skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are authors technically allowed to do that? (Not _should_ they be allowed, but _are_ they)?

If so, where does the line get drawn? Are they allowed to have an auto-responder that responds to any specially-formatted email with a copy of the requested paper? Can they just put the paper up on their website? Can they just allow their website to be aggregated by someplace that collects all such papers?

I'm sure the legal line is drawn somewhere between those two extremes but I have no idea where.
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Those are photos and videos they have intentionally shared. Not supposedly secure private video sessions. If private chats and videos on Facebook of e.g. teenage girls virtual sleepover parties were also trivially accessible by strangers, that would also be an equal concern.
Every single journalist in the video Paul Graham linked was on Fox News/Fox Business.
IMO most of these are terrible. They're all far too long. Go ahead and explain yourself to friends and family members; random business contacts (especially cold calls) don't need three paragraphs of text explaining your policies around human interaction.

"Sorry, not interested at this time" is almost always enough. If they write back asking "when", just ignore.
I think most slow downs are due to single teams owning many (20+) services. Usually it's their own choice too.
1/1000 was not realistic when the preprint was published, let alone now. It showed that one could fit a bunch of curves onto 14 days of data on deaths. Which is true, but also utterly unintersting. The reason that sorry excuse of a model got so much attention is that the authors did not stop there.

They also made the totally unsupported assumption that one of the lower end curves matched reality. (That's right. They actually made exactly the kind of assumptions you're accusing others of, rather than just argue for antibody testing).

The problem is that when the study was made, there was a lot more data available than just that 14 days of deaths from two countries. And a ton of it was totally incompatible with their modeling.

Here's some of the conflicting data points as of ten days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22698584
sorry, I missed the part where you pointed out the freeloading
Simple: it’s for SEO so that when google crawls the page it shows exactly as they want it indexed. Waaaaait a minute?!
This notion is completely upside-down.

Distro packaging means that global teams of developers are backporting bug and security fixes all day, every day, and running them through massive CI systems that have been in existence for decades.

Containers are great for scaling, and terrible for software distribution. Done right, they need to be rebuilt daily to pick up the latest fixes in the underlying OS.

Snap and AppImage mean you're on the hook for care and feeding of every library you bring in, yourself.

Rolling distros mean that you need a staff to integrate all the changes that are happening with no cadence other than "apparently today's update broke X". More likely, it would be a team dedicated to "apparently Y has been broken for a week, we found the problem, we're trying to upstream it, but now service X relies on the new functionality, so we're doing a conference call with them tomorrow to find out if they can roll back that change."
On Android, in the old days, an app could be registered as a "Device Administrator". When you set up an Exchange account on the device, the email client requested the user to activate device admin before it would sync email.
If the user clicked the activate button, the email client would have permission to reset password/wipe device, etc. [0]
This didn't require enrolling into any MDM software.

[0] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admi...
Yeah absolutely.

We rarely think that countries are "competitive" with each other when it comes to tax deals and tax rates. But they are.

Just like people shopping around for the best deal on a car, why do we expect companies to NOT shop around for the best deal on taxes?
The differences with this coronavirus, as I understand it:

1. People are often contagious well before showing symptoms, making it much harder to track and isolate the people who have it.

2. It is about 10x more deadly than the flu. Could be more than that, as it's difficult to extrapolate from the current messy data. But I think it's safe to say it is much more deadly than the seasonal flu.

So far more people getting it, in a very short period of time, and a much higher percentage dying or requiring hospitalization, giving us the results we see. Overwhelmed health care systems, and death counts that will be much higher than seasonal flu without large scale mitigations in place.
Covid-19: Buhari approves recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians
Their suggestion is a bit far reaching, but their point is that eventually the user count of a service reaches a point where due to network effects individuals aren't able to effectively shop around
Reminds me of https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Javascript is convenient for many use cases, but it definitely violates POLA on many levels, in many situations!
> Writers who sign on have to follow a rule of Mr. Katzenberg’s: They must end each installment with a cliffhanger.

Oh, that would really annoy me
> "I have a hard time believing that the only thing that's keeping people from stealing shit is that there's a cop with a gun somewhere down the line."

How many news articles about porch pirates have there been? That's just the tip of the iceberg; I certainly have had a number of things stolen just outside my home over the years.
> In general, for most libraries I would recommend just manually creating error types and implementing the Error trait for them. If this is too complicated, consider why your API is throwing so many different kinds of errors, and whether your library is doing too many things.

It may not be obvious but this is a highly contrarian take at the moment. It's also probably the right approach in many cases.
Having added a few work accounts to my phone over the years, the verbiage that the phone gives you is at least very specific (at least on Android) as to what power the employer has with your phone. At one point, a prior employer tried to require device management to sign into their GSuite email, and I got a prompt saying that it was required and that they could wipe my phone at will. I then removed that account from my phone and told my employer why. They backed off of that policy and later set up one less broad (i.e. they could wipe the account, but not the entire phone).

Nowadays most setups allow employers to wipe the work profile but not the whole phone (and again, this is explicitly stated to the user upon adding the profile).

Disclaimer: Now a Googler, opinions are my own.
They are better then random programmers on HN who think respiratory disease can't be linked to heart problem due to respiratory in name.
Why focus only on the low-hanging fruits at one end of the spectrum? How about all the scientists who made doomsday predictions that failed to materialize?
Perhaps one of the more important consequences of egoless programming.
Thanks! I haven't worked in CA for over 2 decades, and in the Midwest this requirement would be viewed with a jaundiced eye.
Yeah, the trick isn't saying "no", the trick is saying no without burning any bridges. Much harder.
Did you buy them at quantity (lot of 50k masks), or in a small box of 10 at the DIY store?
Ask HN: How do you make a site for a new service look “established”?
I'm making a website for legal resources for people being evicted due to COVID-19.

Right now, the Wordpress theme is okay but it looks sparse -- like anyone could have spun it up in a weekend. (Which is actually what happened, but that's okay because it's backed by real pro-bono lawyers.)

Are there any resources that show how to "beef" it up, or indicate what kind of content makes it look more trustworthy?
So what, keep trying different services and getting burned until... eventually... you don't get burned?
This looks awesome. I'll need to try this out. I've used aptly to create repos before. Here are my ansible scripts:

https://github.com/BigSense/vSense/blob/master/ansible/roles...

https://github.com/BigSense/vSense/blob/master/ansible/roles...

Publishing was kinda a nightmare:

https://github.com/BigSense/vSense/blob/master/ansible/roles...

It's still using the very old Jenkins pipelines (the server is gone now so none of that even works) and a config management system that's long dead. I desperately need to rewrite it and this looks like a good starting point for at least the deb repos!
> Who cares what journalists say? IPCC and nasa reports are publicly available and use plain language anyone can read.

Investigating geological or ecological truth is one thing, investigating causes and consequences for widespread ignorance and bad policy decisions is another. You and I are approaching this from different angles. Unfortunately, journalists have power to shape our society. I would argue that as a group, they have more power than scientists.
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"No worse than the flu." How could they feel safe saying such things?

Because in most health scares historically this has been correct. That the danger had been wildly overestimated.

And even now, it is not clear that "we" have a correct estimation of the danger.

Recently I read an estimate that 50% of the infected have no symptons. I even read another estimate that 90% have no symptons. Should the latter be correct then we are overestimating the danger and wildly overreacting.
To answer your question ("do people die with covid-19, or of it?") with data you might want to read this twitter thread. https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1246866119597621248

It links to a document from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre.

The evidence from actual covid treatment doesn't support the "they die with, not of, covid" argument.
I like the saying I read/heard somewhere, that's I believe based on Pareto principle, saying more or less: "After getting through 80% of a project, what's left to do, is just to complete the remaining final 80%" :)
I only wish it was only about benefits, because then it would be rational agent. What (economic) benefit does the Republican party of the US gain by suppressing gay rights or abortion? I can understand wanting to quash unions, prevent minorities from voting, remove environmental controls (in the short run anyway), or cast doubt on opposition media. But who actually gains when e.g. a gay couple can't buy a cake?
Might PG have included the critical point of this video is that they are all conservative voices? Right, that would be too "divisive".
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson taken to intensive care
I don't see how you can logically that say something will give you a false sense of security. If you know it isn't truly secure, and are saying that it gives people a false sense of security, then you know enough to not have that sense yourself. I won't debate your first point though, if you would rather stay home than breathe hot air then that's your choice. However, it may not be socially integrative to go out not wearing a mask for that reason.
You can look on Youtube yourself and see countless examples o MSNBC and CNN criticizing the travel ban on China because the virus wasn't any more dangerous than the flu.
I don't know why, but the concept of a "Private" Facebook account is really funny to me.
sorry, I just wanted to get the information out there. what would you like me to change it to?
Avoiding news [1] and people who don't bet on their prediction [2] go a long way.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

[2] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/01/i_changed_my_mi.htm...
This is absolutely right in my experience.

Microservices are all about scaling development agility in exchange for increased technical overhead.

In many cases this tradeoff is atrocious. If you can say "we can easily take on (large feature XXX) and deliver that", microservices are all pain and no gain.

Where they really start feeling good is when your "two week sprints" turn into about two days of available dev work because the remaining time is spent regression testing your changes and trying to keep the build from breaking because of tests you didn't touch failing (spooky action at a distance is real and it hurts). A clear API contract that both sides of the fence can develop against means that you can keep making progress.

At least until it's time to integrate against the real world, not your mock ;-)
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care
I am a linguist in the UK, and our team is on a month's notice period due to a cost cut.

I am looking natural language understanding / natural language generation and analytics tasks but can also do other things from voice technology pipeline (ASR, TTS, voice QA) as well as QA and technical support for webtech projects.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariya-heyshtor-164a35157/
A lesson I learned from a sales friend of mine (often the hard way): if you really want to say no, don't give reasons why you're saying no.

Just simply say "no, sorry"

Once you start giving your reasoning, the other side can negotiate a compromise or attempt to persuade you into thinking your no is a bad idea. The more information you provide, the more they can use it against you.

If you don't have time for that, just end it at no and say no more.
Pg should write about what seems to be the real epidemic in america: politics. When people politicize a chemical compound , you know things are dangerously wrong
I used to be like you.

Back in my early career years, and even before when I was a student, I used to have a lot of cool side projects that would only interest me for so long. I would spend a few hours or days on them, and then throw them out or forget them.

It was ok because I did not care about the project in itself. It was interesting to try new techs, or methods, or just spend some time doing something I loved.

It stopped being ok when something shifted in my mind : I subconsciously decided that I wanted to stick to a project. But it was for the wrong reasons. I wanted to make money. I wanted to have a cool startup. I wanted to be able to stop working. Too much Hackernews hype. But since I did not really care about the project itself, I never managed to stick to it.

After years of frustration, I quit wasting my time and took on some other non IT related hobbies.

Two years ago, I picked a side project for the first time in years: it's a cool
music theory related website.

https://www.mamie-note.fr in case you're curious.

I've managed to keep working on it (and being
interested to do it) since then. It's the longest time I've ever spent on a
single project.

Here are the things that are different for me today:

- I do care about the project in itself: it's the site I wish existed when I started learning music, and the site grows as I'm growing as a musician.
- I really enjoy the daily process of working on it, I don't fantasize about how great the end result will be in a few years.
- I don't care about the tech, I care about the topic.
- I'm turning the site into a business, but making a living with it will be a cool side effect, not the main objective.
- Since I do have a family now (and we are in lockdown), I have much less time to work on it. It's easier to stay motivated when you spend two or three ours on a project instead of 15 or 20.
- Working on this project is a hobby, but it's not my only hobby, I take interest in other things, so when I'm bored and don't sweat it and take breaks for some days or weeks.

My two cents.
I don't think they are. When the parent commenter said reserved for pickup, I assumed they meant some way to say "hold these at the counter for me to come purchase". What I am saying is that in my experience, you are making a purchase, someone at the store is pulling the items from the shelf and setting them in a special area, then you get an email/text that the order is ready, meaning that everything is ready to go, they had all the items, and no other customer will be able to purchase the items that you ordered.
What do you mean by "closed apt" ?
To be clear, this was the employer refusing to close the email account / set up an out of office, they just wanted all email redirected to them. Nobody said anything about being able to continue using the email.
Denmark gradually opening up after Easter
When someone in the house gets sick and nobody is supposed to leave because they've been exposed.
Definitely try alternate services. We had much more luck with local stores than with Prime Now. In our area, Prime Now for Amazon has never had a delivery window, Prime Now for Whole Foods rarely does, but the local Fred Meyer has delivery windows open up regularly, often for same-day delivery. Also check Albertson's, Safeway, Target, Walmart, Shipt, and any other service. Talk to local non-chain or small-chain stores and see if they have any options; I've found that several places that don't normally delivery are happy to deliver in the current situation, especially for a tip. That goes for restaurants, pharmacies, and many other services. In some areas, TaskRabbit and similar are still operating, and "pick up XYZ for me" tasks are very common. And if all else fails, ask around for someone willing to pick things up and drop them off for you, and pay them well.

Also, this may depend on your financial situation, but if you can, don't make small orders; make large orders less often. (This is true all the time, but it's especially true right now.) Then, even if you have to drive a long distance for a pickup or pay a larger delivery fee, you don't have to do it as often.
Nice, I like this!!

It should be standard in Kali :)
The exact policy depends on the venue, but to take the named orgs above as an example, if I remember correctly both IEEE and ACM allow publishing the preprint version of a paper on the researchers website, but an aggregator could probably not copy them without permission.
Agreed. I’d also add selling stocks when they were hitting highs.
I'm exactly the same way 100%. I've gotten incredible things done at startups and companies, where my work alone was floating the companies, and the products I created became the main product of the companies.

But every time I realize "Why am I handing someone else all this value", and venture out on my own, I can't seem to motivate myself in the same way. It blows my mind and I can't seem to figure it out.

Maybe I need to invent an imaginary supervisor to report to at the end of the day.
> Liberalism and conservatism are essentially religions

I somewhat agree but I would argue that it's the Democratic and Republican parties that are religions, not the philosophies themselves. They both are fine on their own just like religious philosophies.

It's the people who basically form a cult, give it a name, and interpret the philosophies that are the problem. It becomes all about growing your cult to be bigger than the other cults so you have more power. To get people interested you attack the other side instead of having intelligent debates. They operate within there own echo chambers.

Most media companies pick a side and then attack the other side. People like watching other people get very emotional so that leads to more viewers. It's why there are so many "reality" shows.
As this comment seems to be controversial, and I'm getting many downvotes, I'd like to provide a couple of links for anyone interested in the topic.

John Ioannidis MD of Stanford University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MZy-2fcBw

Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University's Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg

A collection of fact-checked links to public statements and critical research about COVID-19, updated DAILY (scroll to bottom for the most recent additions):

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/
Scathing review in The Guardian. Ouch!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/apr/06/quibi-s...
See also pantropy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantropy
A researcher I know says it's because the publication date corresponds to the release date of the issue of the journal the article is being published in, though it's common articles are e-published ahead of the journal issue's publication date.
Police use eerie siren from 'The Purge' to signal start of coronavirus curfew
There were startups that were getting serious funding with the hopes of being 3rd place in the check-in category.

I remember one called Whrrl. It was run by a company called Pelago in Seattle, and IIRC was funded by T-Mobile money. I visited its offices a few times. They got cheap office space high up in what was formerly the Washington Mutual Tower when WaMu ate itself.
It absolutely is, especially if you do C++ with it. So many bugs and missing features in the native rules and skylark api, it's not even close to a 1.0
It's a great idea as long as they have teeth to make shady businesses fear them.
At the time, if you believed Chinese data, and the WHO, then you should have concluded this was no worse than the flu.
This is a combination of costs and timeline. Oculus Quest development started in 2016 or 2015. Snap dragon 835 released in 2018 and Quest shipped in 2019. Now, Quest shipped 6 months after 865 so it would have been possible for Facebook to co-develop Quest with Qualcomm and potentially ship with an 865, but due to various factors (VR is a small market, Facebook doesn't have a close relationship with Qualcomm like console manufactures have with AMD, Quest needed to be "cheap")
What hits me is a sense of meaninglessness.

I can be disciplined enough to stick with something as part of a lifestyle, or whatever I find consistently rewarding, e.g. an exercise regimen and cooking new things. When it comes to creative projects, I'll get to the point of having a rough outline but often just ditch the rest. Particularly with music more-so than writing, the pursuit feels pointless or unimportant, and I always got the sense that the special catalyst with music is people, feeding off the passion of other musicians. I tend now to skip the BS and just go straight to composition since that is the aspect of music that most interests me.
I never assumed that. To be clear, this was the employer refusing to close the email account / set up an out of office, the CEO just wanted all email redirected to them personally. Nobody said anything about me being able to continue using the email.
Johnson, like many world leaders, vastly underestimated what he was facing:

> "I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands," he said. "People obviously can make up their own minds but I think the scientific evidence is… our judgement is that washing your hands is the crucial thing."

https://www.newsweek.com/boris-johnson-says-shaken-hands-cor...

This may be the first crisis where shooting your mouth off about things you know little about backfires - quickly and lethally.

I suspect there will be many instances of this sort of thing in the months to come. False predictions about "light at the end of the tunnel." Panicked re-instatements of lockdowns after premature lifting. Miracle cures that turn deadly because drugs are much more complicated than they seem.

All the while cheerleaders with hidden agendas will continue to promote dangerous, ill-informed opinions.
There were sober voices on twitter, no neef to follow the mainstream. Thanks to @balajis, some of us were well prepared