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Launch HN: TagMango (YC W20) – Personalized video shoutouts in India
Hi HN! TagMango (https://www.tagmango.com) is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video
shoutouts from their favourite influencers and celebrities in India
(essentially building Cameo for India).

Why now: Celebrity culture in India has always been way different and more pompous as compared to other nations. People are fascinated by celebrities’ lives of glamour, infact celebrities are actually worshipped here. Like Rajnikanth, a south superstar, has over 30 temples to his name. Employees are literally given holiday on his movie release day. These celebrities are respectful of this culture and are always looking to give back to their fan base.

India has been leading in content consumption and creation on social media, platforms like Tik Tok are doubling MAU every year. The craze for content, the fan culture and the ease of digital payments make it an exciting opportunity for the indian audience to actually interact with their favourite celebrities that all of this while has been a dream for them.

About the team: Divyanshu is an influencer with over 200k followers and a keynote speaker. I'm a second time founder with a tech background having scaled my previous venture Fleapo to 3 countries. We have a strong team, having hired from the leading institutions of the country like the IIMs. We shifted the startup from Kolkata to Mumbai with the entire team prior to YC for better opportunities of growth at bootstrapped stage and scaled the startup from a home office in Mumbai.

TagMango started as an influencer marketplace where we worked with some of the biggest brands like Hershey’s, ITC, Meesho, etc and worked with 80K+ influencers. Although the marketplace was profitable, it was fundamentally dependent on other social media so we pivoted to a fan-influencer engagement based model which is completely independent and scalable. Our previous model has built substantial credibility in the influencer ecosystem that helped us onboard over 1200 celebrities within 3 weeks of our launch, generating over $25K in revenue.

We're eager to hear community's ideas, experiences and feedback, whether you're an Indian or coming from some other place entirely!
Cloudflare Workers Opendoor: Landing Page Infrastructure
I did a few game jams with my flat mate years ago, and I was really impressed what is possible with the web in terms of game development.

Because of game pad support and fullscreen the browser worked superb for couch-coop/local multiplayer games, but the high latency network support of browsers made it kinda hard to do online multiplayer games.

Which is kinda ironic, because the browser is made for online interactions.
Please, somebody port Quake 1 to iOS.
Yes, there are.
https://revealjs.com plus https://github.com/jlabusch/reveal-sync

That will keep the presentation in sync. I have used this before with a presentation with heavy video content, that would look horrible with screen sharing
How do you run a server?
If I remember right, this one is over WebSockets and the server is compiled to js as well. My version had a native server and browser clients.
I maintain a NGINX fork with io_uring support (instead of AIO) here https://github.com/lazerl0rd/nginx. io_uring has been providing promising results, and recent updates to Linux have just been constantly improving it.
This is why I think we should have public keys we choice on our government IDs. Then we can prove who we are.
Even friends and family get the, "Sorry I can't. I already have plans." from me. They don't have to know my "plans" are to gorge myself on the couch by myself while binging television.
Hmm...nice examples. Let's give this a whirl. Thanks!
But they should not have got any of this wrong! Check out the TED talk by Bill Gates in 2015. How could any journalist worth anything not have had that video in their research before publishing articles. Look at how Asian countries wear masks. Did the people working in the WHO think that was for fashion? The people in spokesperson positions have been caught out big time. It's a issue with how people are promoted to these positions and an example of how society favouring extroverts over introverts is a bad idea.
> If that seems tautological, you're already bought in.

...bought in to what?
> Where did all of these leaders get their information about covid from? Surely not from the people who were watching the crisis develop in China.

The official information coming out of China was "mostly mild courses, mostly kills old people with pre-existing conditions, kind of like the flu".

Later, the official information coming out of Italy was "mostly mild courses, mostly kills old people with pre-existing conditions, kind of like the flu".

Therefore, if you're not going to make a big fuss about the flu, why make one about COVID-19? Quite a few actual virologists took this stance, at least for a while. The alarmists won the battle for attention, but not because of superior information.

That was also before Italy was overwhelmed. Even experts underestimated just how virulent COVID-19 was going to be and how many people were going to get it in such short order of time.

However, the fact remains that it's mostly mild courses, mostly kills old people with pre-existing conditions - kind of like the flu.

If the flu kills an otherwise healthy person, which happens all the time, it's not news. COVID-19 is an unprecedented media spectacle, with unprecedented reactions from governments across the world, mob mentality is driving more and more drastic responses.

It's not a foregone conclusion that these drastic responses were the right measure. Sweden has done pretty much nothing, yet their graphs don't look any worse than those of other European countries. Perhaps they're covering it all up, but perhaps all of this social distancing, all this shutdown does very little to slow the spread of this disease if just a few people go shopping once a week, if just a few people go to work and carry it home. We don't know, because we don't know how COVID-19 actually spreads.

History is written by the winners. Had COVID-19 turned out less severe, the alarmists would've been decried as oversensitive fools. Now the anti-alarmists are being portrayed as irresponsible. Yet, both acted in good faith on the same information. Don't forget that the price of the shutdown is a major recession, it's not a simple political decision to make. The principle of charity must be applied.
Here is the relevant passage:

"The answer, I realized, is that they didn't think they could get caught. They didn't realize there was any danger in making false predictions. 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.

An epidemic is different. It falsifies your predictions rapidly and unequivocally."

Paul believes that this is all about the quality of the predictions, and about the perps getting caught. That's nonsense. Nobody, and I really mean that, nobody has been held accountable for the longest time about the quality of their predictions. Or even the quality of their work. Mushy, exact or otherwise. These people have absolutely nothing to fear from the quality of their work product, and their hand in that, being held accountable. It just won't happen.

We have 100's of miles of video tape by now documenting falsehoods spoken by officials. The consequences: nil. Nothing. Zip, Nada, etc.

And as long as that is the case, as long as there are no consequences this shit will continue.
Where is the rent-seeking involved in this decision?
How to focus on value before the solution
I think there is a great middle line for a language that is easy to work with, and provides enough safety to be maintainable for a long time. Environments like C++ and enterprise Java miss this middle line by being too cumbersome. However, Ruby equally misses this middle line, just in the other direction - it's too simple and dynamic leading to lack of maintainability in the long run. The best solution will be somewhere in between.
Borg does but if you sync with rclone you might end up uploading full data for every upload depending on the change of your data. This might be very costly and that's why they suggest a active host for backup.
A really excellent review, published today, of the current state of knowledge on HCQ: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/06/hy...

Note this is by Derek Lowe of "Things I won't work with" fame, an extremely informative series about entertainingly dangerous chemicals.

And here's a new piece of candy for people who want to get their hopes up about a promising treatment: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/03/scitrans...

(h/t Helen Branswell of STAT news, who is very much worth following, who retweeted Timothy Sheahan)
The episode in question is episode 6 of series 1 of Yes, Prime Minister "A Victory for Democracy". Highly recommended!
Honestly, what is a good US bank that has a great web/mobile experience, a large financial offering (checking, credit, savings, investment, etc...), great customer support, a good presence internationally, reasonable and no hidden fees.. wait there is none.
To be honest the word “astonished” comes across a little weird in a code review. I think it’s better to say “I don’t understand” or ask “why is it this way”?”
beautify-with-words
Rows will be at least (id, other_id, price_1, price_2), prices should be 32 bit integers, id should be 64 bit or string integers and other_id can be 32 bit int. id and other_id should reference other things. Or if normalization is not possible then it would add up to bunch of names and other metadata, 6 strings more at minimum, but more like 10 strings or so.

The data will be a stream basically.

Granularity is quite important, but I think older data could be made less granular and turned into approximates.
Well this one seems more rigorous. They monitored concentration in blood for 4 days, they checked viral presence two following days at the end. They don't mention viral load though and I don't know if they have a threshold for cycles in QPCR to estimate that.
This kind of paper is not here to say here is the proof it works or it does not work, it is meant to say: this what we had with us, this how we did it, this is the results we observed and whether or not it validates the hypothesis stated.
Right now it's been proven zoom lied about some parts of it's tech, particularly the end to end encryption part, so the state probably sees it as a legal risk if anything were to accidentally get out or get hacked.
You bring this nonsense up in every webasm thread and every time it is explained to you that webasm does no IO and is contained in the same environment as javascript. Every time you either bring up details that have nothing to actually do with webasm or you say something vague about possible security problems in the future.

If you have real criticism based on real information, let's see it.
It is. Management will invariably say "We want the best!", and they may even pay comparable to FAANG levels, but when it comes to language/runtime, it's "We need to be consistent" and "We need something we can hire for".

Meaning even if management understands that a language/framework can be a competitive advantage, they will still be optimizing for lowest common denominator.
Are you telling me that Blake and Adam weren’t actually rivals??!!
Not very surprising given the quality of the studies that this fad is based on:

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/04/03/zelenko-smith-aba...

That's a long read, but it's pretty damning.

TL;DR: China says "hey, this stuff might work". French doctor conducts two very sketchy rapid-fire studies, then starts promoting himself on TV, including on Dr. Oz. No red flags there, right?
Is there a US bank (national, not a local credit union) that allows you to use TOTP, U2F and backup codes as your sole 2FA sources? Heck, the US Government lets you do it now (https://login.gov), you think that BofA would...
A few thoughts on selling my small business
Home Depot and Lowes do this same thing with certain items like dishwashers. It's obnoxious. Their website will show that they have "1 left in stock" but it's the demo model that's installed in a rack of cabinets and not for sale.
I can only think in the context of A/B testing, but I really don't get it. Can anyone explain how you can have any confidence with these small sample sizes?

Imagine you have a purchase form that converts at 0.1%. You test a new change, and with the first 22 users (11 in each group), if the control group randomly gets a conversion, it will have AT LEAST a ~9% CVR now. Okay, maybe you ignore that data, since you can just compare to historical data. Whatever.

Even if the new form is dramatically better and has a 30% CVR -- There's a 3% chance it would show a ~9% CVR also, and about the same that it would show a 0% CVR. Similarly, there's about a 6% chance it would show a 91%+ CVR -- skewing your results just as badly in the opposite direction. There's only like a 30% chance you get close to the "true" CVR.

Unless these hydroxycloroquine is close to 100% effective (and that doesn't seem to be what any of these studies say) I just don't understand how there's any confidence with small sample sizes.

Does anyone have a link to how this works? I've asked a few friends in medicine, and they haven't given a good answer. Haven't found anything on Wikipedia. Probably don't know what to search for.
Gardener or Architect – what kind of a writer are you?
Totally agree. At least don’t use generic names like “Config”. Call it “”DatabaseConfig” that has some meaning.
I struggled with this for a long time, I think a lot of us do. I don't know how broadly applicable my story is, but: at a certain point I basically cracked and picked a project and said "I'm going to finish this if it kills me." It was one of the larger-ish projects that I'd made a bit of progress on and put aside. The project became an exercise in finishing things, which helped motivate me through the times when I wasn't really interested in the project itself.

It took me longer than I care to think about to complete it. I think by the end I was pretty clear with myself that I wasn't really that interested in the project itself anymore; the point was to learn to finish something.

The result is here:

https://github.com/zenhack/haskell-capnp

Somehow this actually worked, and I've found myself not having that much trouble sticking with projects when I decide I want to build something. Most of my 2019 hacking was on a new programming language, which is "close" to being ready to announce (the code is up there if you look for it, but I haven't been too loud about it since I don't know what I'd tell someone if they showed up and wanted to help), though Sandstorm got active again and that's diverted some of my time. ...and I've been hacking on Sandstorm pretty consistently since.

Keeping myself organized and on track is still a struggle, but something shifted and sticking with something long term doesn't seem as hard.
There is also OneDev:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081419
When Q3 came out everyone was bored of single player. It looked like the whole industry was going that way and that single player FPS was pretty much dead. Then Half-Life was released and blew everyone's minds. I don't think anyone has been able to craft an experience like HL to this day, it's like they just "get" how interactive fiction should feel rather than being a shoot-em-up interspersed with cutscenes.
Let’s set aside my personal circumstances: why must someone be in imminent physical danger for it to not be discrimination? Everyone has a human right to privacy, regardless of whether or not they are a famous person with a stalker who wants to track them down.

The presence or absence of threats against one’s person does not legitimize or delegitimize their insistence upon personal privacy.
>i've been saying "not more dangerous than the flu" before it started really going to shxt in europe

Have you stopped saying that, or are you still saying it for some reason?

>It made me realize how getting vaccinated for the flu as soon as you reach 50 may actually be a pretty good idea..

Do you realize, you can, and probably should, get vaccinated for the flu each year? And that these vaccines are only a 'best guess' for that particular year, so you should get on each year?

>It actually made me realize how the whole world has been completely desensitized to catastrophic predictions.

I suppose the alternative is to not warn people about pandemics and just let them all run wild? I'm sorry if people choose to get "desensitized", but these organizations are not interested in the politics of whether or not the general public will be able to appropriately digest their messages, and hence don't ration warnings based on how much we can "handle".
Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)
This is awesome. Thanks. I found libmesh which looks very interesting: https://github.com/plasma-umass/Mesh
He wanted us to think that. But of course the end state is necessarily authoritarian, regardless of anybody's apparent or expressed intentions. And Bernays really was fine with that.

Anybody advocating affirmative use of propaganda will also be using it.
For produce, eggs and chicken, consider a "CSA" -- Community Supported Agriculture:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/CSAS-THAT-DELIVER-TO-...
The excuse is that you'll not be able to make it. The implication for the reader is that if you were able to make it, you'd come. But you actually can make, you just don't want to come. It's pure excuse and lie.
Where was the control group? Did I miss this?

How much did these people eat daily before their 30 day fasting experiment? Could this just be due to not over consuming calories on the regular?

Did they eat the same amount and same foods but instead confined to their new fasting times?

There are so many variables that were changed in this study that it is hard to pinpoint that one of them is the true reason for their adaptation
Wasm has been here for years already. There's no flood of issues waiting for some cue to be released. It's no worse than any other part of the browser; probably better than some. Besides, modern browsers don't rely solely on one sandbox anymore. There are many levels of protection now.
The only personal projects I've ever done that I stuck with were, unsurprisingly, the ones I dog-fooded.

In other words, I worked on them and developed them to the point of usefulness because I actually needed to make use of them.
(Reposting my comment from Lobsters)

Yeah, the LCH color space is much more useful than HSL. I wish more software had color pickers that supported it.

Another useful color space, closely related to LCH, is HSLuv (https://www.hsluv.org/). Its only difference is that instead of an absolute chroma (colorfulness) component, it has a relative saturation component, scaled so that 100% saturation means the maximum possible chroma sRGB allows for that hue and lightness.

HSLuv’s relative saturation makes it ideal for generating colors for today’s sRGB-restricted CSS, because its colors are always displayable, no matter their saturation value. This avoids LCH’s problem where a color with too high a chroma value must be rounded to the nearest displayable color. The downside of relative saturation is that two different colors with the same saturation value might not look equally colorful.

HSLuv has a comparison page (https://www.hsluv.org/comparison/) that compares HSLuv, CIELUV LCh, and other color models. The charts do a good job of helping you understand how each color model works.

The home page for HSLuv also has a nice color picker that I sometimes use instead of the color picker built into various graphics software. It’s good to learn of the article author’s LCH Colour picker at https://css.land/lch/ – that’s a much easier-to-use LCH color picker than the other one I’ve seen, http://davidjohnstone.net/pages/lch-lab-colour-gradient-pick.... But something I prefer about HSLuv’s color picker is that the sliders’ colors show the final color you will get if you move that slider to that position, whereas the article author’s LCH Colour picker seems to do some weird hybrid of that behavior and making the sliders always show the same colors.
"hold these for me until I get there" is exactly the same as "don't let someone else buy them before I get there". Whether you pay before you get there or after doesn't change the fact that the item is being held for you so that no other customer will be able to purchase the items that you ordered.

We can break down your two statements and put them piecemeal side by side:

I assumed they meant... "hold these..."

What I am saying is... "pulling the items from the shelf..."

I assumed they meant... "at the counter..."

What I am saying is... "in a special area..."
The more I've played with Erlang, the more I've liked its syntax. What I don't like is dealing w/ strings in Erlang.
You mean the same JS engines that already have several entries on the CVE database? Yeah, really safe.
Japan announces $1T CoronaVirus relief package, 20% of its GDP
Interesting, haven't heard of ClickHouse before. I will check it out, thanks.
Show HN: Regexp Crash Course
Democracies use direct persuasion extensively, typically on non-majority groups, for obvious reasons.
Acting Navy Secretary blasts USS Roosevelt captain as ‘too naive or too stupid’
Yes, obviously in case of hyperinflammation doctor are giving immunosuppressing drugs, HCQ or other depending on the stocks (and of course the patient history and other drugs given prior). They are very capable people in most cases, urgentists are often very knowledgable, and reanimation doctors are probably the best at interfering/preventing coktail effect. They are not available in all cases, but they try to be there for the most important ones.

No one, no scientist is saying with certainty that HCQ does not work at all. However, the maxim is primum non nocere. Are HCQ effects important enough to use it in every case when you can do otherwise? Well, according to the last Raoult study on 80 mild cases, no. 3 hospitalisation, 1 death for 80 cases is around the same result as German/S.K. mild cases who are given no treatment at all (a bit superior, even, but n=80 is clearly not enough).

Maybe HCQ reduce contagiosity. In this case, is HCQ more efficient than interferon? I know that i would prefer interferon as my liver and kidneys can take more hit than my heart atm (i already have a medication that cause tachycardia when i overdose it a little + some minor heart issues).
Is HCQ more efficient than rinovir? this particular article seems to say that it's not but why should i trust this article more than Raoult and some French articles? Should i take everything (interferon, rinovir, HCQ, CQ) and hope for the best? Or, since i can afford to as i live in a rich country, should i wait the different study results?
How would those events change the crystals within the lens of their eyes?
Isn't that paper highly theoretical at this point since it's based on computer simulations? Are there any studies on actual humans confirming the virus's effect on hemoglobin?
Here are a few examples: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-...

I should be clear, I have no love for windbags like Hannity and Limbaugh but when you want to talk about credibility, you should have at least a modicum of self-awareness of your tribal alignment.
Because it's faster! Which one do you think will render first?

- Send a small amount of HTML and CSS for the browser to show on the page; or

- Send a JavaScript application framework and JSON results, then have the browser interpret the JavaScript, parse the JSON, generate the HTML and show on the page

With an approach like Svelte takes, you can make the second option pretty workable, but you'll still never beat sending markup directly if your goal is to render a small amount of static content as quickly as possible.