skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After how Airbnb dealt with my reservation in regards to their Coronavirus policy, I have the feeling they're not only bleeding cash but that they'll be losing tons of customers.

I had to wait two weeks to speak to someone, yet had been immediately notified on the site, twice, that I qualified for a full refund (which I took screenshots of). The wording in their policy also qualifies me. However, they're reneging.
That's untrue. Novels are usually in the 90-110k range, depending on genre. If you're an established author, especially in fantasy or sci fi, insane doorstoppers like that do occur, but 400k is an outlier even for sff.
This is also easily detectable.
Where can I see these SPEC results for Apple CPUs?
In the context of a book, yes. But I mean in the context of an online Markdown editor. (Or even a Markdown editor at all. Can you actually write books in Markdown?)
Maybe for the first bite or two, but the best way hold a slice is to fold it almost in half or completely in half ( depending on your preference ) and eating it that way. This way you get the full width of the pizza in one bite. Only children and tourists hold pizza as shown in the article. Don't have a fancy formula for it, just a lifetime's experience of eating pizza slices.
> That sounds pretty wrong, and it's not what I've been hearing here in Germany.

Depends on who passes you the news. My quotes are from what "Dr. Stefan Hockertz" an "immunologist" directly claimed, and there are some other German-speaking claimed experts that wrote or made similar statements, including "it's not worse than flu" even as there were so many dead in Italy and Spain -- then their argument for why it's not happening in Germany is the said "superiority" and the reason for happening in Italy their "lack of hygiene". Some of these were than repeated in some articles written in French, which I've happened to read. French were actually interested to find what is Germany doing "better." What can be seen is however, German "doctors" criticizing Italians for "reporting those who died with coronavirus as dying from coronavirus" totally ignoring the scale and speed at which that happened in Italy, Spain and France.

The said distinction was apparently often used in Germany (or not? maybe you can investigate more? I'd be very interested in what you find!) but I do believe it's misleading, I think the sudden order of magnitude surges can have only a single cause, or some equivalent. If they claim it's not this coronavirus, and the surge factually exists, then there must be some additional new illness that otherwise wasn't recognized.
Yes, sadly unaffordable for people in developing countries such as myself.
I speed read that other word as "baboon" and had the same feelings.
Not sure, if you are following the news really. If there will be no possibility to check 7500, then 7500 will not be allowed. It's easy as that. Nobody will scale tests to a number of arrivals, its number of arrivals which will be scaled down. And possibility to test quickly may allow thin stream of visitors, and/or shorter quarantine terms for them.
It's not about the absolute cost. $60 in a developing country is a substantial sum of money.
God bless the end of airbnb. Airbnb is a toxic parasitic leach that needs to die.

It has ruined housing for the neady, and broken the diversity within cities.

Someone please tell me one benefit of Airbnb for society? Not the individual, and I will eat my words.

Thanks.
Calif. Gov. Newsom gives chief justice broad powers–including suspending laws
https://archive.is/xGHJL#selection-1693.9-1693.104
Just for the sake of argument - to block trackers that are built into other software, eg. chat clients and some such.
This is going to be 20 times worse than the worst flu seasons.
Coronavirus Creates a Tragedy of the Commons
Also, this article is extremely short and seems to mainly just be repeating a few already very well established and common ideas; as if it was put together by a marketing guy by cutting and pasting a few things. Is it just an ad for the link at the end 'webflow' ?
Use and learn vim. It's been around for ages.
Shows how much they kowtow to China that even being asked about Taiwan and not answering gets him delisted.
But that containment strategy isn't working for Italy at all.
I literally build the same thing here in the UK. I knew I couldn't have been the only one lol.

Good job.
What is even the hypothesis here? Websites are slow because Android devices are slow?

Lest we remind our web developer friends of the cache hierarchy, the slowest part of all here is still fetching the fricking page over the internet. On this mobile Twitter page alone two spinners are spinning simultaneously.

If, after all the network stuff, you are still taking a second to render in a world where smartphones can play Doom 3 at 60 fps - you are just taking the piss.
I think you are both right. It's confusing because the original claim uses different terminology than usual. It said

> 100% of the positives with 0% negatives [are treated as positives]

* The "100% positives" are actual positives that show up as positive, so it's saying that there are no positives that show up as negatives i.e. "no false negatives" (even though it uses the word "positive")

* The "0% negatives" are actual negatives that show up as positives, so it's saying that there are "no false positives" (even though it uses the word "negative").

So UncleMeat's comment 'Then that doesn't mean "0% of the negatives"' and your comment 'it means you have false positives' are actually in agreement.
"Assuming core count was equal. Would a desktop CPU and an Apple SoC run at equivalent performance if it was running Ubuntu and running native compiled code?"

Yes. Of course there are going to be edge conditions where one or the other are going to shine particularly well, but overall the performance is going to be close, if not giving a nod to the Apple device.

This is the reason there have been wide expectations that Apple would move their desktop/laptop platforms to their own chips, and if rumors are true that will be next year. In a situation where their own chips had credible heat dissipation and wouldn't be subject to thermal throttling, it would be very impressive. I mean it's already spectacularly impressive, but it would be quite dominant with real cooling.

Apple needs to be careful, though, explaining their patience. There has always been the potential that Intel comes out with a game changer.

Of course in such discussions everyone is going to discount whatever benchmarks are used. Yet we've seen this in benchmark after benchmark, at generalists tasks that annihilate any trick instruction. Out of curiosity I just ran JetStream 2 -- it yields a 81.6 score on my i7 laptop, and 153 on my iPhone 11. The iPhone with incredibly poor heat dissipation.

The ARM / x86 / x86_64 / CISC / RISC things are all abstract higher level notions now and aren't the reason. Apple's team has just proven astonishingly good at designing chips. Which quite honestly I thought would turn out otherwise, and Apple would end up begging the industry for whatever the new hotness was.
You could try regular HIV medication as a measure of last resort. E.g. like here: http://www.coronahope247.com/
ios 14 won't support 6s most probably and soon your iphone 6s will go to trash.

So your comment is lucky to have some truth for a couple of months while I look at my trashed iphone5 and iphone 6.
Would be simpler to just plan four days in advance. Shopping used to be done once a week, or even once a month for bulk and frozen goods. Now it seems to a be what people do instead of going for a walk in the countryside. Makes even less sense now that you don't have to leave your bed to do it.
I just use a knife and fork. Like a normal person.
It might just happen. The government paying to have rental properties siting empty. I guess some new chapters in the economics textbooks need to be written on what comes after negative interest rates ...
3D printing could save lives in the coronavirus outbreak
Get the ebook for $47 with a ebook 30% discount on their site? $33.
Here you have a list of very famous books with their word counts. Quite a few of them have more than half a million words. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that a text editor is able to handle that size. After all this is a tiny amount of data compared to what has to deal a program that does image or video processing, so there's 0 reason for a text editor to be "laggy" when dealing with just a few megabytes.

https://blog.fostergrant.co.uk/2017/08/03/word-counts-popula...
I clarified which statement I wanted a source for. It was a surprising claim. I had not heard about contaminated food.
Introduction to K-nearest neighbour algorithm using Examples
I discover many books I love on the wild web, and then decide to get the paper version when I'm hooked by the style / want to read it while doing digital detox / want to be able to leaf through efficiently if it is a technical book, etc.

If anything, wild ebooks have increased a lot my paper books purchases, and even if not everybody is like that, even for the percent that is alike it would mean that more free ebooks means more purchases.
> This is the philosophy that has led to our software becoming slower despite improvements in hardware.

I disagree. Software has gotten slower over time because we are adding more fluff to it (SDK’s, libraries, electron, GUI animations, web interactions, frameworks, etc). Not because the developers are failing to focus on code optimizations.
By having a server worker that caches the whole site, done.

Apple's decision doesn't apply to PWAs as clarified on a later update.

Plus updating the browser cache every couple of days isn't a big deal, native apps get store updates almost every day.
Yes it’s funny how fast people forget how much power is actually required to run all that basic stuff included in mobile OSes by default. Take the camera app on iOS e.g, it stitches 20+ MP panoramas in real-time, with filers enabled, does continuous zoom by combining images from multiple cameras etc. It wasn’t very long ago that I had software on my Linux desktop PC that did that (with much worse results) and it took up to half an hour in some cases. Or try browsing the modern web with a iPhone 4 or a ~5 year old Android phone for that matter. You don’t need to be a power user at all to benefit from the increase in processing capabilities in modern phones.
Well, since it says right there in the article that takings for a property rented on AirBNB could be 3-5 times the basic rental rate there will be little sympathy I fear. I mean, if that property has already been rented out since the start of the year (2.5 months) then that should keep them out of the red for the next 7.5-12.5 months, no? I am pretty sure that some of these properties will have been on AirBNB for longer than that.. It says one specific blood-sucker has lost £35,000 income already! I'm wondering at that level of income, why he doesn't have any cash reserves to carry him through?
Maybe we shouldn’t. The companies don’t make money and the workers are getting shafted. What’s the point of it?
Very similar webapp that I use: https://markdown.pioul.fr/

Extensions also available for major browsers.
I did for a long time. It doesn't do WYSIWYG markdown, so I've switched to something that does (Typora).
Seems to me if you want an "equal" experience across the board, you make the clients responsible for the bare minimum functionality. Everything that can be is processed server-side. You should target the lowest common denominator wherever possible. Anything else is tantamount to digital elitism or simply bad customer service.

Assuming compute & bandwidth costs are fixed, are there any remaining justifications for doing SPA, et. al., especially if the server is required at all times in order to satisfy application requests? Is pushing a final compressed DOM over the wire really all that much worse than pushing 20 different JSON objects in order to recompose the same logical DOM client-side? Doesn't it seem like one of these approaches would be substantially faster and easier than the other in most cases?

I think we got off track somewhere around when cloud computing was introduced. I can see a huge motivating factor for pushing the "offload to client" narrative if your cloud compute portfolio provides 10% the relative cost-adjusted performance compared to a rack full of DL380s sitting in a colo. With the density of compute being offered today (e.g. 256 x86 cores in a 2U w/ 2TB ram), I feel a lot of businesses should start to look back to these approaches. The software and operating systems have vastly improved as well. Just take look at the performance you get with something like Kestrel in .Net Core:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...

Nearly 7 million HTTP requests per second on a single 10GBe host. For 99% of business applications out there, just 1 of these servers is probably all you would ever need... A decade ago we were putting the finishing touches on 10k/second. Why the hell are we not aggressively trying to leverage this 100x speedup? Is it because all of this extra margin is being spread thin by Amazon, et. al for purposes of maximum profit extraction? Or, is there a more nuanced game afoot?
I'm using BackInTime in three workstations for almost 3 years. Never let me down once.

I love how it stores the configuration in the backup folder. You just mount your backups, fire up BiT in a new machine, show the foler, and viola!

Addendum: BiT is python3. Debian Testing removed all python2 packages from mandatory installment 3 days ago. I have no python2 runtime on my system, yet BiT runs happily.
One solution is to be acquired by a defense contractor. A company which I worked for went that route.
You mean, taking the math and science described in intricate detail in this article to the next level, right?

I fail to see how what you’re saying negates the article. In fact, there are several descriptions of folding as being the next step (see folded paper holding a can of beans).
Because there's contemporary Markdown editors that do work as expected. I didn't bash this one, I asked.
How? Please share, because I would very much like to turn them off!
Do you know what developer uproar there would be if Apple decided to block all Facebook SDK usage? Surely you know most anger will be targeted at Apple, rather than FB.
is there something similar for AsciiDoc ?

AsciiDoc is a standardized format that's just as simple as MD. But far more features.

Have been looking for something that lets us author asciidoc documents, but markdown (with varying standards) seems far more popular. some of these end up as not being Github compatible or whatever.

FYI - asciidoc (.adoc) files are rendered by Github. https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/master/READM...
Just so you know, I donated some money because they did it fist. Humans work like that, it’s how we think. So now they are responsible for $1000 plus a bit more of server time.
Why not? Beacuse of bad text editors? Or is there some fundamental reason about that?
Still, in my point of view, your viewpoint and the article's one can be aligned. Strictly speaking, converting your ideas about the fantasy world into code to run the game is "solving a problem". I'd argue that any creative process can be coined as a problem-solving exercise, except for the fact that in many such cases the problem isn't tangible and the outcome isn't measurable.
Ask HN: What could be the downside of polluting the data collected by companies?
Time and again we have seen that companies collecting data of users who have never agreed to their ToS by creating ghost profiles.

I have been trying to prevent data collection on my family by blocking ads, trackers and fingerprinting methods but so far I can tell that it has become a game of cat and mouse. I still see personalized ads and the entire endeavor has become futile.

Now, I am thinking of running a bot that mimics a human browsing but with bogus topics. For instance, open a random Wikipedia and use Google to search 5 to 10 words in the Wikipedia page on Google and open links from the results arbitrarily and clicks ads on those links with a given probability. And do this throughout the day with certain interval.

Or, even go as far training a AI to observe my browsing habit and mimic it. But, before I go that route, can anyone suggest problem problems and improvements on this experiment. I was wondering what downsides such a thing could have? Would it help in anyway? Thank you.
I could, and I did for some time, but it's a PITA. The question should be "why should I?". I've since found a Markdown editor that works well for a file this size (Typora - I also had good experiences with Texts).
I've never lived in the US, how would I move back to England, where I've also never lived?
Everybody stays at home except for essential shopping in supermarkets. Not every statement is meant to be taken 100% literally, but I'm guessing you knew that and are being pointlessly pedantic.
Not even just celebrities. Does anyone have a copyright on their own appearance?
Thanks for the elaborated answer!

I'd like to see the source for the estimated 60% if you can send it later.

One thing is since companies like Uber are prime example of how gig-econ works and treats its workers, and that I do not agree with those standards and work ethics I would postulate the opposite. I do not condone the gig-econ style of jobs one bit.
I would rather see more flexibility from the work place towards limited workers with proportional social benefits but the gig-econ from my understanding does not even offer that little.

If the 60prct holds then you're not the statistical outlier but rather a proper representation of who the gigs are for and I think that would validate their existence but I still see them not necessarily as a raw deal but rather a cheapskate move. But yes some are raw af.
Yeah, it may seem high, but at the same time a lot of the content is still content he created. In that context, I think the number is reasonable. We use it as a huge part of the our home schooling at the house.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Handwashing (WSJ)
Khan Academy's budget is the same as a large high school but has the impact at least 500x. Him making 4x a principal's salary I have absolutely no problem with.

His opportunity cost is also very high. Salman Khan could get a job tomorrow making millions in annual comp.
Adding my 2c: his salary has nothing to do with "fairness" or an arbitrary upper limit on non-profit compensation, but a negotiation based on supply and demand.

For the sake, of argument, let's take it as a given that 1) he could easily earn the same amount or more somewhere else, and 2) if offered $1 less than $800k, he would walk. The question then becomes whether the organization could replace his value for the same or less money. i.e. could they hire someone else for $800k, much less a more "appropriate" salary, who would run things as effectively?

Maybe; I don't know enough to say. I might consider doing some research and putting more thought into the question before donating, but it doesn't seem out of the question for me that keeping on both the founder and someone with his level of experience would be worth that much or more.
Can we Contain Covid-19 without Locking-down the Economy? (by MobileEye founder)
Astrologers announced the week of the epidemic: the number of useless posts to increase traffic to your website had quadrupled.
Same with making burgers. You are not cooking, you are solving the problem of hunger.
Edited with the corrected math. It's ~3.5k lines, ~70k words, ~400k characters.

Still, why wouldn't I want to edit it as a single file?
They didn't mean that there were free slots after 4 days.
This crisis will uncover a lot of overleverage and insufficient reserves. A lot.

Just to think how many of my friends have an incredibly high percentage of their net worth in stocks ...
I would argue that life is solving a problem of living.

I would not write a post about it.
> Can you actually write books in Markdown?

Yes, you can. The "Programming Perl" book by Larry Wall was famously written entirely in "POD" format, which is just like markdown. I don't know if it was split into several files.
A balanced and mathematical model for exiting the lock-down.

By Mobile-eye founder, Amnon Shashua, which was sold to Intel for $10BN.
for me it clicked when i realized he will only open the bad door which you have not chosen. Even if you chose the bad door he will never open that one to show you. He’ll always open the other
A good informative article, though take it with a grain of salt. It often weighs specifications and official recommendations over common sense or even evidence.

The article accepts the conjecture that mask 300nm (0.3µm) particle filtering is a minimum with smaller particle filtering being better (that's how standards were formed), while providing evidence that 50-90nm is fair, but notably lower[1].

It largely dismisses self-protection of surgical masks, saying they "may provide more than zero protection", while providing evidence they should be notably better than no protection. Just keep in mind they are likely only a marginal help.

It doesn't seem apparent from the text - the linked aerosol study takes measures to keep the virus aerosolized so it only tests degradation in air. Thus the graphs exclude settling and adhering to surfaces, photo-degradation and other likely faster agents.

[1] https://fastlifehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n95-par...
Something's off with scrolling. If I scroll the editor, the viewer seems to follow but actually it's not in sync. For example, I can see the two bottom sections in the editor ("What is markdown", etc.), but they aren't yet visible in the viewer. Once I reach the bottom of the editor, the viewer suddenly jumps to the bottom.
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Did you spend ten seconds googling whether there was a vim plug in that could do that for you? I did and I found this: https://github.com/suan/vim-instant-markdown
It's that time of the decade, when you can write this article , but a lot of companies have that cash.

Question is would it make sense for Buffet or others to buy them - and would they sell?
Generate semi-dynamic UIs with Haskell
Holland recalls 600k masks imported from China
Ask HN: Disease Tracking Privacy Issues
Many countries are making apps to track COVID-19.
Even though the Singaporean approach seems to have built-in privacy (location data, ID's "met" and timestamps stored locally), most seem to opt to active surveil every user all the time and store all data centrally.

This seems to me a less privacy-friendly and a less safe alternative.

As I've tried to raise discussions about this in public, I have (to my surprise) gotten responses from even epidemiologists and CISOs that basically boil down to stuff like "it's not an issue", "we have to make some concessions","trust the government", and "nothing to hide, nothing to fear".

I think it's pretty important to have these conversations.

What are your thoughts?
Bogus coronavirus claims lead Google Play to finally give Infowars the boot
Tail risk - it's fresh...
I'm not sure if we will be able to separate the confounding factors such as economic impact at the population level. Do you have an idea how this can be done?

I have seen a few studies using this method to look at excess mortality during the great recession [1],[2], but there wasn't a pandemic at the same time.

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

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/