skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things are just a charcoal pad on the inside of a mesh with very large holes. If sawdust can come in my cough can go out.

And I am not saying all masks are dumb. Just this specific one when it is marketed as protection from the current problem. It is fraud.

I spent six hours on the cancer floors of the local hospital the other day getting injections and we had to wear masks in the lobbies. It was the only part of the hospital I know of that required them. But it is the cancer floors and people have very little immune systems. When I was a few months into chemo my WBC count was under 1200. So low they couldn't do anymore chemo.

So every little bit helps. And perhaps I am a bit angsty thinking that people are using the masks for no reason when there are people that actually need them. Again, I am not talking about the ebay garbage mask. I am talking about the ones that actually could help our sickest people.
The problem is that the calls are related. The first gives you the file handle, the second reads it, the third closes it. You need the handle in advance to queue the second and third.

This idea reminds me of pipelined Redis commands. It does work to boost total throughout, but it’s significantly more complicated to use in practice.
Try running the video stream (YouTube has VR mode) in something as simple as cardboard/daydream. There’s something calming and focusing when your peripheral vision is silenced.
The price is reflective of an underlying economic reality. Banishing the price doesn't fix the reality. In fact, the reality could be fixed through the organic incentives created by not engaging in censorship.
It feels like Google's "AI" has reached the point of acting like a (rather stupid) human, complete with all the downsides. Many others I know are increasingly frustrated with this behaviour too, and one produced a very apt analogy: it's like walking into a pet store and asking for a specific type of dog, but being told by the sales assistant "would you like to see these instead" and pointing you to all the cats they have.
> For example, running a search for "car mechanic 94105" doesn't restrict your results to car mechanics that are located inside the 94105 zip code

I am seeing literally that issue with both Google and DuckDuckGo so maybe that depends on the region. My search results, both logged-in and in a private window, are limited to car mechanic websites that mention the zip code. The Google Maps search is not limited, but it's not very good in general, so I usually avoid it. DuckDuckGo finds practically no results in the map view (Apple Maps).

> The zip code is a cheap, easy, and unambiguous way to tell the search engine what you want. It's on the search engine to decide how to respond.

So is "car mechanic bristol uk". The parent's entire point is that DuckDuckGo doesn't consider context for natural language searches and claiming that everyone else is searching wrong is completely missing the point.
What do you mean here? Encoded in their API?

And If they don’t like JWT, why don’t they use something else?
hilarious reading the comments here from people who refuse to acknowledge the intricacies of human behavior. you really think this is going to result in a worse outcome? i think it will deter some bad people from stockpiling and selling. i say this as someone who has sold thousands of things on ebay. i also majored in economics, so whatever econ 101 shit you are about to say is not going to impress me.
I think what you mean is that the rest of the world has domesticated and pacified its populous.

Things were so bad in the United States, why would everybody want to come here?
> or because they are tools made to kill?

Which makes it more important if anything. If its important not to give the government a foothold into knowing all information then how is it irrelevant to then give the government all power of force?

Seems like the power to kill is the ultimate power in any society whether we like it or not.
That’s what BPF is already. It’s not Turing complete. Unbounded loops and backward branching is not allowed.

The problem isn’t Turing completeness. It’s that there’s are too many micro-architectural side channels and unknowns.
Factory eh? Would be nice if America had some of those right now.
Why is there a law that legally obliges employers to write positive reviews? How is such a law implemented and what must be the reasons for supporting such a legislature?
I've worked remote very often and ive always felt that the current open plan offices are way too much of a distraction to get work done. This is the right change and remote working needs this change to happen despite the whining by the usual suspects of people sitting in office until late for no other reason than pleasing their bosses.

Hopefully, the focus will no move to tangible results being delivered than what dress you wear and how much time you spend at office.
Where can we find information about how Google is using KGs? All I can find is pretty old info (freebase etc). there are details of what they do with it (those boxes in searches, but no technical explanation)
One academic solved the problem of not wanting to use "I" and simultaneously not wanting to refer to himself as "we" in a rather creative way. Meet F.D.C. Willard, the first-ever feline to co-author a physics paper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
So, $48 USD/year for 2TB? That's a little less than idrive, as they charge ~70/year for 2TB.
Why not be more inclusive and enable both how humans search as well as how nerds search?
Have you looked at IKEA's offerings? I have 5 bulbs and 3 dimmers switches + Home Assistant and am very satisfied.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tradfri/

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2017/04/17/ikea-tradfri-i...
I totally agree that going too deep into globalization creates tail risks. Switzerland has very high tariffs on many foodstuffs for this very reason. They literally don't care if you bring in 50kg of gold into the country without telling anything to the authorities. But try bringing in 50kg of meat without a valid customs declaration, the cops will be quite angry. You can't eat money.
I had a couple of teachers who were ridiculous sticklers about this in highschool. My hack is remembering the two phrases Affect A change vs cause and effect.
I’ve used Netlify to host small business client brochure sites and everyone is happy.

But I did it on the free plan.

I’m quite unsure where the valuation comes from.
> So, Philips Hue users need a new $60 bridge after 8 years?

Looking at the wiki [1], v2 wasn't released until October 2015, and presumably v1 remained on some shelves for a couple months after that. So more like they need a new $60 bridge after 4 years.

This bothers me about phone updates - my manufacturer provides "two major version updates" - but in the case of my particular phone, it launched one version behind mainline, received the first update couple weeks after launch, I bought it when it was almost a year old because of the release cycle, and got the "second" update two weeks after purchase. They followed their update policy, but still leaves the public hanging.

All that said, I wouldn't buy smart lights anyway, and this situation doesn't bother me and seems like a somewhat reasonable timeline, since it doesn't totally break their functionality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Hue
They probably sell them at a low percentage markup and you can be sure there would be an uproar if they suddenly jacked up prices 5x.
What you're getting at, I think, is that the statement "guns are a tool to kill" is a little too simplistic to be helpful.

You might event continue such a statement with something like "guns are a tool to kill, but it's not clear that their existence has lead to more killing than if they didn't exist."
I have a 3700x desktop and have no issues with it. I have a $200 AMD APU netbook and it's fine. Slow, but I got the performance I paid for.
You lost me on the homepage (sia.tech) there are only 895 hosts storing a total of 206TB right now. That coupled with the shady infrastructure.

You aren’t touching my enterprise data, not even the cold storage logs.
to which extent does it scale? are we limited to in memory graphs?
The director of the WHO recently announced it spreads less effectively than the seasonal flu. It was a front page story on hn, I’m having trouble finding the link though
I would advise never to do business with Walmart, Apple, Microsoft as a small business. They have so much leverage over you, mistake or not things are out of your control from the start. The more work you do for them the more they take over the rest of your business. Get bigger then talk.
Its smart to raise money when money is cheap (right before a recession), especially if your business is particularly dependent on business from other startups. The startups-serving-startups ecosystem is incredibly fragile to downturns.
I feel like starting a business for the express purpose of profiting off of others abusing a public panic is going to end badly for all involved. It is immoral. Not illegal, just wrong.

To me the best type of entrepreneurship is one where everyone wins. Plus then you can sleep at night.
Famously, in the past, in popular media, only bad guys used torture. After 9/11 and the show 24, the good guys started doing it more and more frequently. It’s an awful societal norm
Hours and hours in Minecraft and drawing don't reduce biodiversity (except, perhaps, indirectly via energy consumption for Minecraft).
Battlesnake vs. Jrmpc
> the death rate in the hubei region itself is also several times higher than in most western countries

Italy now has a higher case fatality than Hubei, and getting close to Wuhan.
You're right, also the criminal justice system must be good by your logic too then. Pretty insipid answer don't you think?
I don’t understand how these 3 offerings prove your point? I wouldn’t consider AWS Lambda as a microservice partern.
Fair enough, I misinterpreted the context of your comment. But I wasn’t calling anyone out and my point is still valid regardless. (And besides which, my “point” was just expressing surprise, which doesn’t need validation or qualification.)
> The reason we catch more diseases in the winter is just that we spend more time indoors, physically nearer to other people.

I believe that is just one theory of several possible. We don't really know why respiratory infections go down in the summer.
These kinds of prices (gouging) are not at an idealized equilibrium.

They don't reflect the true supply.

They're just predatory on people who have incomplete information.
It's all just different flavours of radio waves.
No, what I am saying is that by making your life "more miserable" for a short time, you can make the rest of your entire life better.

It is called delayed gratification and it is linked to success in general. That is just an instance of it.

And sure, I can save my whole life and make less than some people can make in an hour. Ok, good for them. But now what can we do? Take their money? It is not going to happen, so I think it is smarter to do with what we have instead of dreaming about a better world that will solve all our problems.

And even if we manage to take all the money from "the 1%" and redistribute it to everyone else, it will be around $20k/year more per household. It is a lot, but not that much. Let's take our $50k/year median household, it is now $70k. In theory that means $20k/year of savings. But when you consider that many $70k/year households are living paycheck to paycheck (but with a nicer car and a slightly bigger house), it probably wont change the saving ability of the average American.

Another way to show that the 1% has nothing to do with savings is to look at other countries. Even when adjusted to purchasing power and inequality, US households has less savings and more income than most western Europe countries.
Virtually all your examples are seaside marshes, not low-lying inland swamps. But your example of Angkor is a good example of a low-lying inland swampy area and, while for a period of history it was a productive, heavily populated area it then experienced a population crash which has extended through to the present day.
Google's DeepMind just shared AI-generated predictions about the coronavirus
Show HN: We evaluated the Portuguese ELMo models published to AllenNLP this week
You can also pair with something like firebase, userbase, etc.
That study has some non-standard numbers? More deaths (6 vs 7) and fewer cases (696 vs 634). Makes me suspicious.
I guess I really don’t need an opinion on the matter, since the rest of the world has already voted with their money and migration preference, no?

Don’t be so salty ;)
Gladwell covered a case study in his book “Blink” that was interesting. As you will guess, he’s exploring what goes into split second decisions like those
> 647,457 deaths/year from heart disease. 599,108 deaths/year from cancer.

I think I heard the last time "old age" was listed as cause of death was in the 1980s. There will always be a reason that people die, and we don't live forever. You can't say that if we cured "heart disease", that half a million people wouldn't die. Your comparison of causes of death to the virus is not logical.
Genuine question: what’s the difference between a gun made for shooting clay targets and one that can kill someone?
The parallelism of the language was notable. You and I do not disagree.
> Half the population becoming infected this year is not that unlikely
> where did the stats come from?

Maybe I misread it, but your article does not corroborate the 50% infection of the US population.
It is supposed to be an international forum, but in practice it is a local group for San Francisco Bay Area. Consider how often articles about housing issues in Bay Area make it to the front page, compared to Vancouver, London, and Tokyo. HN is international in the sense that anyone can access and participate in it. But in practice, mostly SF Bay Area residents do.
Dispute a review. Offer to pay back partial funds to get review removed.
You are confusing "cheapest option possible" with "cheapest option available". Maybe Amazon _could_ be cheapest and most efficient in everything but they aren't, that's why they make a lot of profit with their cloud services. Thus there can easily be a competitor with a cheaper offering, especially if they are cutting some corners as per the article, even if they have some inefficiencies in other areas.
And yet so many other developed countries are significantly less violent than the US, despite having far fewer guns in the hands of civilians
It helps move consoles in the first year or two when they don't have many compelling titles of their own. Not every title gets remastered, and the ones that do don't tend to be launch titles.
In my experience a lot of slopes are slippery, and a lot of people who cry "slippery slope" are disingenuous; they know the slope is slippery and they want to slide down.

As to why slopes are slippery, it may be that it's easy and natural to build political alliances advocating for either side of it, but hard to build an alliance advocating for the middle.
It might have been better to set a maximum allowed price per unit rather than to make the supply evaporate.

To be clear, I think what a lot of these vendors were doing was just immoral. I've been buying these masks for years for our shop. Normal pricing is in the range of $12 for a box of 20 (or something like that).

I would allow a 2x to 3x premium and that's that. I don't have an issue with someone who has an inventory that might be very difficult to replenish getting a reasonable premium. That's OK. When people take an item like this and use an emergency to charge $50 for a $0.50 product, well, that's just wrong.
> You need the handle in advance to queue the second and third

whoops. I probably should have thought of that.
> It's true that the US has more gun violence than other first world countries, but we also has more violence and crime in general.

These statements are misleading as they stand because the variation in the US is so high. Basically, for all types of violent crimes, the US is divided into two very different regions: (1) particular large urban and dense suburban areas, which have rates of violent crime higher than any other developed country; and (2) the rest of the country, which has rates of violent crime lower than almost any other developed country. Even looking at the stats by state doesn't fully capture this dichotomy.
The person shows up to work. If that’s the only nice thing you have to say about an employee, that says something :)
Right - instead they just get a reputation for not having items in stock when you really need them.
Let's be clear - you can hack FreeNAS to add FC functionality, but it absolutely doesn't support it out of the box. I don't see why that would change just because the name changed from FreeNAS to TrueNAS Core. They obviously aren't using a kernel with FC support removed or it wouldn't just be a license key to move to TrueNAS enterprise, it would be a completely different image.
> If you look at companies like Audi, Porsche etc you actually find that they reserve more of the battery capacity for future degradation than Tesla.

But their range is pathetic. Audi e-tron is 204 miles, the Porsche Taycan Turbo is 201. My 100D Model S is 319 miles at 100% SOC (down from 330 miles after ~36k miles), and I get pretty damn close to that if I don't cruise at 80-90 mph (versus the more efficient 70mph). This is with a non-Raven drivetrain; a Raven drivetrain with front permanent synchronous reluctance motor from a Model 3 gets even more range (assume 390 miles is highly optimistic from the EPA test cycle, you're still going to get around 350 miles from it at high speeds or stomping on it). And I get a Supercharger network, which I don't get with non-Tesla vehicles.

I don't much care about long term degradation though; data shows Tesla packs have longevity for hundreds of thousands of miles, and at the rate of battery cost decline [1], I'll be able to swap out the pack for a cheaper, better one in 8-10 years. Why can't legacy automakers do this? Because they don't build the batteries, they're stuck with contracts to folks like LG Chem.

I agree with your link about those older 85kw battery pack owners; Tesla should make them whole instead of nerfing the packs for safety reasons through voltage limits. I assume it'll be resolved with compensation resulting from a class action, which it should be. Looking at public data from a larger cohort of the Model S and X fleet, degradation is typically not substantial.

[1] https://about.bnef.com/blog/battery-pack-prices-fall-as-mark...
> You can argue that this is due to stupid gun owners. Perhaps, but as technology folks, we also understand that you set up systems so incidents don't occur in the first place.

You set up technologies for this, yes. In this particular case, you design handguns that are much harder to have accidents with.

You do not set up legal systems to restrict everyone's liberty because some people have accidents.
Indeed. HD streaming seems to need about 5.4Mbps reliably. Spaces is working well enough, but sometimes I have to pause for ten minutes to buffer enough for the rest of the film. It usually works, but with variable bitrate it must spike at times.
Not as much as you think. 2019 f150 is rated 22/30 mpg. 2019 Honda Civic is 32/40. (Side note, a Prius will only get you to about 50)

So you are going to spend 20-30% less on gas which, depending on how much you drive and gas prices, might amount to around $100/month.

Then of course deduct the cost of a rental and the hassle and if you need a truck once a month, you are already about even.
If you're not too worried about speed nor memory consumption, a simple brute-force LZ77 compressor is, to a first approximation, two nested loops (one to find a match, and one to extend it.) This will also compress better than the hash-table-based approach discussed in the article, since it always finds the best match, although at the expense of speed. In comparison, RLE is one nested loop (to count repeated bytes.)
The analyses and speculation in the article place too much emphasis on sex / gender and too little on general diversity of physical characteristics. But perhaps I am jumping to that conclusion because I regard India as having archaic, sexist modalities.
It's not really clear to me what of any of the concerns about his tweet or other content..... really is.

He characterizes a lot of things but but doesn't actually cite it.

Clearly he feels some of the accusations are inaccurate, so I guess I get why he wouldn't quote that. But he kinda just alludes to some content of his own making and never says what it really was.

The whole article seems like a dance around something.

I'm concerned about some of the incidents at universities involving free speech, but I don't feel like the author here is being very forthcoming.

Also why does every comment posted under this story seem to disappear after a few minutes?
> The spokesperson added that eBay is also "taking significant measures to block or quickly remove items" on its marketplace that make unsubstantiated medical claims.

> On the other hand, I think this is a far more sensible thing to do.

it's sensible as long as the unsubstantiated medical claims are actually unsubstantiated. There's been a lot of stuff going around (including from the CDC) about how masks don't actually protect you from coronavirus and things of that nature - whereas the truth there is that the right kind of masks will protect you if used properly. But there's a limited supply, and telling the masses that they don't work makes getting supply for hospitals easier...
Sure but the point is that ‘long enough’ in this case is so long that we would never actually see it happen.
SARS-CoV-2 Sequences
I was responding the comment “hardly anyone can save”. Apparently Americans can save more than Canadians.

And no, Canadians don’t save as much because of the safety net, it’s because there is a massive housing bubble there encouraging it.
12.5% overhead isn't that much. It's what just the networking gear can easily eat in a data center (12% out of all the non-cooling-related power supply).

Reed-Solomon encoding adds 50%, of you want 3 block per 2 data blocks. Replicated encoding (not relevant here since this is allow throughput usecase, but necessary if you want to sustain high read throughput) is adding at least 200% (if you want a 3x replication, which I think should be the minimum).
Surgeons who do lots of surgery are better than other surgeons who don't. This advantage dominates those of training, resources, years of experience, etc. It's no surprise that inexpensive surgeons in a populous nation would be the best.
I've read this as well, so I didn't try. I also don't want to spend that much. I have 120 movies in Spaces and it only costs me about $8/mo. My egress is under the free tier so far, and overages amount to about four cents per movie stream.
Try answering this one without looking it up:

February 29 2020 + 365 days
> I have no intention of ever pointing it at a living thing

What if you become suicidal? Your current intentions will be subverted by your own emotional state.
I think you're missing the point - if there's a big arbitrage opportunity through price gouging, there will be even less stock in stores.
Twitter did this right before the financial crisis. Given how hard it was to raise funding afterwards, I'd say they did the right thing...
I think when it comes to public crisis, decisions like this should be made by the public as a whole, and in a democracy that means the elected government.

Private individuals shouldn’t have to parse health statistics or educate themselves to the level of virologists. Instead the government should do this work, and issue a decree. If not this, then when will government be useful?