skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “There were many naysayers when SoftBank invested last year at a valuation around $49 billion,”

> Oops.

But the current UBER market cap is $68 billion. So if softbank invested at $49 billion and now UBER is worth $68 billion, how exactly is that an oops?
I haven't had a television since 2004. I stream everything.
I’m really glad that I live in Asia. Here in Singapore I can ring up a specialist and go in the same day...

I don’t understand why in Asia I have cheaper and better health care than if I lived in Europe or America.

Some of the things I’ve heard just about Hospitals scares me to not get sick when I’m in europe...

When my wife was in hospital for the birth of our daughter I slept over night in the room with my wife. While in France my wife’s friend wasn’t allowed to have her husband stay. The whole experience we had vs them was polar opposite.
Please follow the site guidelines even when someone else has broken them. If you react by breaking them yourself, it discredits your points and means your comment will probably get (correctly) moderated. It's much better to stick to making your substantive points thoughtfully. Let the audience see for themselves how you didn't take the bait; your case will be stronger for it, and you won't contribute to damaging the commons here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am talking about 974 HTML files of which probably more than 95% is static content. Doing this manually, will take me about a year (considering the time I have available). So, maybe I should develop a script/parser to process the contents and generate them as server-side includes? But what is the benefit? That I can change the layout more easily, while first having to learn how to efficiently work with server-side includes? (Now I am just uploading my HTML files through FTP to my very cheap hosting provider.) But why would I? I am not interested in the layout, just the contents. I am not writing the website for a broad public, it is mainly because I like to record events (big and small) in my life. I guess, I myself am the most important user. Sometimes, I can surprise people by telling them the exact date that I did/experienced something.
I’m confused as to why we always see posts on here “exposing” the high risk, high reward nature of VC funding as if it’s some kind of dark secret.
It isn't that (2) is a bad idea on the face of it, just that a further legislative push seems unnecessary as the tools are already in place. I assume the libraries have an index of newspaper articles dating back a few decades that can be used to chart out what stories get mentioned. A similar index of TV programming is probably already available. If it isn't it should be.
Media Controls on locked screen are a privacy and security flaw
What would your reaction if information about you or your loved ones was posted and people were encouraged to do nasty things to you or them?
The repugnant conclusion
SGX that, as a user, you can't even verify is in use.

I really don't know why they're focusing on things like this. It does nothing to increase evidence-based trust, so it's no better than saying "we added a rate limiter, and delete keys after X attempts" (which I'd be totally fine with, and they could probably put in place in practically no time). Either way you're still relying on them doing what they said they're doing.
Ask HN: A music web app that has YouTube music videos enriched with Discogs data
I would like to discover music (YouTube music videos) by an artist, album, genre, style, country/region, language, year. I know Discogs has this data and it also has links between albums and YouTube videos, so I was wondering is there an app that uses this data.

I tried YouTube Music and it can only discover videos by an artist and album. Spotify is the same.
Yeah, and porn leads to rape, rock music leads to devil worship, violent games lead to school shootings...

This has "politicized moral panic" written all over it.
I was kind of shocked recently because my phone nudged me towards the "front page" of Wikipedia with top news stories, and it was completely different from other sources of online news. In particular I hadn't heard anything about Brexit finally happening. Someone who is older than me and mainly watches news on TV told me it had been reported there. But Google News and various internet sites I usually read seem to have omitted it. It seems like there is a distinct echo chamber, and maybe you don't have to give up news entirely to get out. It's crossed my mind I could start reading a local newspaper again, too.
There are many ways in which a post can have low, or even negative, value. Being "incorrect" is only one, and a relatively rare one.
If things go moderately well for SpaceX, the colony will be started within 15 years. In the larger span of history, that is just a blink of the eye from now. And most of the people reading this discussion thread will still be alive, some would like to go.

We better start thinking about the legal issues now, as they are complicated, rather than just doing it in a rush when it starts happening.
The stolen hard drive story appears to be a bit different than you portray: https://healthitsecurity.com/news/washington-state-universit...

If the liability had been $50MM or $500MM, you can bet their storage practices would reflect it (not to mention actually telling people you're collecting their data). "Eh, whaddya gonna do?" is absolutely a normalization and a devaluing well out of proportion to the damage that is done.
I know this is about Mac's transitions and call me sentimental but I'm a little sad there was no mention of the 6502 and 65816.
> we use an algorithm to combine Reuters real-time match photography and reporting with a minute-by-minute data feed of what has happened in the game

.. so that they can create 'presenter led' summaries at 'greater scale' - yet, you still have to have people taking the photography and generating this minute-by-minute data.. so, why don't they just give the summary?
'has challenges that must be designed for as well.'

one of the challenges I been thinking about for some time, and spoken with a few.. choosing your filters.

At the moment, I am thinking it could be a set of 'bouncer-bots'; maybe these are built into browser extensions?

A federated list of bouncer bots where people can describe, vote, add notes, fork.. so that people on the 'other side' of whatever.. can detail why they think 'sam's no sex in the fediverse bot' is too strict, or not strict enough..

I think choice not only in servers to follow (which may be made behind the scenes without in-your-face-knowledge to the newer users.. should become more choice of groups of bouncer bots to filter or not filter.

A concern pops into mind, that his works okay so long as people are honest about groups they are in, like 100 people downvote this fakenews filter but they identify as XX'.. and that may be good at first.. but what stops a fourchn group from coming in and storming the votes with 200 people vote Y as fakenews and they identify as YY's..

so filter options for opinions on the bots and comments that are voted up by people who self identify as ZZ and have identity verified by phone number? or twitter or signal.. and checkboxes to include only poeople like that, and to remove vote counts and comments by people have been flagged as trolls, or only people flagged as trolls that have been flagged by accounts that were verified by phone.. etc..

Then how to handle those who would try to game that.. but I think after time there will be some pretty popular and solid block-lists and people will have more options for choosing their syphon filters which some may block entire sites, some may block just articles by author FG but not whole site..

heck I'd like some that added a line across the top with extra info, like your bouncers block 10% of this portal due to reasons, and 1,000 have said this portal hides facts about LGB or whatever..

random thoughts, need more thinking.
Thanks for this really detailed and informed comparison - it's as interesting as your project itself.
> has to hire you back

As the guy who thought he could do better and has to come crawling back, admitting failure... that sounds awfully uncomfortable.
Tcmalloc: Google's implementation of C's malloc and C++'s new
> Has SpaceX even had a successful manned space flight yet?

That flight will likely happen in the next quarter.

Meanwhile, while SpaceX has been wading through NASA design reviews and red tape (some of which is probably good for them!) for Falcon 9 + Crew Dragon, they've been hard at work on this next-gen rocket for years (the engines since 2009, the rocket itself since 2014). We will likely see a SpaceX Starship reach Low-Earth Orbit within a year, so it's time to start considering what other requirements for getting to Mars might take longer to build.
That overstates the case a little. The peripheral processors didn't run any user code, in particular the compilers still used the main processor.
This! Whatever its flaws, the fact that it doesn't share the most pernicious ones of most online news sources counts for something. I refuse to pay to access Bloomberg as long as he is running for President, but it would probably be worth subscribing to otherwise.
Pan and scan was historically done manually. Turner Classic Movies made a great 5-minute documentary about the practice and how much of the filmmakers' intention it loses. Definitely worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1-pP1-5K8
For a man who placed a lot of stock in people’s ability to explain things clearly, it’s self-consistent that he would characterize writing and thinking as inseparable.
> Without capital, you spend 10 years finding out that your bootstrapped robot pizza company is in fact utter garbage. With capital, that would have taken 2 years.

I mean, that's one possibility. The other is that without capital, everyone looks at your robot pizza company and says "There's no way that's going to work" and you find out in 0 years and you go work on something else, like a normal pizza company (or a normal office-leasing company, or a normal blood-testing company, or a normal juice press, or whatever). My worry is that if a founder goes to a venture capitalist with an idea that's probably bonkers but might work, the VC's interest is in making the idea even more bonkers and saying "No way, man, you're gonna change the world" and not "Hey, here's how to make your idea a little more grounded so you actually deliver something successfully."

I guess it depends on what you want as a founder. If you want the best shot ever at making your world-changing robot pizza company work, sure, go for the VC - if you bootstrapped it, you'd spend 10 years worrying it wasn't taking off because you didn't have the resources. If you want to succeed at something, and you're okay with succeeding even if there aren't pizza robots on every corner, find a route where you're not working for mega-growth-or-bust. (Which could include modest amounts of venture capital! Or could include loans or whatever.) And honestly, if you really care about pizza robots and it doesn't matter to you how many pizza robots there are as long as you can work on pizza robots for ten years... bootstrap.

> Just because we don't all have the same exact goals doesn't mean we can't create a mutually beneficial arrangement for all parties.

My concern here is that it's in the VC's interest for you to be more ambitious and fail instead of staying cautious and succeeding. Nobody else has that in their goals. No (actual, paying) customer would say "Your product is great, but if you can't add these features, we'd prefer it if your product didn't exist." No (current) employee would say "I love this company, but if we can't hire ten times as many people, I want to be laid off." Everyone else has an interest in you staying afloat and alive, even if they have different opinions on what you do.
Still needs luck, even the smartest kid can make a wrong bet or underestimate another market player.
Newspapers have now accountability.
Because it's bad PR, and because few people bother to be bold enough to innovate. Sweden, like most of Europe, is a country of conformism. There is very little innovation being conducted there, just like with the Chinese.

In America, people have a long and proud tradition of coming up with Byzantine workarounds for laws. In Europe, not so much.

I can't prove a negative, but you can prove a positive.
Statistics on mortality don't show that happening.
Article text:

We discovered a coronavirus similar to the covid-19 virus 7 years ago

HEALTH 12 February 2020
By Debora MacKenzie

New Scientist Default Image
Remus86/Getty Images (a bat)

THE Covid-19 coronavirus is similar to one detected in bats in China in 2013. But a failure to act on the warnings of those who studied it means we missed an opportunity to protect human health.

While some are now saying the Covid-19 virus passed to humans from pangolins, it is likely that pangolins are merely victims of the infection, like us. “From the virology evidence available to date, the virus is almost certainly from a species of bat,” says Andrew Cunningham of the Zoological Society of London.

For years, Zheng-Li Shi and her colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been isolating coronaviruses from horseshoe bats in caves in China’s Yunnan province. In 2013, they found a coronavirus that could infect human cells in the lab. Last week, Shi reported that this virus is 96 per cent identical to the Covid-19 virus now spreading in people.

In 2016, Wayne Marasco at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues found that the virus discovered by Shi’s team could replicate in human airway cells. They described it as being “poised for human emergence”. However, they say further research on this virus was hampered by the US government’s ban on work that alters viruses in ways that might make them more dangerous.

Shi’s work has also revealed that viruses can pass directly from bats to people living near their caves. Her findings suggest we didn’t need pangolins to catch the Covid-19 virus, just as she previously revealed that SARS can come directly from bats without first infecting civets.

“96%
The similarity between Covid-19 virus and a virus found in 2013”

Last year, Shi warned that it was highly likely coronavirus outbreaks would originate in bats in China. “The investigation of bat coronaviruses becomes an urgent issue for the detection of early warning signs,” she wrote.

Now this opportunity has been missed, Shi has made a plea for increased efforts to develop drugs and vaccines.
I meant to compare mainly from a user perspective. If a train runs every 4 mins and takes a bit more than an hour to get to it's destination that's very similar to the tube experience. Very different to a typical train experience where you have to turn up exactly in time or wait another 30 mins for the next train.

The point I was trying to make was that a comparison to HS1 without accounting for the train frequency is probably not fair.
I started my software career in consulting, and I echo this comment 100%. It’s a great way to build your skills, but it is not a great source of stability and there can be lots of crunch time depending on where you work. They say the hottest fires forge the strongest steel :) I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunities I was given as a consultant, and for the experience I gained, but long-term it’s not really the lifestyle for me.
The fact that coronavirus kills people so fast means that the test results come in in 20 days.

Of course the biggest problem is that the administration overhead needs to be significantly smaller, which means taking shortcuts.
Ask HN: Do you think Dropbox is expensive?
The paid plans for Dropbox start at $9.99 per month. I think dropbox is great, but I can't get myself to pay this much every month. Am I a minority here or does anyone else think that Dropbox is expensive?
Microsoft is shutting down their ad service but there are plenty others. Why is this dev or his ad sdk interesting?
Ignore it.

If it were a credible threat of physical harm (it rarely is), then I'd make a police report and be more vigilant with my self-defence preparation and tell my loved ones to be accordingly.

Attempting to censor the information would be pointless at best, and could easily make it worse.
A premier ICE route that had a lot of impact is probably the new Berlin-Munich route. 623 km, the "sprinter" trains with the least stops do it in 3:55 - 160km/h average.

Stop counts are always a difficult balance for longer routes: They slow the trains down, increasing end-to-end travel time, but provide connections to more people and regions.
Does that actually happen?
I don't think Facebook wants anything, as it is simply an abstract legal concept. Employees and shareholders of Facebook are the ones to watch. They were the first movers on the totally not coordinated Alex Jones shunning. Youtube had previously struck a video or two, but Facebook was the first to bring down the ban hammer. Days later Jones was banned from every other major platform - with Twitter being the single exception.
Interesting ethics of using people as the null hypothesis population knowing they are then condemned to death
Local papers?
Thanks for doing these on topics that cyclically come up. It's nice being able to see what has been previously said, in addition to seeing shifts in how topics are approached over time.
Friends and I have discussed many times that we want to be able to downvote certain intersections. Lines of sight, incorrect information about left turns or one ways, idiot pedestrians, accidents, blinding light at sunset, your ex’s house. Tons of reasons.
A lot of those false positives are going to be things that look very much like a true positive to an underpaid, overworked moderator. I don't think 15 minutes would cut it. Actually, I'm not convinced that any amount of time would, because there are too many occasions when the distinction between hate speech that must be banned and social justice speech that only a bigot would ban rests entirely on the social standing of the person making it within the appropriate circles.

Also, I strongly suspect that Google, Facebook, etc are already applying this kind of manual scrutiny to potential false positives behind the scenes - as you say, it's relatively cheap - and this explains a lot of the problems people have been having with their moderation decisions and why appealing decisions so rarely works out.
To perhaps offer a slightly wider perspective on kinds of data & lifetimes:

- Constant data

- Long-term configuration

- Medium-term configuration

- Client/account data

- Business transactions

- Transitory processing work
On HN, it's not ok to bring in someone else's personal details as ammunition in an argument. That's a form of personal attack and a steep drop in how users here need to treat each other.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22334315 ("Looking through your LinkedIn/comments is low effort and confirmed my suspicions of you being whatever the inverse of Dunning–Kruger is") was even worse. Please don't post like that here, no matter how right you are or feel you are.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
>. If I am free as long as I only do it "The Right Way", I'm not free

This is a shallow definition of freedom, the sort of idea of freedom that children instinctively have when they're told to go to bed and start throwing a tantrum and it is largely what the internet was built on, maybe not accidentally by people who in many ways were juvenile adults.

There's a deeper version of freedom, a more adult one, that recognises not only ones capacity to do what one wants, but responsibility for the social good at large. Freedom doesn't just consist of running against the current, it also consists of maintaining enough order so that authentic expression of freedom is possible. A society where everyone is at the danger of being robbed while crossing the street is not free, it's just in chaos.

Likewise an internet without hierarchies, without controls and without enforcement of social taboos, be that by law, by gatekeepers or through exclusion incentivizes the very worst actors to run amok. Social approval should be incorporated into law, (either literal or culturally) because places that don't do it become uninhabitable. (as the current public internet increasingly is).
Aren't they required to in many countries?
You seem to be claiming two somewhat contradictory positions:

1. that I can not conveniently claim acronyms should be words and abbreviations are a superset that also includes non-words -- because the alleged original meaning of acronym was as a synonym for abbreviation, and

2. the initial meaning of 'literal' as something that was strictly true, but which has since moved via common usage to simply be yet another synonym for metaphorically, but you don't want it to change.

FWIW I also rail against literally being used for things that aren't literal, I don't dislike 'not unlike' and similar despite Orwell's (et al) protestations, I'm happy to co-opt 'they' as a third person personal pronoun (or restructure sentences to avoid needing to uncomfortably alternate and track he and she), I vehemently defend the difference between alternate and alternative, myriad is not a collective noun (don't precede with an article, or follow with a preposition), I never use decimate as a synonym for devastate, etc.

I suspect most misuses are from people who've heard or seen a word they weren't familiar with, failed to understand or research the meaning or part of speech, believe using it will imbue some much needed gravitas to their communication, and then expect the world to adopt their befuddlement.

As we seem to agree, the ultimate outcome of all this is a weakened language for sophisticated users.

When I need to describe an abbreviation that's pronounceable, I evidently now need to call it an abbreviation that's pronounceable. This is a retrograde step for me, despite the word 'abbreviation' already being appropriate, well known, and understood by world+dog.

> On the other hand, when people hear "abbreviation", they think more like "st" for street (or saint), "dr" for doctor ...

How comprehensive was the survey group behind this claim?
You certainly may _want_ to eliminate such places and/or such beliefs. But stamping out places or beliefs doesn't really work. People find or create new places, and what is left is just ill-will and further political division. Beliefs become martyred and the Streissand effect draws more people in to investigate.

The way to reduce bad beliefs is to, IMHO:

1. Ingratiate and investigate. Respect the people, become their friend, listen to their full arguments (don't imagine straw men), understand their motivations. You might even discover the belief isn't so bad. If you don't, continue on to:

2. Suggest alternate ways of viewing the situation. People will always argue their point and appear to not accept your view. But I've found they almost always actually move slightly towards your point, oftentimes after the conversation, even if they won't admit it. It takes time for a worldview to shift.

Arguing makes no sense prior to ingratiating yourself, because if you are an enemy your view will not be appreciated.
> your ex’s house

In this case, wouldn't you want to upvote it? More people going on it means they have to suffer from more noise.
Coder Cup P9: Numbers where no three consecutive digits have sum greater than 9
In many cases where the online maps are required to change the view, you won't be able to offer a paper map that disagrees with the official perspective.
Ignoring the news and waiting for a book leaves you vulnerable to revisionism. As people tell stories about events that happened, the events retroactively evolve.

This is something that is particularly noticeable as you get older so that you remember things 10 or 20 years ago. Of course, your own memories can be inaccurate, but people who weren't around at the time are generally completely unmoored because nobody examines primary sources.