skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we won't.

People already know videos and images can be faked, but they still trust whatever they want to be true as a post-hoc validation of their existing prejudice, not as the result of a rational attempt to judge evidence on its own merits.

Just look on Youtube for various "paranormal" videos, things like "real proof" of reptilians, ghosts, aliens, etc. Most of those videos are laughably fake looking, but people who already believe in these things take them as gospel, anyway.

Politically speaking, look at Pizzagate as another example. Whether or not you believe the "evidence" tends to depend on what you already believe about Democrats/progressives/leftists/the Clintons.
You can read the text of Section 230 at: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

There’s an idea out there that Section 230 only applies to platforms that provide equal access to everyone. That’s not true. In fact, it explicitly allows “interactive computer service” providers to filter any material they deem to be objectionable in section (c)(2):

> (c) Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material

> (1) [omitted for brevity]

> (2) Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—

> (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;

Twitter is 100% allowed to filter Giuliani’s (and any other whack job’s) nonsense/misinformation if they consider it to be objectionable. Doing so does not make them ineligible for the protections described in Section 230. _It is_ one of the protections described in Section 230.
what is private DNS?
Well, which private sector organization fields 1,000+ feet ships housing thousands of people, besides cruise lines? I don't know how much a flushing of the entire wastewater system on a ship like the Oasis of the Seas costs, but it's probably not as low as $1,000.
Do Not Install Your WSL Distro from Microsoft Store
As far as we know, no country is approaching saturation yet - e.g. if 10% of population has been infected, then that would slow the infection speed just by 10% which would not be noticeable in these scales. The total population will become obviously relevant if, say, 30% or 50% of the country is infected, but that's kind of the worst case scenario that we'd like to avoid.
> This crisis has been eye opening for me, the American propaganda machine is working more than ever. It's just sad to look at from the outside. You can't make it go away by throwing money at it or calling the army, all you need is a structured government and a solid health/social system, which is exactly what the US lack.

All the best to the US citizens to go through the crisis. I sadly feel once it will be over some more will understand that social health care is something everybody is affected and how many lifes (effective) obamacare would have saved.
the one reason i use pihole is to block ads network-wide. this kinda defeats that purpose.
Ocado in the UK has been having queues to get onto the site and limiting people to one slot per week. They are now giving people who have been paying for delivery passes before 2020 priority access to the site one day per week (divided randomly into 7 groups) to book slots. I presume they are also doing something similar for vulnerable customers. I have wondered whether if it'd be possible to hack the queuing process somehow but imagine the number of people capable of doing that would be tiny and am too honest to consider myself! I'm more wrangling with whether it is ethical to take a slot at all (but we are getting allergen-free stuff for another family and don't want to let them down).
My guess would be that this figure also includes costs for downtime and the like, but that's just a guess. Would be interested to see a more detailed breakdown of the $400k.
this group at DARPA are looking for answers if you have one

https://www.darpa.mil/program/media-forensics
Try $400 a gallon off gas--after paying the enemy (the Taliban) to allow the shipment though. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63407-400gallon-...

My guess is that the liquid is toxic and also might have to be processed after.
Just to get this right: It's called online shopping, but actually it is only that one chooses online and then needs to go there to pick it up (basically, no delivery service)? Or are the pick up times, when you can pick it up at your own door?
I appreciate your correction and effort. Thank you.
> If you make it clear that Monty only opens a door that will definitely be empty, I find that most commentators will agree that Marilyn is correct, you should switch.

I can’t argue with what you’ve observed, but my own experience is not that there’s a misunderstanding about the question, but that people simply don’t think properly about the question. Nobody I’ve ever seen confused about the answer was confused by the question, and many numerically literate people I know have struggled with it.
> When someone offers $1000 to a business they expect [...]

> [...] transact on hope and trust.

These two things are not as dissimilar as you seem to think.

There is nothing irrational about donating to a non-profit, and nothing irrational about paying high salaries to irreplaceable employees or executives.
I'm sorry, $60? I'm all in favor of fair remuneration for an excellent piece of work, but this is really too much. $30 would be much more fair.

(And it doesn't matter if it's a physical book or e-book, the cost of printing nowadays is ca. $1 for each 100 pages.)
With ASDA you can do an order and book a slot and checkout. Then you can make changes up until about 11pm the night before delivery.
Email is the best tool for async work. Yes, it's meant to be uncomfortable and not fun. Fun things are toys, and slack invariably ends up being one.
Berkshire the company is one of the US's biggest taxpayers. Buffett himself is giving most of his money to charity (the Gates foundation).
Perhaps it’s classified poop and pee
I actively avoid planning because it kills momentum for everything. It might actually be a good habit to ignore them until you're ready to deal with them. Normally I check messages etc during lunch break and end of the day (around 4 pm). There are also points where it's hard to do work, like an hour before a meeting. You could also leave notifications on if they're time sensitive.
That sounds like the EU were preventing a known toxin from being used in food. The USA also has restrictions on coumarin in food.

Danish food producers were taking the cheap route (Cassia cinnamon rather than the not-dangerous Cinnamomum verum), and rather than requiring the bakers to use less spice or the more expensive one, the Danish government abused the loophole in the law for traditional recipes.

+1 to the EU, -1 to Denmark and the bakers.
This is missing one of the most affected countries: Switzerland.
Ask HN: What are you doing in quarantine?
So one third of world is under complete or partial lockdown. What are you doing at your home in this quarantine time? Are you reading book, taking some course, learning a language or anything else? What are you doing in quarantine?
The Pandemic Can’t Lock Down Nature
Do the world a favour and buy out the useless CNN and Washington Post!
> No one needs that much money

What if you want to buy more business/investments or fund startups?
The problem is, in order to tax him, you would need to tax every other american mega-billionare in his tax-bracket, and that probably doesn't sit well with recurrent SUPERPAC donors which legally influence your politicians with loads of cash for their political campaigns.
Taleez ATS
You missed the point, that this sampling bias applies equally to the x axis and the y axis in this plot. So this plot allows you to fairly compare growth across different countries, regardless of their testing regime.
yes, but you have pihole for that... this is if you don't need or want to issue a network wide block
Economic life after Covid-19: Lessons from the Black Death
Non profit does not mean zero income.
“They” would be fine getting even higher pay elsewhere working for private interests. The losers would be the general public who benefit from the education.
Article from 2009. They now use long haul truck convoys through Russia and Central Asia to avoid this problem.
Fish and humans have vastly different diets, and human feces contain different bacteria and viruses than fish feces. You can absolutely pollute an ocean with sewage. Please try to educate yourself.
I think it's DNS with in-flight encryption.
Couldn't do 1k but I can do 200 right now, anything for these guys, they are doing amazing work, everyone give what you can!
> those in power know the real truth, gleaned from their statistics machines

I honestly fear even those in force do not know as they have to rely on what their experts tell them.

Many poltical agenda might now been pushed through, officialy to fight against corona while preparing a new world order.
What can the analytics tell me?
Yeah regarding no filesystem, not sure if it is dumb but I was using Dexie(IndexedDB wrapper,) to store images as base64 strings. It works but what can suck is the time to turn it back to an image to be displayed. Which using small thumbnails it's not bad but without pagination(seems obvious you should) but it's so much data it throws a chromium-level error so idk
... But was faster to reach MVP than RN for me with my skills. There was an offline-first requirement so that's why the images are stored that way but it has a remote REST API for sync and S3 for storing the large images.
That's assuming they are for sale at the current market cap which they are not really. Otherwise I think he'd kinda like to own McDonnalds.
> takes a pay cut to $200,000, I'll donate.

Why $200,000, why not $100,000?
First post I look at is this craziness:

https://permies.com/t/60886/solutions-simple

And that's a staff member too.

I was hoping to read about a simple composting solution, but I now know he really doesn't like LED lightbulbs.
i couldn't think of an use case for this? can you explain what would you use this for? if you already have pihole?
What a Real Superhero Looks Like
This is not even close to the same thing. If you don't want to donate, then don't. But this is a red herring.

What you should be thinking about is the value he provides, not the absolute amount he is paid. The net positive effect of him running it and getting paid $800k is much higher than someone else who can't run things as well getting paid $100k. The goal is to maximize the output of the non-profit, not to keep salaries low. What you should care about is ROI on your dollars donated.
The great part about the flexibility afforded by participating in the gig economy is that gig workers can't get unemployment, and you don't have to provide them with health insurance.

That was the major innovation of the last business cycle. It's coming home to roost in a truly spectacular way over the past month.
This gonna cost a lot to rewrite
I think he is being underpaid by at least a multiple. I wish we valued teachers like him more. He should be making athlete level money.

I support Math for America that provides stipends to smart teachers. It has the same premise: good teachers are rare and it’s good for everyone if they stay in education instead of being lured to Google or Goldman Sachs.

https://www.mathforamerica.org/
Are you blaming people for not believing a dictatorial régime that has been lying consistently about many things? Are you forgetting that they persecuted whistleblowers at the start of the epidemic, or is that propaganda too?
MusicBrainz and friends
browse Twitter and marvel at how mobile rhythm games can't maintain 60fos
strike, ask for more money and protection. F the rest. Placing the life on the line for less than living wage, just not worth it.
oh, like dns over tls ?
Singapores ministers are paid good amount, lot of the high level positions make more than million dollars.

If you want skilled people you need to pay a good amount.
From what I gathered, while his salary is 800,000, the costs of IT are about 5M. With 250% of the regular load, while it probably won't go up to 12.5M, the costs likely increase by so much than his salary is still pretty much insignificant.

From the other perspective: they provide, apparently, an invaluable service. While the entire world struggles with keeping the education going, people apparently need Khan Academy 2.5 times as much as they did before. And you think the CEO now deserves less pay than he gets, at the time when we need him more than we ever did before?
> What would've been even more effective: Not lying about the outbreak, not suppressing information for two months, not downplaying the risk and keeping everything running as usual, just to save face. Until shit hits the fan, at which point local government becomes the scapegoat.

It's hard to tell whether you are talking about the US, UK or China
The video shows a plot of "new cases", which might be measuring the rollout of testing, not the actual increase in number of people with the virus. It is also not showing data per-capita. In other words, this is not terribly useful IMO
That's unbelievable rubbish
It did happen to me. I used StevenBlack's Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling + porn + social

It's over 1.4mb.

And after any edit to the host file, it'd take minutes before I could browse. (Hard drive)

When I switched to SSD, the delay dropped to less than a minute.

For domains I already visited, cached, there were no perceptible resolution delays.
I'm working with Lua right now(gopherlua) as a scripting option for real-time gaming. I've done similar things to your story in the past with trying to make Lua the host for everything and I'm well aware of the downsides, but I have a requirement of maintaining readable, compatible source(as in PICO-8's model) - and Lua is excellent at that, as are other dynamic languages, to the point where it's hard to consider anything else unless I build and maintain the entire implementation. So my mitigation strategy is to do everything possible to make the Lua code remain in the glue code space, which means that I have to add a lot of libaries.

I'm also planning to add support for tl, which should make things easier on the in-the-large engineering side of things - something dynamic languages are also pretty awful at.
There are many aspects of this, and what can be presently proven is always an extremely small tip of the iceberg. I've read a lot of different historical accounts and it is practically a given that all these mechanisms or even institutions and practices which existed up to recently aren't magically dismantled in the present moment. For the start, read about the practice of "embedding" journalists or about:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

Then consider (if you are old enough) about what the public perception of such coverage was, at the given point of time. Basically, with enough distance in time, we can easily read about the huge distortions, and just shrug and say "yes it was so" but somehow too many people assume that the present moment is somehow, by some magic, "clean."

My favorite example is the

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

"a 2003 briefing document for the British prime minister Tony Blair's Labour Party government. It was issued to journalists on 3 February 2003 by Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy, and concerned Iraq and weapons of mass destruction."

An apparent "proof" turned out to be "plagiarised from various unattributed sources including a 13-year-old thesis produced by a student at California State University."

If something that obvious (after the fact) was used as a proof for many nations to go to war, and readily repeated by all the media, what do you expect from the rest of the coverage? I personally remember the coverage from that times, it was considered "patriotic" to not even try to point to the better verified facts.

Being surprised about the fact that the direct agendas are behind most of the "news" production is just like being surprised that "there are exactly that much important news in the world per day to fit the front page of the newspaper."

Regarding "embedding" I remember reading different articles about the journalists and editors being directly enlisted by some agencies to "independently" provide "patriotic" coverage, even while operating in the mainland, not in some foreign war zones. Maybe somebody saved some such link, I haven't, and Google is not helping me.

The current state is not different, to paraphrase James Mickens, even now these players could without problem claim "we are not doing this" while at the same time wearing the t-shirts "we are totally doing this" and... only the first part will be in the titles.
I learned this the hard a few years back. The lookup performance was good enough, but every time I woke the computer up from sleep or rebooted it, it would spend ten minutes maxing out one or two cores trying to process a hosts file blocking all known malware/spyware/adware domains.

This took me ages to find the cause of, I had to use a lot of highly-escalated debuggers and such to figure out what the "system" process was trying to do that was costing so much time. Once I cleared out the hosts file, the problem was resolved.
Maybe the "stealing out jobs crowd" are the ones competing for the lower wage jobs. I got the impression that Brexit voters were often towards the lower and of the earning spectrum. While I am for staying in the EU myself I can see why these people don't feel like they get much out of EU membership.
That's already basically very much a thing[0,1].

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2017/06/12/the-bra...

[1]https://www.wired.com/story/messy-legal-fight-to-bring-celeb...
I’m trying to get to that point. It’s interesting to see that any new member that joins the team has a sort of adjustment period where the still come to ask everything, but eventually realize that “do what you think is best” is going to be the answer to any technical question regardless, and they realize it’s ok to have (and fix!) their own problems with the code.
You really think 800k is “absurd” money for what he does? Boy, I have news for you.
No, there are two different biases at work and they might not cancel out each other.
Do you have a source? I will absolutely not donate if he's making that much. He should sacrifice his entire salary until this is over.

I encourage others not to donate too.
Eo-YAML For Java, 4.0.0, Released
Version 4.0.0 of eo-yaml: https://github.com/decorators-squad/eo-yaml

- It contains many improvements and additions in the support of Scalars (it now supports folded and literal block scalars).

- Support for YAML Streams, integrated with Java 8's Stream API

- Convenience type-casting methods (e.g. yamlMapping.integer("key"))

- Many bug fixes and performance improvements.

Full release log: https://github.com/decorators-squad/eo-yaml/issues/223
One months salary for a rewrite to python 3 is a good deal for pretty much any project.
When you don't control DHCP (or the network as a whole)
Germany tested more and tested earlier. This allowed Germany to look into the future, nothing more.

If you look at the increase in deaths it’s pretty obvious that Germany is now catching up fast.

Testing alone obviously doesn’t do anything against the epidemic so it still remains to be seen whether everything that happened besides testing helped and whether the time won through being able to look into the future was used well.
I bought my son a MotoG back in 2017. Because I kept reading that it was a good midrange Android phone. It was slow running “native” apps, web performance was even worse.

He was more than happy to “upgrade” to my iPhone 6s (2015) in 2018. Performance was noticeable better. Also, it is still supported by the latest version of iOS.

Of course by then the phone was three years old so I replaced the battery.
I'll bet someone is already working on footage of a certain US President in a certain Russian hotel room .....
Time to use webtorrents to lower the bandwidth cost?
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/03/27/virginia-pharmaci...
My explanation was wrong...

Google support page explation for private DNS doesn't explain anything. Just recommends leaving it on.
I'd just add that in addition to that $128B in liquid Treasury securities (which is what "cash" means when we talk about such large amounts) they also have about $103B debt that cancels their net cash-debt position to about $25B. The debt has long maturity, though, so most of the cash can be deployed immediately.

Also, Buffett applies something like the Taleb's "barbell method" to his holdings: he never buys high grade corporate bonds. It either has to be something "distressed", a convertible, a preferred stock, warrants, common stock well below intrinsic value, best if they call him and beg him to buy, i.e. something with high potential returns, or "pristine" and boring assets, like govt securities.

As he says himself - when things get bad everything freezes. In 2008 even Berkshire couldn't get credit.
Coding Q&A
I've been using nextdns and I like it: for one thing, it can tell you the amount of blocked DNS queries, but it's also very helpful for troubleshooting since you can see the log of what was blocked, when, and why (which blocklist). You can then completely disable the blocklist, or whitelist specific entries if you prefer. It's a level of customization that I don't believe other DNS adblockers provide since many of them are designed to "just work".
You just gave Salman Khan gas money for the next few months.
Private DNS is what Android calls DNS over TLS. It's basically normal DNS but with a TLS connection wrapped around it.

DoT is very easy to self host if you already run something like a pihole (using nginx to proxy a tcpstream + having it wrap a TLS connection around it) and can be exposed to the internet because it can work over TCP (thus reducing the DDoS risk factor significantly).

In Android there's a setting to enable it in the network settings. The default will be "off", if you pick "on" you'll probably be using Google's DNS servers, if you pick "hostname" you can pick a different server.
Krzysztof Penderecki has died
Wow, that's gone backwards. Tap tap revenge used to work fine on my iPod touch 2g.
Nice distro manager and perhaps also the download process could take place within the tool
You can explain some of the discrepancy without China actually lying. They always said the official numbers were for people diagnosed of COVID who then died but it was no secret that the testing services couldn't keep up and many people died at home without official testing.
Managing Helm Charts with Helmfile
Interesting fact: the nerves in your nose for smelling are the only part of your brain that is in direct contact with the outside world. Ancient stuff!
It's more than that, private DNS is not just a different DNS server, it's a DNS over TLS (DoT) server. This means encrypting the lookups to prevent the ISP from tracking the host names you visit.

Many DNS servers don't support DoT and some support DoH (DNS over HTTPS) instead.
> Private DNS allows you to set the DNS server the phone should use instead of your ISP's.

iOS does support that.
Network Wide > Pi-hole

Browser > Ublock

Local System > hosts-file

Android (root) > Adaway (does hosts-file)