skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I eat a lot of rice and am now worried, but man, [1] is just a random blog that looks like it's a fake news website. The author blurb just says she married the love of her life in 2012. Uh, how is that relevant?

It's the kind of article/site like one you'd see taking a graph of the effects 2011 Japanese quake on currents across the world, and claiming it to be a graph of how radiation has reached California...
Or sick relatives, small house with a lot of siblings. Neighbors throwing a party in the middle of your important meeting.
The seller purported to be selling a service/product that was not provided.

In the US, the terms of service, policy, EULA, whatever, carries very, very little weight compared to the fraud committed by the seller. If you sell someone a thing, you provide them the thing, or the buyer chargebacks.
Don't be so afraid to apply to jobs even if you think you're not 100% up to speed. Job descriptions are a wish list, like what some folks write on their online dating profiles - they'll settle for "less", especially if "less" means a keen, interested person who is personable and will work hard but doesn't have every exact skill they asked for.

Honestly, you don't want to work somewhere that isn't okay with a bit of on-the-job training anyhow. So be brave, and apply, and learn to enjoy quick rejection because it moves you closer to your goal.
I was finally able to get access to the full questions asked in the poll. These make clear that the survey was a fishing expedition designed to elicit viral stats. The questions asked in the poll include “Is Corona related to the coronavirus?” and “In light of the coronavirus, do you plan to stop drinking Corona?” Those presumably didn't get interesting answers, so they omitted them from the report, and instead published on the question of whether people "would not buy Corona under any circumstances now" and made it sound like the first questions. Good lord, it really is like the "Yes, Prime Minister" clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA&t=28s
The one thing I don't get is that everybody assumes there is unlimited demand for Tesla cars, Tesla just needs to be able to produce. But realistically, let's assume that in 1-2 years government subsidies will end then how many people will still want an EV for a price tag of minimum 30k & can afford it? All that Tesla produces are cars for the premium segment despite some mass market rhetoric.
Sucralose is emphatically not natural. It's sucrose with the hydroxylmethyl groups replaced with chlorine.

The most common natural sweeteners are steviasides, extracted from the stevia plant, and sugar alcohols such as xylitol, which occur naturally in foods but are normally synthesized (thus 'natural equivalent' rather than 'natural'). Recently mogrosides extracted from monkfruit are becoming popular, though I haven't tried them myself.

I despise sucralose, for what it's worth. I find the flavor cloying and, though this could be nocebo effect, I don't enjoy my body's response to it either.
Wow, Just! Awesome
On iOS, general content filtering needs to go through a VPN extension.
That's Awful.
Top 20 Dashboard Template
Fast of all, you have to choose an excellent Dashboard template to manage your business through the website.

https://www.electronthemes.com/top-20-dashboard-template/
From a retail investor's point of view, both approaches are wrong. The retail investor can neither "play" the game of stocks, nor understand what it means to buy a business. Not because there is anything magical about either, but because the retail investor has a life too, and would rather focus on their own work for their actual income.

The correct way to look at stock investment is to say "I bought a stake in the future of the world's industry". And that makes you realize what a mind-bogglingly large gamble this is with your savings. People simply have faith that human life will keep improving over the long term, and hence the value of the world's industry will also keep going up irrespective of short term rises and falls.
Ah, they did.[1] The power busbars are in the same place, so you can't have both 12V and 48V in the same rack. The connectors are intentionally incompatible so you can't plug into the wrong voltage.

[1] http://files.opencompute.org/oc/public.php?service=files&t=8...
Focus on One Big Idea
I mean, you really can't trust that the app just isn't a dud and does nothing. But with sandboxing you can prevent the app from reporting your browsing history.
Rob I'm not disagreeing with your greater point but do you mind linking me to some of these taste tests with maple syrup? I could only find one in a cursory search online and it was between two people. Sorry to bug you!
The ECB, of course. It can create an unlimited money and use it to support the stability of banks that are the largest holders of sovereign debt. It's done this before and it will do it again.
PFAS are found in the blood of every human on this planet. Google "sources of PFAS" and you'll learn Teflon products are a primary source.

For example[1]

> the main route of PFAS exposure for most Americans:

> Teflon and other brands of nonstick cookware are still produced with new PFAS that may be no safer.

[1] https://www.ewg.org/pfaschemicals/what-are-forever-chemicals...
Sounds like a job for Bezos Expeditions: municipal lobbying.

As I wrote that I realized they could even employ cashiers to do that instead.
Does Tesla still qualify for large government subsidies? I thought they had ran through their allocation long ago.
Corona Virus Tracker
SWSX was already refusing to cancel despite everyone pressuring them to. It was irresponsible of them to try and keep the event. It was only a city mandate that finally forced their hand.

They’re already clearly profit driven. This type of behavior is just the cherry on top.
They could keep just a few per store to handle that.
Still never understood why governments don't take "oil prices are low" as an opportunity to put in a carbon tax. The low prices offset the tax for the consumer, but then you make it revenue neutral by either cutting some other taxes (e.g. payroll tax) or paying out the money as a UBI.

The result is you stimulate your economy because some of the tax is getting paid by foreign oil interests but all of the money is going to your citizens.
The climb acronym from the article, it is same reason we can’t build nuclear plants on time or or budget anymore.
This is actually the hardest to believe. The virus has run it course in Wuhan and it is likely dieing down as a significant number of people having developed immunity to it.

But outside of Wuhan, there is likely a number of infected persons in the population still transmitting it and waiting to resurface into more serious cases after people get back to work.
Shadowy companies in UTC+02 don't even pay $600k for Android RCE. They pay zero for this stuff.
>So if you close your eyes and visualize a grocery store experience where you put stuff directly into your tote bags or your backpack and walk right out, with 0 time spent on anything after you have everything you need, this doesn't seem like something completely beyond self-checkout to you?

Not at all. It seems like a tiny, infinitesimal even, improvement over self checkout. Waiting in line is annoying, spending a minute or two scanning groceries is not. At least in my area, self checkout moves fast enough that I rarely have to wait for one to be available.
What exactly is impressive? Leaf has more than that in prod already.
SoftBank-backed CloudMinds blocked from exporting U.S. tech to China
A dead simple shell script to find dead URLs in Markdown or Rst docs
Why does everyone keep saying stopping it is impossible. It is literally happening in front of us in China.
I think they're talking about browsers that actually implement most of the spec.
Protecting Crowded Places from Mass-Casualty Attacks
It's amazing the paper got published in the first place – the idea that comparing open source codebases could tell you all that much about the underlying language is sort of bizarre when comparing such different projects to begin with.
There's something interesting about 'sortBy' semantics which you see in some languages.

As the cost of your comparator goes up (especially on real hardware with pointer chasing) the difference between running the comparator m * nlogn times and running the transform m*n times could start to stack up.
Handling it better than a lot of countries…
Cool! EndpointSecurity is pretty nice; I was in the process of writing something like this since it's fairly easy to get started with this kind of monitoring with it.
True, but I fear being more specific would lead to extremely long names that still wouldn’t matter to people who can’t be bothered to read the details or understand their vehicle.

Could the average person tell the difference if they just called one Lane Departure Prevention and the other Lane Departure Prevention with Centering or might people just assume they’re the same? Idk, maybe we should try it.
Hospitals in China have been cancelling all elective surgeries and sending the majority of their in-patient home. This was done partly due to the fears of the virus but also because a large part of irregular staff (nurse assistants contractors, medical students and registrars) were away and unable to work. Bear in mind the outbreak happened in late winter when most hospitals would run at near capacity anyway and there is no way to avoid the loss of life.

I agree that we have not fully realised the effect of the lockdown yet, but from what I have gathered things are not very promising. It's unlikely that people will ever go without food or shelter, however the economic progress they worked hard to achieve in the past decade could very easily be undone.
Nissan had a bit of a head start on Tesla.
In the past 5 days, some organizations who can afford it have shut down offices and are providing just that. I'm not at liberty to expose info on who, because I'm not sure it's been made public or not.
Yes, the ECB is there to support and regulate the banks, that is its job. There is a very good reason for this: if you don't have stable and healthy banks you don't have a functioning economy.

People of your ideological ilk see this as some sort of negative but it's absolutely vital. You may think of banks as evil and having a lot of money, but that money is not theirs but "the people's."
This article claims Tesla is the first to have made 1 million electric vehicles.

Is this incorrect?
Its not entirely peoples fault. There is a delay between when you see space ahead of you and when your car accelerates. You also have to wait for the car in front to move far enough away for you to have a safety gap. To avoid this issue, everyone has to accelerate at the same time, but since you can't know if/when/how fast the person in front will accelerate, you can't possibly plan this without putting yourself at a huge risk of crashing in to the back of them. There are plenty of traffic simulations that show this same effect happening even with simulated, non distracted, rule following drivers.
If you look at highly infectious diseases that were effectively eradicated, most either ran their course and infected hundreds of millions (Spanish flu, swine flu), or were eradicated with both quarantine and vaccination (Smallpox, rinderpest). I would be very interested if you could find an example of a highly contagious disease that was stopped without a cure or vaccine [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_dise...
> They are not watching us for political dissent but for our “behavioral surplus”, the crumbs of data about what we do, where we go, what we look at, what we buy.

That is a falsehood, they are definitely censoring/demonetizing/deplatforming/cancelculturing those that do not adhere to their puritanical Coastal Groupthink, while selling our information.

FB does it. Twitter does it. Google does it. Apple meanwhile, pretends not to do it, while selling us down the river too.
In the US they have. Some state governments still have them.
The Dangerous Delays in U.S. Coronavirus Testing Continue
My God, you're right! Nobody has ever thought about that, or Googled it, let's short TSLA immediately!

I wish I could respond nicely, maybe it's been too long of a day.
too far out of date
Ironically this page sent a payload to a domain call permuative.com, without my permission.

This payload contains user events e.g. how long I read the article, a user identity guid (presumably a fingerprint of my browser), my isp name
Chinese People in Italy
France, for one, has a directly elected president with executive power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_France
There’s a link, right there in my post, with more recent and relevant data than you’re citing, and it is directly from the Korean health services: 59 / 6767 confirmed cases were severe or critical in Korea at the time of the report. That’s a rate of 0.89%

The error bars on that estimate certainly encompass 1-2%, but they don’t span to 20%. Either Korea is doing something fundamentally different, or the 20% number is wrong.

I strongly suspect that OP simply took the “80% of cases are minor” stat, subtracted from 100%, and concluded that 20% are therefore hospitalized. This method is wrong.
Agreed, and I'm more curious anyways about the numerous fruits that have this same effect of increasing the perception of sweetness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaumatococcus_daniellii

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscoreophyllum_volkensii

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentadiplandra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capparis_masaikai

"The fruit contains monellin, an intensely sweet protein with potential use as a sugar replacement. For humans, monellin is 100,000 times sweeter than sucrose on a molar basis and around 3,000 times on a weight basis."
Kids Can Get Covid-19. They Just Don't Get That Sick
WD-40 is so light that it can be flung off a bicycle chain just from going around the cogs, which is a hell of a lot slower than car parts.

It tends to get banned among cyclists, too.
Yes I'd imagine China has cornered the market on Chinese products /s

Innocent typos aside, I think these sorts of vehicles are dramatically underused / undersold in the US. So there may be still a market to be opened up, at least if you can get some value before the international competition comes in.

I think here American company has to market these things, less they be branded as foreign and wimpy. And even then, looks at segway it's a delicate act.
Sure when stakes are high, the sales people are of different caliber. It becomes a big team that's trying to find the best solution for the company - there are written project proposals, reviews and decision meetings. They don't use sleezy techniques and unruly ways to "get them". Or aggressively piss people off.

But that's not what this website appears to targetting: https://salesforfounders.com/

My perception is that 90% of the sales people I meet are unpleasant just like 90% of the ads I see are bad. Then you come across a cool Hermes advertisment that you want to sit through because its beautiful.
Damn shame how there are no laws to regulate this sort of a thing. The obvious convenience means this tech will be the norm. Is it better to live in a society where my movement being tracked is the only way to buy groceries compared to a third world country where I barely survive? I don't know, but it truly is remarkable how technology has ruined even the most basic human freedoms and dignity. The more I look at new tech the more I wonder if technology is like a bell curve where right now humanity is over the peak and descending rapidly to the point where the benefits of tech are outweighed by it's harms. At the end, it isn't technology's fault but man's greed and arrogance
Per Wikipedia...

"Global sales totaled over 400,000 Leafs by March 2019"

That is awesome and the Leaf is a fantastic vehicle only limited by its range. But it does not sound like one million Nissan Leafs have been produced. And the Tesla milestone still carries extra significant because all of its models are reasonable replacements for ICEs in most households. The Leaf is suited to a much smaller set of use cases.
Does anyone want to have a retrospective view and consider how we elected a stupid celebrity as President?

We elected someone who filled up all important positions with incompetent fools and weakened the government everywhere it matters. Why is everyone so surprised?

At this point no one should be surprised that the rest of the world is looking to China for solutions, strategy to deal with outbreaks, possible vaccines and even bringing back economic growth. The US cannot show leadership in anything.
One of the main reasons to do things like close schools and work from home is to slow the spread of the virus so that it doesn’t spike in large numbers. This helps prevent the health care and similar support systems from being overwhelmed. It is likely that many/most people will eventually get the virus but if that happens over a spread out timeframe there is a better chance of maintaining adequate health support.
Edit: contact made, thank you!

If anyone is reading this with connections to the Gates Foundation: Please contact Dr. Robert Kruse at John Hopkins. https://twitter.com/RobertLKruse. I have been trying to get in touch with people at Gates. This announcement unfortunately features no contact email address :(

Dr. Kruse is developing an extremely promising therapeutic, ACE2-fc, which will both neutralize the virus and treat the symptoms of the disease. It has been shown to work in vitro; variants have been tested in animals models; and its been through Phase II human trials for a different indication. A variant of the therapy, soluble ACE2, is being trialed in humans now in China.

Details on the approach can be found in his paper here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029759/ see "ACE2 immunoadhesin strategy"
The AWS Graviton2 is definitely something special, but its CPU cores are off-the-shelf ARM Neoverse N1 cores that anyone can license - Linode and DO can just buy e.g. the Ampere Altra for the same result.
No...

You have X inside a sandbox. It has the filtering logic, and can't report home. Cool.

But you need Y outside the sandbox so that your content actually gets filtered. Without Y, your "filtering app" does nothing. You need code that is outside the sandbox.

But how do we set up Y? In the context of a mobile device, Y would have to be a VPN app.

But the original problem is that we can't trust VPN apps to do what they say.

So even though you moved the actual filtering logic into X, and put it in a secure sandbox, you didn't solve the problem of needing to trust an app.

(And "put Y into the trusted OS" is not a valid solution toward getting filtering on "locked-down mobile platforms".)
Ask HN: What are the best charities that do some good?
I mean, don't just hold the money and pay obscene salaries to their executive teams - and have demonstrative, quantitative evidence that they contribute to solving the problem they are focused on.

Thanks
You would think that repeatedly charging people for procedures that never have been performed would also be viewed as criminal but they get away with it all the time.
I am extremely disappointed in the American government on this. We have had a significant warning and we've seen the virus in multiple countries and the response has been so lackluster.

Why should we wait 20 days for things to get terrible before going to quarantines and lock down? Surely China and Italy have shown us our future.

I partly think the problem is political. If you quarantine and the virus is controlled, then it looks like you panicked over nothing, because you took this huge reaction and nothing much happened. However, if you wait till it's sufficiently bad and then you quarantine everyone will understand what you did, and later, you may get praised for your decisive leadership in a time of struggle.

What I mostly wish is that citizens could throw some sort of flag now to say "This crisis is being poorly handled. If this goes badly, let's have a review, figure out why, and correct the problem once this is settled."
It's great what tesla has done to push electric vehicles to the point of a status symbol, and prove their viability as an every day driving car.

Tesla is a remarkable company, but they are terrible at building and delivering cars, which is very much the primary competence needed to succeed as a company that sells cars. Their production rates have dramatically trailed their promises, and while they are valued at around $160B, they are hoping to build about 500k cars this year. Volkswagon builds that many cars every 2 weeks or so, and actually makes a profit on each car, as does Toyota (10M cars each, per year, for VW and Toyota, 7M for GM and Hyundai, per year). Tesla is worth more than any two other car companies (other than Toyota) while producing around 5% as many cars as any one of them, if Tesla hits their goals.

Success as as a car company is more about being able to produce cars that people want -- efficiently, than it is about designing cars that people want. Otherwise Lamborghini would be selling more cars than all the other car companies combined, if posters and dreams could somehow translate into units shipped without regard to price or ability to actually build cars in the necessary volume. The two huge success stories in cars are Ford, who invented the assembly line, and Toyota, who invented Kanban, both of which dramatically increased the quality while decreasing the labor input of manufacturing cars. Tesla, with all their claims of automation, produces cars using about 1/3 the automation of Toyota today (9 vs 24 cars for full-time employee per year) while using accounting tricks to claim large per car margins, while showing a large loss using standard accounting practices.

I think if I had to make a guess, Tesla will be in the same chapter in the history of cars as DeLorian and Duesenberg.
Interestingly related to my favorite approach at a solution: genetic algorithms.

You don’t know if you’ve converged on THE solution but you can know you have a solution.
I disagree. Intel’s capacity needs are huge, to the point where the benefits of outsourcing just can’t happen. Also, it’s not a good idea to rely on others, because they can screw up. Remember 28nm and the graphics fiasco?

Sure, the costs will be high and there will be some risks of an in-house fabs but it’s Intel. They’re better off with it.
They did mostly in US, there are still some significant subsidies in European and Asian countries. Regardless I believe demand for EVs will explode in the next decade and Tesla's challenges will stay in production, not in demand.
I think there is a massive market of young people that would love to own a Tesla when they reach the required income level. It’s a green product, from a company with grand ambitions to address climate change, and an incredible car. Everyone I know who has one loves it, and most who get to drive them, wish they had one. It feels like the future, and 30k isn’t a crazy price for the value if offers.
I can understand critiquing Tesla's business models, their claims about the cars, their financial status, or even Musk's character. But calling what Tesla has done over the last 10 years unimpressive makes no sense to me.
Wait what? I know there have been police called to stores but what do you mean guarding? Are they literally standing in the store watching the TP?
Again, you can't trust that the app actually does filtering, because as you said the filter list is loaded and evaluated by code that has no obligation to do this. But it can't track your internet browsing because the component that could, the VPN extension, is inside a sandbox.
[1] looks like a spam blog.