skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am safer from all of those things living in a ~completely deregulated housing market than I ever was living in the highly regulated NYC housing market. I couldn't change my apartment keys in NY, but that's expected here in Hong Kong. And how do you define "unjustified eviction"? The criteria for eviction and rent changes are clearly spelled out in the 2 or 3 page contract I signed for my apartment here, unlike the multi-hundred-page legalese nightmare I signed in NYC (once again, thanks to the overbearing "tenant protection" laws).
Maybe there are local dynamics at play (we are in a city in The Netherlands). But my wife has been doing the grocery shopping (since I don't have a driver's license). We would normally shop every day, but she is now going every 3-4 days. And after the initial 3-4 days of hoarding, the grocery stores are far less busy, probably because people are buying for multiple days at a time. She has had no problem keeping the necessary 1.5-2m distance.
I saw someone mention NextDNS on HN about 2 months and decided to try it.

The only issue's I've had is:

1. Epic Game Store was blocked - not an issue now as I uninstalled it and bought Borderlands 3 on steam. Now EGS is blocked again.

2. Adverts display in Google now that I don't have an ad-block, but it prevents me clicking them so I'm not fussed.

3. raygun.io is blocked - not sure why as it doesn't track any information of value as it's primarily used for crash reporting, and they are GDPR compliant.

Other than that, this has been amazing. I'm definitely going to be a paid customer once its out of beta.
I think it’s far too soon , and naive, to make such a statement. It’s easy to see some of the mistakes done by Spain and Italy in hindsight, but I don’t see central and Eastern Europe doing any better.
J++ already exists. And so is -90 degree rotation (U++). The only variation that left is ∩++. But I think that 🅱️++ is better. It is modern looking and with hint that language took step backward from original in order to be more simplistic.
The quality of a complex product is indicative of the available quality of supply chain and skill.
> For use on a laptop that you take into other networks

I VPN to my home (and by extension my Pi-hole server) when on that kind of network. A local ad-blocker doesn't prevent MITM or malicious DNS servers. Maza won't help if DHCP is handing out the IP for a server that claims google.com is a CNAME to hereisyourvirus.xyz or if the router is transparently redirecting DNS traffic so you don't even know what DNS server you are hitting. Which means you have to use DoH or DoT as well.
-- Self-publishing is rapidly becoming the norm, and who knew - authors are seeing way higher returns on it.

Have you got evidence for either of these claims? Are you an author?
Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
It seems like most book recommendation threads end up being filled with a load of self improvement type books. Do you have any fiction book recommendations that have positively impacted your life? Maybe a book that helped you through tough times or made you change your outlook on life?
Thanks for mentioning it - I just started using it and seems great. I particularly like being able to setup multiple profiles that lets me have strong parental control configuration for kids - ability to view logs is also good though the search can do with some improvements.
Did you have any downside to that? Did that work for your side project?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-...
https://www.thecrimson.com/column/plain-truth/article/2020/3...

> After your stint at Teach for America, a two-year post-undergraduate teaching program, you decided to leave the academic world behind and work in New York City. Where are you most likely to be employed? Goldman Sachs.
No, the websites detect that a resource wasn't loaded which triggers the annoying stuff. This happens with a pihole, adblocker, maza, or plain ol' hosts file. Ad blockers aren't magic.
So that's a couple of weeks away, according to the projections I posted yesterday. Peak deaths in the US are estimated for 15 April.
I'm not sure understand the rationale behind your question. Does a company in general have to provide benefit to the society overall? If so then rather to erase a lot of companies.
Airbnb seems to provide a service where their clients are fine with.
Like it or not, Airbnb is just the consequence of number of decisions made in the past and they simply put a foot in the highly réglemented real estate, builder, and tourism business by providing a service that was more in line with the current needs.
It's not Airbnb s fault if this so difficult to increase the number of new building every year, not Airbnb's fault if a simple landlord can offer better service than an hotel chain, not Airbnb's fault if landlord prefer to deal to less complicated short rent.

Airbnb is just taking advantage of a more ugly situation ( sure you have witnessed displeasant adventures encountered in buying house, going to holiday or move out from a flat).
However I wouldn't be surprised if they have speeded up the process you blamed.

Please note that I do not work nor ever used Airbnb before.
I can see both sides of this. In some ways, this is the old "seat of your pants" vs. "plot the book out" discussion. The important thing is whatever works for you.
The idea that artists should be first forbidden from selling the work they create, and then supported by the state, is totalitarian. Analogy: would you make all code compulsorily open-source? (I know some people will answer yes: in my view, they're nuts.)
That is decidedly abnormal in the NYC area.
Eat as you wish, but you may find it more enjoyable our way!
Ask HN: Markdown Editor (WYSIWYG) that link directly to Git/GitHub?
Is there any online service that offers a WYSIWYG markdown editor (something like Notion or Ghost Blogging Editor) that links directly to Github?

My use case is: I use Middleman (or Jekyll) to setup a simple CMS for an online guidebook that we're launching. I like both the developer-friendliness and flexibility of Jekyll/Middleman, at the same time I need to expose a user-friendly interface for the Content team to update/write.

Right now I can only see 2 options:

1. Use Middleman/Jekyll
- Pro: easy for dev to customize structure
- Con: difficult for non-technical editor to update

2. Use
- Pro: easy for editors to update content
- Con: difficult for dev to customize CSS and data structure
You probably know this, but it's not obvious to the random reader.

Even generic types are available in the Java .class file and are accessible from the reflection API. Spring for example uses this quite heavily.
I think "influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infections (SARI)"* numbers would be the best, it would remove testing differences and could be compared to expected numbers from prior years.

In the US states send the data to the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) but I can't find a public source for the numbers that IL sends. Here are some plots that I make for IL (a state that does not report hospitalizations yet but will likely do so starting some point this week):

https://msliczniak.github.io/COVID19IL/plots/index.html

* https://www.who.int/influenza/surveillance_monitoring/ili_sa...
VB Asc Function
Something related is happening with commercial real estate in Germany: Big retail chains like H&M, adidas, Deichmann have stated they won't be paying rent beginning in April (they were forced to close their stores). Ironically democratic socialists have complained about that. My guess is that this will be a rude awakening for the rent seeking individuals that profited from record low credit to finance and then rent out properties at record rental rates.
Booz Allen analyzed 200 Russian hacking operations to understand their tactics
> My life insurance doesn't mention pandemic or acts of god. Suicide yes. Pandemic no.

I'd be pretty surprised if this wasn't true. Who's taking out life insurance exclusively for predictable causes of death? You don't insure those, you avoid them.

"Acts of god" are most of the reason you'd want life insurance in the first place.
What editor did you end up with?

Modern editors are fairly complex. Splitting a bitbuffer and showing ascii line by line is simple. But modern editors have to deal with unicode, where some characters (surrogates) are two chars long, and can be followed by modifiers such as skin color of emojis. Then some characters are wider then others. So a modern editor must first parse the string encoding, then parse the language (markdown) for further formatting and coloring or building a WYSIWYG, usually on every key stroke.
The expensive part is showing the text on the screen, generating the fonts, where old editors didnt have fonts.
Quick Next.js and GraphQL Integration via API Routes
No it doesn't. It's long passed time Copyright was struck down. Now might be the time to do it.

Publishers are fat enough already from their rent seeking of poor authors. They should've died long ago, so the world can benefit.
> why wouldn't I want to edit it as a single file?

> ...without slowing down to a crawl (i.e. a 5-10 second lag between a keypress and a change)?

I think you answered your own question. :P

Also, you can edit chapter 53 without having to scroll down to line 130,465. Basically, the same reasons bills are split up
It's nice to see a good quality effort on a modern C book.

Looking at the current language/job markets outside the center, I feel like we are hitting the same problems as in open source. People add C++ to every C job to have something with the same level of innovations going on as new languages, even if it is about Linux embedded and you wouldn't let a C++ construct near the system.
Some Eastern European countries had investment products offered by insurance companies, where you sign up for investing a fixed amount monthly for 10-15y with huge exit fees if cancelled prematurely. The high fees are meant to cover for the commissions for the sales people of those products.

I can imagine that other countries also have similar products where it's difficult to pause the regular investments unless invested manually.
I’m not going to believe that without a good source. Testing in Germany is at 5000,000/week now, so anyone admitted to hospital would definitely be tested. A friend of mine here in Berlin had symptoms. They called and a team came to their place the next morning. One day later, they were called and got the test results (negative).

The explanation for the relatively low fatality rate I’ve heard is simply widespread testing catching many mild cases and relatively young patients because a lot of initial cases at least were linked to ski holidays and carnival events. Personally, I would add the hypothesis that Germans have far fewer interactions with family members across generations than especially Italy, but also the US. No one I know lived with their parents after finishing school. In the US, when Harvard shut down for the semester, the undergrads all went home to family. Here, students tend to live in regular apartments. And even those in student housing live there year-round, instead of vacating them during breaks and heading home.

I believe Austria and some other smaller European countries are also seeing at least similar CFRs, making Germany somewhat less exceptional.
I've been using https://stackedit.io/. They look very similar.
What would be hilarious is to hear the arguments justifying this bail-out
"Schools of fish so dense they would bring boats to a halt in the middle of the Atlantic" . . . until the Chinese factory fishing boats arrived and murdered them all
I wrote a blog post about this after coming across the threads in Reddit. Fascinating stories coming out of the Airbnb market.

https://rdrn.substack.com/p/20204-the-crash-of-rent-to-let
The lack of specificity is not that the host might open a door with a car, but whether the host had to open a door at all. This is not clear from Savants formulation, and indeed does not match the actual game show, where the host had discretion in every episode whether to open a door.

If the host does not have to open a door for the candidate (which is quite likely, he's playing his own strategy of making the show exciting, not predictable), then the usual solution (always switch) is not correct.

All this, and probably any variation and every solution of the problem that comes up in this thread (and probably every other Monty Hall forum thread in the post 3 decades) are discussed extensively in the Wikipedia entry (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_...).

Maybe every time a new Monty Hall thread comes a mod should just stick the Wikipedia entry at the top. I've never seen anything in any of the following discussion that hasn't been covered in Wikipedia already.
Yes, I am. The math is obvious, though: if you distribute $X to Y people, then distributing $X to Y-1 people will result in everyone (or at least someone) making more money. With the wide availability of publishing-as-a-service, Amazon listings and personal website sales, and so on, it makes little sense for most new or small-to-mid-time authors to go through a middleman. Then the bigger authors (1) have more to gain from going through a publisher, (2) can negotiate a better deal, and (3) have enough income as to make the issues raised in this article trite.
Not only, just having 80% of your assets there may be a serious issue. You may be forced to tap into those savings at the worst time.
The demand will rise again once this virus is done with.
It will be so fun if we turn real life into the game of Monopoly. Oh wait...
Dillinger is my online Markdown editor of choice, having a look between the two it's far beyond this solution in features.

https://dillinger.io/

https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger
Ah, that's quite inefficient (and probably costly) because it's a third party without integration in the logistics chain.

I've tried food deliveries provided by two local major grocery chains. As far as I understand, one of them has the stock-shelving people pack the deliveries (so, before hitting the shelf), and the other seems to pack pack the direct deliveries in the same logistics centres from which they supply their smaller shops, so that stuff never even gets delivered to a store; and the limited overhead means that they offer free delivery for non-small purchases.
> setup multiple profiles that lets me have strong parental control configuration for kids

I've been using it too, but I've found nextdns go down from time to time. How are you dealing with explaining how to change the DNS setting to people at home because "internet doesn't work"? I wish DoH client implementations had support for primary and secondary endpoints [0]. I've seen people straight up uninstall DoH clients from their devices in frustration.

I must point out that the Android implementation for DoT does fallback to OS or network provided DNS resolver (usually, dns.google), and that's a saving grace [1]. And so, I have no reservations setting up nextdns for everyone on the Androids.

Fwiw, I've found running DoH with Stackpath Edge Engine and Cloudflare Workers to be quite trouble-free, but it isn't for everyone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414433

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[0] Nebulo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frostnerd....) is the only Android DoH client I've seen support this.

[1] Speaking of DoH instead: Google's https://getintra.org falls back to last-known good DoH resolver, but then, never (?) switches back to primary unless restarted, from what I can recall.
Ugh, see, that’s all wrong.

A non-medical mask still catches droplets, both in and out, and eyes aren’t the primary source of infection.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Agree 100% that there is blame that should go towards local government. Especially in the U.S. local government is far too slow to react to an effective paradigm shift like AirBnb has been in the rental market. Far too slow.
I think it's a false statement to say someone less expensive will run things less well. I've been at a number of not-for-profits, and that does not match my experience at all.

Compensation should be set at a level where people don't need to worry about money, with a reasonable but basic standard of living. In the Bay, unfortunately, that's around $200k. On the other hand, compensation should not be set at a level where people are there for the money. You want people to be there because they are passionate and care.

$200 will bring people just as competent as $800k, but (1) your burn rate is lower (2) people are there for the mission (3) you can ask for donations in good faith.

Depending on part of the country, you can step that down significantly, in turn.

If you do want to invest extra money on people, a better place to spend that is stability and benefits (in the way universities do). I'd gladly take a job for $200k with a lifetime guarantee of doing meaningful work over one at $800k without that guarantee.

I actually think a lot of the bad decisions by Khan Academy are related to misaligned incentive structures. Khan tries to keep a pretty deep moat protecting business models. The platform isn't open source. Partnerships are hard to come by. Research partnerships are exceptionally difficult (Khan data is a proprietary resources). There's a cult personality. Etc.
I'm definitely going to ask somebody to "please pass the hyperbolic paraboloids" the next time I have Pringles.
> Flu, like automobile accidents, are a massive impact on society though because they are now a normal occurrence do not get the media coverage.

The flu gets a lot less coverage, because it mostly kills people who were going to die anyway. This is not true of automobile accidents, and they are correspondingly viewed as much worse.

There was a brief look at this on EconLog: https://www.econlib.org/who-are-all-the-people-dying-of-flu/

> Thus, Americans 85+ experience almost over 40% of all combined flu/pneumonia mortality, while Americans under 45 years old endure less than 2%. The main reason we rarely hear about flu deaths is that when people die of flu, folks at the funeral probably call “old age” the cause of death. Logically, this isn’t even wrong, because there’s joint causation; if the deceased weren’t old, they almost certainly wouldn’t have died of flu. And philosophically, you can accurately say that most people who die of flu would soon have died of something else.
Remember that the initial fall in oil price was a supply shock (Saudi Arabia upping production) that was only exacerbated by lack of demand. If demand comes back it won’t push oil back into the 50s/60s.
Jeffrey Katzenberg on Launching Quibi in the Middle of a Global Pandemic
I agree AirBnB is used as a scapegoat. The problem in fact is much more complex - low interest rates, house flipping, short term rentals, influx of foreign cash to the countries where real estate prices are only catching up with rich countries, and to the countries where prices dropped significantly after 2008, local oligarchs parking cash in real estate, and many more reasons...
The point of Pi-Hole is that you can't hack it that easily compared to software installed on your local computer.
I'm doing it in three passes. Stage 1 is writing the book with an emphasis on rigor, sourcing, and having something interesting, unique and valuable to share that people can't find elsewhere. I'm mostly through with that. Stage 2 is making sure people can understand it, that I've explained myself well. Stage 3 will be tone, accessibility, and fun.

So I am starting with very little anecdotal/personal experience, relying on science and industry stuff, then adding more of a personal touch as I go, enough to make it enjoyable.

Hit me up if you'd like to read the first chapter or two, tell me how far along I am on these goals. My email is in my username at hotmail.com
Do you have data sources?
Masks4all: I protect you – you protect me
"Unlike a real library..."

The online equivalent can stay open in these times. Physical libraries cannot. The ability to make books accessible while people are isolated is a good reason for the Internet Archive to open up in cases of emergency.
> there is strong evidence China was able to maintain access to Nortel's internal networks for over a decade (!!)

Who is this China you speak of?
Billionares say things like that all the time but that's just for publicity. Truth is, if he really wanted to be taxed more, he could. There's no need to change any laws for that. His Berkshire Hathaway is already claiming a lot of tax breaks to lower their tax liabilities - if he wants to contribute more to federal budget he just needs to stop doing that :) After all, claiming a tax break is a privilege, it's not mandatory.
Not a bargain.

There is a pandemic.

You don't know who stayed there before you

The owner has zero safety/cleanliness standards to comply to

You are putting your trust in a company whose only innovation is a regulatory loophole

The price reflects the good.
I know you from codegolf. I love reading your solutions especially in Retina. Keep golfing!
Cities have had roads for a lot longer than cars have existed.
Your solution doesn't survive a real-time attack on a local machine compromise (wait for you to enter the PIN and then opportunistically use the private key). It only makes doing so harder by automatically re-locking the key.

That said, your system is well past the point of "password storage is no longer the most economical surface to attack".
I find it odd that the article does not mention the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-opec-oil-policies-idUSKBN...
> even if it is about Linux embedded and you wouldn't let a C++ construct near the system.

I guess all these AVR, STM32 and ESP2866 devices running C++ are to be discarded too ?
I wonder what the technology breakdown costs are? Is there anyone from KA engineering here who can satisfy our curiosity?

Most of it would be outgoing bandwidth I’d think... maybe storage as well?
Max Headroom is a real model trying to look like a computer model in the eighties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU
So who should determine the value? Accountants? The general public? A committee? An algorithm? Investors have skin in the game (I hate Talebisms, but this one is actually on point here), even if they are just a bunch of spoiled rich kids/dads.

And yes, we know how herd mentality takes over fast. That's why there are circuit breakers and rules and incentives.

And yes, TLSA "crashes" every other week, and bounces back the next day. (Of course if a 5% swing is a crash then everything crashes all the time. But MSNBC et al. have to make content somehow, those 24 hours ain't gonna fill themselves, so ... everything is crashing then.)

> The way to win in the stock market is to properly model that joke.

Yes, there are - by definition - infinite levels of the meta game, and modeling some of them (and just lower/upper bounding them in a residual) makes sense too, but there is usually a signal in the noise too. (Not the kind of post-hoc Nostradamus "yes we know something is going to happen because VIX increased by two points, and now it's COVID time" bullshit, but the WeWork/Uber finally hit the fan, and so on kind.)

> The idea that the stock market is a bunch of rational, informed experts setting valuations on things will get you nowhere, and it doesn't function that way, and doesn't behave according to that model.

Agreed. I hope I never claimed that it's all "fully rational". All we have is bounded rationality anyway (because of time and resource constraints), and of course it's not a group wise scholars with sophisticated MCMC models :)

The SEC is just the embodiment of the good old "reality" outside the game. There's no point in letting the markets get into pathological states just to see who would win the game.
Indeed thats true but with the same logic you could blame companies and public offices for having their offices in the city center.
I always fold and make it a pie in the hand. Better than cheese in the bush. ;)