skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got no horse in this race, but this really seems like an egregious abuse of etsy's monopsonist position and is, like, just incredibly slimy. ("How can we raise our fees dramatically? Hmm, how about forcing everyone into paying for 'marketing,' without any connection to our cost of providing that marketing?") Or is the team at etsy so delusional as to believe customers will welcome this mandatory charge for etsy's autonomous advertising service?
...or maybe there are an infinite number of boring problems out there to solve but that's why they aren't solved, cause they're boring. On the other hand, juicero is exciting.

But seriously, most entrepreneurs are too within their own bubble to know about the problems to solve that are outside their sphere. And there an endless number of them.
just proggers? are you kidding? proggerz > muzaks
New Northern California Coronavirus Case May Be First in US from Unknown Origin
Australian startup Cheq banks $1.1m to launch pay-on-demand solution
> “You can get food, TV shows, cleaning services, dog walking, and everything in between on demand. So why is it that we can’t yet access our own money – money we have already physically worked for – as soon as it’s needed?” said Tarek Ayoub, CEO and co-founder at Cheq.

You can, just talk to your boss?
It's almost always the red grating that disappears when I look at the demo in the article. I have to work at making the green grid partially disappear (don't ask how).
Bootstrapping is indeed the truly grueling and rewarding way to run a business. Unfortunately, on this point the financial interests of YC and the broad hysteria of the startup dream are against you.
> do something like 1password does with chars and letters: show them differently

That’s missing the point. You can show them differently, but the point of keys / recovery codes is that they’ll be stored somewhere and later re-entered. Users could store them in any program (including writing them down or printing them out), you can’t control how they are displayed over there. Then when they need to use them, there’s a chance the ambiguous characters can’t be easily discerned.
Oooh, I know the answer to this one: no.
Email people who write papers that are useful to you.
You hit the nail RIGHT on the head!!! Only privileged suburbanites care about this type of stuff, because they don’t have any real problems to worry about.
Clickable:

https://github.com/jjhelmus/pyfive

https://h5s3.github.io/h5s3/python.html

https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf-kita/

http://docs.h5py.org/en/stable/high/file.html#python-file-li...
In most cases if you need a short list it's better to use something like the diceware or EFF lists than to make your own from scratch.
I don’t know for certain, not op, but sounds like since they pushed the env file, it may have been accessible via URI and since it had all the credentials and host info to access the database, thats all the attacker messed with... and that is more than enough.
oh yes you're right. i got confused for a moment. thanks!
Unfortunately so, but it does get clicks and eyeballs.
The distribution is not symmetric. The mode is less than the average and there’s a long tail of survivors.
so i guess it is still alot of work depending heavily on audio input? why not more automation?
Using lamdba's requires grappling with entirely new syntax compared to anything else in C++ (or C).

Using various bind equivalents just requires you to know what you're doing:

boost::function<int(int)> cbk = boost::bind (&SomeObject::some_method, instance_of_some_object);

...

cbk (22); // invoke callback

In addition, the author's complaints about nobody using ptr-to-method is absurd. Even in 2010, anyone using libsigc++ or its (few) equivalents was using them, which meant that any GUI app written using GTKmm was full of them.
What's not to love?
This is an example of real-world evidence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_world_evidence), gathered outside the context of any kind of drug trial, blinded or not.

While these two outcomes may not achieve statistical significance in the mathematical sense...

- there are compelling mechanistic hypotheses for why the treatments might work

- drug doses are being supplied for free by manufacturers

- infected people don't have the luxury of time to wait for RCT results
This is good info. I've been wary of hdf5 for some time. Nothing concrete (until this bug) but from my research it just consistently smelled fishy. The main turnoff for me was the possibility of data corruption bricking the entire dataset.

Pity, as it has on paper a lot of great concepts and features. Maybe it'll be mature enough someday, though my money is on something better from the ground up coming along.

Honestly, most of the portability advantage is moot nowadays. Chunk s3-like storage, smb, and ability to copy files from ext to ntfs (at least on nix) means that sharing your data across platforms isn't the struggle it used to be. Windows is rapidly becoming/already is a second class citizen in science-data heavy workflows.

I ended up going with a NAS and just file system primitives for my computer vision image workflow, works great.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35837243/hdf5-possible-d...

https://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/
Exactly. As someone who has made substantial profits over the years (including a six-figure profit on the recent TSLA and SPCE rally) thanks to WSB, it brings me great joy knowing I’m pocketing money straight off Wall Street institutions.

WSB tends to celebrate losses (aka “loss porn”) and it’s well-deserved - many tend to do really stupid things (like “YOLOing” 100% of their portfolio into a single position). But if you know how to manage risk effectively (Kelly’s criterion etc) it’s possible to consistently make profits.

Amidst the chaos of shitposts and degenerate gambling there is often quality DD hidden throughout. The odd thing is I suspect WSB has reached critical mass to the point where it’s achieved feedback loops and can actually move markets, thanks to algorithms misidentifying unusual options volume caused by wild speculation & shameless gambling.
Exactly. You could access to it like viralquotesonline.com/.env. I did several mistakes for sure. It was my first project launched to the world and the first time I used Laravel, is a bit embarrassing to be honest, but hopefully helps other to realize that they are in a risk too.
I wanted to use music without worrying about copyright concerns, and so I used my own techno music. It's just a demo video to showcase the preset collection that I curated.
milkdrop ftw, nice that you guys keep it alive!
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https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2017/11/02/noshave/
> If a shopper clicks on an Etsy-funded ad featuring one of your listings on Google, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Bing and makes one or more purchases from your shop within 30 days, those sales will be attributed to Etsy’s advertising and you’ll be charged an advertising fee on the total value of that order.

This kind of stuff is why tracking is so pervasive. Etsy is relying on being able to uniquely track a shopper for at least 30 days to make this work.
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Gosh, a lot of what you are talking about sounds like what it is like to finish a PhD that doesn't have a future in academia as well. Sometimes I feel like a failure for choosing software engineering, but I should probably be grateful I have that option.
why is it called nestdrop? i remember google nest, but that was some shoddy iot stuff, your fork could be named better no?
Haha exactly that was what happened (I guess). My mistake was not only pushing the .env file but also how I stored my Laravel files in the server leaving everything in a public directory where everyone can access to it... :Facepalm:
This strikes me as the day Etsy becomes the MySpace of their world.

They do need to make money. But the marketing hype around this change just seems so dishonest.
The project is created by NEST Immersion and it's a Milkdrop fork. NestDrop.
how about: milkdrop-for-VJs
The right way to get notified when SARS-CoV-2 is near you is to follow the news and official sources, and whomever put this service up should be ashamed of themselves.
As a kid, I loved the idea of making games. My sister used to draw little characters and I'd try to make it into a game.
It’s on that list :)
Not for the sort of "hard tech" that Samalt is talking about here. Those network effects aren't as prevalent for those working with nuclear fusion, or space tech, or advanced materials, or battery technology.

Yes, you can find lots of brogrammers cranking away at the next advanced app using React, etc. in the Silicon Valley / SF / Bay area and get paid better there for doing that sort of thing. For that, Silicon Valley has the tech in spades.

But if you want to start an advanced lightning company, for example, the Research Triangle (not Triad) that you refer to above is the place to do it. It's the home of CREE and many other LED innovators. Not Silicon Valley.
nah, that's too barren, better would be "creamdrop"
> basic sanitary and hygiene are also important which I'd like to believe that the Japanese are better than probably the rest of the world

When I traveled through Japan their hygiene culture came across as theatre more than anything. It's more of a social performance than a practical reality. I think 'very tidy' better describes Japan (if you ignore the beaches).
that sounds rad!
Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’
I built a custom case with a rotated motherboard like this, with a huge furnace filter on the intake and 8 fans (well in excess of what's needed for cooling) to clean my room air.
I'm saying that most everyone caught swine flu and many were working through it. With something more deadly that won't be tolerated, besides pneumonia seems to be a complication in 20 % of the cases and recovery is often slow.
Well it seems Etsy will determine if a sale "will be attributed to Etsy’s advertising" so this tracking could be very basic and inaccurate, as long as it only generates false positive matches between a sale and an ad click-though.
Great idea to drive away the sellers who need you the least, who most have an established consumer base and the means to set up their own storefronts.
how about "condensed-milkdrop"?
Hell, there's good money in legacy COBOL applications (both maintaining them, and trying to modernize them.)
Because the functional store requires energy to maintain? Getting rid of it reduces the daily caloric need.

Pure speculation
Blue Apron does the same thing. You have to email them.
Yes, agreed. And I think some of the most compelling storylines have come from the TV shows (and computer games). I'm more interested in Bastila and Revan than the Skywalkers, at any rate. :)
I always assumed that raising money is akin to dating.

I.e. if you have the right product with tractions from dozen of customers, then the VC will find you?

Am I missing something?
I guess this is just a nice shadertoy-like platform for any aspiring VJs.
yeah, if you like being reduced to clicking "next"...
That’s just Japanese “Roman” alphabet:

Consonants [(None), k, s, t, n, h, m, y, r, w], followed by,

Vowels [a, i, u, e, o] forming 5x10 matrix,

+ semi-voiced ゜(p replaces h) and voiced ゛(g, z, d, b replaces k, a, t, h)signs,

+ silent “nn”,

- wi wu we.

(aka NES Dragon Quest spell of resurrection)
On the one hand, this would be great if it was all opt-in.

On the other hand, this is nutty for any business running on low margins or with limited supply (and a sufficient customer base that they don’t need advertising to sell out).

A lot of small business owners aren’t great at marketing, and having a push button solution is great. Forcing your larger sellers into something that might not even need is borderline predatory.

When I clicked through to read their announcement I assumed they’d address some of these concerns, but nope. So, if I run a low margin shop and make 10% on each sale, I’m now underwater by being Etsy.
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I'm guessing that they are implying that the HFTs already know that these trades came from robinhood (because of order flow feed) , and therefore would discount them heavily on having inside knowledge.
I went through a real cursed search last summer trying to find a series of adapters to connect an Apple Cinema Display, which only has an attached mini-DisplayPort male cable, to a standard PC with only HDMI and DVI. Female mDP to male DP exists, but there's no way forward from there to convert male DP to male HDMI/DVI. I stumbled across female-DP to female-DP, which I thought was my holy grail until it couldn't power on the display. I learned about the difference between active and passive DisplayPort that day.

Eventually I just bought a different GPU that had mini-Displayport.
I played with a heterogenous computation simulator [1] a little bit when I was an undergrad, I wonder how these efforts could work together.

For example, if I could build a simulation of some MLIR in M2S across a variety of hardware setups, I feel like that could be pretty valuable. Granted the M2S project is a bit outdated, so I'm not sure what would need to be changed... boy time flies.

[1]: http://www.multi2sim.org/
But the transactions between players are zero-sum... An interesting, related point: zero-sum trading games (even ones based on chance [1]) always devolve into pareto/power law distributions when bankruptcy is a possibility. More a matter of natural law than the "evils" of capitalism

[1] trading game simulation: https://youtu.be/CsRLVZTYpGo?t=313
I like giving these "services" a one off email address from my own catchall and then check in on it months later to see how they attempted to monetize the data. Would probably make an interesting time series info-graphic.
That's not socialism. That's just basic civilization. When we create a society, we agree that we will have a system where on the way to work we are not going to trip over the dead bodies of people who we let starve to death.
>Where's the invasion of privacy?

In both cases.

Yours is understandable and forgivable. Charlie's privacy may have been violated, but it was a simple mistake.

But suppose you say to Alice, "Tell me all the people you know. I'll tell you which ones I know too." If you then write down that list and systematically start telling them about each other and that they have Alice as a mutual friend, then you're a privacy-invading jerk, and Alice was wrong to trust you.
I do when people downplay the flu and say it's just a bad cold.
why so negative? you can reap VJ salary while clicking left mouse each 5 min.
I used to think etsy was cute and fun, but if their tracking is that intense, and they treat their sellers like that... the warm and fuzzy feeling doesn't really stick around
Thanks, wasn't familiar with all those locales. I mostly think of Wyoming when I think wind power, but of course not everywhere is like Wyoming.
I am not a fan but I wouldn't call Oracle "not winning". It has been a very profitable company for a very long time. I am not so sure if the current star companies will last that long.
The existence of those apps and their popularity should be a large hint to twitter that their UI is broken
"We've decided to help ourselves to 15% of sales. If you don't like it, get the hell off of our platform."

Are there any platforms / marketplaces that don't treat their vendors like garbage?
if i could make it this way. no. reality is different.
And? I shed no tears for those affected by this policy change.

This is what happens when you build your business on top of someone else’s platform. We have seen it with Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, EBay and other platforms/aggregators/rent seekers.

This is life within a capitalist society for small business owners and consumers when you do not have collective bargaining or true competition in the marketplace.

It’s a fact of life within tech and it’s been a fact of life in other industries as well at one point or another. (ie. cable tv, toys, big box retail, oil, gas, steel, phone, cat food, etc, etc)
Interesting you mentioned "Kelly criterion", I have been interested in it for some time and the articles I read seemed to point out that it works "best" only after the fact (after the trade has been executed). How do you deal with this?
There are a few mice that support operating as both wired and wireless which have a removable cable. The connector at the mouse end is usually Micro-B but I think there's at least one using C. Either way, you can easily replace the stock cable with one that has a C connector at the computer end.
Its win win for store fronts.. prices will just go up to compensate.
The really bizarre thing to me is the idea of forcing it on the biggest sellers. First because those sellers are obviously doing fine without this "feature" and second because if they are making hand-made items then they may already be selling at or near their capacity.
exactly, just use this stuff to no end. pls
I was putting a hypothetical on helping them make more money, you shouldn't take it seriously.
Not at all. The number of serious/critical outside of China are about 3% and mostly elderly people.
I usually make sure my .env files are in my .gitignore, but honestly its just my memory that prevents me from slipping up one day.

Is there an automated strategy that protects against slipups like this?
Does anybody know what happened to the small businesses that used to use Etsy? Did another service open up for them? I suppose they may have gone to Shopify, but that fragmentation of storefronts reduces discoverability. The ability to search a vast set of niche widgets was probably Etsy's best selling point.

Every small business having its own storefront, and may or may not be doing SEO properly, is likely to mean less aggregate sales for all those businesses.
I appreciate you saying that. I haven't read Sapiens, but since we're on HN, I figure it's worth mentioning that I think Paul Graham's writing wanders into this territory a lot. Hackers and Painters has been sitting only half-read on my shelf for a long time because I got too frustrated with it to continue for that exact reason.
For an alternative fully remote company that pays people based on their skills, not where they happen to live, check out InVision!
Patient was transferred to UC Davis last Wednesday. Apparently UC Davis asked the CDC to test for COVID-19 but CDC refuses because the patient did not fit their strict requirements. Four days later CDC does test and patient is found positive.

Meanwhile in Korea they’ve developed bed side tests and are conducting hundreds every day. Thousands of tests have been performed in Italy. So on. I’m quite disappointed in the CDC which I used to hold in high regard. The reputation of the CDC has well and truly been destroyed by this pandemic. Maybe they can rebuild it but it’s not looking good.
Yes. The Internet is a peer system. Your speech is carried by others who find doing that worth doing somehow.

This has always been true.
Well the easy, non-controversial way to do this is to just introduce it as an easy and awesome new product, that stands on its own and let people opt-in at their own discretion.

By auto-enrolling everybody and requiring them to opt-out, that’s creating a huge controversy just asking for backlash. And then forcing anyone who makes over $10k to now be required - that’s a strong hand they’re playing.

Can only point to some desperate times? Seems to be a sure way to alienate your most successful sellers.
Its like nip alert, but somehow worse.
It took 5 years to go from the creation of Nasa to a manned Mercury-Atlas.

We still haven't seen any of the space startups match a manned Mercury-Redsone, which took 3 years.

During the Mercury program Nasa was using on average 0.4% of the federal budget, which was little over 2 billion a year in 2020 dollars.

The big spending was on the Apollo missions which are pipe dreams for any of the current space startups 15 years after their foundation.
Be careful, wiser(??) people have tried the path, and their tale is told in...

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Automated-Curse-Generat...
> Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in animals. Rarely, people get infected with these viruses which may then spread to other people. For example, SARS-CoV was associated with civet cats and MERS-CoV is transmitted by dromedary camels. Possible animal sources of COVID-19 have not yet been confirmed.

Cats and camels. Not the animals I would have first thought of. I probably would have never considered camels as being a source for any disease.
Isn’t that how mail gets routed to local user mailboxes?
Especially given that Etsy is supposed to be primarily for hand-made goods. Their top sellers are very likely already selling items at the speed they can make them, why would someone want Etsy to take a cut of their sales for advertising when they can't actually sell more?
So the tradeoff is doing something you don't particularly value in exchange for something you do value I feel like you're ripping yourself off
The "villian" is just a well developed handlebar. It's not like you can't tuck it in.
Misleading -- you can just tuck in your fu manchu
Just try connecting a modern Mac to FireWire 400...

You gotta go:

FireWire 400 -> FireWire 800 -> Thunderbolt 2 -> Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C).

Madness.
I truly believe suppliers have more influence on market creation direction than buyers, to all of our detriment.
Fair enough. Keeping this in mind, I think that I should do my best to refocus on working more on validating my ideas as opposed to over-analyzing potential funding issues that might or might not happen down the road. :-)
There's no quota, but enumerator hours-per-week are based on estimates of work and there's no particular effort to claw back unused time if the actual work is done early, so intentional foot-dragging just takes up de facto paid time the enumerator could spend on other things like school or job-hunting.
Totally agree. Like it has no story for managing my dependencies that arise from aliasing and no particular goodies for handling OSR at scale, etc.
Nice to see a company from Nepal too.
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We can get heuristics with lower false positives these days.
This comment sounds similar to, "I shed no tears for people involved in car wrecks, which are a known risk of driving." Yes everyone knows that it's dangerous for your vendors to be bigger than you, but it's still bad when we're reminded.
Etsy shops don't strike me as low-margin. Unless it has drastically changed since I last used it? At least back then, it was for "self-made" and/or creative works. Such products are typically under less competitive pressure because there's no competition for "Aunt Jill's Organic Cotton Socks".

I used to deal in high-end organic foodstuffs, and we sold nothing below 50% margin. "Sure, you can by other olive oil for 1/10th of our price. But you can't buy this olive oil"
U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties
Here is a discussion re: energy sector https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/02/bernie-sanders-clim...

And here is a report about his statements over the years to nationalize various industries: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/kfile-bernie-nationa...

There doesn't seem to be any limiting principle to way that Sanders approaches public policy.
Etsy is buying advertising on other sites, to the benefit of their customers. In the event that traffic converts, they take another 12/15% on top of the existing 3-4%.

This sounds like business the stores wouldn't be getting otherwise (so it's incremental), and all at the cost of what you'd be to an affiliate network anyway. Forced participation if you do more than $10,000 is ridiculous, but I otherwise fail to see what the uproar is about.