skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
newegg.com is great. They primarily sell computers and office equipment, but if I'm buying that stuff, it's my go-to. Fast delivery, fantastic customer service. If something is defective, they'll send you a replacement with a return shipping label, no questions asked. Been using them for nearly 20 years without a single complaint.
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This is exactly like fasting in Islam, with addition that the time interval varies, as it uses Lunar calendar which rotates throughout the year.
(EDIT: Hmm, WSJ frames it as a Foursquare merging into Factual, but both companies are framing it as Foursquare "purchasing" Factual. https://www.factual.com/blog/factual-joins-foursquare/)

I started using Foursquare the day it launched over a decade ago, and still check in to every single place I go... and I don't know why. It might literally be the only habit I actually have. I love having a log of everything I've done over the past decade, it's amazing. It's also so great to see where people I know have been in random countries or cities. It makes the world feel a lot smaller.

I was glad they found a way to monetize it with data, and I really really hope Swarm never goes away :) Great job Dennis and team!
Latest order estimated delivery in 10 days but everything came in 2-3. In CA.
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It's strange to me to hear people blame turnstile jumping for the decline of the MTA. Its budget for operations has been repeatedly cut or diverted to large capital projects, which do nothing to improve service if operations are poor. Declining ridership and fare intake were a reflection of the poor operational state of the system - in 2017 and 2018, as the number of delays and major incidents skyrocketed, ridership went down. And when operations improved over the latter half of 2018 through 2019, ridership went up again.

Even if a low farebox recovery rate were the problem, the solution isn't increased policing. Many people in NYC simply can't afford to ride the subway, and you're not gonna magically squeeze money out of them.
This particular quote renders badly on the desktop as well.
I don't think you have any real scientific basis for those numbers. I doubt most people can reduce their risk of infection to 50% unless they take extreme and unsustainable steps. Please state your assumptions and show your math.
Discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22284926

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22447673
Maybe i misunderstood your comment, if so I like to apologize.

In any case, would you please explain to me how you consider the title "The problem of time" being wrong. It appears to me as one of the most fundamental questions in physics. The wikipedia article does - from my PoV - a reasonably good try to explain the problem at hand in laymans terms. It touches the relevant aspects of the problem (no absolute time, time/space interdependency) and expands to a more speculative theory (thermal time hypothesis).

I will not at all claim to have even a basic understanding of the covered topics, despite being an avid reader of related bloggers and papers.

I just am astonished how people disregard work of others even without (basic) knowledge of the domain. Maybe I'm wrong, but noone in this thread even tried to show her/his accomplishments in the mentioned domain.

And thanks for replying without simply downvoting.

And please don't think i automatically included you in the perceived group not having "even a basic understanding o the topic". Maybe you have, but since this is even less recognizable than the merits of the wikipedia author it is - from an outside PoV - even less credible.
Do it anyway. Or think about how you can improve it. If it's open-source look at their code and collaborate with them.
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My employer is the same, which is awesome because it means when I turn off my laptop that is the end of the day for me :)
That's actually true. But life is too short to deal with terrible people many hours a week if you can afford not to.

Perhaps the best professional and healthy solution is to find a new job if the conflict isn't resolved in good time.
I also find myself reaching for apt/yum/dnf/apk for standard tools when creating a container rather than building everything from scratch. It seems odd to me to waste time doing what someone else does well already.
We just need a law stating that if a website cross certain number of active users(registered) in a country they should have physical customer care offices. When they reach 10m,they should have it in every district(just like phone service centers). Its nice to think about this although these companies are rich and can lobby against these kind of laws.
I know you asked specifically not to be armchair doctored but here it comes.

How sure are you that you don't have sleep apnea? Did you actually do a study? Everyone I talked to didn't think I had it but I did a study anyway and lo and behold... no matter how much sleep I got, no difference whatsoever, always tired, just like you. But now several years later I did another one and I don't have it anymore. I think if you have it at a particular threshold they might not always diagnose you with it. So if you have a "mild case" like me you might meet the threshold one night and not the next.
No, it isn’t. The flu doesn’t require hospitalisation in 15-20% of the cases and doesn’t have a mortality rate of 1% in the best case. Please stop spreading misinformation.
Central America (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/eye-of-the-storm/fifth-...), Syria (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262981...), Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bus...), and Alaska https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/sockeye-salmon-and-cli... might beg to differ, among others.

It is happening now. It's happening in line with predictions by IPCC. It gets pretty bad. I can't help what people have said that has been wrong, but the world is measurably and visibly warming and that itself was denied for a long time. Very nearly 100% of experts in this field agree it's happening, have agreed for quite a while, and think the impact will be dire and potentially irreversible in the timeframe of human lifetimes. It feels like the zoonotic coronavirus situation played out over 50 years, rather than the 15 or so since SARS. Epidemiologists told everyone for a decade and a half this would happen, but here we are. A large group of experts in another field is telling us a similar thing with similar urgency. That's my only point.
Last time I ordered from them, I think they collected the sales tax. I'm not sure when this started; I am a long-time customer but they're not a store I tend to purchase from frequently.

I like them overall and I tend to prefer using them to Amazon for AV type of purchases.
I've always thought it was crazy that we are so eager to use free third party centralized services for secure communications.

There has to be some degree of corporate espionage occurring when every startup and many mature corps are using everything from Gmail to teams to slack to discord. It would be really difficult to sniff out if the offending admin kept quiet. All you need is one person with access...and if you're a less than ethical executive it isn't hard to find a dev to do your bidding quietly.
Barack Obama wasn't exactly marginal.
Yep many of the benefits can be delivered without a VR headset (that's part of the gist of my post) - worth checking out.
This is a topic near and dear to Philip Tetlock's heart and something he pragmatically tries to address in books like Superforecasting and the Good Judgment Open project (which unfortunately seems to be becoming less open over time). It's also a preoccupation of his Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/PTetlock

On the subject of predictions and credibility, when the question "what's your brilliant startup idea" comes up, one of my half-joking responses: an ESPN site for CNBC and other cable news sites where talking heads spend all data talking about the prediction performance of other talking heads and making predictions about future prediction performance of those talking heads.
I would not describe teachers or those who post on HN as "in it for attention".
Though I have not posted on youtube, I see no reason to describe those who
have as attention seekers.
Which CO2 sensor did you buy?
Domo's Interactive Covid-19 Tracker
I think the factor you missed in relating anything prior to the Trump era is the fact that Trump is an obvious, completely symptomatic Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

When he is back out of politics, watch for the other appointees to not just be replaced due to the change of president, but actively canned because they are all cronies appointed as a personality cult, and/or as favors to his worshipers.

And yes, I'm morbidly curious to imagine what the Trump presidential library might wind up containing. I snarkily predict that nothing will be approved except autobiographies.
What CO2 sensor do you use? Any recommendations?
It seems US is very much going for short term gratification instead of long term building of industrial nation. Moving manufacturing offshore into China and other cheaper countries + mega multinational corporations starving small businesses or buying them up so they can get away with price gorging and lobbying for favorable laws.

China said no to Google and Facebook, they let Baidu and Tencent build the technological prowess. China manufactures most of the worlds electronics, they help their cities foster ecologies. e.g Shenzen, Guangzhou, Tianjin e.t.c

Meanwhile US has been losing its manufacturing edge over time. We can't be price competitive to China because we haven't invested in the ecosystem necessary for mass scale production. Our governmental leaders have frequent conflict of interests because they've worked at previous mega corps.

US can no longer think and take actions for the interest for the whole nation. Corporate interests are winning out. Seeing how the $2 trillion stimulus was a giant coop, to Jared Kushner (neopotism) saying "National Stockpile is for us, and not for the states." COVID-19 is exposing how incapable we are as a nation to be self sufficient.

Is US a democracy? I am not so sure. Without fair competition, we aren't a capitalist society either.
Bear in mind it's not just Fox News which got this pandemic wrong. "It's no worse than the flu," "this won't be a global pandemic," "you don't need to wear a mask unless you are symptomatic or caring for someone who is," and other 100% wrong takes were also pushed by Vox, NYT, WaPo, and even WHO & CDC long past when they should have been.
It sounds like you're shopping with alarming frequency, almost daily. Why so much? I stocked up over a month ago because it was clear this was coming, and while I've supplemented a little bit with one delivery and one shopping trip since then, I certainly didn't need to. I especially wouldn't be relying on InstaCart and other one-off prepared food deliveries with an immunocompromised person at home.
I've got this problem except with learning / studying.

I realized I am a lot into science and engineering late in life. Now I want to do all of the Khan Academy in Chemistry and Physics; learn nano-/bio-tech; learn cybersecurity... and probably should just stick to learning backend dev in order to get a job.

People call this being a polymath, but I am seriously concerned for myself. The best I can do is take it one subject at a time.

On the building side, I simply have no ideas I am interested going for.
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I beg to differ. Rock Auto is where it's at for auto parts. The website is ugly as hammered shit, but it's fast, shows you the options grouped by rough quality level (economy/you cheapskate, daily driver, performance, etc), shows you what part to select so it ships from the same warehouse as the parts already in your cart and saves you shipping, and returns are painless (disclaimer: I've only ever done returns for core exchanges). I have never had a better online purchasing experience.

And the prices are a fraction of what you pay at a brick and mortar place. Especially for e.g. wiper blades.

Companies that "get" e-commerce are out there, but a lot of them are quietly and competently doing their thing in unsexy domains and aren't trying to eat the whole pie.

Rock Auto, for instance, isn't trying to serve every idiot on the planet with a car. If you can't keep your lefts/rights and fronts/backs straight when ordering e.g. brake hoses, you're going to find it a frustrating experience. Putting up a (small) barrier to entry to keep out the least clueful people probably helps keep their costs down.

Not affiliated, just a very happy repeat customer.
My only feedback would be that I'm not a server-side JS developer, so I don't feel it will have that much signal to noise. It's JS only, and the only JS I do is frontend and a little tooling.

In general, I find that for JS that basically gets compiled at build time and used statically on a site, or things like linters that don't do any networking and are run only in dev/CI, the scope for vulns is pretty low. It's mostly just self-denial-of-service, because it's standard practice to not trust the client for anything anyway, so all the canonical security is server-side.

There's obviously a vector for packages that have been backdoored and taken over by an attacker, but I'm not sure having that in my editor would help because I'd have to have the file open to see it, vs getting a notification about it from GitHub security (or Snyk's service I guess?). For new packages I'm adding, I would be researching it on NPM (for JS) anyway.

I mostly write backend Python, and I'd probably use it for that. The fact that there's a more useful notion of a vuln means I want to see them more (it's more of a spectrum rather than safe vs backdoored in the frontend case).
“As of today there are x,y00,000 cases and n,000 deaths reported due to coronavirus—here to discuss the new numbers is political correspondent Not A. Statistician.”
Can you access this without an account? I can't find a way in.
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If you're getting your "news" from CNN/Fox/MSNBC, or "gathering evidence" to promote one the two permitted narratives, that's your problem. This is stuff is low effort "Presidential Level Politics" 24x7. Real news died when reporters stopped having to craft a story so that the Associated Press or United Press International picked it up and made it available to the varied local newspapers of America, both liberal and conservative. The old CNN that actually did news, not talk show shenanigans reminiscent of old school Howard Stern, is missed.
The other way to look at it is that they have good pricing pages because at scale the ROI of optimizing certain user journeys is gigantic.

https://thegood.com/calculators/roi-conversion/
I'm not a huge fan of template e-mails, if you're just gonna do an automatic response then make that obvious from the start.

However I do see how these can be useful as a reference point, I especially like the templates/examples that have a little story behind them. Saying no "like a pro" isn't about the exact phrasing, but knowing that you can and often should say no.
Ask HN: Cracking the resume” type of books aimed at top companies?
I frequently hear about interview books that are aimed at various kinds of tech companies and top startups. But if your resume isn't up to par, you won't get the chance to interview and use what you learned in those books. Your major roadblock would be your own resume. What books are there for improving yourself for step of the process? Are there such books that are about optimizing your resume to get you short-listed to top companies?
The problem with using a VOIP number is that most app and websites won't let you use anything but a regular carrier number for verification -- they specifically restrict VOIP numbers from use. I presume this is to prevent spammers or just regular users from creating multiple accounts, but I think they're mistaken as it's trivial to buy a temporary "real" carrier number on the internet if you're fine using a somewhat-shady site.
> But alas, Foursquare simply had no way of making money.

Their revenue is 100 MM/year. [1]

You may not (like me) like their pivot then, or business focus, but they do run a successful business.

[1] https://www.owler.com/company/foursquare
Danish PM announces 'gradual' and 'controlled' reopening after Easter
Yes Minister, on how to respond to a crisis:

Sir Richard Wharton: “In stage one, we say nothing is going to happen.”

Sir Humphrey Appleby: “Stage two, we say something may be about to happen,
but we should do nothing about it.”

Sir Richard Wharton: “In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it,
but there’s nothing we can do.”

Sir Humphrey Appleby: “Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done,
but it’s too late now.”

Remember that Yes Minister is a manual for politicians, not a comedy.
There's a condition called "Holiday Heart", which can be triggered by binge drinking. It can lead to palpitations, arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_heart_syndrome
PayPal / Venmo also don't have support for proper security keys. :(
I’ve watched this only about 50 times nbd
Sorry, I was referring to the OG check-in app. They definitely make money now, but are they really foursquare anymore?
This is probably the first and only time it was mentioned in public. I do have a private bitbucket graveyard where it resides. Oh and this was done when mongodb was still a thing, so I have some of that going in there for finding sparse stock correlation matrices. And ruby was everywhere at the time, so the bank interface was created in watir instead of puppeteer.
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I stopped taking Adderall after someone here on Hacker News pointed me to some literature that indicates ADHD patients being treated with Adderall have an 8x higher risk of Parkinson’s than those with ADHD who did not receive treatment. I can’t look it up as I’m already feeling anxious with everything going on and don’t feel like reliving that particular trauma. The study was done in Utah.
It makes more sense when you think of it as a game instead of some sort of location sharing system.

Games are popular for a while, then they're not, for no real reason. One year everyone is playing it, the next year no one is, or just an odd collection of dedicated fans. Occasionally you have games that hold on for decades, like bridge or World of Warcraft or Settlers of Catan, but it's just a longer scale rather than true permanence.
Nothing will save the credulous other than hard experience.

The problem with censorship is that you often just end up substituting one set of nonsense for another.
Yep, this also comes packaged with NWO, there is one country that actively works on spreading this crap on social media, I believe the goal is to weaken Western countries by setting up their citizens against their own government.
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You too, hang in there.
We played racing karts on https://www.airconsole.com/ the other day with friends. We used WhatsApp for voice.
Thanks for the tip! I'm glad to see they've implemented this. Though I'm still very frustrated about how long it took for them to do anything about this problem.
Obama lucked out that he didn't have to cast an actual vote on the Iraq War due to vicissitudes of his congressional career; based on how he actually governed and the allegiances he has demonstrated, we can reasonably guess he would have voted in favor. He also cemented our endless imperial interventionism in the broader Middle East including with an absolutely disastrous campaign in Libya. And, just like George W. Bush and his lackeys, paid zero price for it.
Not sure how you consume yours but I do the same old search on pirate Bay + download with Deluge.

Deluge is a good torrent app, the frogs boiled slowly with uTorrent and BitTorrent as they were overcome, but deluge still appears to be ad free!
There's a similar (and similarly-named) syncing plugin for Disney Plus:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disney-plus-party/...

I can understand wanting to avoid bad press given the current state of things, but even still I'm shocked that Netflix and especially Disney haven't hit these with C&Ds for trademark use given the obvious potential for confusion.
I write down on paper how I feel, the work I do, exercise, food I take, everything.

That means if one day I am not ok I can rewind and find the culprit very fast, like getting exhausted from doing too hard work the day before.

In your case, you will be simply forgetting what you did once you sleep. Or you could be simply ill.

I usually think very clearly and fast. Usually my mind is never foggy unless when I am ill, like an occasional headache(once in a year) or when I get the flu.

I do not drink coffee nor significant alcohol. Those can make you bog down.

My mind was boggy when I started working from home in front of a computer years ago. I realized I just needed exercise every day.
Theres a lot of things you may want to do, like you abstractly think that would be good for you somehow, eg. learn the piano.

But for a project that you can stick with through the horrible / boring bits, all the way to completion, pick something you are compelled to do, something you just naturally do and enjoy.

Eg. I make computer games, I think they are fairly pointless, but I can happily make games all day every day. Its the kind of thing I need to force myself to stop doing and go take a break.
that would be heaven
Thank you Dan, sure hope so. I've really had enough of this. Especially the stupid cough, I feel like a dog that just can't stop barking.
This is pretty excellent. It is one of the first ventilator solutions that actually implements appropriate air sensors, a PEEP function and air flow monitoring. Hats off to the tesla engineers for throwing this together so quickly. It's pretty neat that so many car parts could be reused. I can imagine they are finalizing the software interface and optimizing the machining process to reduce the cut time on the custom manifold production. Again, awesome job guys!
Thanks for the tip, will probably try to rewrite the idea myself.