skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does sound stressful and annoying but I'd have to assume the tests given are given because the interviewers are extremely familiar with the problem and can read into every choice you make and form opinions (be they right or wrong) about how you work, face problems, overcome them, etc.
This doesn't even make sense. You can simply fly from any infected area in the world right into San Francisco, and San Fransisco gets massive travel volume from these places. Why even bring up Mexico?

Btw, Mexico has public/free hospitals unlike the USA. You can bet that flu-like symptoms and higher IMSS volume shows up in Mexican media just like backed up hospitals always get national attention.

Not sure why you think USA is going to have such a better response to this either. In Mexico, people can at least go to the hospital to get checked, even private hospitals are cheap. In USA, people will just gamble to save the $100 checkup and go to work. I know I would.
Assuming getting the virus conveys immunity, yes, although you'd be hard pressed to catch it intentionally at this point.
RE: It's The End Of The World As We Know It, at the end of the song at about 3:57, you can hear a voice in the background say what sounds like "Party". I've never been able to find an explanation for how that got into the song or why it is there.
That (nicotine carrying non-minimal health risks) is Myth 3 in the linked article.

I recommend reading it, it's very informative!
this sounds a bit abrasive, but it is not - i like VJs that have their presets ready
> Yes, of course: "When I press the 'more' button in the developer's bio the app crashes" is a more important bug than "When I press the 'more' button in the developer's bio I don't see more text."

Of course? Really?

I mean, the upshot for the user is the same - they wanted to see more info about the developer, they clicked the button, they didn't see more info.

An app crash on most devices isn't actually a particularly dangerous problem. Start the app up again.

Arbitrarily deciding that a particular bug is worse because it causes more harm to the software rather than because it causes more harm to the user is precisely the problem. The importance of fixing those two bugs is probably exactly the same (unless the app crashing causes data loss or corruption or is exploitable or... you get it. Of course, the same could be true of the 'no more info appears' bug - behind the scenes it might be starting an infinitely retrying string of HTTP requests to download the developer bio that gradually leak memory and drain the user's battery. Maybe that's really the more serious bug?)

There isn't some separate measure of 'severity' that independently makes the crash bug magically worse than the functional failure. There's only the actual consequences of the bug. For the user, their data, their time their resources, and your business goals.
A Bit of Transparency and Customer Appreciation from Google Nest
Yeah I'm pretty sure the author's attempt at sarcasm fell flat. Either that or they have never met any old and/or stubborn people before.

Presumably they either don't have to fix all their relatives' computers over the holidays, or they do and are trying to make an injoke with the outcrowd.
I'm curious why you chose to reply to me specifically with this. I assume you agree that there are both kinds of people in Vegas, and the analogy still stands?
Looking forward to getting that in! Which DB do you generally use?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22428525.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429925 below.
being a VJ is nothing bad, it is just about clicking at the right times
How Notion Grew Without Much Marketing?
Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash on freeway was playing videogame: NTSB
You’re citing numbers from the Chinese govt. You can’t be serious.
Another bad flu is a terrifying prospect. If this coronavirus becomes cyclical like the flu, it will be a gigantic driver of global mortality.
These numbers are bullshit and I'm tired of having to repeat this everywhere. The Chinese government is lying about infections and there are legal and infrastructural issues which prevent the vast majority of cases from being diagnosed and reported, even if there wasn't an ongoing official attempt at minimization.

The virus has a ≈15% critical illness rate[1]. There are less than 100k ICU beds in the entire United States. They will very quickly be overwhelmed, exactly as they are in China, SK, Iran, Italy...the list is getting too long to keep up with. At that point the mortality rate approaches 15%. This is not the god damn flu and people who dismiss it as such are being hugely irresponsible.

1. I believe this article is referencing the published paper in Lancet that I was referring to https://coercioncode.com/2020/01/27/breaking-news-coronaviru...

Also bear in mind that the study is out of China, so it is most likely extremely conservative because the government has been publicly cracking down on anyone "spreading rumors" about the virus.

The peoples' collective, deliberate obviousness at this point is unbelievable.

Edit: wait a minute, I don't think I've even seen the paper I linked yet. This one reports 32% ICU admission rate and 15% death with lasting damage in recovered patients. Some 2 dozen Chinese authors to boot. Get your fucking heads out of the sand!

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Finally, some good news.

Personally I think this whole thing is an interesting test of how "extremely online" people react to media manipulation. The actual flu seems pretty boring and ordinary.
Nope. Mostly I just got bored of the Google flavor. Plus it’s been getting progressively worse over time. Variety is the spice of life, they say.
Insinuations of astroturfing or shillage are the commonest toxic internet trope around, and we don't allow them here without evidence. People feeling differently about C++ doesn't count as evidence of anything other than that programmers feel differently and identify with different things.

I've posted hundreds of times about this, so I don't think it's true that HN has a lack of accountability and transparency about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Could you please review and respect the rules here? You've broken quite a few of them in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mentioned my TEDx talks and podcast with links in a post above.

A couple podcast guests are prominent in zero waste and minimalism, so you might enjoy their episodes and books: Bea Johnson http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/bea-johnson and Joshua Becker http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/joshua-becker.

The biggest resource in my experience is to start however you can. People get hung up on toothbrushes while still ordering take-out while their fridges are full, which uses far more plastic than a toothbrush.

The more you do it, the easier it gets and the more horrible the old ways become.
At this point, might as well just use GPS with altitude. LatLong down to 7 decimal places gets you down to a centimeter or half inch at the equator, better at higher or lower latitutes. Add sea level to the same precision, and you can specify any cubic cm on the planet with about 27 bytes (10 each lat/lng, 7 for altitude offset from sea level at centimeters, giving you 10km of range). Specify your post office box door keyhole, or under your doormat, or in the bush by your porch... it took about as much data to describe these locations in general as to describe the exact location of one
milkdrop-VJ?
As the father of a newborn, grateful to hear this. Do you have a source?
The info on this website is useful, but the banner ads around the perimeter are making me feel sick for some reason
Based on the title, I thought it is a new machine learning paper from China on removing facial hair and respirators/masks from photos.
Fair enough but I would still try to draw a line with "direct competition". I am not directly competing with any of these libraries. In the same vein, if some eCommerce company uses RudderStack and builds their Analytics stack around it, I would be super happy. I just don't want someone else to take this code and offer Rudder as a service. There must be a way to differentiate between these two scenarios.
I think you can argue these are sides of the same coin. Seeing the new pattern emerge happens because you are repeatedly seeing the same event over again by searching prior experiences, it just happens that the experiences were quite recent. It's pattern matching against recent memories of trying water on the fire already and seeing that it failed each time.
This headline is not really genuine. The group is definitely fighting big tech, but purely for the benefit of Oracle. They aren't fighting for users, but simply against Google and Amazon, who are Oracle's biggest competitors.

Having worked at Oracle, the hatred for Google is very deep. We worked with G only when we had easy money to make, and they did the same. We would get in trouble for using any G product, and could only use G sheets/docs if a client had created it themselves and sent it to us.
I don’t see anything that says you have to control both APs. Almost everyone in populated areas lives within range of a few neighbour APs.
I think it helps to know of ways to model problems beyond "arrangements of objects in patterns" which is the thing that CS education has dropped the ball on the most: you get the algorithms, you get some exposure to practical systems, but then there's no checklist of approaches to try, no nmemonics to learn. Just a faint hope that slathering objects on a problem does something helpful, propped up in turn by the large body of articles and blogposts that advertise silver bullet patterns(lately dominated by "ECS", which isn't really OOP specific but fits in the usual pattern of the hype cycle).

And that is in some ways related to the consumer nature of the programming stacks in use: If there isn't a named-and-documented "feature" for it, and it's not in the hype cycle, it's a less legitimate, more hyptothetical technique.

But what are those other ways? Where's the starting place? My own WIP answer is:

* Data modelling techniques(beyond algorithmic complexity concerns: data lifecycles, persistence, schema design, and so forth)

* Formal models of finite state(decision tables, statecharts, behavior trees, and so on)

* Constraint solver techniques and their many applications(type checking, physics steps, pathfinding, depedency checking, UI automation).

* Dataflow modelling, with static routes and bounded buffers.

* DSP techniques used to do analysis and filtering of digital events at scale.

There's still an overarching tendency to let execution flow get out of hand, and our current trend for asynchronous concurrency is an antidote only in the sense that it motivates the existence of rigor by blowing up easily.
Tesla Model 3 'rival' Volkswagen ID.3 is turning into a cautionary tale
Agree on all fronts. I was really hoping that something already existed that would just work, but I couldn't find anything that fit the bill.

I assumed that with GDPR (and now CCPA) there would have been a greater overall need for privacy focused ad companies, but I may have been wrong.
It will, thus bringing the ETA to 1 year or so.
These rates are taking the number of confirmed cases and dividing by the number of hospitalizations. The problem is that minor cases usually don’t get detected so they don’t get included in the denominator. A single confirmed case might correspond to a thousand infections. It’s too early to know.
I saw a HP product-placement in the movie The Foreigner (nee, The Chinaman) It was a laptop bomb rigged to blow up a plane, and I did think it was a little strange to see the start-up logo so prominently. But I guess any press is good press...
Source for these claims?
I use Robinhood app to gamble on options, most of the times I lose and sometimes I won big to cover all losses.

I don't understand options, other than a few things about them which help me trade them

It's ok to ignore the big picture. Not everything has to have a profound meaning behind and similar are the stock moves. I believe most of the movements are irrational, so studying fundamentals or anything is going to offer nothing other than wasted time.

I love the crazy vibe of that subreddit which motivates me to take crazy positions which I'd have never taken if I carried on with my risk averse friends.

Even if probability of becoming double digit millionaire from a single digit millionaire is small through options trading. It's well worth it because once you've saved enough to retire, why not bet on random positions? You never know when you'll fall on the long tail end of the game and experience the Black Swan event which changes your life forever.

Then I am also doing other things which people might consider crazy like steroids to maintain Greek god physique - considering neither I am model, atheletic or body builder.

YOLO is not bad way to live if it gives you the highs you need move out of sorrows and sufferings.
> I know I'll probably get it eventually and be fine

unfortunately, you don't know you'll be fine or even probably fine (which applies for everyone else, too), and it's unhelpful to be propagating such misinformation.
The asteroid hunter who put Croatian astronomy on the map
you're sure to not over-emphasize this? there's lots of VJ's around that don't do "milkdrop"
Well...

Header adapters are not meant for PCs, they are there for specialized boards. There are plenty of those.

That USB to ISA adapter, why would anybody buy the reverse nowadays? There aren't many computers with an ISA bus, but there are plenty of old specialized ISA boards that would cost a fortune to replace.

About that DDR4 extender, I have a computer where the processor cooler inutilized a memory slot (stupid motherboard designers?). I just left it empty, but could have used one of those too.

And... Ethernet into M.2 is plenty of interesting. I wonder how useful can it be.
Does the browser really have access to all the same apis as electron? Doesn't electron have broader access to the file system (e.g. all the stuff that vscode does).
Tips to improve productivity in your home office
Amazon fulfillment centers prove otherwise

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/amazon-workers-pee-bottle/
Couch/Pouch combination is really slow when document +attachment are too large. Based on my experience, Practical limit was more like 20-30Mb, and I'd suggest not even getting close to that. 8Mb simply recognizes reality.
remdesivir treatments

The synthesis route from Wikipedia does not look encouraging. Eight steps, some conducted at low temperature - good luck with scale-up! Production scale at dry ice temperature requires a dedicated facility, your garden-variety contract shop doesn't have the equipment.
here here! okay, i'm going to reign this in.
I've had several DOM (disk on module) devices over the years, but I think that the one that I loved the most was the SIMM to DIMM adapter, which adapted multiple SIMM instances to a single DIMM slot when the transition occurred. beautiful piece of tech for the time.
Serious question: How often do such employees/contractors claim to have accidentally swapped keys at lunch?
I think your post is intended to be reassuring to the presumable majority younger demographic on HN.

But it strikes me as very insensitive. Ignoring the validity of the source of those numbers, even if they hold up. We all know people over 40. We all know people with existing illness that put them in higher risk brackets. And we all know people in other regions of the world with poorer healthcare systems where the fatality rate may go up.

The parent’s fatality rate was broadly correct. You can’t just select out a big portion of the population to give a better survival rate. Then compare your hacked fatality rate to the unhacked seasonal flu rate. “Just a bad flu” that is up to 20x worse than the regular flu is a big big deal. The near wartime like response in China is not “just a bad flu.” This is affecting a lot of people in very serious and real world ways.
Yes, but how is a 8mb document size limit a good thing?
Even if that's not the best options trader in the world, its still a much better explanation than the post being replied to.
That's inaccurate. Not only are reposts fine after a year or so (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), we invited this repost. We do that sometimes: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Please stop posting like this to HN.
Facebook also uses whatsapp contacts to show pymk. I added someone on whatsapp whom I never met, but was dealing for business in different continent and was shown in facebook very next day. I was not surprised, but decided to stop using facebook soon.
I think he means Google
>The cost of each car was estimated using various pricing categories from the Kelly Blue Book (KBB). This consisted of using the video data to determine the vehicle make, model, year, and overall condition. The year of the vehicle was estimated by cross referencing each manufacturer's website to compare body styles. To estimate the overall cost of the vehicle, the low end and high end price estimates from private sale were averaged.

They appear to have used their estimation of current value, not their estimation of the original purchase price.
The only way your argument makes any sense is if you can somehow show that conviction rates have gone down since encryption became widespread. I think you'll have a hard time doing that because people will usually find some other way to hide information, like just destroying evidence. Are you gonna go after shredders next? They're hiding criminal's secrets too!
Ask HN: My web app was hacked today – Bad experiences and how to prevent them?
Today my web app ViralQuotes was hacked. My DB was erased, instead, there was a new table called Warning with a message 0.08 BTC to recover my DB.

After 5 hours I was able to rebuild my DB, but unluckily I lost all my historical data within my 400+ users data among them.

Of course, there are some lessons learned about it:

Don't forget to set up regular backups.
I know, I was really silly for not doing it, but I never thought that someone would hack my insignificant website. So, stop what you are doing, and go and set up some way to back up your DBs and significant files at least once a day. Some providers offer it for a few extra bucks a month.
Don't be like me, maybe your product is not generating thousands of dollars and you think that no one will waste his time hacking your site, but remember that is important for you and that's is enough.

After looking into how that could happen, I realized that I pushed to my server my .env file with all the database credentials in it, which Is pretty simple access to it especially if you use Laravel.
I found out that is a pretty common mistake, If you google DB_USERNAME filetype:env you will find thousands of Laravel env files exposed
Therefore, remember to actually set your variables from the .env file as environmental variables in your server and destroy any .env file that is around there.

For sure there are more lessons to learn about this, but I realized that I Would like to hear if some of you have had bad experiences like this one, and what do you recommend to prevent them?.

Cheers,
Nico
it is pretty common to refer to certain Vjs as "milkdrops"
No, it would be better to postpone getting it as long as possible. The technology/industry learning curve is just beginning for this virus, so later products will be better than current ones.

Barring total societal collapse, that is.
Is the hate due to relative success? I suppose the API fight probably contributes but I dont think that alone could cause that much
>Large systems are not like hackathon projects where you might understand and hold the entire scope and flow in your mind.

I've seen this argument repeatedly now in a defense of Facebook, recently in a twitter thread where a facebook employee in a discussion about hate speech moderation responded along similar lines of "we are simply too large and don't know what's going on in every corner of the system"

I find it funny that this is used as a sort of excuse or defense. We can draw another conclusion. Like Goethe's Sorcerer's Apprentice Facebook has lost control over its own machinations and is simply too large.
Virus Outbreak: Researcher says COVID-19 likely synthetic
29 to 40 year old Chinese doctors have already died. If it was really only 0.2/0.4% for them, those events would have been extremely unlikely.

Also, in Iran it is concerning how much higher the CFR is there; which are leading some to think the virus may be exhibiting different behavior there.

and yes, the severe/critical case rate is somewhere around 14%-18%, which means you need hospitalization.

if you don't trust the chinese data, the data in south korea and italy is very trustworthy, and looks just as bad on those too.
Lisp gets there by being simple and having the optimal notation for it.
Not a perpetual motion machine, but a motion machine, sure.

The GP was correct, Matt clearly says it can create some upward momentum, albeit not an unlimited amount.
I wish someone would invent a respirator that worked with beards :/
>Why can't there be a license which is "open-source" but stops anyone from building a "directly competiting commercial offering"

Because it is not an "open-source" license if it restricts how people can use the code. There is no "except for direct competitors" loophole.

The SSPL is a "source-available" license, not an "open-source" one.

I certainly sympathize with your outlook; everyone needs to make a living. But I could also understand people complaining if you're advertising your SSPL code as open-source, because...it isn't.
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Understood, thank you. I agree with your points. However, just to clarify, the basis for my original question is whether it is possible to predict VCs' "(dis)agreeableness", based on their domain expertise or lack thereof. I appreciate your opinion and look forward to hearing more thoughts from this community.
Study reveals similarities between bee brains and human brains
Thanks, that enabled me to find the 1/28 donation news:

https://www.marketscreener.com/BAYER-AG-436063/news/Bayer-to...

It mentions "antibiotics and analgesics" but not quinine, but I'll accept you've seen a more detailed report.

I was unable to find a report saying that Chloroquine lines have started back up.

By HCQ do you mean Quinine Hydrochloride as is found in Tonic Water? Do you have any links to studies showing it has "similar effectiveness" as Chloroquine in treatment? I'm taking Quinine Hydrochloride at present since it's harmless and available, but have not seen any studies about it specifically regarding the new virus.
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Are those numbers supposed to be comforting?

> 80+ years old: 14.8%, 70-79 years old: 8.0%

That makes it extremely likely that at least one friend or family member while die of this.

> 30-39 years old: 0.2%

To put things in perspective (https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...), that doubles this risk of death this year for that age bracket.

> 10-19 years old: 0.2%

That roughly quadruples the rate of death for that bracket.

And besides that, it's not the mortality that's the biggest worry but the amount that need critical care (10-20%). In a large outbreak there will simply be more critical cases than there are ventilators to put them on.

Edit - Does anyone know what sort of triage China put in place? Ie, when they don't have enough capacity are they favoring treating young people and giving up on the 80+?
The map misses the oldest: Roman Church, ~2,000 years old as of today.