skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon literally siphons off the data and has invested so little in its users.

Any recommendations for an alternative?
https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?hardware%5B%5D=...
My teeth hurt if I drink icy beverages without a straw. I think it can also contribute to tooth staining, and probably cavities if it's a sugary drink.
> STEIN: You’ve consistently called for enormous cuts to the CDC… Does this experience at all give you pause?

> TRUMP: No…I’m a business person, I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them…we can get ‘em back really quickly.

https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1232829064194469893

This is not the correct approach for an organization responsible for early warnings and preparation.
> The truth is, no nation has a good answer to this new virus.

Yeah, that's true. Nobody is doing well, and South Korea is also having an outbreak as well.

> Get off your high horse.

I'm not here to brag about my country, I have enough problems with the current government here. What I'm asking is the reason why the US and Japan gov is doing nothing.

> Pres. Mun Jaein failed to put stops on people flowing in from China

AFAIK, Korea and Japan boyh banned people from coming from the Wuhan-district; they didn't ban everyone from China - which makes the three countries the same level. Also, AFAIK no Chinese people occurred secondary infection, every infection case was from a Korean citizen that came from China - which means blocking the Chinese wouldn't have helped.

> Handing out masks and doing drive-in clinics are just a publicity stunt in S.Korea to look like they're controlling the spread.

So, you think masks/fast tests are ineffective and they can't help controlling the spread?

> Don't just give me numbers, give me info how those numbers were acquired.

What info do you think isn't provided yet?

Edit: Got feedback that the US did ban every Chinese (not just from Wuhan), so removed the inaccurate mention.
I’m really interested about TRUE reason about skipping of extensions in next version ( you can check current MESS by simply checking of number of firefox apps from mozilla only (sic!)).

For the organization of mozilla size it is not technical reason (also considering that this will be downgrade). They have ample of resources, they solved much more difficult problems in recent year, they easily can allocate their resources accordingly, they know what users ask for (simply read this discussion), they know that mobile>desktop. Yet....

There is some other factor at play, and i simply would like to know the truth. Not zuck-truth about connecting people...
>In June of 2017 we were serving approximately 46M websites, and we did so with 11 full time staff and an annual budget of $2.61M. Today we serve nearly 192M websites with 13 full time staff and an annual budget of approximately $3.35M.

That's awesome. Congrats
I think it’s an argument you don’t understand. Also, just because you sell tables for $5k doesn’t mean you would want to “buy” another sale for $500.

Just because the margin of sale price over COGS is high doesn’t mean that — after factoring in the cost of labor — it’s a high-margin endeavor.

Edit: typo fixed
I think the legal precedent that Prager U should have targeted was Marsh vs Alabama. In that ruling, the state held that under certain conditions private property could become a public forum.

For example, Knight vs Trump basically held that Twitter was enough of a public forum that the president could not block people on his twitter account (here's a counter argument to that decision: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/07/twitter-is-not-a-public-foru...).

I'd be curious to know why Prager U didn't try to argue that youtube is a public forum. Youtube is by default open to the public to post speech on, and it holds a near monopoly position on its particular product, much like twitter. The hitch in this plan is that from my understanding, Knight didn't argue that all of twitter was a public forum, they just argued that Trump's account was a public forum.

Despite that, it seems a little contradictory to me to have legal system where twitter is considered a quasi public forum, and youtube it not.
Grits are made of dent corn.
It's not like there isn't really a solution to this. You don't really need NoScript if you can learn how to use ublock origin in advanced mode.
But the media has been dramatic about many topics, the media has cried wolf many times. This isn't entirely everyone else's fault.
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Umm, yes? This reply confuses me -- why is this point relevant?
I’ve read that as a respiratory disease such as the flu it should die down in spring naturally. Is that true?
This is huge!! Congrats to the team!!
C, even today, fits entirely in my head. C++ does not.

I suspect this is not an uncommon situation among programmers.
Probably because he is Ukrainian but that is just a wild guess.
In principle Liz may be able to give the title away without following advice. But that's the part Supreme Court judges get anyway.

The main thing you get when personally ennobled is you get to be in the House of Lords, and Parliament (which includes the House of Lords) decided it gets to choose how that works for itself, it changed the rules last century to stop giving out peerages that survive and can be inherited. Now (other than titles like "Prince of Wales" for royalty that don't come with the ability to sit in Parliament) all new peerages extinguish upon death.

At the time the question was asked: Can Liz just make new peerages anyway? And the answer was that Liz can say "This person is a Duke now" and lo, now they're named Duke So-and-such, but whereas a Duke created by the normal process would get to sit in the Lords (and thus is in Parliament) this Duke would not get to do that.

Since Britain doesn't have any rules forbidding you from taking any name you please (so long as you don't use it to defraud people), this power is useless. You can already name yourself Duke So-and-such without Liz's help.
It's easier to tear something down than to build something. This is why people write articles like this.
They acknowledge the problem, claim to be on the 'correct' side of the issue and do nothing! It's not their fault all the options are bad.
People like this continue the status quo while acting like they want to move to better solutions.
I'm not sure Walmart+ will work, the main reason I have a Prime membership is not for the free shipping. My rationale for keeping my Prime membership is the streaming services both for my Echos and Fire TV devices.

The free and fast shipping that comes with my Prime membership is the reason I choose to make my online purchases with Amazon, that and the fact that their website loads very fast, and I don't have to sign up for another account which can be a real pain.

Walmart should consider partnering with Amazon to sell it's products, chances are they are already using AWS in some part of their infrastructure already.

PS: I also resent the fact that Walmart has the nerve to charge me for plastic bags when I use the self checkout unit in store, while Amazon never charges for the boxes and packaging when I order from them. Give me free cotton bags if you really care about the environment or even charge a deposit on plastic with an unconditional return policy.
hot drinks != use straw

cold drinks = use straw
I am building a cluster of the 4GB RPis with SSD for a personal cloud and so far the 2 I have are awesome
I just cancelled my trip _to_ Tokyo this morning at the last minute because I was worried about unwittingly bringing the virus back to the states and getting friends and family (children and immune deficient) sick.
TL;DR carbon exchange on ethereum

Step 1 of how it works is where this project will get stuck.

Blockchain does not solve climate change, author is really reaching here.
What did you guys deploy/what scale tipping point did you guys hit that caused the past 3 days of problems?

At my job, if something we go wrong... management just tells us roll it back. That always fixes the problem, right? :P
Yeah, the fixed version people have been seeing in the wild is the 4GB, which is the one that had more demand than expected and was out of stock a lot of the time.
Do images of the brain make us more likely to believe what we read? (2018)
No, I’m not new here... My comment was directed at the user I was directly replying to, who said “if CDC tested everyone with a fever, blah blah blah...” I’m more or less asking the previous commenter why they think it’s reasonable for the US to not be widely testing for this globally contagious infectious disease when other countries seem to have no problem.
I've been using the nightly builds of Firefox Preview for a couple of weeks, and it supports the extension I need the most (uBlock Origin). The new preview is so much faster than the old Firefox for Android I probably won't need to buy a new phone for another year or two. I like the UI changes, too.
One benefit? Did you mean to say "the most obvious downside" instead?
But this is only for preview and nightly preview versions?

If you don't want things to break occasiinally just use normal Firefox not a pre-release
> mortality given that you have symptoms which is a pretty good measure to have

It's a very bad metric to estimate the impact of an epidemics. It's way worse than useless for that, it can only lead to baseless panic.

It's a pretty good metric for many uses, just not for this one.
I came japan -> SF on 2/1 (prior to major outbreaks) but they didn’t have temperature scanners, no one asked if I’d been to China, and with the mobile passport app I was through immigration in <30 seconds. Kind of crazy.
Thanks! I'm learning a lot with all these tips!
My early version one (4Gb version), was terrible. I had to buy a fan (thank pimoroni) to stop it thermal throttling.

It was quite poor in performance (youtube tearing a lot, usb keyboard issues, freezing occasionally)

I hope when I plug it in again and update it, things will have stabilised a bit.
> We already have too much regulation that for some fields it's impossible to start a business without jumping through many hoops.

> If you don't like it, you move somewhere else

These two statements contradict each other. You're asking stakeholders to change their operating model in order to avoid Etsy having to do the same. This non-existing regulation potential impacting the practice of "starting a business" isn't a necessary argument. Stakeholders are resisting decisions that are negatively impacting their business--financial and tech firms do it all the time.
Just don't set your dog or the cops on them, and they'll be happy enough.
In software terms, yes, you should avoid running anything internet-connected that hasn't been updated in that long.

The problem is, of course, manufacturers who refuse to support their phones with updates for more than a couple years. Many 6-year-old phones work just fine (some needing battery replacements at some point), but any 6-year-old phone that hasn't had updates in 3-4 years sadly just shouldn't be used if you value security at all.
What went wrong with Sansar: Inside Linden Lab's failed $50-60M investment on VR
Maybe. But does that answer my question?

If you touch the soap and the tap, that will surely transfer germs to your hands that the person before you left there?
Your entire premise is based on a basic logical fallacy. You absolutely do not have to take the argument to its extreme, and that is literally called an appeal to extremes.

The argument made was that cutting the CDC, and leadership related to global pandemics was probably a bad idea now that we may be experiencing one. Not that we should spend all of our money on the CDC regardless of returns.
Map of places that Covid-19 infected have visited in S. Korea
I will repeat a comment I made on another article: treat certain surfaces of social media companies, mainly the user specific pages (Donald Trump's twitter page, PewDiePie's YT channel etc) as a platform; treat other surfaces which are generated based on algorithms and not directly by individual users (FB feed, YT watch feed, reddit homepage etc) as a publisher. That way, social media companies won't be responsible for what their users upload. But they will be responsible for what they present to their users to optimize clicks / engagement / revenue etc.
10Hz Lidar Sensor (Seed Studio)
All the proper hygiene in the world won't prevent you from being infected if there's an overnight explosion in cases while you're in contact with hundreds of people in airports, airplanes and social gatherings.

Even if you did manage to avoid getting sick, there's a chance you could get stuck in quarantine in Japan, the US or both as countries become more aware of the virus' dormancy.

Anecdotally, I have several friends who have cancelled non-refundable trips. If it were me, the desire to go on the trip wouldn't outweigh the stress of worrying about being infected, being held in quarantine, or traveling while a global panic sets in.
The line from Fight Club really hit me hard and sunk in deep when I saw the movie as a teen:

"We work jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need"

Want to feel less stress as work? Consume less. Want to have a smaller impact? Consume less. Want to have freedom to splurge on things that you do actually care about? Consume less.
The Mybusters really do a great job of explaining contamination visually in this segment. https://youtu.be/k1j8bh8_O_Q

You don't want to be in the same building as a sick person, let alone anywhere near them in a smaller space like an office or restroom.
And what are your arguments as to the consequences of nationalizing health care, energy sectors, etc.? Your argument hasn't identified a problem with the nationalizing.
Yeah, for my current work app we've just unceremoniously dropped type=number for most things, without inputmode or anything, and the experience is overall so much better even then.
There is a deep principle at stake for sure - individual privacy in thoughts and communications.
How to Install APK on Android
Anyone interested in this stuff should check out the Darknet Diaries podcast for similar stories. They’re great!!
The thing that goodreads has that will be hard to replicate is the Kindle integration.
Wow this is awesome, I would love for this to be a global thing. Are you aware of any ports for other countries?
In a lot of countries, giving the government the ability to issue SSL certificates would be a catastrophe in terms of surveillance and censorship.
The motto of people everywhere: "I want change as long as I don't have to change."
I work in the infosec industry, so I've definitely seen some crazy and incompetent shit. But I still don't think Paypal or Stripe would store plaintext credentials.
There are endless possibilities. Kids would likely appreciate something like creating a console game emulator or wiring up hardware sensors to the raspberry pi.
This article is about the final release to all Firefox users. It is not about the preview and nightly versions. They are going to break all extensions for all users (except for uBO).
So instead of a severity rating, you are saying severity is encoded in the language of the description? Using descriptors a potentially non-technical PM can understand unambiguously?

I'm not saying this is the wrong approach by the way, it's just interesting how people approach this differently.
Me too, but does yours crash all the time like mine does or is that something with my phone?
You could nick the scraping code from Calibre...
We have had the sequence of the COVID-19 for over a month. Are you guys, on hackernews, are telling me there isn't a single startup - not one - that could develop a more effective test to fill this gap? The virus when it comes, will not discriminate between Republican and Democrat. But developing a better test could save lives.
Often this means that the older/smaller RAM chip has been discontinued or production has decreased enough that it is now more expensive than the bigger chip.

Example: this was the driving force behind the AMD R9 390/390X launch. Supply of the old 4 Gb modules was drying up and it was actually cheaper to switch to 8 Gb modules.
NYC May Crack Down on Grubhub and Other Food Delivery Apps
Bogus results can simply be the result of ISP IP address recycling which, in my case, is pretty obvious. Besides, why would they wait on an IP address visit to fill it with blackmail material? The suspicion doesn't make much sense to me.
This also demonstrates an uncomfortable situation. There are certain types of bias in favor of women that help out with these kinds of situations. His mom likely was benefitting from a positive bias that she was harmless and fulfilled the presumption about what an inspector may look like...
Something like this "Women are wonderful effect"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_are_wonderful_effect
The awful truth is that there's not that much professionals can do about this. Singapore is reputed to have one of the best systems in the world, and they're suffering like everyone else.

(And for what it's worth, Trump was apparently outraged that those passengers were allowed into the US.)
With the measurement people are using, yes, you can only know an upper bound.

It's possible to discover an actual estimate, but it takes time and resources. Researchers may care about doing that after the crisis passes, but it's very unlikely anybody will care about this right now.
Is Rome currently suitable for writing a transpiler?
Here's the best guess what I think would happen:

Some large player - today it'd probably be Google, in the future maybe some other company - or a collection of players would decide that it's in their best business interest not to let half of the open Internet go down. And they'd come to the conclusion that providing a replacement that's basically just "change this url in your ACME software and you can continue do things as before" doesn't cost them too much (Google already runs a CA, as do many other large IT corps) and they should do it.
Which makes it more or less identical to flu.

No, it makes it about 5x worse than a typical flu season (10x worse than what America is seeing this year).
It's worth reading the paper: https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/letsencrypt-ccs19.pdf

I don't think this is just about having money and funding, it's a very careful and tactical approach.

Agree it would be nice if we find and capitalize on opportunities like this, but (to me) it would be hard to run an email provider with the operational goals they list:

- Minimal logic

- Minimal data

- Full automation

- Functional isolation

- Operational isolation

- Continuous availability
The US did quarantine and test arrivals from Diamond Princess. Those who showed no symptoms have been sent home afaik and are under self-quarantine for a couple weeks.

It is ironic that South Koreans would be worried about Americans and Japanese given the state of corona in SK.
My understanding was, the IE team didnt really want (or know about or understand) XMLHttpRequest, and the Outlook team snuck it in last minute.
How the heck do such wild, ludicrously wrong misunderstandings propagate when it's so trivial to just pull up a search engine or Wikipedia or the like and type "Section 230" and see the law itself (as well as subsequent court rulings and ample discussion)? This post is nearly completely wrong. First, here is what Section 230 actually says:

>Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

>No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Note there are no requirements for "neutrality", or for perfection or any other such thing. "Section 230 gives special protection on the assumption that platforms aren't involved in selecting what users post" is completely incorrect. A service that carries anything neutrally short of a lawful order is covered under Common Carrier status, which is a different thing. Before 230, Internet services faced two choices: to be perfectly neutral and engage in no moderation and thus not be responsible under common carrier, or else to engage in moderation, fail to be 100% perfect at it, and after inevitably having something bad posted get sued for it and end up being ruled the "publisher or speaker". This would destroy all real time user content posting, and potentially user content posting in general.

The point of 230 was precisely to allow imperfect and biased moderation and content enforcement by real time (or close) private platforms without assuming legal responsibility for what users published. Quite arguably more than any other law in existence it's what made the modern Internet possible.
One thing that bothers me about systems like this is the underlying assumption that database architecture always reflects the presentation. But what if ti doesn't? I am looking at the Hasura docs and all it really says is "we will generate everything for you based on your database schema and here is the way we do it". But what if I don't want some tables to be exposed? What if I want to expose custom queries instead of tables?

I feel that products like Hasura and postgrest would be a lot more useful if there was a way for me to specify a list of data sources on one side and get a fully formed GraphQL or REST service on the other side rather than going "I know what you need better than you" route.
One's output is another's input.
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Ugh, I hadn't thought about that, but I'm sure it probably does.
Have a look: https://awesome.ipfs.io/
And some case studies of disease clusters have strongly suggested asymptomatic transmission. Asymptomatic individuals who spread it to a bunch of family members despite having no symptoms, then tested positive for the disease themselves once identified.

There's no containing it at this point, the best you could do is slow it down until there's a vaccine.
1. Yes it's the figure as of right now. There have been hundreds of people sick for over 2 weeks, and hundreds more who are coming up on the 2 week mark. There may very well be more deaths or there may not be. But my point is that the Diamond princess isn't currently good supporting evidence for a 1% mortality rate in the general population.

2. I'm sure all of their names are out there, and someone will eventually put together a study once it's been long enough to know their outcomes.
Seeing the Smoke
Smartphones, no (although with batteries being almost universally not replaceable now, six years is usually a difficult prospect without some delicate surgery), but a particular version of an OS, I think six years is plenty reasonable.

The root of the problem is that phones have so much proprietary hardware with closed source drivers that prevent the end-user from keeping the OS up-to-date like we can on PCs. If I wanted to, I could put a completely modern version of Linux on a 15-year-old desktop and it'd work fine, assuming the hardware's still fine. But with phone OSs you're completely at the mercy of your phone's manufacturer for OS releases, and so "six year old smartphone" necessarily means "smartphone missing probably at least 2-3 years of security updates and multiple OS versions behind the latest". It doesn't have to be that way, but that's the world phone manufacturers have created for us, and they have no incentive to change it.
The difference in Knight v Trump was that in that case it was President Trump, a public official of the United States, doing the censoring.

The reasoning is that it’s similar to a government official holding a meeting, or other such public forum. That has to be open to all comers without viewpoint discrimination.

But it doesn’t mean a private business can’t block people from their accounts - just that it’s illegal for a government official to use that feature.