skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in your country, where corporations make the laws.

In most of the world, the ownership of "entities" is also public data. The privilege of being an entity is bestowed by the public through the state, and any status or license granted by the the collective (the state) is and ought to be public information.
> Because after you hover on something, it can be an indication of intent.

Yes, that's (one of the many reasons) why javascript needs to die.

> Just loading an image when the webpage loads doesn't give you any insight into what the user 'interacted' with.

That's what I said: regardless of whether the browser, when loading a page, does or does not include hidden images in what it fetches, that cannot possibly tell you anything about what the user interacts[0] with after the page has loaded and browser is no longer communicating with your server.

0: edit: obviously excluding clicking links or other navigation-causing interactions, but that's a separate problem.
>> You can look at it that way. Another way of looking at it is if my company (or the government) refuses to let me access my office, I should not be obligated to work.

In that case the company should not be obligated to pay you. There's a good chance your employment contract contains a clause allowing your place of work to change at any time (within a certain distance of where it is when you join).
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I worked for a company that was forced to go all-remote due to problems with our office space. I thought it would prove to management that remote work was a net win for everyone. I expected both productivity and employee happiness to increase.

I was wrong on all counts. The problem is that you can’t suddenly transition people to WFH and expect them to figure it out right away. This doesn’t resonate with 20-something developers who spend much of their home time glued to a computer in a quiet room, but it will resonate with the parents who have kids at home.

In our case, productivity fell immensely in certain teams and departments. People scrambled to find quiet space at home where they could hide from young children. Others struggled to work efficiently with purely digital communication. A surprising number of people couldn’t handle being productive without the watchful eye of their manager. Some people tried to take vacations and respond with one-liner emails from their phones. Some of us were more productive, but it wasn’t anywhere near as uniform as I expected.

I’m concerned that this sudden, forced WFH environment will hurt perceptions of remote work more than it helps.
The market and economy haven't actually improved since 2008, the Federal Reserve has been pumping money in. The inflation estimates no longer include food or gas. Average home price is $350k now vs $250 in 2008 and we have a major homeless epidemic. Which once someone in that population is sick, they'll all be sick and they are concentrated in major cities. And Covid-19 illustrates just how fake and how little we've really recovered. It is really highlighting the problems that aren't getting resolved. Basically exposing all the sharp rocks under the boat that we're about to crash on.
Agreed. I'm very aligned with that talk - I was and remain skeptical that a union would be good for me - but if my bosses don't start recommending WFH within a few days I'm going to be pretty frustrated.
> On the paper journaling thing, though, I think the answer is much more clear cut: it's more about the artistic nature of it than anything else

A counterexample as food for thought: I do all of my task tracking in a paper notebook. It looks boring -- there's no design and I only use one black and one red pen.

What I've found in over 5 years I've used more than a dozen task trackers for various organizations across different projects and teams. Each time, I have to learn the system and adapt my process to it. Every six months the productivity community goes nuts over some new app.

On the other hand, my notebook process is just the same. Paper has been around for over a thousand years and will be around a lot longer than that. I never have to keep up with the new hot productivity system or worry about the company that makes my favorite app going out of business. Paper will never release an update that makes me redo my whole process.

Paper let's me find a system that works and stick with it. Paper gets out of the way. I can focus on being productive instead of productivity.
There's some pretty sharp criticism of this paper on the r/COVID19 subreddit (which is the one where the scientists hang out):

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fdsltf/about_the_l...

Basically, there are 111 different mutations, not 2, and it's misleading to point to a single point mutation and set that as the arbitrary division point between strains while ignoring the other 110 mutations that have been catalogued. There is currently not enough evidence for the researcher's claims that this particular mutation causes observable differences in the virus's reproduction or virulence characteristics that the other mutations do not.
> then the work disincentive could be a disaster

We need to get past "Your worth is your work". People don't deserve to be neglected simply because they produce nothing that society currently values. We all reach that point with age.

And multi-generational problems are generally solved with your educational system.
I hiked the Appalachian trail during the winter with a very low bodyfat percentage. I learned to adjust layers constantly. Even in temperatures down near 0*F, you can become drenched in sweat while climbing a mountain. But once you stop moving (especially if you don't stay dry), you've got less than 5 minutes before you start to shiver uncontrollably, and complex tasks like pitching a tent start to become difficult. The most challenging part was moisture management, because gear never dries when it's below freezing and you're not wearing it.
Then driving an expensive car is a sufficient but not a necessary condition for being a jerk. Full disclosure, I'm not a scientist or logician, and I drive a Prius. :)
Founder of another decentralized storage product here:

Decentralized storage is going to replace the cloud. We have a working platform today with thousands (and growing) of users which is cheaper, faster, and more reliable than the centralized alternative.

One of the major challenges of the cloud today is deplatforming and loss of ownership, two things that are squarely handled by decentralization. It opens the door to innovation and allows builders a lot more freedom in how they approach solving modern problems.

Decentralization also ends up being a huge element in cost reduction. Our platform uses dozens of hosts at one to store and serve data, which means any given host only needs about 95% uptime. The network is completely open and anyone with good infra can join at any time, making revenue, and competing, which drives prices down. We're currently at 1/10th of Amazon.

Decentralization also makes it possible to build apps that don't shut down. Users today have to worry about the health of a parent company when choosing a product, with many people having been displayed by a "Google RSS Reader is shutting down" message. That problem disappears with decentralized infra.

It may take some time for the rest of the world to catch on, but decentralization is just a better way to build apps.
This is very important. I hang out in programming communities focused on helping others and way too often I see people asking perfectly valid questions filled with apologies and guilt over not knowing something. It's a bit sad honestly, but it's nice seeing them open up after you help tem figure it out without judgment.
Inoreader just rolled out a new feature that allows you to subscribe to newsletters directly in their reader and have them available with the rest of your feeds.
It sounds like the fraudulent domains are foremost a trademark infringement.

The fact that the domains are used for phishing or to perpetrate criminal acts is a secondary matter that adds gravitas to Facebook's public presentation of why they are suing Namecheap.

The infringing parties are those that register the domains using Whoisguard, and Namecheap is a non-party witness to the infringement.

So, serving Namecheap a subpoena, and then suing them for compliance after they neglect to respond to the subpoena is apparently a normal method for getting information from an uncooperative non-party witness in a civil legal proceeding.

Presumably, once they are successful in their lawsuit and have the names of the individuals responsible for the domain names, they will hand the evidence over to the police for investigation of criminal acts such as wire-fraud etc.

https://www.weil.com/~/media/files/pdfs/subpoenas-using-subp...
This is not true, the breathing technique is pretty simple.

You just breathe very deep and just relax and breathe out (not fully, just as much as comfortable). You breathe with a rhythm, faster or slower, anyway you like.

After breathing for a while you'll feel tingles or warm/cold sensations all over and then you breathe out and hold. After about 90-180 seconds (some people do more) you inhale, hold the breath for 15 seconds and start breathing normally.

You can immediatelly start another round of breathing.

That's it.
I saw a picture of someone in china using an inflatable t-rex costume as a makeshift hazmat suit.
Anthony Levandowski, Former Google Self-Driving Engineer Files for Bankruptcy
Apparently, Ontario used to have a much large welfare program prior to 1995: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2018/ontario...

So I guess that suggests that even if a UBI is implemented that it could be cut or repealed in a future government.
Light trucks abounded in my experience long after that tax. I thought the big change was that, starting maybe around 2000, full-sized trucks started getting nearly the same fuel economy for casual driving as compact trucks. I always suspected it was that, combined with the overall trend for preferring larger vehicles, that caused the relative decline of compact trucks.
Surely doctors get their masks from medical suppliers and not off Amazon or from corner stores?
dmr’s forward is my favorite part though. As others have said a lot of the criticism in the book has been addressed over the years. I came late to the party so I missed out on a lot of the early bugs and mis-features of UNIX.
A black swan is a rare event. It's appropriate for COVID-19, as its death toll is either already higher than some of the outbreaks you listed, or is expected to surpass them in the near future. Bill Gates called COVID-19 a once-in-a-century pandemic (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762)

Death tolls:

• less than 11k: Zika, Ebola, MERS, SARS
• 575k for H1N1 (2009)
• 1M for H3N2 (1968)
• 2M for H2N2 (1957)
• 32M for HIV

By the end of March, COVID-19 will have killed more than the diseases in the first bullet point.

Within a year, COVID-19 will probably have killed more than 2M, so more than each of H1N1, H3N2, H2N2, see this chart https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1233876986025480192 which I pulled from https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/nCoV-public/an...

Compared to HIV, which is by far the deadliest outbreak in your list with 30 million killed, it would take a while for COVID-19 to kill as much. However some experts say the virus might become endemic, staying around the planet for the foreseeable future, never completely eradicated. If that's the case, then over time it is possible it could end up killing 30M. After all it is more severe than the seasonal flu, and the latter has killed tens of millions over the last century.
> Humans don't just use coincidence finding

Maybe not just, but we do use it, except we do it by converging our eyes for _actual_ coincidence within a small focal center instead of ambiguous coincidence everywhere in the field of view like CV stereo typically tries to do. Gimbaled cameras that (metaphorically speaking, of course) "look" where drivers are supposed to look with an attention model instead of being statically coplanar could do this too.
This hardly seems like responding in good faith.

At any rate, I believe the poster you responded to was using hyperbole to equate "history of the Kardashians" with some degree that he or she deems "equally as useless."
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The sliding overhead doors you find on typical residential garages don't open the full height of the door opening.
I've had a much different experience at 2 very large asset managers, and one pretty large hedge fund.

They all have strict security, but we can remote just fine. My phone has a locked-down VPN set up so I can communicate by phone, slack, and email, and I can remotely log in to my computer through Citrix. My previous companies have had similar set ups. I was involved in the portfolio management and research side of things, and this was true for all of my colleagues.

Remote access to Bloomberg terminals works fine through these solutions.
Nope, I'm still using it.

I currently using it through my own web app that's aggregating RSS, Reddit, HN, Twitter and Youtube.

Planning for a long time to launch it as a product but never got around it.
Thing is, Tesla is not one of the mega-corporations in the running; it's Waymo (Google), Cruise (GM), and possibly Apple.
OP is perhaps being a bit modest, but his own website https://pron.github.io/tlaplus is a fantastic resource.
While you're looking out for laughably low vehicle utilization, count the number of cars that only have a driver and no passengers.
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> Where do you think all this Income is going to come from?

As I mentioned:

> divert those funds from corporations into the hands of the people

To be fair, it's true that won't cover the entire bill. However, between reducing spending in other welfare programs, the increase in economic output and implementing a VAT, the gap closes pretty quickly.

As a sibling comment mentions, the math is pretty straightforward. Let's also not forget the second- and third-order benefits to society and the economy that will result from most of the population having more purchasing power and economic freedom.

Do you think it's fine that Amazon and friends pay next to nothing in taxes by exploiting the tax code? Why are we (taxpayers) subsidizing mega corps who are making money hand over fist?
Our experts have a range of certifications - we have PhD's, mater's level educators with degrees in child development, PsyDs, BCBAs, LMFTs (to name a few). While the state by state laws are changing all the time, the restrictions are around the service provided. Our experts have the background information on child development, and the experience working with families, but we are not providing counseling, therapy or diagnoses on our site. We provide coaching and support for challenges. Professionals are trained to know when to refer out and when they are crossing the line into this territory.
I don't remember, I think that he may have dove into the shallow end. I'll ask the wife tomorrow, she remembers everything! The horrible thing is that the pool was crowded, and so many other children were playing within touching distance while he drowned.
> It does make me think, however, what would happen if I were to sprain an ankle or break a leg and be unable to run to generate heat.

This is a big fear of mine as well. If I'm going out of cell coverage, I always bring the 10 essentials and at least one extra layer. Even if my legs are cold, at least I'll have a fleece jacket.
That reminds me of the witches in His Dark Materials
This is the same argument that could be leveraged against any privacy focused company. In fact it has been, against Apple and the various privacy focused email companies and WhatsApp and VPN companies, the list goes on.

What did you expect Namecheap to do? Take your word for it and ban one of their customers, just because you said so?
Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital calls coronavirus the Black Swan of 2020
> But if UBI replaced all normal welfare (excluding disability etc) is that such a bad thing?

Part of the problem is that some welfare is not about the money, but the support. UBI is less likely to help someone with mental issues than someone who hates working at 7/11 while studying. Generalised, UBI likely helps those who have an impermanent problem over those that have longer term issues.

Society likely would still need welfare services for those people who struggle with the multiple travails of existence.

Personally, I'm less interested in UBI in the first world, where welfare is pretty good already and the negative affects are unknown and complicated. I'm more interested in what affect it would have on the third world, where the downsides - disincentives to work etc - seem far less of an issue. https://www.givedirectly.org/ubi-study/ is a good example.
Since I'm getting downvoted, I find nulls way more useful than outer joins, if you disagree I'd be interested in examples.
Ownership of land, legal entities, and domain names should be public information because that would be better for society.

EDIT (HN won't let me reply or post any more):

> Maybe they're exposing corruption or sharing information that powerful people don't want to have exposed.

Sure there are edge-cases where anonymity would be desirable, but they pale in comparison to the real harm done every day to regular people through anonymously registered domain names.
The pattern is usually why, then how, then what.

https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...
Right, but you don't do that. The people who are happy passing functions around are not happy passing multiple callbacks around, by and large. (For example, rather than separate hasNext and next functions, you'd have a single function that returned an optional value).
"You can sleep when you are dead, and luckily due to lack of sleep that will happen sooner"
Replied elsewhere.
Alacritty clears with Ctrl-L, out-of-the-box.

Also, from `man bash`...

> clear-screen (C-l) Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. With an argument, refresh the current line without clearing the screen.
Interesting ideas - thanks for sharing and for checking us out!
Newsblur is my Internet's start page. We use MS Teams at work and I have noticed that coworkers have setup RSS subscription channels to follow businesses, etc.

I use hidden RSS feeds on many websites (/feed on Wordpress for example), it is a shame they are not visible.
> except we do it by converging our eyes for _actual_ coincidence within our focal center instead of ambiguous coincidence everywhere in the field of view.

Only at very close range. That's convergence, and mostly a 5m and less phenomenon (not so relevant at driving ranges).
Related: I used ziploc bags as vapor barriers nested between two pairs of socks while on a multi-month winter hiking trip in trail shoes. It was extremely effective. I could posthole in deep snow all day in my running shoes and not get frostbite.
What's wrong with MD5?
Sounds like his mother had a lot to do with that.
And well the whole Trusted Platform Architecture is simply about having some kind of root of trust implemented by external chip that maintains set of hashes of what the hell runs on the platform and has physical GPIO ports to ascertain user intent. Then somebody had the bright idea to implement that as a process inside the Intel ME architecture...
I can get two adults and three kids into a Prius, and it works okay if we're driving somewhere ten minutes away, but we don't have enough room to include luggage for a family trip.
Or even worse... interruptions!
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"How do you deal with pages that use Javascript to fetch page content after the initial markup is loaded?"

Provide an example page and I will demonstrate how I would solve the problem.

Not every user visits the same websites and web pages, so without giving specific examples, discussions about how to deal with these pages never go anywhere on HN.

To be honest, out of all the websites I have visited over entire lifetime using the www, the number where I have had to make any extra effort because of Javascript in order to retrieve some text/html, image or video is very small proportion. Not one that is large enough to justify using a JavaScript-enabled browser as default. For me, these are exceptional cases, not the norm.

The extra effort is usually a one-off script, not something I need to save.

Occasionally it is something I save for future use. One example of a saved script would be for non-commercial YouTube channels. Goal was a 2-column CSV of all videos from a channel in the form of title, url. Goal was not "perfection", just quick solution.

yy025 and yy032 are custom utilties for generating HTTP and decoding HTML, respectively.

Using a short script called "ytc" the process would be something like the following. openssl s_client is used as an example of a TLS client. "XYZ" is the name of the channel.

echo https://www.youtube.com/channel/XYZ/videos|ytc|sed wXYZ

Connection=keep-alive yy025 < XYZ|openssl s_client -connect www.youtube.com:443 -servername whatever -ign_eof > 1.html

ytc title < 1.html > XYZ.1

ytc url < 1.html > XYZ.2

paste -d, XYZ.[12] > XYZ.csv

Here is the "ytc" script

case $1 in
"")exec 2>/dev/null;
export Connection=close;
yy025|openssl s_client -connect www.youtube.com:443 -servername whatever -ign_eof |sed 's/%25/%/g'|yy032 > 1.tmp;
while true;do
x=$(sed 's/%25/%/g;s/\\//g' 1.tmp|yy032|grep -o "[^\"]*browse_ajax[^\"\\]*" |sed 's/u0026amp;/\&/g;s/&direct_render=1//;s,^,https://www.youtube.com,')
echo > 1.tmp;
test ${#x} -gt 100||break;
echo "$x";
echo "$x"|yy025|openssl s_client -connect www.youtube.com:443 -ign_eof > 1.tmp;
done;rm 1.tmp

;;-h|-?|-help|--help)echo usage: echo https://www.youtube.com/user/XYZ/videos \|$0;echo "usage: $0 {title|url} < html-file"
;;1|title) sed 's/\\//g;s/u0026amp;//g;s/u0026quot;//g;s/u0026#39;//g'|grep -o "ltr\" title=\"[^\"]*"|sed 's/ltr..title=.//'
;;2|url) sed 's/\\//g;s/u0026amp;//g;s/u0026quot;//g'|grep -o "[^\"]*watch?v=[^\"]*" |sed 's,^,https://www.youtube.com,'|uniq
esac
Example of that first point, I woke up one day with extremely dry eyes to the point where it felt like I had a grain of sand in one eye. It was painful every time I blinked. I taped my eye shut to stop blinking which only helped a bit.

I asked if anything could be done other than eye drops which was about 5 seconds of relief but starting to irritate the skin around my eye due to the chemicals.

Optometrist said a full night of sleep. Nothing else will fix it. And he was right.
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Yah. Waymo is doing the same with the lidar, which provides both higher accuracy and higher resolution "ground truth" distance data. And yes, everyone uses sensor fusion and filtering, not just "ML".
That's like saying the solution to homelessness is prison.
This might be what they're getting at. Discoverability with the basic Python repl is bad. You can use help and dir and both are clunky. But install ipython and you're off to the races with autocomplete menus you can arrow key through.
The same companies make both masks, and we have a run on the bank right now.

Most likely 3M and crew are tooling up their production and diverting product to medical customers, but it’s still going to be tight for a while.
This is really cool. I'm actually building a coding language for UI designers, and a UI like this would be super helpful.
According to what system of vehicle classification? I would have guessed crossovers to sell more, if that's considered a vehicle class.