skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool!

The open source bioinformatics community is having a massive hackathon this week (400+ participants). Might you be able to join the effort and post a link to this project on the wiki [1] or in our Slack discussion?

You may find many other folks interested in collaborating!

[1] https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20/wiki
> Paypal

So my instinctual habit of adding and then deleting my credit card details whenever I need to do a Paypal payment was correct, after all...
>Is there a good way to learn a new language from a more theoretical point of view i.e. by understanding the foundational principles upon which it was designed?

No. Schools follow this method. I doubt anyone acquired a language in school.

I have acquired 3~4 languages, having practically nothing in common, before ever going to school at age six. (Kabyle, French, Algerian, and Arabic. Algerian is a mix of Arabic, Kabyle, French, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, and Arabic but with a structure closer to Hebrew than to Modern Standard Arabic, and is unintelligible in the "Arab world")

What has worked for me is content consumption. Reading/watching/listening to content in my target language about topics that interest me. I will read about whatever I usually read about, just in my target language.

Language acquisition can be tedious, doing it through topics that do not interest you is a sure way to give up.
Why is this even a question? You're on a company asset, using company services, doing company business, handling company IP. You should have no expectation of privacy.
"Fasting occurred without eating or drinking between predawn breakfast and dinner at sunset (lunch, liquids, water, snacks were skipped). "

So they didn't even drink water?
Just turn on Google location services. If you want to see where you've been and when, it'll show up on google maps timeline.

I like using that to find out where I've been overseas.
Your reply, while valid in isolation, isn't a meaningful response to the parent post. There is no single "global warming prediction", there have been thousands. The parent was speaking to those, not whichever one ends up being closest to the truth.

>>consider how it applies to all the people who have made confident predictions over the years regarding global warming.
Aside from Whole Foods, Amazon also has Amazon Prime Now (go to https://primenow.amazon.com/ and pick store: Amazon). They have a lot of staple foods there, and sometimes they have more availability than Whole Foods. (I'm guessing there might be different bottlenecks at Whole Foods stores and Amazon warehouses.)

Another option are restaurant deliveries. Those are easy to get (they're happy to get the orders!). Up to you how you feel about the risk, but all the experts I've read say you can reduce the danger there to something comparable to grocery delivery (mainly to discard the original packages and you can also reheat the food).
You need to walk away from these people entirely. Get rid of the conspiracy theorists in your life.

The Twitterverse that generates fake news feeds on the controversy generated by stupid opinions. It ascribes value to the clicks and responses intentionally stupid content, shouted loudly, acquire.

When stupid people only talked to other stupid people IRL, the blast radius was limited. When I had a taxi driver spouting conspiracy theories, I didn't then take him with me to a party, and make all my friends listen to what he said.
https://parsecgaming.com/ is made to play local-multiplayer games remotely. It is like screensharing, but it forwards controller inputs as well at super low latency.
It's become a cliche that Sony and MS focus on specs while Nintendo focuses on content and experience.
Cool! Thanks! I'm most worried about the finishing part, honestly. What did you end up doing for it?

I keep debating between whether to leave the wood visible (with Tru Oil or wipe-on polyurethane), or paint it (lacquer, super labor intensive, slow, expensive), or dye/stain it and use a clear finish on top of that.
Greta Thunberg Transformed Existential Dread into a Movement
Do you always live in fear?
Will it help, if I say 10 spans per request and 100 RPS?

Or even simpler, I use the dd-trace library and my application handles 100RPS
After all of this passes, what I think NYers will finally take from this is increased personal space, albeit minor increased personal space, and a greater adoption of contact-less methodology. If anything, it will give NYers more appreciation for soap and filtration. People will probably buy more house portable air filtration equipment than ever before. That and the MTA better finish their NFC payment system pronto and pay for a regular cleaning staff.
DreamCraft (YC S18) is hiring a UI/UX designer (SF Bay Area, remote)
When grain is fermented to make spirits you get mostly ethanol but in many cases there is enough methanol produced that can cause blindness or death. The trick for distilling is to throw away the first part that comes out because of the high methanol concentration.
Ask HN: How do you manage screen time?
I wonder how you are handling your screen time. If I'm beeing productive besides work, everything usually revolves about beeing in front of a screen (coding side projects, learning or research about a specific topic online etc.)
Are you in a larger house? I'm in a 2 bedroom apartment and the closeness of the snacks is making it harder
While SIM swapping is certainly a concern, this article makes it sound like it's universally bad to rely on phones as a form of authorization. What are the alternatives? I'd argue that email is far riskier; it's more commonly compromised, easier to compromise, and less visible when compromised. Ideally, users employ more secure 2FA methods like TOTP apps or dongles, but it's like pulling teeth to get anyone to adopt those. Relying on SMS in addition to email is better than relying on either one in isolation. I don't think I agree that Google Voice numbers are necessarily harder to hijack, because to do that they just need access to your Google login (typically your email credentials).

There are risks all around, but this article doesn't offer any good solution that customers are likely to adopt in meaningful numbers. Maybe PayPal and other companies should require people to use secure 2FA, but they'd lose too much business.
When he she or it, is a gsuite admin ;)
So true, and in my point of view one of the, if not the, most relevant aspects of the fake news pandemic: journalists not strictly adhering to known and provable facts.

This opens a flank to bullshitters, and in the matter of bullshit they will outperform anyone else, since that's their ground.

In my view of a non-fake-news world, journalists would always (1) provide a link to independent sources where possible.

(1) if possible, i.e. when it doesn't endanger someones life.
Git alias for printing recently-used branches
Totally agree with this. This is something you can clearly see in Trump's approval rating, which just reached the highest levels of his entire tenure [1]. Things are only getting more polarizing, but the really scary thing is that this admin's approval rating climbs the worse things get and it is worrying to see this incentive structure :(
Nah. If prisoners can get enough legal chops in prison to successfully appeal their case, he can do his "research" in prison.

He could even livestream it. https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/12/martin-shkreli-show-revi...
I use Swarm in a similar way; as a diary. Since FourSquare seems to have abandoned that use-case I wonder if there's a better product to be built.
Could you share some of these confident predictions regarding global warming?
Google drive doesn't do versioning (at least, not for the 180 day period I want), which is why I rejected it as a backend.

Regardless, I haven't had S3 perf be a problem yet for me.
There's a signal vs noise issue, and it doesn't feel intentional. I add comments and photos, I mention who I'm with, etc. I much prefer Swarm over Google.

(And, not really the point, but I trust Swarm with my data more than Google, even though I know Google already has it...)
My wife orders from walmart.ca often. It's generally good but still feels lower quality than Amazon (which has its own issues, yes). Last week they shipped an entirely wrong item. So my kids aren't getting their Duplo set for Easter.
(I'm a googler, opinions are my own. I don't work on Fi.).

Google Fi provides sim swap attack protection. To bind a Google Fi # to a phone, you need to be able to log into your Google account on that phone (from the Fi app). There is no other way to bind a Fi number to a phone (customer service doesn't even have the power to do this).

This means that whatever 2FA you have setup on your Google account is the same protection you get against sim swap attacks.
"These people constantly make false predictions, and get away with it, because the things they make predictions about either have mushy enough outcomes that they can bluster their way out of trouble, or happen so far in the future that few remember what they said."

Neither of which applies this time.

Here's a project for someone who works in the video space. Start with a Trump speech. As soon as he says something demonstrably false, the image freezes and a loud buzzer sounds. The picture of Trump shrinks and moves to a corner of the screen. Then the correct information appears, possibly including a contradictory clip from Trump. After that, the main video resumes.

Advanced version: do this in real time with machine learning.

Now that would get you hits on Youtube.
I've been meaning to dig into bpf as a packet tracing/sniffing tool for the same reasons... pcap files can get enormous quickly enough to make space and parsing a pita. Cool work.
You seem to be confusing your opinion with fact here.
Which apps?
What's the timeline of media outlets figuring this out? Fox was downplaying / claiming this was a hoax as late as March 10 [1], whereas other outlets woke up early February (eg, the WaPo headline in your screenshot is from Jan 31).

1 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/on-fox-news-s...
Or avoid using Zoom until they've fixed their issues, and have at least some semblance of acting responsibly?
Speaking from experience here, don't go overboard trying to grab papers to read later. Doubly so if you have a static IP. Academic resources, the ACM included, are incredibly ban-happy, and the line between good behavior and bad is kept secret.
I'd say that as a Recruiter first rule is: adapt your resume for the position you're applying.

How can you translate your XP to reflect the criteria of the position. Not saying that you should lie - quite the opposite -, but actually adapt and specify it with some example of the following:

(S)ituations; (T)asks; A(action); R(esults)

For the above, on the action item, you can share specific things around techniques, tools, and methodologies. Hope that this helps :thumbs-up: :)
I used to think conspiracy theories are unrealistic, the image of a group of people sitting in a dark room conspiring against others just seems ridiculous.

But the older I get, and the more understanding I have over how large organizations are ran, the more I realize that conspiracies actually do happen, but in much more subtle ways.

What actually happens is that over a long periods of time, people collaborate with and promote those who think like them, with similar biases and incentives. Then when a major decision needs to be made, everyone at the table think the same way and agree on the same solution. This works even across organizations, as people's career are made through networks and relationships transcending organizational boundaries.

It is difficult to get a group of people to understand something when all their salaries depends upon them not understanding it.
If you look at their data offerings it's downright creepy to put it mildly. They offer services where they can ping store owners when someone enters their store! I'd trust Google before I trust a company like Yelp or foursquare.
I like to think that my side projects are primarily a hobby, which I understand as an important venue for "venting off" after work. Notably, if they start to feel too much like work, they're no longer hobby projects, losing their super important (for me) psychological function! I mean, I still do feel guilt often, and am still on a lookout for some way(s) to cope with it... But interestingly, in my case, for one of the projects, my itch was so strong eventually, and I was so often annoyed I don't have this tool, that it kinda "forced" me to find the strength to push through to the completion, even when it was becoming a chore. Since then, I again abandon projects with guilt repeatedly ;) but again also have one among them, that I'm coming back to on and off, when I feel fancy, and trying to push forward. Again, I'm kinda repeatedly getting annoyed I don't have it for myself; when annoyance of not having it becomes bigger than my memories of annoyance developing it, I'm getting back to it again :) sometimes looking at it reminds me too much and is enough to scare me away again, but sometimes I'm just so angry I say to myself screw everything and sit and push through :) Still, also as others said, I look at the unfinished "hobby" ones also sometimes as some kind of research I wanted to do, thus honing my skills or just randomly "playing with my mental muscles" in various ways anyway - kinda as a kid plays in a sandbox however they want. They don't ask anyone for permission to drop the toy car and start digging a funny hole in the sand, just to fill it back with exactly the same sand moments later.

edit: One more thing from what others wrote that also kinda resonates with me, is that especially with the finished project, I kinda did repeatedly cut corners, and I mean a lot, like freaking brutally, to get to the absolute minimum and absolute most brain-dead simplifications and quick hacks, kinda like taking the machete and just cutting my way through the jungle not looking behind, just to get to the PoC. I cut worlds of ideas from it, leaving them as "TODOs", scribbling in a notebook, or just "mañana-ing" with cruel premeditation, I still hear them howling at me with angry remorse. Uh, sorry folks! Some day, y'know, pinky promise, maybe!... I remember you, I really do (mostly...), but, y'know, kinda different toys now that I'm playing with, y'see... And suddenly, this PoC (wrapped in a pretty readme and asciinema gif, which were actually the most exhausting finish of the whole run... but I was so close, it was like no way, if I don't do this, nobody in the world will know how an awesome tool I made... but they must know... it will help them sooo much... I think... I mean, it helps me so much... and let them just see the gif... gifs are pretty!!) kinda proved to be enough, both to me and to tons of other people I wanted to share with and thought may also like it, and closed my eyes and published, saying screw possible bad reactions or just crickets... sweet! :)
My god, literally everything in that second paragraph is what I do.
I think the Tory/Labor division that existed in the newspapers, and the way that dynamic changed in the Rupert Murdoch era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch#Activities_in_t...) should be studied in light of emerging polarization you're discussing in the US. Creates a self-reinforcing news duopoly that is very persistent and harmful. I suspect that as people look back on the end of Great Britain that we are living through and how it has fallen as a global power it will be interesting to see how media driven internal division was a factor.
Thank you for the recommendation, Curtis Roads seems to be quite the synthey-book legend. I read portions of Computer Music, but your title seems much more relevant to precisely the subset of info I'm after.
A Virtual Internship Just Isn’t the Same
One reason previously for using Amazon was recommendations for example their "Customers who viewed this item also viewed: [list of alternative items]." Unfortunately the recommendations boxes like the "Customers who viewed this item also viewed" have been completely removed, with no real replacement except "sponsored."

I don't consider sponsored ads a replacement for actual recommendations based on real people's buying behavior. Obviously Amazon wants us to though so they can double-dip. Personally I am buying less, not more, because I cannot find things.

But maybe it is more profitable to Amazon for us to spend longer looking, more sponsor spot revenue. Talk about perverse incentives, make more money from a slower shopping experience.
I built Spectroomz (https://www.spectroomz.com/), a freelancing platform for autistic people, with no code.

The client submits a project via Typeform, gets an email confirmation using Zapier, and the project's details go to an Airtable base. Freelancers go through a similar process when they submit their details.

I have an "applicants", "submitted projects", and "active projects" tabs on the base.

When a project is submitted I email relevant freelancers the job description (this could be automated as well with Zapier, haven't got to it), who apply directly via email.

I just started (launched several weeks ago). These are good for the MVP phase, after which I'll have to build something.
At some point when a company keeps saying oops you have to hold them accountable. I support the idea that companies should seek to improve their product incrementally, so it's ok to err. But they have to improve.

Customers are jumping ship:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/05/zoom-new-york-city-schools...

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/03/elon-musk-bans-use...

My group banned zoom about a year back for poorly handling a security vulnerability. I'm not surprised that there are continued security issues.
Confident predictions regarding climate change over the past 100 or so years[0]

[0] https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2010/10/goosey-goosey-gander.ht...
When you're living paycheck to paycheck, every dollar matters.

The problem is things are cheaper from china, because China as a nation invested in their ecosystem of manufacturing. Ports, roads, tax incentives, loans e.t.c

US on the other hand did not invest in themselves as heavily.
It's like a rich son having someone else do his assignments and when the end of year exam comes, he's fucked because he didn't put the effort in learning himself.

The more we take China take the lead and we rely on them, the more we lag behind.
For every microservices system I've seen, this feels about right.

It oversimplifies things a bit, though.

It's odd; I've never seen a "monolith" simplified by moving to microservices, but everyone seems to be doing them.
The WHO was lying? How so?
https://www.icelandreview.com/ask-ir/whats-the-status-of-cov...

27,000 samples

1,500 confirmed

37 hospitalized (2%)

460 recovered

Here's the official stats from Iceland. How would you comment these numbers?
Governments use tax law all the time to create incentives and disincentives to various sorts of things.

Governments also use tax law to reward specific groups of people, for reasons both honorable and nefarious.

Identifying the motives for a given tax law is often quite difficult. Companies currently get to avoid most taxes on profits that are reinvested in activities that they certify as "research and developement". Is this possible because the government wants to encourage R&D or as a payoff to their political sponsors, or both?

It's non-trivial to answer, but what's easy to say with certainty is that is an example of _how_ companies avoid paying taxes, and if you want to stop it, you need new tax laws which don't permit/encourage this.
Camel creator here. This is, for now, only in the EU. We are still tracking prices in US/CA/AU.

The return of EU tracking is currently uncertain. After the crisis is over, we don't know if Amazon will just tell us we're done. And even if they don't, their recent mandatory API upgrade -- which appears to have made API quotas global, rather than per-region -- may have made it impossible for us to continue service in that region. More on this will be posted on our blog if it becomes important.
Saying a different way: for fork/join or barrier style parallel requests, stragglers set overall latency, and though the probability of any specific response being a straggler may be low, the probability of at least one response being a terrible straggler gets very high at large scales (or large fan-outs).
pg saying something like this without a touch of irony is just (chef's kiss)
Amazon suffers from that as well. I'm loath to buy anything from Amazon, Newegg, or any other retailer when it comes from a third party seller. As far as I know, that's always indicated on the product page. They don't hide it, but they don't aggressively inform you either.
If the politicians and media outlets editors who downplayed coronavirus in February predicted they could say it, get a lead time on the market and prep time for themselves and those with access to better data and estimates and not generally end up in worse shape politically and economically than if they admitted the full severity at the beginning and be right about all those things, are their predictions still bad ?
> I've tried GitPod (VSCode based) recently and found it very stable and useful. Maybe I'll go with that.

Then you've tried Theia, it seems: https://www.gitpod.io/docs/ide/
Target is okay although I often get cosmetically damaged packaging.
I tried using a Twilio number with my bank. I found out that any service that uses SMS shortcodes for their SMS '2FA' won't work as this kind of service. SMS shortcuts are a value addon that carriers provide that is only suppose to work with real numbers.

It's possible that services more centered around VOIP vs an automation plateform might work. It's also possible that using a foreign VOIP number might work but that also might also cause issue if you try using it with a US bank.

And I'd rather not have some half baked solution using Google Voice.

If anyone knows how to get an shortcode enable number (not a short code number but rather a number that can recieve SMS from shortcodes) on Twilio or similar platform, it would be very easy to set up an SMS 2 EMAIL gateway. Perhaps if a number is ported to Twilio it will retain shortcode capabilities?

Besides finding a solution to the above problem, I suppose I could just get a GSM usb modem & SIM card for this purpose.
This seems like various security "holes" in unix where once you're root that you can do bad things. Or to quote Raymond Chen: "Well, yeah. It’s compromised because you compromised it."
I've personally had a lot of issues with Walmart.com.

Their inventory data seems to be a bit messy, I've seen a lot of product names/images/descriptions that are clearly messed up, and on more than a few occasions, I've received a single item when the listing said it was a multi-pack. Also, some of the inventory counts are a bit weird -- sometimes an item will show in-stock on the product page, but not in the cart, at the same time.

In the past I had a lot of issues with their shipping, but they seem to have mostly fixed those. Stuff like those huge stickers over important parts of the product, or improper packing.
me parece una excelente idea
100 percent this. I dropped NewEgg when they added third party sellers.
Probably too long. I propose: "COVID-19 Attacks the Hemoglobin to Inhibit Human Meme Metabolism"
que sitio web tan increíble y con muy buena información
Also legal action can require the admin to have access to obtain this stuff. Also thanks to FOIA, there are government orgs that are required to comply with public requests for copies of emails.
Multiple studies.
If you're more into wargaming, VASSAL has been around forever, each game module gives you virtual versions of maps, counters, charts, dice, etc so you can play whatever games you own (or many have rules and everything you need to play anyway).

It acts like a virtual tabletop for hundreds of games.
Denmark [intends] to reopen day care centres, schools on April 15