jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you needed to know everything about the pandemic, all you needed to listen was Michael Osterholm's interview in Joe Rogan podcast before the pandemic began. I m sure people would be a lot better prepared about the duration of the pandemic, the mode of transmission, the death rates etc if the epidemiologists had been frank about what to expect from a SARS pandemic. "Do not exchange air" should be an international slogan. Washing hands and groceries is just another security theater
All the rules always apply for everyone. It just a lot faster working with a party that knows all the rules and runs the paper work on a daily basis. There is a reason customs agencies exist. And would always use one of those, and not do customs declarations myself. Unless of course, customs declarations are my business.
It's pretty miserable when you're trying to look up a date, and all you get are numbers that requires a conversion step to be readable.
You're right on your first estimation:

P(getting infected per touch) = 1/10000 = .0001

P(not getting infected per touch) = 1 - P(getting infected per touch) = .9999

P(not getting infected after 100 touches) = P(not getting infected per touch) ^ 100 = .9999 ^ 100 =~ .99

P(getting infected after 100 touches) = 1 - P(not getting infected after 100 touches) =~ .01 = 1%

Or, in other words:

1 - ((1 - .0001) ^ 100) =~ .01 = 1% chance of infection

By the same logic, your second estimation is a bit off:

1/5000 = .0002

1 - ((1 - .0002) ^ 100) =~ .02 = 2% chance of infection

That's a far cry off 40%.

To think about it another way, if the chance to get infected per touch is 1/10, and you touch a surface 20 times, is your chance of infection 200%? No, that doesn't make sense. It's 1 - ((1 - 1/10) ^ 20) =~ 87.8%.

That's the problem with statistics -- "everyone can do the math", but it's pretty easy to mix it up and reach the wrong conclusions and spread misinformation.
That would be wonderful on Linux... I would really really love to use my desktop environment's picker which integrates with the rest of the experience and isn't the preschooler file picker UI that firefox defaults to.
Can but in my experience, most ADHD-affected persons will self-medicate with caffeine in atleast low doses.
So handshakes are safe and there's no need to perform this awkward elbow bump anymore
I'm sorry, but they're exactly the same.

In the South, racists didn't want to do business with black people, and the government intervened and said they had to. There are many other protected classes, it's just politics isn't one of them.

We have not had anything remotely like the ability "to do business with whoever you chose" for 55 years in the U.S. because of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

What people supporting this are implicitly saying is they don't think political affiliation is or should be a civil right.
This is wrong in a few ways. One, antitrust includes more than monopoly, including oligopoly and monopsony. Two, there is no generic advertising market; there are a variety of specific ones. Three, Facebook and Instagram are the only way a lot of small companies find buyers, because their platforms give them rich data for ad targeting not available elsewhere. This came up during the Stop Hate For Profit campaign; large companies joined easily, but many small businesses couldn't. Having zero effective choice is a clear sign of anti-trust concerns.
My team got laid off a few months ago and after experiencing remote working this is the only kind of work arrangement I'd be happy to apply for. 40hrs a week of remote working does not allow for a lot of freedom, ~20hrs sounds amazing.

Really hope more companies start to adopt this.
Hiring contractors is legal. I can't think of anywhere it's not.

Sometimes, companies try to cheat by claiming that their employees are contractors. But this actually sounds like they really are contractors. No fixed schedule, work with the tools you want, even choose the tasks you want (within reason). So this sounds completely fine to me. Of course, IANAL.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority#Fals...

Your lack of understanding or stubbornness aside, if your grandfather fought actual fascists it is doubtful he defined the term.

All that is immaterial, of course, to your current incorrect claim that Fox News somehow became liberal recently, which I can only assume is established in your view by the idea that Trump presently dislikes them.
> Sometimes, for drafting long blog articles, I’m working in Google Docs, and when I’m happy, export the content to clean HTML using an add-on.

Oh, but as he said earlier in the post, relying on a static site generator that you can install and run locally is unacceptable. That makes sense.
This is how battle tanks came to be known as 'tanks'. At the time, any german spy who overheard the wrong conversation would think the British were talking about containers for holding water.
> Note: I am still bitter at what Apple has done to IMG / PowerVR.

I'm unfamiliar with this; are you bitter about a lack of attribution that they produced lots of the IP their GPUs are built on?
I started switching people over 3-4 years ago. My strategy was to wait for people to need help with their phone, then casually install it there (with their permission) after I had fixed whatever was wrong with it. I've found that people are more receptive to a 'new thing' after they get a little dopamine hit from something getting 'fixed'.

Obviously, that's a little different now with distancing & public safety measures...
I worked at a FAANG-level startup for a number of years and am now doing my own thing, with hopes of building a stable part-time business. This appeals to me.

In any company, employee trust is a huge benefit when it works and a huge concern when it's missing. this Gumroad model would require even higher trust to operate so independently and not incrementally add more "check up" meetings and slack etc etc.

Can anyone from Gumroad speak to how they built the team? Hiring some roles from your customer community makes a lot of sense as they already will have some feeling of propriety. Have there been bad hires? I guess having everyone on contract makes it easier to move on.
Yes... apps are just a subset of software. Apple has used the term Applications since the early days of the Mac. The OS X dictionary defines them this way:

"a program or piece of software designed and written to fulfill a particular purpose of the user"

There was a time when desktop applications were small too. The first version of Photoshop I ever saw, when compressed, fit on an 800K floppy. Apple released the source to MacPaint 1.3, an early Mac application. It's only 67.8K

http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/

iOS apps may have simple interfaces, but the hardware is powerful enough to do many things with. I think VLC is a good example of a non-trivial app. It's much bigger than MacPaint!

http://m.macupdate.com/info.php/id/35314/vlc-media-player
Linus intentionally will not allow the scheduler to be modularized to force people to develop the One True Scheduler rather than a bunch of workload-specific ones.
So the most vulnerable apps are the ones everybody uses. Huh. Who'da thunk.
You should learn about WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING.

(string-downcase (string thing)) should be written (string-downcase thing)

The fdefinition trick is not a good one. Define the functions at compile-time, not at runtime.
That picture is the millimeter wave scanner, which doesn't use radiation. The backscatter scanners are the xray type and are the majority of the scanners in airports.
Interesting analogy. A few other thoughts:

- complimentary co-founders (Paul and John collaborated building stuff, George was an expert at execution on the guitar, and Ringo kept them in sync)

- release early and often (in clubs) to get user feedback

- the perfect combo: a smart-ass team (Beatles) with a kick-ass product (pop music) in a big-ass market (baby boomers).

- the right advisers and CEO: Brian Epstein and George Martin. If it wasn't for them, the Beatles might still be bootstrapping in Hamburg.
I'd like to know, how many of that 76 vulnerabilities were able to escape chrome sandbox?
I read Ben Bova's "Mars" a long time ago, when I was much younger, and I recall liking it then. Bova tends to express an ultra-libertarian viewpoint in his scifi, but very much less so in this particular novel; he does a good job exploring the real-world science of a likely first manned expedition to Mars, with enough drama to keep it interesting.
He can pop that line out and replace it
Here's a video of a talk Nicholas Merril gave about the gag order:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6xsv4azzpc
This is the kind of benchmark I like to see for any technology.

Anyone know of anything similar for other web technologies?
"And I think Dropbox probably has a much higher conversion rate than 5%."

Why do you think so?
You could do non-strict parsing and would be fine. You can also parse it directly into an untyped map.

https://golangbyexample.com/json-to-map-golang/
Somehow getting the IP address of the server (in this case 174...*) would enable you to connect directly. Websites, such as crimeflare.org crawled the net to gather those addresses, probably by scanning, but the mentioned site was shut down as it seems.
Example products in this space you may have heard of:

- Google Docs

- Microsoft Office 365

- Figma

- Quip

- Notion (my employer)
Why would they allow just anyone to edit the article? They probably could be a better process, which goes beyond the scope of Wikipedia, to verify identity but why would they not ask for this?
Congrats on launch!

How does this compare with Convox?
most recent experience of the "wall of NO EDIT" for me was two months ago.. I found documents pertaining to a living US Federal Judge who was involved in collusion with a local attorney and law enforcement. Formal review did find misconduct, and it was published. The subject area was something I care about. I went to the chat channel of admins and said "I am about to edit this Federal Judge's wikipedia page" .. and showed the evidence. No, no, no was what I got back.. even with the documents plainly visible, in hand, with references. Obviously this is serious since it is a living man, but so are the topics. The Judge has three "fluff" paragraphs about his excellent qualifications, degrees and the names of the courts he has run. Isn't real world evidence enough? yes, they did want media substantiation of the formal reprimands, btw.. I have not made the edits.
You're right. When I first heard of Russinovich joining Microsoft, I thought oh hell that's the end of a good run and it was. The trouble is that to date no one of his caliber seems to have emerged in what has now been quite a long time (there will be others but we're not going to hear from those doing nefarious hacking). Nevertheless, it's odd that we've heard so few instances of home-grown patching of Windows that would be useful to users.

Of course, quietening Russinovich by employing him is what Microsoft and other Big Tech excel at in spades—that is by buy off any competition or looming trouble.
Just what are they trying to do? They are a non-profit which would make a money grab somewhat impractical. Are they worried they are going to get successfully forked or something?

Their unquestioned faith in Intel SGX is somewhat pathetic to be fair.
Heck - I had to call 911 for an active domestic violence situation in the middle of New York, with a guy high on drugs yelling imminent death threats. The response time was well over an hour and all that was left to do was tell the police that we had gotten rid of the guy ourselves.

Of course, this is now far removed from the topic of how easily your fingers can dial 911 - but yes. In general I don't understand how people, even in cities, can think emergencies just don't happen in this day and age and if they do you'll always have help. It's like we haven't lived in the same world for the last year.
It very much depends on which context the pyramid is applied. I see two types of code review typically done

1. mandatory code review as part of automated workflow. Eg. ticket in jira won't be closed or git branch won't be merged to master before someone code reviews. The reviewer does the code review asynchronously from the code author on his own his schedule. Because of time pressure and pressure of being accused of blocking the team's progress, this kind of code review tends to do the bare minimum, focusing only the correctness part of the review maslow pyramid, if at all. Most often the reviewer just points out some cosmetics so as to appear that he actually looked at it.

2. two people sit side by side (or virtually over zoom) and walk through the code together while having a synchronous conversation, asking questions when not understanding something. Higher levels of the code review pyramid can be accessed using this code review style as well as achieving higher level understanding of author's thinking process and proliferation of good practices.

I've seen code review type #1 pushed in manager dominated environments, ending up as a formality and a tool of blame. I've experienced code review type #2 among very senior engineers, often organized informally with no managers involved.
Moxie != Signal.

Moxie, as an individual, is a paid technical advisor to MobileCoin but the reality is that we could never pay Moxie what his time is worth. I am thankful that he has chosen to help make this project a reality.
What is the proportion of white Jews vs semite Jews in the USA ?
You are asking it too much ;)
Hacker News users generally aren't very interested in laptop processors. Sure business wise they're incredibly important, but as far as getting flack on hacker news, laptop chips won't stop it. People here have been waiting for intel 10nm on server and especially desktop for 6 years now.
Stereotyping is prejudging someone.

Racism is prejudging someone.

Don't prejudge.
PROBLEM #1: High saturated fat diet correlated to high serum cholesterol

ANSWER #1: Serum cholesterol is transferred back-and-forth between the blood and cell membranes to maintain a constant cell rigidity; normal behavior

PROBLEM #2: High serum cholesterol correlated to cardiovascular disease

ANSWER #2: Chronic inflammation associated with metabolic disorders upsets the various regulatory systems

I find the second answer unsatisfactory. Any chronic condition that damages arteries leads to plaque and this, in my opinion, accounts for all the other associations. The arterial wall damage can be due to excess blood sugar, oxidation, or pathogens (SARS-CoV-2?). The damage causes an inflammatory response and extra serum cholesterol is needed to repair the damage (forms the plaque). The chronic plaque formation reduces the arterial cross-section and reduces elasticity which both increase blood pressure.

The underlying cause is arterial wall damage. This can be measured non-intrusively using the Ankle-Brachial Pressure Index:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankle–brachial_pressure_index
You can friend other sorbets and share interesting website links and photos with them.
THIS IS AWESOME! I will revisit that page often.
Why don't Google just make Android GPLv3?
Not even version control saves every keystroke. Something I've always wanted was complete undo history, in every program I use.
wasn't orbitz funded in part by the big airlines a decade ago?
@hugh3 - Did you actually watch the whole clip?

This illustrates the need for video evidence perfectly. Without the footage many people would instinctively agree with you, but faced with the footage it's clear that the inspectors are in the wrong.

[Edit - it's more obvious in some of the later scenes]
And in the Netherlands, we call it a ape's tail (we use 'ape' both for monkeys and ape's.)
now that Nokia's going WinMo, these companies should try some Kinectish interfaces.
Sorry, that part of the code is from JSCrush which I did not write. I don't fully understand it but here's an explanation someone wrote...

https://nikhilism.com/post/2012/demystifying-jscrush

If you go to the live demo, it will do a test to crush/encodeURI and uncrush/decodeURI to the string you pass in and verify that they are the same. Maybe I should write some automated tests.
Assuming there will be no people walking in the roads is not realistic.
An order on magnitude is a factor if 10. So half an order of magnitude is a factor of a square root of ten, or 3.16, because two half orders of magnitude are a full order of magnitude.

[Edit:] A nice consequence of that limit is that 3.16 and 3.14 are almost the same number, so pi sits nicely on the border between this order of magnitude and the next, so you can approximate it as either one or ten, depending on what makes your estimate look better.
TIL: https://2qibqm39xjt6q46gf1rwo2g1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... (A graphic defining what a "gore point" is.) This graphic is from https://www.heraldnet.com/news/dont-cross-the-gore-point-whe... , although at least in my browser was shrunk and hard to read.

I actually thought for a moment that 'gore point' was a dark joke about places that Teslas tend to hit with their autopilots.
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
Yes and no.

You are right, control is not the issue. Sensing is or isn't the issue depending on what you are talking about. On one hand, sensors are the best they've ever been and you could get a car to drive around a closed course in a robust enough manner. However, there's a lot going on in the world around a car in the wild. We can identify obstacles like other cars pretty robustly, but it is still a sticking point because small mistakes cost lives (see that early Tesla fatality that thought a truck was a billboard).

I think an AI winter is pretty inevitable at this point because AI has become so overhyped. It won't be as bad as previous winters though, because modern AI techniques have had a pretty major impact on other fields. Computer vision, for example, will never really be the same again. Moreover, for something like a self-driving car, ML will certainly play a big roll. Even though getting the computer vision models to work is incredibly tricky, I can't fathom how you would go about doing it with "conventional" algorithms.
FWIW Here is my anecdotal experience. I have be driving a Tesla Model 3 for 1 year now. I don't have their Full Self Driving package but had added on Autopilot (adaptive cruise control plus lane keeping). 75% of my commute (and lot more on trips) is the car driving itself. I'm of course ready to take over any moment but with all the help from the sensors it is definitely much safer than depending on my senses alone. Over the months the self driving has become more natural, reliable and safer. Over the next several years it will only keep getting better. It has a huge positive impact on reducing driver fatigue.

I know that the topic at hand is about L5 fully autonomous, but wanted to share that though robotaxis are still some ways out, big benefits to personal driving is already here. From here things will rapidly evolve towards the ideal state.
It worked great for my use case http://zzart.3d2k.com

Reduces share urls by about 75% for these very repetitious JSON strings.
Funny, one of the most often heard argument of those, who try to fight against reducing CO2 in Germany is, that other countries, e.g. the US, are not reducing theirs and we should wait until they do.

That sounds to me, that every country should do its best to cut CO2 and not wait for others to lead first.
> It would also be interesting to know how much it costs them in Microsoft licensing fees.

They started with BizSpark, Microsoft's program for startups that gives you free licensing for a few years. After that, you pay maintenance on what you've got, and buy new things as you add new servers.
> - complexity increased

The US almost never operates in contested airspace. For that, the F-35 (as the F-22 before it) is overkill.

Do you see a need for manned weapon systems that can survive engagement with other manned weapon systems in the near future? I'm thinking semi-autonomous drones can replace a lot of such systems and, if you can build them quickly and cheaply enough (as in it takes a $1M missile from a $50M plane to down a $1M drone), then you can build lots and lots of them to overwhelm your opponents.
I have long been using an external player for all videos (with a Firefox extension to launch it) so that I can

- Switch to other tabs and still see the video

- Use the shortcuts of the native player same as for local video files

- Use all the features of the native player including better hardware acceleration

I guess this feature helps with the first of these while not requiring additional setup.
They got a ton of benefit with none of the moral cost!
What makes you think that immigration is going to result in an increase in high-quality applicants to your company? This sounds an awful lot like "If you build it, they will come."

While I don't doubt that you see a lot of candidates who aren't remotely qualified for your positions, one of the harsh realities of this market is that it's hard to attract "great" people, even if you're at or above market in terms of compensation. There just aren't enough "great" people to go around, so other factors, such as technical challenges and business viability, are often taken into consideration by quality candidates. Chances are there are other startups competing for the same talent that seem to be working on more challenging problems and have better prospects than you.

Early-stage startups like yours would be wise to consider optimizing their businesses and technology architectures around this fact. Unless you can pay stupid guap or are working on something really, really objectively interesting, one of the best and most underutilized techniques for finding great employees is to hire decent folks with potential and develop them into great employees.

A lot of companies will insist this isn't viable ("We needed 15 unicorns yesterday because we're building the world's most advanced analytics platform for selfies!") but most of them aren't being honest with themselves about their real needs. They're intent on building technology for the business they think they'll have and don't want to admit that they don't know how to develop employees.
An interview with two of the core developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJwA73uqTg

Truly amazing work here, statically compiling an application as an OS to be run on Xen. This project also sparked development of a pure OCaml implementation of TLS.
>I don't think they should be. All our senior devs have generous compensation which easily adds up to $150k+.

I once got messaged on LinkedIn by a Bloomberg/banking guy looking for me to contract with them in New York at a rate of $144,000/year, and I'm comparatively junior. A properly senior developer, someone with something like 7-10 years of experience in industry, should definitely be making a bunch more than some guy offers me off-the-cuff when trying to recruit on LinkedIn -- especially in an expensive area like NYC!
> Training is seen as competitive suicide, because while you bear the costs of training, your competitors can then poach your trained employees by offering a salary that is less than your total cost for that employee but more than the salary you pay that employee.

Then I guess the company will just have to do without.

Seriously, if the need is so great then maybe, just maybe the company should do the training and should reward employees for staying.

Otherwise, maybe the need really isn't so great.
I have an iPad 1 and there are no updates beyond 5.1.1
We are not expressing bitterness at foreign workers - we are expressing the reality of 30+ years of US jobs being exported. Good paying manufacturing jobs in the Midwest. Many, many towns are now empty poor shells inhabited by once middle class families who are now poor because their jobs were exported to foreign countries.

And now Americans are supposed to be willing to give up their jobs even within the U.S.?

Maybe if the 1%ers hadn't been so busy destroying the American middle class, you would be welcomed more generously.