skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but they’re about different things - one is about personal data and our privacy policy, and the other is about how there is nothing to install, update, or patch when using Citationsy, and all your references are kept safely in the cloud. Our privacy policy is very clear on what data we keep (in fact we link to it from one of the sentences OP omitted above - https://citationsy.com/privacy ). The sections are entirely consistent, unless you take a couple random sentences and disingenuously mush them together.
If you are looking for a source of these claims, let me give you one: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-a...

> Administrators also have the ability to join any call at any time on their organization’s instance of Zoom, without in-the-moment consent or warning for the attendees of the call.
That said, we do still name individual species of ebola by where breakouts were discovered. Ebola Zaire & ebola Sudan were the first species identified after their respective outbreaks.

There's even ebola Reston, because of a breakout in Reston, VA. Reston infects humans (we develop antibodies), but does not cause Ebola virus disease in us.
Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns
Agreed. It's the main reason why I've refrained from using Google for business activities, otherwise it would be a no-brainer. If something breaks, I need to be able to call or email someone and receive a response within 24 hours. Anything else is just not tenable from a reliability perspective.
Not criticizing the timing. Criticizing the tone. My rule in life is politely ask first, if no response then by all means, bring the wrath. Does anyone know if they've ignored the concern?

Everybody assumes every company is a villain these days. Maybe this was an overlooking and they'll happily fix? Anybody ever think of that?
I’m not able to access this content, but I’ve noticed several theories about specific chronic diseases being the effects of persistent infections that haven’t been widely recognized as such.

If any of the theories are true, it means that many research efforts have been unwitting attempts at turning symptomatic carriers into asymptomatic ones.
Companies with a bazillion dollars absolutely don't need to be a charity. But I think there's a moral obligation to support the same people and system that allowed the company to accumulate that wealth.

By no means should any company be required to do this - but I know I'm going to take a close look at who I'm spending my money with when this is all over, and I'll be doing it through the lens of what they have contributed back to the communities that let them thrive in the first place.

I hope I'm not the only one.
Actually - you'll be surprised at the shadow IT going on at places like this. Users will literally BEG anyone who knows how to get around these systems how to do so.

It's why your banker might use their cell phone for a zoom client when everyone else is on a computer - their work computer is locked down. Govt employees often the same way. You'll notice they are doing the phone call in or phone client vs their computer.

Lot's of companies, zoom included, get in through the user side not the big webex / cisco type sales process.
Have you seen this paper? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0631-2

They cast doubt on the biological validity of the distinction between ASD, ADHD and OCD.

Similarly, in this editorial – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28714261 – Waterhouse et al write "The ASD diagnosis lacks boundary construct validity because 96% of those with ASD have significant non-diagnostic symptoms, including many who have full comorbid disorders"

Waterhouse et al expand on their arguments in that editorial in this paper – https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40489-016-0085-...
Yeah, it feels like overnight with this pandemic that "zooming" turned into the verb of choice (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/consulting/comments/fmfdh6/my_old_c... ), even for friends of mine who are non-technical and have never used it before, and this is not surprising. Its scalability during this pandemic has been amazing, getting into a zoom call for new users is as simple as clicking a link, and the "brady bunch view" when you have more than 5 people is better than anything else I've tried.
I wasn't even criticizing moderation, because I'm not sure what I could add there because it's your employment to manage this stupidity, but you sure showed up fast assuming I was. Is it really like that now? Nobody can speak objectively about how this site works and point out an incontrovertible fact without you taking it personally and trying to rally a bunch of usernames you've never met to believe you?

I am wary of entering this sort of meta-discussion and usually I would not, but given the slightly unusual topic today, I feel obliged to defend dang here. I have been a participant in HN and various other online forums for a long time. The moderation here, or at least its visible effects, has consistently been handled better than almost any other forum I can think of. That is due in no small part to the calm and incremental approach dang typically takes when someone in a discussion is making unconstructive comments or lowering the tone.

One of the original questions in this discussion was about what makes a healthy forum. I don't really know what "healthy" means in this context, but I have found that dedicated moderators with a soft touch are something I associate with a lot of the most useful and enjoyable forums I'm familiar with, social media or otherwise. If generally constructive commenters occasionally drift towards incivility, as many of us sometimes do if we have strong feelings on a subject being discussed, I would prefer to see a gentle push to keep the standards of discussion up, rather than see the admins wielding the ban hammer at the slightest opportunity. That said, I also appreciate the admins of a forum wielding that ban hammer if someone is persistently making comments that are unpleasant and contribute little value to the discussion. Obviously I don't know what if anything happens invisibly here, but the visible part of HN has consistently tracked closer to those two ideals than most of the other online forums I know over many years.
This user is explicitly not paying for that old account. If you do pay for an account, you can get slightly better support.

But the account in question is closed for non-payment.
How Soon Will Covid-19 Peak? (and How to Tell) [video]
Ask HN: Trends HN helped you see
So in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, there a number of "things" that I knew would be big before most of the general populace would be big.

The most memorable one for me was I had decided to invest $100 into bitcoin when it was under $1. I went to an exchange, created an account, and then chickened out when they asked for my bank info. I just didn't trust the exchange yet since it was so new. Could've been retired by now :)

The rise of data-science and the global impact of COVID were two other trends that I was aware of "ahead of time" due to regular reading of HN.

What trends have you seen coming that (with the benefit of hindsight) you had a pretty good feeling would be big because of the coverage here? Any trend predictions that were way off?
Business as usual has come after Snowden; that's the reason people who have a default-antagonistic reaction to any new technology that could be employed by a government for tracking get labeled "tinfoil-hat wearers."

The future of society isn't no surveillance. That's not tractable. Genie's out of the bottle (as this release of a population tracking tool as open source demonstrates). The question isn't how to stop it; it's how to live with it.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-investigators-one-... Reports of a 70+ year old that had the disease on Nov. 17th. Patient zero probably originated in October or thereabouts, and was probably never tested for it.
I did a 2FA system a while back.

The happy login path and crypto work took a couple of days, and the mobile app work was similarly easy. Probably 80% of the effort was working through account recovery and other support-related issues.
You should post about your underlying technology, when you're ready. It sounds like something HN would find interesting. Feel free to email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we might be able to help with how you present your work to the community. This offer goes for anybody—just realize that sometimes there are long delays before we can get back to you.
No. I avoid any topic even vaguely related to gender because people are terrible about it. I would be surprised if this comment doesn't get downvoted, just for implying that misogyny exists.
Another startup that raised $2 from SoftBank bites the dust
I don't see anything similar on google.com, maybe the message is geo-targeted.

Btw, it would be good to always disclose your affiliation to Google on similar threads, or at least in your bio.
Interactive charts from the video: https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/
Good to see the Goulet Pens links.

I never found a reliable refillable rollerball to use with my FP ink, so I ended up using a Pilot Precise V7 refillable model from JetPens. I thought I was pretty clever.

I never thought of refilling inkjet carts with this though, so clearly I'm not too clever yet!
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
OP assumed the rest of the world will become less dependent on foreign goods, which would therefore hurt China. I pointed out China is hedged to come out on top in that scenario, not that China would necessarily push for that scenario.
Thank you for sharing this updated clarification. I just shared it with that medical professional who showed me the original. Hoping to spread this clarification
Friend of mine spent 16 years in the coast guard during which the coast guard started recruiting women into the ranks. I remember someone asking him what he thought of women in the coast guard and he said, 'Any group composed of one sex is dysfunctional'
Adapting to Distance: Lever Doing Its Part
"Every time you give up a right, it's taken away forever" is still hyperbole.

People gave up the right to fly at all after 9/11. That was re-instituted for almost everyone in short order.
Agree to disagree, because my liberty is useless without my life.

Balance can be found. And increasingly, it looks like in the modern era, the balance is found in a situation where the PATRIOT act exists and we find a new normal around its existence.

Which government of more than a few million people do you assume doesn't have a line into monitoring intra- and interstate digital communications in this era?
thanks, what have you found constitutes an 'unpopular opinion' here on HN?
To be fair, it's easy to be a leader in your field of 22.

;-p

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Given that certain sterilizing UVC wavelengths are known to not penetrate the epidermis, could we just attach a bunch of LEDs tuned to that range to a headband or something instead of making people breathe through an enclosed apparatus?
I wonder how many people on hn can code hello world.
Anecdotally I always find Go code bases very easy to read compared to almost any other language. Is it not reasonable to assume this is because of "shepherding"?

Otherwise other effect would cause this? Perhaps my sample is unrepresentative, or perhaps Go programmers are somehow more competent?
I thought this was going to be about their hilarious CSP, which whitelists the following domains:

'unsafe-eval'
'unsafe-inline'
blob:
https://*.50million.club
https://*.adroll.com
https://*.cloudfront.net
https://*.google.com
https://*.hotjar.com
https://*.zoom.us
https://*.zoomus.cn
https://*.zopim.com
https://ad.lkqd.net
https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com
https://apiurl.org
https://appsforoffice.microsoft.com
https://assets.zendesk.com
https://bat.bing.com
https://cdn.5bong.com
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net
https://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net
https://code.jquery.com
https://connect.facebook.net
https://consent.trustarc.com
https://extnetcool.com
https://fp166.digitaloptout.com
https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net
https://intljs.rmtag.com
https://pi.pardot.com
https://px.ads.linkedin.com
https://ruanshi2.8686c.com
https://rum-static.pingdom.net
https://s.dcbap.com
https://s.yimg.com
https://s.ytimg.com
https://s3.amazonaws.com
https://scout-cdn.salesloft.com
https://sealserver.trustwave.com
https://secure-cdn.mplxtms.com
https://secure.myshopcouponmac.com
https://snap.licdn.com
https://sp.analytics.yahoo.com
https://srvvtrk.com
https://static.zdassets.com
https://static2.sharepointonline.com
https://tag.demandbase.com
https://tpc.googlesyndication.com
https://tracking.g2crowd.com
https://translate.googleapis.com
https://trk.techtarget.com
https://unpkg.com
https://www.comeet.co
https://www.dropbox.com
https://www.google-analytics.com
https://www.googleadservices.com
https://www.googletagmanager.com
https://www.gstatic.com
https://www.youtube.com
https://d.adroll.mgr.consensu.org
https://serve2.cheqzone.com
https://static.ada.support
'self'

via: https://twitter.com/jasvir/status/1242518507683639296
Unconstrained genome targeting with near-PAMless engineered CRISPR-Cas9 variants
They could issue a software update that changes this.
I just published Covid-19 Live Stats API on RapidAPI. Check it out
> Does it matter if someone is "the best" if they're still not good enough to do your job?

Except we are hiring for a mix of performance and potential - weighted towards potential.

I don’t want to hire a junior engineer that can never make it to senior.

When I am only hiring for performance I hire contractors - and the bar is a lot lower.
Show HN: Python Static Blog Generator
Dear reader,

Just over a year ago I started on a static blog generator. First in Perl, but soon I wrote a Python version as well and kept developing both versions in parallel.

I have been using this program to generate my own tumblelog, https://plurrrr.com/, which has been up and running for over a year with daily posts (please check it out). It's a good example of how a blog generated with the program looks.

The software comes with 10+ templates so you are not stuck with the same look as Plurrrr.

Please check it out: https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

Thanks. Feedback is very welcome.
tl;dr: offer your applicants test exercises
> While much of this price collapse has been driven by OPEC, the COVID-depressed gasoline demand is here to stay for at least a few months.

This is why OPEC is doing this. They're trying to put American and Canadian firms out of business. They saw the COVID opportunity, and they seized it.
Not what the poster asked for. We actually don't do that.
as far as I know, cases of 're-positive' have been reported in Chinese websphere for a while, and there had been doubts and official clarifications:

re-positive report: http://www.bjnews.com.cn/feature/2020/03/05/699575.html (2020/03/05)

expert stance: http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2020/03/12/702870.html (2020/03/12)

it's about lives and I don't think anyone believe in govt. lightly. so do you.
I agree. I think one of the more interesting approaches to solve this particular problem as well as private companies staying private too long is the Long Term Stock Exchange. I don't know a lot about it but from my understanding, it aims to eliminate short term investors which removes a lot of the speculative nature of public stocks. Not sure that this would eliminate stock buybacks but the long-term investors might be more interested in traditional dividends.
In a survey on "scientific discovery", I would have expected more examples than face and image recognition and natural language processing, which are so stale at this point.

Healthcare? Physics? Chemistry? Biology? Sociology?
It is unclear how a business proves they are impacted if they only need to provide last year's taxes. What specific documents / proof are they requiring?
"for whatever reason"

I think part of the reason is that business has co-opted optimism and positivity. To the point where being positive seems to not be genuine. Furthermore, I think if the 80s-00s have taught us anything, it's that technology and business aren't going to fix the core problems us in the first world are facing currently... trust, community, health, environment, stress, etc. especially considering these are mostly problems caused by technology and business.
Clickable links:

Software: https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

Example site: https://plurrrr.com/
The usual estimate is 15 defects per thousand lines of code. I really hope that we've not destroyed the economy on a operator precedence error ...
I've read several blog posts that actually go and analyze why a bug happens, by disassembling DLLs or whatever they need to do. So yes, with a title like that, I do expect more than "oh, it's probably related to integer overflow somehow."
Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD
I'm with you. I have no idea what people like about it that isn't already done better in e.g. Google Meet. Having to download a program is also really crappy IMO. Plenty of other video chat applications work in my browser.
There's CCP spread suggestions that coronavirus originated in the US (and was brought to China by the US army?). I don't think we're accepting all of CCP's narrative, because some of the ideas are quite obviously batshit crazy.

I don't many outside of China accepting everything the CCP is saying about coronavirus.

I do think it's probably worth waiting to evaluate until we have more real, verifiable numbers. Some of what people are saying is likely true. Some of it is likely not.
I remember he could be a real butt head before getting clean. But he is undoubtedly awesome.
If you do get seriously sick, your family members would not be able to visit you anyway so it does not matter if they're hundreds of miles away or just across the street.

Unlike in normal circumstances, people who die in this epidemic die alone without seeing their loved ones since the moment of hospitalization.

[edit] Sorry for the morbid implications! The vast majority of people do get better, the risk definitely exists, but even with previous conditions it's not overwhelming, getting it is not a death sentence.
Most autoimmune disorders are either infections or gut dysbiosis, which is actually pretty close to an infection too.

It's sad the establishment is taking so long to accept this. There are papers in Nature / Science showing really strong evidence for some autoimmune disorders.

See this previous thread for an extended discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21917884
I mean, so do all the major WebRTC video chat programs. Google Meet is absolutely painless, and I can use it in the browser instead of downloading Zoom's very sketchy application.
I've only just quickly skimmed, but there is some extremely interesting discussion shaping up in this thread:

Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22704051

It reminds me of this phenomenon I've been thinking about, but don't know if there's a formal name for it. The general idea is that the ~visibility of some things to the human mind seems to change, depending upon the topic of conversation. If a topic of discussion is directly about something in particular, typically an abstract idea of some kind (in this case the "healthiness" of the HN community), the mind has the capacity for reasonably accurate self-reflection and self-analysis. "Looking at ourselves (at least at the collective level - criticizing one's tribe seems to come easier than criticizing oneself, go figure) in the mirror" so to speak.

But now switch to a different topic (say, politics, or any culture war topic), and is this same capacity for self-reflection visible? I suspect not, and I'm not the only one - this behavioral phenomenon is the reason culture war topics are outright forbidden in some communities, https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex being one example.
Getting clean and finding happiness always helps.
Digital web privacy

I don't dare try to list any beyond that. The fact of the matter is, I'm gullible when it comes to reading most HN comments, so I don't tend to recognize HN group-think until some other poster points it out.

I don't know if it is because of the lack of text formatting, my lack of knowing that there are people behind the usernames, but as long as someone doesn't type something that trips the off-topic/downvote-o-meter, the various voices all blend together into one large somewhat reasonable sounding blob...at least until someone says something that I have a strong knowledge (or belief of strong knowledge) of, then I have an opinion.
I've been able to read bloomberg articles in private mode windows in Safari.
> because they suddenly need the liquid cash on hand (due to job loss)

How much market volume do you think is attributed to retail investors?
2 comments on this:

1. The authors of this paper are selling something. This is an advertisement. Not saying it's wrong or untruthful because of that, but it is an advertisement.

2. As another commenter said, the cited data is from a paper that doesn't look at software engineers specifically. Given that software engineering has one of the highest amounts of variability in productivity of any profession, that should be taken into close consideration.
one example of good use of globals is for very light-weight pub/sub, where you keep the rule that only one place can write to the global (preferably with something like atomic write) and any other place only reads.
Google with bad quality? Meet is working fantastically for me and my coworkers and hasn't been affected at all by the pandemic.
Well, I noticed the downvotes. It didn't ruin my day but I wondered why. I didn't notice my mistake. After a few hours somebody commented correcting me. Oh yeah, oops, that was what I meant. Did that change my perspective? Not sure. Voting is a rather crude way to do things but its easy to implement and sometimes is useful.
To be even more fair, however, plenty of technical discussions here fall into well-trodden paths of predictability as well.

You can almost guarantee that any mention of WASM will include a comment writing it off as just another retread of Java or Flash, and another predicting it will lead to the death of the web. Lisp threads will include tedious discussions about parentheses. Anything to do with web dev will probably have a tangent about how the web was ruined by javascript and advertising. Go? No generics, lame. PHP? The memes about how bad PHP is are endless, and most are still a decade or so out of date.
I agree with this. Some communities have taken this so far to be completely toxic (again, reddit). HN isn't that bad yet, but it's sad that people conflate cynicism with being "realistic" or "knowledgeable and worldly".