skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I believe I read that the typical N95 masks that people use is basically useless against this virus, because it's very, very tiny and can sail right through a mask. It still might reduce your exposure and is probably better than nothing, but I believe only a gas mask would totally protect you.

"...there's no evidence inexpensive surgical masks can protect against flu virus particles small enough to be inhaled into the lower respiratory tract or the lungs"

http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/do-face-masks-help...
That you know of also ;)

Many privacy-concious people opt for software that allows them to verifiably control their hardware, be it desktop/laptop or smartphone.

Some will go the extra step to physically remove or disable microphones and speakers.
Well, the best available estimate of the chance that I'm infected is on the order of 0.00001%, give or take an order of magnitude. If I would take countermeasures to every risk of that order, I wouldn't have time to do anything else.
I had loaded that page and didn't see one, I guess it must require javascript.
> would still be subject to arbitrary usage limits.

Didn't the ruling achieve the exact opposite? Getty took public domain images and added arbitrary usage limits on them by (fraudulently) claiming to be the sole copyright holder.

Taking the images and using them for whatever is fine, taking them and then trying to forbid anybody else from taking them (the originals, not getty's copies) is not and unrelated to the license.
Most people are not even wearing N95 masks, they're wearing the much more common and cheaper "surgical masks" that don't form any kind of seal around the outside.
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Unfortunately, the UI is broken. After awhile, the "Next" button stops working.
Take this with internet shut downs every other week and we have a much bigger problem.

Kashmir is without internet for 6months now. "National security"
Yup. Playing a difficult Minecraft pack the first stop is r/feedthebeast to look at other people's advice. Later I'd return with questions most of which will be FAQs. Example, last week I made Project Ozone 3's fluid container that has an infinite amount of any liquid you put inside it. First question I had was, how do I empty this to put something else in? Because if the answer is "You can't" I need to pick very carefully what to use it for. The trouble with the correct answer "Shift left click a Gauge Dropper in the UI" is that I thought I'd tried that. So did lots of people, but Reddit has a comment thread patiently walking us through each step and yup, it works.
Sure. But was he a casualty of the war or a casualty of the Soviet and East European retribution against the Nazis, which continued until 1950 or so? The dates are ambiguous, but the profile fits the latter very well.

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_German...
Looks good so far.

A suggestion, though - if you really can't make the site work at least a little bit with javascript disabled, at least have a basic landing/about page display for js-less browsers. Simply put - give me a reason to consider unblocking your site, dangle the carrot in front of me.
One of the nasty things with pricing structures is that they are difficult to take back. Look at the grief Netflix got for raising their rates by a dollar, and then when they did it again.

Similarly, a B2B startup I worked for chased the biggest customers in the vertical, while our product was still pretty bad. You think they’re going to pay more once the feature set improves? Only if you split the product in two (which is a pain for use developers).

They weren’t trying to maximize revenue. In fact they basically guaranteed they never could. They were trying to maximize prestige so they could sell the company, and therefore us.
I know pretty much nothing about copyright law. Are you saying that the US Library of Congress or the photographer released them under the wrong kind of license?
It has applications in emergencies[1].Speaking for the UK, every stroke center will want one. Dirt cheap as well.
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340458
Yeah benchmarks are tricky. I'd rather not tweak the parameters for Rollup in this case because then it wouldn't be a fair comparison. Rollup would then be cheating because it has to do less work.

It could definitely be useful to have additional benchmarks that test other configurations though. For example, development build speed is also relevant and would make a good benchmark. I'll think about adding more benchmarks if I have time.

I also want a benchmark that tests a real app. I just haven't yet found a large-enough open source app to use as a benchmark. Do you know of one? I work at Figma and Figma's main app makes a great test case, but obviously using that as benchmark wouldn't be reproducible by others outside of Figma. Figma's code base is around the same size as the benchmark I'm using (so 10x the size of three.js).

Ultimately I'm planning on implementing a TypeScript parser in esbuild, at which point I'd like to switch to a benchmark of a TypeScript code base. I also want to include multiple entry points in the benchmark because that's something Figma's main app uses, and esbuild has specific optimizations for that case.

Long story short the benchmark I'm currently using was helpful for me during the initial development but it's not the final one I plan to use, and I will likely completely change it as the project evolves.

Edit: Oh yeah and gzip sizes are great to track. I've tracked these for previous compiler projects I've done and you're right, sometimes you need to make the output larger to make the gzip output smaller. I haven't looked at the gzip sizes at all yet and there is room for improvement. Check out https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/6#issuecomment-58667... for an idea of what specific numbers might currently look like for esbuild compared to other minifiers.
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That number really depends on where you live right now.
I just made gamedev "sub" there, let's see where it gets.

- consider shorter url, instead of /forum/gamedev /p/gamedev or something so it can be referenced in text like on Reddit

- I never liked any dark theme so I hope It can be made light

- in submit form allow me to prefil link from url parameter and title too so that I can easily post from rss reader

- add rss feeds
It sounds like you have a solid foundation to build on, which is a Good Thing.

The conspiracy theorists and those that demand purity but aren't willing to put their own money or effort in deserve no response.
There are a few apps that support org-mode. For Android there is http://www.orgzly.com/ For iOS there is https://beorgapp.com/ I think there are a few more but those are the ones I see people talk about.
> I was under the impression the bundle of insurer and healthcare provider would avoid these issues.

It gets worse, bundling those two is the epitome of conflict of interests when you find yourself the victim of the hospital's negligence and expect your insurer to act in your best interest.

Nope!
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I understand that there are now graphene based magnetic field sensors which offer orders of magnitude improvements in sensitivity, from the likes of Paragraf. I'd be surprised if they had already made it into product but low intensity MRI is certainly an application touted.
A 3,958.8-mile radius around the center of the earth contains 100% of the world's population.
It's used in specific emergencies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340458
It also isn’t the safety net you think. Several times I’ve worked at a startup where a customer saw us as a critical or even the critical partner in their strategic roadmap and yet they were not paying us enough money to keep the lights on. It made no sense to many of us. Couldn’t they see where this was headed? (of course if you’ve gotten something for next to nothing you might really want to keep the provider around)
2500 miles ≈ 4000 km.

Guys, switch to metric units already. Thank you.

The rest of the world.
Website looks down, so here's a video of the product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrAUOsWHMs
Thread Reader App is great for unrolling Twitter tweet threads
http://web.archive.org/web/20200216074239/https://paperd.ink...

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

Enclosure doesn't look great.
Good point. I use DNS66 which blocks ads in both so I forgot about that.
Having a couple of these around might also free up the full sized devices for scans that require a full size device.
If they are public domain you can do with it whatever you want. Also republish them, charge money for it or limit usage. That's the point of it. So everything is fine.
BUT, if someone prints the images and ignores any usage limits and then gets sued you might just get a jail free card because you can claim that's anyway public domain.
What people don't consider his games worth money? He offers them for free with ads and a lot of people happily accept. Were the marketplace rules changed to exclude all free games he may charge for his and people may buy them. I don't see a value judgement for the worth of his games here.

The f2p market will continue to slow [1] and this guy bought himself some time in his market. Good for him. A dead end story for the rest of us.

[1] https://www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/four-reasons-why-the...
Often you start with a 6 month 'probationary period' when either side can quickly terminate the contract. The employer is supposed to use this time to decide if the employee is 'mediocre' or not.

Apart from that you could also be terminated if there is documented evidence that you are failing to perform your job.

The uniquely American idea that you can be fired at any time for any reason is for me utterly terrifying and the primary reason I would never want to work in the US.
Browsers are agents of the user, apps are agents of the company behind the app.

With a browser the user can install extensions and do things that benefit them, in an app you get exactly what the app owner gives you. If monetization is your only purpose, you would choose apps exclusively if your users are willing to accept it.
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Thank you for that rat hole. I spent > 30 mins looking at some really cool things!
It’s automated.

I ended up mediating a silly situation between Getty and a client about six years ago.

The client is a manufacturer of consumer goods, mostly kitchenware. They own a boatload of brands. In 2014 or so they did a mountain of photography to reposition an existing professional cookware brand for consumers - lots of lifestyle shots, as well as your usual product shots. They made the images available in an online, access controlled library for their customers to use in their marketing.

About six months after this branding pack is made available, we hear from the client that their customers are getting large payment demands (tens of thousands, in some cases) from Getty for the images that the client provided.

We approached getty on the client’s behalf, as they were just bewildered and didn’t know where to even begin.

It took about two months to sort out - we had to repeatedly explain the situation, while they argued that they owned the images, and had to go through a lengthy process proving that the client owned the images. Burden of proof was totally on us, and we were getting nowhere fast. While looking at some of the supposedly infringing images, we noticed an incredibly faint watermark embedded in one of them that specified the site that the image had been rendered on - an unprotected image library on one of the client’s customer’s sites.

From here, it transpired that Getty had hoovered up everything in that library, assumed rights, and was selling it. Once we started pushing the tack that they had broken several laws by accessing a computer system that was not intended to be available for them to access, and had stolen images from there, the whole thing, along with all of the images on Getty from that library, vanished. They never even responded.

Our takeaway here was that Getty use bots to find large collections of unique high-res images on sites that aren’t explicitly copyrighted, and just take them, on the odds that they’ll get away with it.

We encouraged the client to sue them for damages, but they were so relieved that the problem had gone away that they just wanted to move on.

I’d wager this isn’t a unique experience.
The cache here means read-cache. Write-cache, that is a delaying state update for performance reason probably needs own category.
On Android there is, at least, Fdroid. All of the apps I use are from there. It's not a perfect solution, but it's definitely better than nothing.
After spending the last couple days in Rust and then diving back into Java for 30mins, I know what you mean by un-fun. Rust is such a PITA. I really want to like it, but I think I might end up liking C++ more, when Java doesn't cut it...
Fair, but I think Netflix's approach is less nefarious than other platforms. At the end of the day Netflix wants you to do two things: value their platform and spread the word.

With things like instagram and facebook, it's different - their objective is to get you as addicted to the platform as possible, collect as much data as they can, and use it as a platform to surface ads.

They simply have more drivers that are at odds with what's beneficial to the user.
Not as much as you'd think. It's basically "mainland China or a cruise ship" or "anywhere else".
Five wrongly convicted in 80s Central Park rape look back (2012)
Wouldn't be hard to instantiate mini-internets free of government influence. That said, most who would be inclined to do that don't waste their time on YouTube to begin with.
New Black Mirror Season
This is an amazing idea that I am coming across for the first time! I wonder if there is already some implementation of it for Kindle!

Edit: just found out this project.

https://github.com/pjimenezmateo/kindle-wallpaper
It says crowdfunding coming soon. Most likely the price is TBD.
I believe he goes one farther and suggests that you don’t anthropomorphize Larry Ellison.
> Have you noticed that in Singapore all the nurses are Filipino though?

Nope? I’ve been in hospital 4 times in the past 8 years. And a 5th time if I include when my daughter was born.

The Nurses in the wards were not filipino. But one of the Nurses in A&E were.

> I also disagree that healthcare is uniformly cheap here. GP visits are not particularly cheap. You get to spend very little time with the GP and typically are sold a bunch of drugs you don't need

I can’t compare to Europe. But I can say that seeing a GP and getting drugs is FAR cheaper in Singapore than Australia... by ALOT. The entire cost of a consultation + drugs is cheaper than the consultation fee in Australia.

Not only that having to then go to a pharmacy to pick up drugs is the worst.

Doctors here also don’t just give drugs you don’t need. They do give drugs more often and that’s due to the mentality of Asia where If they see a doctor they often want drugs to fix a non existent problem. But I’ve had Doctors in Singapore ask more questions than in Australia and give me only what I need or want to give me nothing.

> To give another example, in Europe I used to go for a glaucoma test every year (due to family history) and pay about 20-30 euros.

Specialists aren’t cheap compared to Europe or somewhere like Taiwan, but compared to America it’s peanuts.

> getting cancer has been known to bankrupt people in Singapore.

I don’t believe this for a second, because for Citizens, healthcare is subsidised. And company with more than 50 employees has to have health care insurance. Basically it would only bankrupt you if you were a foreigner at a small company and didn’t buy insurance for yourself. Which again is still cheaper than NZ/Aus.
Motivation seem the most obvious think. The opium wars and they say openly they don't like the west and are openly competing with them
Spec for the curious: https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html
Shameless plug: I started building 20-things.com as a similar-feature community but with goal to never use dark patterns. More competition is good. I posted a Show: HN but it seems to have been buried/blocked as it got no attention whatsoever. I would love to hear your feedback/thoughts/ideas.
The complaint about interface{} is very legit in practice. Author says he deliberately picked on Go stdlib to illustrate. I suspect one had to struggle with the same to really get it.

How "stable" is Rust, libs and tooling ecosystem though.
I can easily amuse myself by recalling the Star Trek episode where all the evil twins had goatees, and wondering where Larry’s good twin is now.
I'm convinced they're going to pull a Twitter and privatize their APIs, disabling third party apps.
> "Long time landlords" and "new landlords" are not inherently different people, they're the same people at different points in time.

With the way you can inherit property and keep its valuation, there may be a class of "long-time landlords"-- individuals and organizations-- emerging in major cities. Especially, as you note, since Prop 13 discourages transactions.
It’s easier to secure things when there are less of them to keep track of. They’re not wrong. Or not even wrong? One of those.
>This conspiracy among prime numbers seems, at first glance, to violate a longstanding assumption in number theory: that prime numbers behave much like random numbers. Most mathematicians would have assumed, Granville and Ono agreed, that a prime should have an equal chance of being followed by a prime ending in 1, 3, 7 or 9 (the four possible endings for all prime numbers except 2 and 5).

This seems like an odd assumption to me. Surely sexy primes are more common than twin primes, so at least for primes that are near each other there should be a higher probability for certain sequences of final digits. This is obviously not proof in itself, but it would certainly make me hesitate to assume there is an equal probability in the general case.
Isn't mainland China the only place where people are really wearing masks because of this?
Interesting to see this submitted to HN! Happy to answer any questions :)
Public domain is special. You free yourself of all ownership which means that somebody else can pick it up and relicense their distribution of it, including saying you cannot do things with it. I emphasise "saying" because that's pretty much all you can do unless they know they're the only entity distributing it.

The problem here was trying to enforce on something that was obviously non-exclusive. This mistake happens with all sorts of content available through multiple channels. Getty should have marked it as such on ingestion.
This will be good additional charging infrastructure for Canada. More chargers charging more EVs is good for everyone.

Petro-Canada has a trans-Canada CCS charging network already: https://www.petro-canada.ca/en/personal/fuel/ev-fast-charge-...

Electrify Canada is working on it: https://www.electrify-canada.ca/locate-charger
My point was that its hard to tell where the semicolon will be inserted. As well as the intention of the programmer. Here is another example:

if(x)
return
"foo"

return callback
(1,2,3,4)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1228948305326948353.html
> It should be possible to learn the commands for creating a branch, uploading our changes or making a commit like it was/is possible for all version control tools

The problem revolves around the fact that, despite same name being used, git!branch != svn!branch, git!commit != svn!commit, etc. They serve related purposes - but not the same, because the concepts behind them are different. Learning a tool means learning those concepts. So in the process of learning "git commit" and "git branch", you're supposed to pick up on the "pointer to a node in a DAG" thing - otherwise you haven't learned "git commit", you've learned something else that's vaguely similar. And then you'll have difficulties when its behavior goes against your expectations.
At least https://i.reddit.com/ still works
It's really sad to watch Reddit being slowly destroyed like that, one user-hostile feature after the other. All of it for short term gains. For me the threshold to leave will be when old.reddit.com will not be available anymore. At that point it'll be pretty easy. I already spend a lot less time on the website than before.
I’ve got UBlock, but you still have to deal with the UI. No script breaks too much stuff doesn’t it?
I'm specifically having trouble understanding these two bits, please ELI5:

> that their customers are getting large payment demands

and

> Getty had hoovered up everything in that library, assumed rights, and was selling it

Does Getty specifically assert copyright that they don't have in these letters? Or is it more like a "You might be using an unlicensed image and that would cost you thousands, buy a license here"?

The whole thing sounds absolutely ripe for an enterprising legal firm and a RICO suit with the 3x damages.

EDIT: I'm struggling to find a copy of Exhibit A in the case, the letter Getty sent. Anyone have a copy?
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Install NetBSD on the radio for extra effect.
idk about FF but I know
ungoogled-chromium, been using that for years

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Yes, the people who built Reddit no longer run Reddit.
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
Yes, it's simultaneously the only place with close to 100% mask usage, and the only place with significant spread of it.
There are studies that show that masks (surgical and n95) can help prevent healthy people from getting infected [1][2]. Everyone I've seen claiming the opposite (including supposed experts being interviewed) usually do it without any significant data to back it up (just some high level theorizing). I also rarely see anyone discussing the nuances of efficacy against airborne vs droplet spread viruses. Using just a minimum amount of reasoning it would seem very plausible that masks would be effective against droplets but less effective against airborne diseases.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3692-face-masks-are-b...
[2] https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/744899/facemasks-hand-hyg...
This was nice to read. According to you, what would be the minimal change to push to postgresql and mysql in order to reduce complexity and better support tools like DBLog?