skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I can agree that there's no difference, because if you say to me that you've bypassed PayPal's 2FA I'm going to think that you've bypassed the opt-in one, not the extra security check one. PayPal does not consider these accounts to "have" 2FA.

Overall that may be being too pedantic, and shouldn't give PayPal a pass on the issue. Perhaps even entertaining it is just muddying the waters allowing PayPal to slip away. The extra check is a security check. If cybernews have by bypassed it then they have bypassed a security check. Logically this is therefore a security issue, and if PayPal are saying that it's not a security concern then they're saying that they were just wasting everybody's time with the unnecessary check to begin with. That would clearly be a lie, as the fact that they developed and continued to use the system indicate that they think it provides security.
You, seriously, just made my day!
Sounds pretty much what Postgres is doing since v11
aren't they afraid they'll fall through?
Do you have a specific example that demonstrates this?
FYI, I thought my programming career was over due to RSI.

Now, I only type while wearing long-sleeves.

And of course, I still have to take regular breaks.

I no longer suffer RSI symptoms. I'm guessing because it increases blood flow to the area and perhaps the warmth helps keep ligaments and muscles flexible and loose.

Simple solution, but took a while to figure out.

Hopefully this helps someone reading this.
We should use better languages. Better understood and integrated with the editor and better at expressing every level of abstraction. coughpretty much any lispcough
The virus can of course be asymptomatic, in fact it is asymptomatic in anyone when they first contract it. Then it’s up to their immune system to either fight it off or crumble. Whether symptoms show is just a matter of the severeness.

Symptoms like coughing and sneezing that discharge large droplets from the respiratory tract are a lot more effective at spreading the virus onto other hosts, but it appears that this virus is contagious enough that even asymptomatic hosts could spread it.
He doesn't because is BS.
And another one by Johns Hopkins CSSE:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
> Imagine if you downloaded something from GitHub and it gave you blisters. Right? The horrors!

I'll have to remember that next time someone mentions that C should be a dead language.

(I actually think C is a fine language, but should be deftly handled)
> Also, curse the Greeks for not using more idiomatic variables. ∑ would never pass code review, what an entirely unreadable identifier

One thing I tell my high-school students: mathematics always looks harder than it actually is. One of the essential skills in succeeding in math is looking at a page of arcane "stuff" and having your reaction be, "Whoa! Can't wait to learn what this means," rather than, "Whoa! This looks so complicated!"

Mathematical is its own language that has developed across continents and millennia. It has its quirks and foibles, but overall, community consensus has guided its notation. Mathematicians want things to be simple and "make sense", especially the notation they use. It's never as terrible as it looks.

Sigma specifically is a Greek letter, but the notation is not Greek. Like a large amount of modern mathematical notation, the convention came from Leonhard Euler in the 18th century. It was a disambiguation choice because the letter S was overloaded.

Single-symbol identifiers are enormously popular in mathematics because mathematics is not computing. Because math is (even now) essentially a handwritten subject, its design plays to the strengths of handwriting. Line size, height, and character layout are essentially freeform. Character accents and modifiers are easy. discrete_sum would never fly in a handwritten world, just like ∑ wouldn't pass code review.
Ask questions and don't make it personal. It's annoying and the answers are rubbish, but it's the only way to break these people out of their shell.

> The earth is flat? Why do people in Japan see the moon and a dark sky while I see the sun?

With enough of these types of questions that don't have sensible answers you may be able to get the person into a "maybe this is all bullshit" mindset. It's hard though. Especially with global warming skeptics.
If you ever get time, there a tons of videos on Youtube showing how it's done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc78nueDQ64

More pipe = more heat of course, so you can size it up according to your needs. If I had a pool, I would definitely do this.
Death rate of .1% for the flu and 1% for Corona.
Being infected just means your cells have been infected and are starting to produce more viruses. That process is heavily dependent on viral load and the host's immune system. You're only symptomatic when your body begins a whole scale fight against the virus, before that, your body is still producing the virus (and you can spread it), but the virus isn't impacting you enough to be symptomatic.
A study from Germany said that by day 10, all patients had produced antibodies against coronavirus. The key to treatment is to make sure that the patients don’t have severe symptoms before then and then the body will naturally fight it off. If the body gets overwhelmed before day 10 then it becomes more severe and possibly fatal.
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Clearly a candidate for a Darwin Award
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Isn’t that sort of like saying, I smoked 2 packs of cigarettes for 30 years, fingers crossed?

Some people are more susceptible to problems. This was on HN several years ago.

http://www.looknohands.me/

You can be in your 20’s and have a problem.
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Fortunately we know a lot more about viruses today than we did in 1918. The virus has already been mapped genetically, and many labs around the world are hard at work on an anti-viral treatment. We shouldn't get complacent of course, but it's likely that this thing can be contained and treated eventually.

I read today about a device[1] from Israel that helps the lungs quickly clear phlegm, thus reducing the coughing behavior that spreads the disease. The Chinese are starting to manufacture and deploy it, so hopefully it will cut back on the spread at least a bit.

1. https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/New-Israeli-invention-u...
> It seems increasingly common these days to not worry about performance at all,

You don't even have to continue there. People, who should know better, assume that 'modern cloud stuff' will make this trivial. You just add some auto-scaling and it can handle anything. Until it grinds to a halt because it cannot scale beyond bottlenecks (relational database most likely) or the credit card is empty trying to pull in more resources beyond the ridiculous amount that were already being used for the (relatively) tiny amount of users.

This will only get worse as people generally use the 'premature optimization' (delivering software for launch is not premature!) and 'people are more expensive than more servers' (no they are not with some actual traffic and O(n^2) performing crap) as excuse to not even try to understand this anymore. Same with storage space; with NoSQL, there are terabytes of data growing out of nowhere because 'we don't care as it works and it's 'fast' to market, again 'programmers are more expensive than more hardware!'). Just run a script to fire up 500 aws instances backed by Dynamo and fall asleep.

I am not so worried about premature optimization ; I am more worried about never optimization. And at that; i'm really worried about my (mostly younger) colleagues simply not caring because they believe it's a waste of time.
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I agree. However it's not possible: she's a pharmacist and because of the flu they're both really busy and low staffed. As long as she can just about handle it she works.

They all get it every year anyway because they're constantly coming into contact with sick people so there's less benefit for staying at home.
I feel fairly uncertain as to how seriously I should /personally/ take COVID19 living in a large American city as a healthy young person with no upcoming travel. I see some friends seriously taking precautions (like buying masks) already, which up-to-this-point I've found a little absurd. Could anyone who knows better perhaps enlighten me on how I ought to be reacting to this?
The goal of software development should be about reducing the number of edge cases to the absolute minimum. If a tool makes it easier to keep track of all edge cases, it is bound to encourage developers to write code which contains more edge cases. But fundamentally, it still reduces code quality. Code with more edge cases is less flexible and not good at handling changing requirements.

I've seen this over and over in my career; tools can make people lazy in certain areas, it can put them on auto-pilot. Often, this can be a bad thing.

I like coding with dynamic languages because they get out of my way and shift the full responsibility for correctness on me. This creates a certain mental tension which helps me to perform. Keeps me alert and mindful.

I particularly try to avoid languages that make me wait for code to compile (which is more common with statically typed languages); this is for the same reason why don't like it when someone distracts me while I'm "in the zone" while coding.
Absolutely incomparable to the Spanish flu. Back then we knew literally nothing about the flu, we sent sick soldiers on public trains to hospitals which very quickly spread the virus to other sick/injured people. We took the exact opposite actions of what we now know is correct. We did everything wrong. It’s not even remotely comparable. Scientists learned about the corona virus category in the late 1960s, 40 years after the Spanish flu.

It’s also not spreading unlike anything before? You can look at the graphs of SARS/MERS/etc and see at times it’s spreading quicker, but not remotely in the realm of never before seen.

Good advice I suppose, but traveling is still fine according to the WHO.
can you link me to the source?
0.8% of the people you know die every year anyway. If all of the people you know get infected it might bump it to 3%. Not that radical in my opinion.
Capture the research you're already doing in branching research threads
...or EVEN read a BOOK.

Aspiring authors offer up a collective sigh.

But there are movies, still.

By the way, has anyone seen the 37th remake of Superman? Sorry, I meant 36th.

Hey, anyone want to invest in a new movie idea. It's gold. It's only been done 36 times before. Don't delay. You won't believe what happens at the end. Lois Lane loses 30lbs with 1 crazy dieting trick that big-Doctors don't want you to know about.

Time is running out. Don't wait. There's no time to read that book, you're missing out.
You make some good points about responsibility and accountability. But team members absolutely need to be, and feel, heard.

Also, there's a world of difference between "managing" and "leading". Conflating the two is a root cause of many problems.
Natural selection strikes again.
If I had to guess it's uncertainty. If coronavirus infects half the world by the time it's run its course that would be 77 million people dead, on top of however many normally die in that time frame. I have no idea how likely a 50% infection rate is but it's a lot more likely than an equivalent 11x jump in the rate of deaths from smoking over the same time span.
How do the long sleeves help? Cushion?
No, since not everyone who dies will have had a confirmed case 3 weeks back - both because the actual time the disease takes is (almost surely) variable and because detection isn't perfect. The mortality rate in Iran is infinity by that metric, for example.
> Is there any research on how to talk to these people?

Treat them like people, not specimens. Part of that means recognizing that each is an individual and there is no universal formula for how to effectively relate and communicate with individuals.
Sure, and I think it is a good comparison in that the numbers are large and it is unexpected. The difference is that we as a society have come to regard them as an acceptable risk. In addition, they are isolated, so while they are common, the odds of 10 people you know dying in a car crash are very low. With a virus, an entire office could get sick or even worse an entire school. For me this is my primary fear. My kids entire school gets infected and kids start dying or being hospitalized in large numbers.

This also adds to the economic impact. Its the clustering aspect of this that drives fear and uncertainty.
It's not about titles. It's about what you're allowed to do/practice. I can certainly call myself doctor without an MD or other medical degree for which the title is customarily used. I might even do so if I had a PhD. I suppose I could do so in any case although people would think it strange if I didn't actually have a degree the same way they'd think it quite odd if I insisted on being called Your Highness.

However, if I were to start practicing medicine in anything other than a first aid context or if I were to mislead people into thinking I was a certified medical professional, that's not allowed legally.

By contrast, while PEs are required especially for signing off on certain documents in civil engineering, there is not in general any requirement to have one to practice engineering in the general case. In fact, there's no requirement for an undergraduate degree.
It's not often that I read about something and think "holy crap, that's genius", and that's exactly what solid is.

Then again, given who's directing it, it should come as no surprise in hindsight.
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How would you compare Vespa to ES when it comes to CPU/memory requirements and performance for something like log indexing and search use case?
How well would this work in an open office setting, especially if several people are using it?
Interesting. But weren't the Dutch well-nourished 200 years ago? They were relatively wealthy...

If the height differences were adjusted for income etc, it would be convincing. I didn't read the OP. Did they do that?

They did compare them to other populations at the time. Unless the Dutch were especially under-nourished, then the effect seems reasonably well-founded.
This was a notable event with a broad influence. One ripple effect is Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein," which may not have even been produced were it not for the weather that summer [0]:

"It proved a wet, ungenial summer", Mary Shelley remembered in 1831, "and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house". Sitting around a log fire at Byron's villa, the company amused themselves with German ghost stories, which prompted Byron to propose that they "each write a ghost story". Unable to think of a story, young Mary Godwin became anxious: "Have you thought of a story? I was asked each morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative." During one mid-June evening, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". It was after midnight before they retired, and unable to sleep, she became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the grim terrors of her "waking dream", her ghost story.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley#Lake_Geneva_and_F...
Relevant image from same page.

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Ask HN: Self hosted RSS “cache” server/application?
I see that self hosted RSS aggregators usually provide a web browser interface for all the subscribed feeds. What I'm looking for is a self hosted option where I can use my feed reader application with it...so I have the flexibility to look at all sources or specific sources and individually handle read status, starring, etc., the flexibility to read things when offline after syncing with the server.

I want the feed reader interface to be as if it's subscribed directly to the respective feeds (though it would be subscribed to feeds on this self hosted service).

Is there anything like this? It sounds more like an RSS Caching service than a feed aggregator.
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Talking is easy. Convincing them to rethink their position or even abandon it is much harder and takes a lot of time, patience, persistence and friendliness.

The friendship part is probably the hardest. But what's the success rate of shaming someone into changing their mind? Pretty low to zero. It makes them dig in more.

The best example I know of is Daryl Davis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis). He's a black man that befriends active Klan members. He invites them to bars and his home and gets to know them.

He intelligently refutes their nonsense but he never asks them to change their mind or leave the Klan. He simply waits until they want to do it on their own accord.

The problem is sometimes people get stuck in a group or culture for various reasons. The key is to give them a safe, friendly alternative rather than a violent disagreement.
This is the tradeoff. Being backed up somewhere is more convenient but less secure. If it is only on that one device, it requires physical control of the hardware. If it is in iCloud or somewhere else, it is an attack vector and one that can be exploited remotely and at scale.
My experience with PayPal, from dev support to account managers, has been an absolute shit show. They were simply the first to their market and it's hard to kick them out.
And its a lifelong thing. Not just an initial condition. Get another point or two every day, for life.
“Because light doesn’t travel forever”

Every sensible line of questions will inevitably hit this wall of incomprehensible undebunkable “understanding” of the world.

It’s better to dig into their understanding of what is a conspiracy and how do they determine where in the conspiracy chain they should stop and why. (Flat Earth conspiracy, flat earth conspiracy conspiracy and so on)
licence plate numbers are not PII
> I guess my confusion now is why PayPal even purports to offer bug bounties if they're going to craft an "out of scope" list that allows them to reject every submitted report.

They're not; you're just choosing to assume bad things about them. Their out-of-scope list is fairly standard. If you asked a guy on the street "what would hacking PayPal look like?", the answer they imagined would probably be in scope.

For example, if I send you a link to my personal website, and when you visit the website your PayPal account automatically sends $500 to my PayPal account, that's in scope.
Yeah, I always think I "should" brush back up on my now-rusted-solid math skills—I doubt I could pass the final for any math class I took past maybe 9th grade without studying, let alone anything I took in college—but they've rusted for a reason. I never fucking use them. If I do it's some narrow little thing that I look up, do, then never look at again.

[EDIT] and then there's "what is math?". The memorization from early grades that everyone shits on, with some simple algebra, is what I actually, ever, use in my life, plus some very basic geometry when doing stuff around the house. If it's for work it's some practical application thing. "Real" math like proofs? Never, ever.
It has no addons. Also, its algorithm seem very... crude.
> - Turning off location history in Google and Apple Maps

If you want to be a bit more paranoid, on iOS Privacy > Location Services > Off

... not that I would do that, I find it too useful.
Iran's mortality rate is almost certainly much lower than 19%, since there's reason to believe the total infection rate is much higher than they're claiming. We wouldn't expect nearly so many travellers from Iran to be infected if coronavirus was as rare there as their figures make it out to be.
2.5-3.5%? In China anyway.
Unfortunately, for many companies, bug bounty programs have been the best invention in silencing security research and CVEs. They promise the world, beat you down on severity / payouts, sometimes just claim duplicate or known issue with no way to verify, and then block public disclosure. Very frustrating.
I am not sure if you said this as a joke but Uber did create a whole new market while shaking up the status quo. Isn't that what innovation is supposed to be ? Airbnb , whether you love them or hate them, have had a substantial impact on real estate economy nearly all over the world.

I don't believe venture capital investment is a zero sum game. Money will always chase higher returns. It may come from Private equity, it may come from angels' savings -- if there is a possibility of higher return with lowered risk -- money will find a way to it.
Some background on QEMU forks, and fork healing, is in this blog post: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/all-you-need-know-about-kvm-u...
Airbnb was certainly at the forefront of Docker and the microservices revolution (for good or for bad). They certainly innovated technically -- at least in the beginning.
This is great! I just hope that Firefox continues to allow network request interception whenever it implements its variation of Manifest V3.
Looks like we're going to have another thread of people gloating about the death of a man who's done nothing to wrong anybody here; who's only 'crime' is failing to treat science with sufficient reverence.

Really disgusting behavior.
"Driving your car is far more safe while drunk than blindfolded and on cocaine"

You can sprinkle some jQuery here and there without it being 'spaghetti'. Also, how is having thousands of dependencies for a bit of HTML rendering 'simple'?
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Let’s say 40% of the people in the world get it and a 1% fatality rate:

That 30 million dead, and probably another 300 million hospitalized and maybe 50 million that need icu care.

Should probably go without saying that we don’t have the ICU beds to handle that in the western world, let alone in developing countries.

We also haven’t had anything like the Spanish flu in the US since we’ve had the modern health insurance system. Is blue cross going to have the resources to pay for all those extra hospital visits? What about all the long term side effects from the millions of people that had acute respiratory failure and survived.

edit:

Also something else to consider -- what if this goes epidemic in the US during the elections this year? They'll have to cancel rallies, campaign events, maybe even the party conventions.
Summer = better air flow, both inside and because people spend more time outside.
It looks weird from the inside too.
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They could have mentioned https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
It was difficult at first, this happened quite some time ago, but these days it seems there are lots of non-paypal options.
I'm pleased to see they have a 'Mr Plow' in there, for the Simpsons reference!
Can someone ELI5?

Why is it so hard to produce a vaccination for this virus? We have vaccinations targeting viruses all the time, isn’t it?
Well, among people in IT there are many blogs with musings about climate, philosophy, engineering, etc. A lot of content get shared here.

Nothing never: smart people with enough income to have liberty to pursue their passions and means to share it.