skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there are alternatives, but If you spend a significant amount of time in your vehicle everyday, the size and comfort of the vehicle does come into play. For one, if you are a big person, either horizontally or vertically, a Prius can become less than comfortable. Also, sciatica and back issues can come into play. I know for me, sitting for too long in a small car keeps me folded a little too tightly to the point that my lower back will start to throb. Where sitting up and stretched out with a high enough seat to keep the bottoms of my thighs supported while feet are flat on the floor or at the petals makes a big difference for back and leg pain.
> I could certainly install MinIO (a S3 compatible object store) on a home NAS and charge people for it

But how would that work? You'd probably make a website or app that had users sign up for an account, and then with that account they could associate payment information from a payment processing company, and then you'd provide them with credentials where they could log in to their Minio instance. Right?

Then, you have to go out and market your service, explain to people why they should use it instead of existing alternatives, convince people that you're trustworthy, build a reputation, and generally do sales.

In the case of Sia, you build your host, plug it in, announce it to the Sia blockchain, and then clients from all around the world start paying to use your storage.

Clients don't have to register for an account first, don't have to involve a third-party payment processing company, and don't need a sales pitch because they algorithmically test, measure, and rank hosts.

I remember at the outset of the web, a new thing was this user demand for services to become "self-serve", as in, you would no longer need to talk to a salesperson and establish a relationship in order to buy something — even something custom. I see this as the next step of that, where you want to be able to programmatically and algorithmically establish and dissolve those kinds of service agreements.
I kept a build script running open a Netlify, announcing to a websocket and everyone messages that, then the build reads the messages and generates static content.

Now I'm working on sourcing from the Dat Project. I'm thinking with MDN Sync Manager, you can go device to device, sort of, and need no cloud platform at all. I keep a GCE free tier running so there's always a peer.

Don't mind talking about it. Building something takes a ton of work and recently I got suck into a fp-ts black hole. It's awesome.
The Battle of Sadr City, Iraq March-May 2008
In practice it's more like they are expected not to profit excessively. See the $700 epipens & surrounding firestorm.
> If you give E2EE to the masses, then the endpoints will need to remain vulnerable by design, or LE/IC won't be able to do their jobs fighting criminals.

I don't buy this argument. Law enforcement still has plenty of other ways of going after criminals. All the E2EE in the world won't stop an informant from turning over decrypted versions of communications to the cops. In fact, E2EE makes that evidence more valuable since it's harder for the person at the other end to claim they didn't send it when they're the only one with that private key.
I can just see Facebook know which banking apps/websites I'm using, and I just don't understand why...
Frequency matters for interference, also mesh versus access point makes a big difference in the real world.
Economics in the time of Covid-19: A new eBook
eBay is a somewhat unique case, because the goods are often resale items. However, the reaction of many social-economics-warrior types suggests they have failed to realize that this kind of behavior is exactly why there is such a shortage of masks in the first place, despite somewhat recent scares with SARS and Ebola.

Letting prices rise is one way to increase production in a hurry. If the mask producers only get to make the same profit margin regardless of demand, why bother fronting the money to increase stock or investing in extra storage space, if there is no guarantee they will be able to recoup those costs during black swans?
The panic buying has also trickled over to isopropanol/IPA. I needed to buy some anyway and I picked up a litre earlier this week for about £6. At the time Amazon had a lot for sale, now they're all out.

Given that consumer hand gel is basically just IPA diluted down to 60% (see edit), I also bought a few tubes of aloe vera to mix it with... I suspect a lot of other people had the same idea.

It looks like there's a lot still available on eBay, so if you really want to by sanitiser, you might as well make your own. Just remember to dilute it a little, 99% won't do too much damage, but it's not particularly kind to your hands if you rub it in on purpose. It's also extremely flammable!

EDIT:

The WHO has published guidelines on making your own gel: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf

Interestingly Wikipedia seems to suggest that you should use at least 90% alcohol to kill flu. And that lower concentration formulations are potentially ineffective because they evaporate before killing stuff off. Hospitals use 70-95%. Obviously the higher you go, the more flammable things get.

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

This article tested a number of gels vs rinses:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> Based on our efficacy data, we do not consider any of the tested alcohol-based hand gels to be suitable for hand antisepsis in the health-care setting because their antimicrobial efficacy may be insufficient to prevent the spread of pathogens. Future ethanol-based hand gels used in hospitals should contain at least 80% (v/v) ethanol as the active ingredient and should be as effective as the EN 1500 reference alcohol within 30 s.
ALSO be aware masks like that have one-way valves to make exhalation more comfortable. They're just a little rubber flap so the exhaled air is not filtered.

So construction mask like that might catch some inhaled droplets but won't do protect others from exhalation if the wearer is ill.
Netlify is glorified S3 + Cloudfront hosting.

They did a very good job at marketing "HTML5 hosting"
> The exception that exist are narrow defined and up to the legal system to decide per case if a decision to kill by a citizen can be forgiven based on circumstances.

That's exactly right. It's a rare, exceptional case that someone really has to defend their life with lethal force. If you must but legally can't, how free are you?

It's an even rarer case that you would absolutely need unbreakable end-to-end encryption. So yeah, it's the same argument, and you're right that one is less valid than the other.
This thread: how the laws of economics and human nature don't apply in this situation.
At my last job we turned a $1M SaaS implementation into over $5M in incremental revenue inside of two years with a team of just 4 people and offloaded an external vendor that was costing an additional $1M/yr. At a company that size (yearly revenue sub $1B) that was a significant return on our investment.
What does this mean, practically? Do doctors profit from misery? Are insurance companies inherently virtuous because they have to pay out for misery?
It will just wear out faster
I'd love to read them also, e-mail is in profile!
You're off by an order of magnitude. 3% of 150m is 4.5m.
In theory, anyone can start their own online store on Shopify or other platforms.

In practice, it will take a while to catch up with eBay on customer acquisition front.
What is the cost of a mask when the capacity of the existing factories is tapped out and (in principle) one more mask requires a new factory? It's fuzzy when that point comes exactly, but it kind of has to exist. If you want to say the cost of masks is exactly what current operations require, then that one mask must be millions and millions of dollars. So who pays for it?
Amazon and other places seem fond of word bubble type information.
With let outside the try, because that's the intended scope. Insofar as there is a problem I see with that, it's that you can't separate declaration of a single-assignment value (const) from the one allowed assignment, because the ideal solution would be const declared outside the try with the assignment inside.

OTOH var declared inside is a bad solution because it's both misleading as to scope and using a freely-assignable variable for something that's logically single-assignment. Let outside has only one of those problems.
Planes that are freshly painted are 'slick' -- they have noticeably less drag! A good paint coating also makes it easier to wash dirt and other contaminants, which cause drag and corrosion.

Corrosion is indeed a problem, but only severely for salty places.

Paints also have UV screen for plastic composite components.
McDonald’s releases a limited time McLobster in Canada if and only if the price gets low enough.
Hans Reiser denied parole. Next hearing in 2023
I just switched to Netlify from GitHub Pages a little under two weeks ago. The process of setting up DNS and switching everything over was seamless, I'm very pleased with the site under the free plan. I was choosing between Netlify and AWS and chose Netlify due to simplicity and a better free tier, even though it costs a bit more (or theoretically would in the long run).

A bit of economics:

The free plan offers 300 minutes of build and 100 GB of bandwidth. To compare, AWS S3 offers 20,000 GET requests for free. Given my pages average about 1 megabyte (other stuff is served from third-party CDNs, which are free). Thus 1 GB of bandwidth is approximately 1000 page views. In other words, Netlify offers about 5X as many free page views per month as AWS. I'm under absolutely no danger of getting to 100K page views, in a good month I get a couple of thousand. However, let's assume that I start writing better content and more people read it, like more than 100,000 page views per month. In that case, Netlify overage costs 20 cents per GB, AWS costs 9 cents. Overall, "at scale" Netlify is about twice as expensive as AWS S3 for static sites, but it's better at modest scale.
I don't think it's as black and white as that. If demand exceeds supply, you have to have some means of making them match. But it doesn't have to be price. You just have to accept that it will be something and not pretend there is no issue. In WWII, people got through it with rationing.
Happened yesterday, March 5. Nobody seems to be covering it yet. Click on the orange button near the bottom to see the denial.
And if they lie about those? Which they will because your scenario starts with "sufficiently uncooperative that you are going to torture them".

What you're actually going to do is here the answer you already know, stop the pain and ask something else, and thus tell the person exactly what to say to make the pain stop - while having no actual ability to know if there answer for E is truthful or if they even know it. Eventually you'll get an answer you like, and that will be the only answer they give because again, it made the pain stop.
Yeah I like that description.

Dev ops is a tighter connection between development and the life of an application, including monitoring, etc.
There is no supply. It's a supply-shock-like type of situation. There are not enough masks for all the people that want them, let alone all the people. You have to wait for new masks to be manufactured. And I wouldn't blame the Chinese if they halted the shipments with their equivalent of an Executive Order.
It's very easy to misinterpret what a theorem means. And doing this can derail a conversation for decades.

I remember two such cases.

The theorem that two hidden layer neural networks can approximate any function - Common interpretation: two layers are enough.

And a proof of well I don't recall the details... being interpreted as imaging being limited by wavelength. Then came super resolution which worked around it by not using some of the implicit assumptions of the common interpretation.

So I think it's justified to take issue.
4) Contract gets unknowingly signed and shelved, OP moves jobs and his/her replacement assumes the signed contract is legitimate.

Rare, but I've seen it happen.

FWIW I completely agree with both you and OP - it's a totally boneheaded move, but you should never underestimate how boneheaded some people (lawyers in particular) can be.
> I wouldn't word it like this if it wouldn't be a very noticable pattern of behaviour comming pretty much only from US customers.

But that's the thing... do you have access to a representative, uniform, random sample of US customers? Do you have a similar sample of customers from other regions to compare against? Are those samples based on your actual data rather than personal anecdotes? Have you eliminated hidden variables that could better explain this behavior than simply the place they are from?

If you answered "no" to any of the above, you're suffering from availability bias.

> After seeing it first-hand, I'm noticing this attitude even in fields like global politics, where burning goodwill to gain very minor advantages seems to be the policy these days.

And that one is called confirmation bias.
Wifi, Bluetooth, cellular, bespoke solutions, etc. are all "just radio waves" yet entail a vast spectrum of engineering and business requirements including cost, power usage, implementation complexity, reliability, interoperability, and range.
US sanctions worsens COVID19 crisis in Iran
Mask manufactures are selling at retail. Rising prices on eBay don’t help them at all.
AMD is competitive in perf/core now. Intel has been largely stagnant since Skylake, while AMD has been improving dramatically, starting with Zen in 2017.

That being said, your organization's problem isn't AMD vs Intel, your problem is Oracle. If your org spent the money you currently spend on Oracle licenses on a bestial monstrosity of a I AM BECOME DEATH DESTROYER OF WORLDS machine running postgres you'd have better performance. Regardless of whether it's AMD or Intel. (although you're probably better off with AMD)

I know it's not that simple. Just sayin'. Making sure HN meets its daily Oracle hate quota. Seriously though, Oracle sucks.
Same thing here in NZ, they're actually putting lobsters back in the sea.
Every once in a while my card simply doesn’t work for a day or two. One time it was during an emergency.

Sometimes it’s fraud. Imagine not being able to eat because your card was locked by the bank.
That wouldn't work well because you'd need to re-open and seek (or re-read) before continuing.

Ideally readfile would take and return a filefd (default -1); if present, skip the open and just read (closing on EOF). This also fixes the EINTR/SA_RESTART issue loeg[0] raised. From a C perspective, it does have a problem of needing to return multiple values (both a fd and a bytecount), though.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22509329
Who's going to be the first startup out the door to try to sell "EARN IT" compliant encryption and lobby the government to recommend their product for "best practices" implementation?
thanks, interesting news.
Obligatory futurama reference:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/w4gk7d/futurama-cold-outbreak
Yes, cars being the biggest problem. If you're broke and you buy a new car, you end up with a lease or something with a big down payment; the other option is you have a huge finance issue, where you won't finish paying off your car for 7 years after it has 100k+ miles, and now you still owe 5k on a car that's breaking down, with monthly payments of $500/month+.

During this time, your rent has likely been raised each of these years.

Also during this time, you started making 50k, and are probably still making 50k.

The United States is in a very vicious cycle, mostly based around living, working, and commuting.
Yes, remember mortal kombat? 5fps gore created the ESRB. Up until then it was a-ok to shoot bad guys (Hogan’s alley) or stomp on overgrown turtles (Super Mario)
Ddcutil: Linux Monitor Setting Management
Huh?

I cannot think of a better thing that I would want people to profit from, than the act of reducing misery around the world.

The people who reduce misery are the ones most deserving of profits and reward.
No, my point is that if the stores raised prices they wouldn't be cleared out for arbitrage or hoarding.

You seem to think it's possible to eliminate all resale markets, and thus eliminate the arbitrage opportunity. Ignoring the fact that hoarding would still exist, I would say such a thing is essentially impossible. Which makes the only way to eliminate the price difference (supply and demand curves held static) to have the store raise prices.
That’s what I’m talking about. Being the place to buy and sell hand sanitizer and masks would be an angle to build an initial user base.
I want to see stats for this. There's an evolutionary reason why ass holes exist and they exist because the ass hole strategy is viable. Good people exist too, also because there is viability in the good strategy as well.
I grew up with our family 'car' being a Toyota Hiace van (Australia, no idea what it was called in the US). We lived in the country and needed something that could carry us two kids plus a small animal or 5 (dogs, sheep, a shetland pony once), or bales of hay, or bags of feed. It could take 4x8 sheets at an angle and when we road tripped to family it could fit a king single mattress in the back to sleep on.
Having a job is not necessary for survival. Having a functioning ecosystem is.
This might be surprising to some but most sanctions come with human cost, at least in terms Quality of Life if not resulting in preventable or even direct deaths.
There are many, many apps for Hue lights.

The one I use most is Hue Pro by Prismatic LLC. I like its highly customizable widgets.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benchevoor...
Marketing can be legitimate. Marketing includes putting up information about your products and services on your own website that people need to proactively go to to be exposed to. The problematic industry is push advertising, which is pushing information onto people that they didn't seek. That's basically never legitimate.
> (paraphrased) domain experience means they ae best

As someone who has worked with a couple of market leaders in their respective fields i want to disssaude anyone who would listen of this notion. NO, the market leaders aren't doing things optimally. Some things are downright stupid.
For the physical hand-shake key-exchange mentioned?
Ask HN: Do you live in a city in the United States?
I'm working on an idea for a SaaS product that is geared towards cities in the United States. I'm trying to gain a better understanding of a specific landscape in cities across the United States. I don't want to share too many details on this post but if you live in a major city in the United States and would be willing to answer a couple questions I would greatly appreciate it.

My email is aleckendall585@gmail.com
Nothing changed for me, went from 2 cups to 0 cold turkey. Zero effects.
Lyft does the same. And when you tap on 3-stars it even says "Just OK" yet it treats it like it was a horrible ride.
You are absolutely right to ask if I'm not following. Sometimes I fail to follow. In terms of Pure logic, I'd love to learn about that one day.

Anyway, deducting a conclusion from reality can be possible, though I'm not sure I agree trivial. I will say I think using statistical past experiences to model future outcomes without understanding underlying mechanisms of action would normally be consider inductive reasoning, not deductive.

But even if you arrived at your conclusion using deductive reasoning you could still create a logically valid statement that is unsound. Which is why I ask, what were the original observations that allowed you to deduct that the infection rate will be near 100%.
I don’t know, is it that impractical for a group of conspirators to meet in person a single time, exchange a bunch of 1TB hard drives with identical one-time pads, and then conduct their business accordingly? Surely that’s enough for a substantial amount of communication. Impractical for large-scale communities of illicit behavior but definitely practical for small groups of people
I think some "files" that are actually devices or pipes and stuff, for them the number of bytes in the file doesn't make sense, while bytes read does make sense. That may be why.
Imagine a method like this:

1. Enqueue A = openat(...)
2. Enqueue B = read(A, buf, sz)
3. Enqueue close(A)
4. Commit, return B to userspace

A and B are placeholders, and A is never known to userspace, it is simply chained within the enqueued commands.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, of the WHO, got a rare glimpse into Beijing’s campaign
As a browser developer, I really do want to know why folks choose native over web. [Disclaimer: I'm not denying that there are sometimes valid reasons!]

If you do reach that point, I hope you share the factors contributing to your decision.
It might matter to your customer. Especially if you are trying to succeed in the B2B market. My side project is a piece of software I am confident has real value, and therefore the price won't be chump change. My biggest early hurdle will be convincing companies that they can trust I will be there to support them. I won't lie, but I'm not going to advertise how small the operation is.
I worked multiple years in an organization led by the founding team. Just dropping a note to say that the team is top-notch, and they are maniacal about listening to customer feedback.

They advocated for and implemented a strikingly similar product within the organization, and it was used for all deployments: development, test, staging, production, etc. The system was a crucial aspect of everyday development and extraordinarily helpful for working with cross-functional partners.
> It’s a common negotiation strategy to be a complete ass and wearing people down. A lot of people will give in just to keep the peace. It also works to ask for more concessions right before closing the deal. You just have to be shameless. I think that’s why sociopaths tend to do well in business.

For lawyers, at least, this might work...once. The second time they try it, you know there'll be no "give" in "give-and-take", so you're not afraid of going in for trench warfare. If they're assholes through-and-through, it's not unheard of for party B to ask party A to switch lawyers.

It's an excessively short-term view of "winning", and it doesn't benefit anybody in the long run.

Source: former corporate lawyer.
But my sanitizing gel says it kills 99.99% of all bacteria and viruses!
Assuming a mortality rate of 1%, only 55 million people, or about 1/6 of the US population will need to be infected to reach 550k deaths directly from COVID-19. The 1/6 and 1% numbers are both conservative. Hence, at least 10x the flu.

The indirect deaths will be larger still because 10x more will be hospitalized, which the medical infrastructure is not prepared to handle.
It seems you’re getting heavily downvoted. I think it’s because CPU and memory are not missing.
"Capitalism cannot work without risk premiums/cost of capital/hurdle rates. It's not capitalism any more because the capital has no decision to make (everything will be funded, no matter how good or dumb)"

I think you and a lot of people have lost perspective and are putting the cart before the horse.

The whole point of capitalism, the only justification, is to benefit society by driving profits to zero.

The stock market is not a machine to produce profits, it is a machine to eliminate opportunities for profits.

Profit is an intermediate step to the basic social purpose of moving resources where they are needed. The collapse of interest rates and profits are evidence of success.
Funny, I got to the same conclusions as the authors did by using Airbnb all the time and reading and writing reviews.

To see just one bad review is a huge sign not to rent the place, as everyone are so super polite to each other, even despite negative experiences.

And hell yeah, I’ve written/read too those lukewarm reviews. They are the most trustworthy, imo.