Running on heuristics is all we can do; the world is too large and complex for anything else. The best we can do is tune them carefully and be prepared to change them (using, of course, more heuristics; as you noted in your first paragraph this is heavily influenced by existing priors).

> Another thing you may notice in culture war threads like this one is the lack of curiosity/uncertainty/humility...

Any online thread is likely to be skewed towards a lack of visible curiosity; that is frequently satisfied by merely reading, whereas the most prolific way to produce content is by debate.

> if people on HN can't even manage it, how reasonable [! —ed.] is it to expect joe sixpack to pull it off?

Under present circumstances, perhaps not. But I’d still like to keep nudging things in that direction, and maybe someday we’ll get there.
Oh totally...

It's slightly surprising there's not an emergency evacuation procedure for people who work in the building that involves locking all devices that remain in the building via a hot-key or hot-corner. Come to think of it, I wonder if a screen lock command is something that could be pushed from a Windows domain controller...and if so, why wasn't that used?
> Generally speaking the PM is the one creating a roadmap and informing what is the highest value item to work on. I must be misunderstanding what you're referring too.

Experience flips this equation around. The PM is creating the roadmap based on my input and expertise to decide what will be the most valuable use of resources. You move from construction worker to architect.
sensual -> sensical

I like the idea of common sensual, but I think we all might have slightly different tastes :D
The characterization really, truly, does not matter.
On the other hand, you will have an absolute pain trying to transfer messages to another device. To move from one android device to another you have to manually make a database backup (hope you didn’t lose your old phone!) and copy it over to a new phone. Moving from an iPhone to another iPhone is slightly better since you just have to have both iPhones and then the app can sync the data across. However if you try to move from Android to iOS or vice versa, you are absolutely screwed. There is no way to get your data transferred to your new device and there is no way to get your data out of signal, even the database backup the Android app has doesn’t include everything. Say what you want about WhatsApp but at least thanks to GDPR my data isn’t permanently trapped in one app forever with no way to get it out.
Fabs take time to build. Just look at how long it took Intel to scale up their 14nm capacity when it became clear the 10nm process wasn't going to start working any time soon.

On the other hand, the added revenue would further cement TSMC's position as leader in the process race. Given the resources of so many customers pushing the leading edge, I don't see how Intel could recover anytime soon. Unless TSMC grows to become fat and complacent like Intel did.
The Occupy movement was targeted and that was barely a decade ago.
Plain DH can be MITMed. You need some sort of proof of identity to prevent that. That proof can in theory be tied to a particular message.
Thanks, I was pretty lost without that.

I also hope my efforts to make it clear it was a commentary on its poetic formulation and potentially a road toward something much worse than the ill which we seek to eliminate, and not an attack on the character of someone I don't know personally (which I try to refrain from doing), were not similarly inscrutable.

That said, I thought it was a point I understand somewhat, however it was made. I just disagree with it.
1, 2 seem doable with the Fortnite bunny suit

I agree on 3, parents should get the kids real brick and mortar sex toys instead of the virtual DLC.
"He's done worse before, why now?" is not a very strong argument IMO. Are we better off without him on twitter? IMO, yes. Then this is a positive move. I also think Twitter/Facebook should have clear guidelines for intolerable content that applies to everyone. Encouraging violence could be a good red line. Although, I have little confidence that any of the social media platforms would establish and equally enforce a standard policy. They usually take the path of least business risk which is understandable but not satisfying.
You are using one local example to bolster claims of fraud across at least four states, if not the entire nation.

Trump lost by what, 8 million votes?

Does dirty shit happen? Absolutely. Was it in this election? Yep. Was it enough to sway the outcome? No freaking way.
> You are not getting the point

No, I'm disagreeing with your point.

> I am fine with apple removing any app it doesn't like from their app store, as long as you can sideload an app to iphones (like you can do with Android).

Sure, I have the same preference, which is why in my household there are 7 actively used Android devices and zero iOS devices.

People with different preferences purchase Apple devices.

> The fact that you can't sideload, it makes it worrying as one exec has all the power on what you do with your phone.

If you choose to give them that power over your phone with your purchasing decisions.
At what point do you believe your statements are delusional if not when Musk has become to wealthiest person in the world, Tesla one of the most valuable companies by market cap, and the world bends over backwards to get their factories in their backyard or get their cars in their garages?

Elon will set foot on Mars and you’ll still have the delusional yelling Tesla is a farce I suppose.
The reason could be that React always revisits the entire virtual dom tree whenever something changes (even if it is only a very small change).
> lower-end digital camera

And here I was going to say "the grain you get from high ISO film (http://i.imgur.com/4FDyk.jpg)". Dang kids, get off my lawn!

Anyways, you can actually see this effect (combined with chromatic aberration, which simulated the effect of cheap camera optics) used to great effect in P.T., which was a sort of tech demo/playable trailer for an upcoming silent hill game. Here's a screenshot: http://www.silenthillmemories.net/silent_hills/screens/pics/...
If you are an invited visitor, he could send you a photo of his house along with the invitation.
> I personally think that Compulsion taps into some hardwired reptile-brain behavior in people, which came about because covering all the territory or collecting all the [valuable stuff] was beneficial to survival at some point in human history.

Most of the 'compulsion' is actually the Variable Interval Reinforcement Ratio. It's the same reinforcement schedule that makes gambling addictive. The rest of the compulsion is social pressure.
I'm in the same situation, and to be honest, I'm not really sure.

First thing first, for all practical purposes, startup stock is useless -- and especially if you're already thinking of quitting.

In my situation, I joined the startup right after college, and it has been almost 2 years for me as well. I was the first technical employee, and except one other employee (the second hire), I'm not seeing other people better than me joining either. That said, there are a few things to keep in mind:

- Startup is NOT the place to be learning technical skill, especially early stage startup. The big 4 will serve you much better than that (and I know this going in). However, one of the things I've learned over the last year is that there are more to it than just technical skill. I have no doubt that I haven't been learning anywhere as fast as I could have in term of tech skill, but I've learned other stuffs that might just be as valuable: from dealing with (less than ideal) team member, dealing with expectation (mine and others), being resilient, and a gazillion things that probably make me a better human. Startup is emotional, for better or worse.

- I remember reading a quote that if you can only learn from people better than you, it's gonna be awfully hard to learn anything. As you eventually get better, you will have to learn from everyone around you.

- Since both of the previous points are extremely personal and subjective, I think that the one most important point to consider would be this: do you think the startup have any fighting chance? If the startup grows, both of those previous problems will fix itself. If the startup have no chance, well why would you stay there anyway? In my case, I can't answer that question with either a straight yes or no, so I can't decide.
About the same time that I introduced Spark in our workplace, Telecom announced their multi-million dollar name change.

I spent the first two weeks clarifying that I was indeed referring to Apache Spark, not the Spark-Formerly-Known-As-Telecom. They'll always be Telecom to me.
It's hard to trust anyone that would ever depend on such a variable without having some sort of precondition.
When you're a QA engineer at RHEL working on an UNRELEASED PRODUCT then no, I don't think you need an apology. Maybe a thanks for finding the bug, but this is the whole point of QA and the whole point of QA-ing before it's released.

The context matters a lot. This title is linkbait. It omits mentioning that this was not publicly released and the reporter is a QA for Red Hat.
Given that context I doubt you'll still agree an apology is so necessary or that this was not handled well.
This one just removes it after people land on the page, it won't strip attribution which is what it sounds like the OP is going for.

fresh-url is meant to aid site owners so that the users don't see the ugliness of UTM codes :)
If I am uploading historical photographs that are in the public domain, I should absolutely have an easy way to mark them as such. Not everyone uses Flickr like Instagram to share the last neat thing they saw on the street.
I'm 23 and I use it for memes, groups (photography, cars), local events, and keeping up with some of my less 'close' family members (as in, it's the only reasonable means I have of contacting them). I occasionally post some of my photography projects so my grandparents can see them. FB Marketplace is leagues better than Craigslist and I have sold several items on it. Don't get me wrong, I hate facebook, but if used moderately/correctly, it isn't terrible. It's definitely not my preferred social network, nor is it by any of my peers the same age as me.
Much discussion at the previous submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450972
Indeed. You could simply accept what the preferences of your body are, and make your life fit to that, instead of the other way around.
It's well known - and instructed - within the "pilot community" that the theory taught in most books is oversimplified to the point that it is almost wrong. I understand how it works from the practical and theoretical side; but can't think of a better (i.e. easier) way to explain it to others without this oversimplification.
Or, maybe, you have low expectations?
When people watch tv series and sports , they just basically need a dumb screen and cable content.

But it's a whole different story with regards to movies. a great movie discovery like jinni.com + access to a large niche mainstream + niche movie library can make a huge difference in the viewing experience.
Proving that dreams sometimes do come true, the Dropbox Y Combinator application from 2007: http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html

Google never got around to releasing the "G Drive". None of the other competitors for Dropbox ever caught on, either.
1. No, he says other VCs think that the funding landscape in general creates dipshit companies. Not that YC companies are dipshit companies.

2. It's Arrington talking. ;)
A better proposal would be to distribute the available bitcoins equally to everyone on the planet, creating a fair and true starting point

That's exactly the point of the algorithm, but instead of distributing bitcoins to everyone in the planet, it distributes it to everyone running the software.
One way would be the same thing you do with "forgot my password" links. You enter your email address, a link with a random activation key gets mailed to you, click on the link in your email client and get logged back in. The activation key would have a limited valid span, say 30 mins, so even if anyone got hold of it it would be useless.

The disadvantages are a) your email can be hacked and b) it's a bit inconvenient for the user. Also you'd need SSL to protect the key, which would be in the URL.
He is yet to produce something useful. Why celebrate him now? Google PR?
Do you keep to the same sleep schedule on weekends?
Are you using some official whatsapp api or the one present in Github which are getting DMCA slow and steadily?
What? You mean, "I have this problem that I can actually apply reasoning skills to come up with a solution to. Later, I can compare notes with others who attacked the same problem in other ways to see what the pros/cons were." As opposed to today where "I have a solution that works, but according to the blogosphere it is no longer in fashion, and so must therefore be terrible and replaced as soon as possible."

Granted, I do not really think it is that bad, but still, the "dark ages" were hardly dark in this sense. I've been reading some of Knuth's "selected papers" series lately. Just reading about how he and others approached problems is amazing.
I have had mostly good success using wget and a cookie.txt file exported from chrome with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookietxt-export/l...

But it's not so convenient.
I'll have to try this in future.
Thanks for clearing this up. For the innocent bystander the headline sounded like something coming out of a Troll science strip. I was only missing the "magnets"...