skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing. What worth does a policy have if it can be changed at will?
Wondering if it directly or indirectly affects xhyve and Docker’s HyperKit.
This might work for some people but for me, if by 1AM, I'm not sleepy and I get out of bed to do something else, there's probably no chance I'll sleep at any reasonable time and then be able to wake up at a time like 7AM. I would in fact probably sleep in that day and ruin my schedule, which could start a negative trend. From my experience, I find that even just lying in bed and resting my eyes even if I can't fully sleep is the best way to go. A few hours of meaningful rest in bed alone with my thoughts is time well spent. 1AM is too late to start "occupying myself until my body is ready to sleep". If I needed to do something like this, I would start a few hours before the time I'd like to sleep. First tiring myself out with a quick workout or something and then taking a cold shower which will make me want to bundle up inside a blanket and get super comfortable.
One of the fun things about governments is their ability to ban things they don’t want and punish those who flout the ban with fines or imprisonment.

Such things are not perfect, naturally, but any popular website listing property does literally let the government know which house to confiscate, if fines don’t get paid.
I was curious about the same thing and it turns out he does indeed have a post about how he built his blog right here:

https://paulstamatiou.com/about-this-website/
There are a few examples in rubydns code eg. https://github.com/socketry/rubydns/blob/master/examples/wik...
It's fair if you want to argue that posting Youtube videos is an essential service. I would argue pretty strenuously that it is not. I might even be convinced that facebook or twitter might fall into that category (but then I would probably argue that the service would need to be forcibly federated in that case). Posting a video on Youtube is publishing, not personal communication. Forcing publishers to show your message to the world is not free speech -- even if they are the only popular publisher on the planet.
Facebook, Alphabet, Netflix, and Amazon are not tech companies. Communications, Communications, Communications, and Consumer, respectively. Apple is a tech company.
Would she do it too if she had to do the shopping on her own once a week? If so, do it or your marriage will suffer. If she can’t reason you have deeper problems than being caught naked by a neighbor.
(I am so glad the title is not "Userdir URLs considered harmful".)
The lock-downs are because we don't have the tests and we don't have these studies, and still won't, for weeks or months to come. They're being run as fast as possible but there's a lot we don't know about this disease. In the meanwhile, people are getting sick and dying.

We can disagree on whether a lockdown causes the least amount of societal distress compared to some of the other options, we can argue on when we would personally chose to enact lockdown. We could even try and work out what it would take to prevent people losing their homes and dying. $2000/month UBI seems like it might help.

But seriously, doing anything at all is wrong? And the only right response is to do nothing? No ordering more PPE, no preparing for a surge, no rebalancing shifts so the contagion doesn't take out the police force/navy/healthcare workers/etc?

Saying that any possible response is wrong seems like pretending the problem will go away if we pretend it doesn't exist. Which is really hard to do while people are dying.
Games should be played so everyone playing has fun. These angry people were right and you were fooling yourself.
Think of it as a short-term pleasure instead of long-time winning friends.
I’d like to point out that schools are not open in the normal sense in Iceland. All the older kids school is stopped and Universities are shut. Our youngest is three and is in her leikskoli on alternate days so they can maintain small group sizes with no contact between them. Our eldest is six and only in school for a few hours in the morning, skips a bunch of more risky activities and is again segregated from other classes. As many businesses are working from home or shut completely a lot of parents have also opted to have their kids at home.

We’re currently in a better situation than a lot of places but it’s by no means without significant changes to daily life. It’s also a lot to do with the early response.
Sorry, I missed your reply..

Here's my workflow in a nutshell: I use the Zotero browser extension to add items to Zotero, the extension takes care to automatically attach a snapshot of the web page or paper to the newly created entry in Zotero. For academic papers or blog posts, I'll try and extract additional web links (e.g. Github repos) and add those to the entry as well. Within Zotero I have a nested structure of collections/folders to roughly structure the entries by type (papers, blog posts, reports, books, ...).

I make liberal use of tags to classify the content and keep track of my reading status (Reading List and Read), for which I have saved searches in Zotoro, so I can easily find something to read, whenever I have a bit of time.

For academic papers that I've read in-depth, I'll extract the most relevant references and add them to the library as well and cross-reference them using the "Related" feature. This feature is what I was mentioning in my original post - it only allows for a single generic "related" association between entries. If I could customize the type of relation, I could model almost arbitrary knowledge graphs here.
It's funny that you say cheap, when I remember the printer being about $99 (in late 90s dollars!) which was close to the price of a Game Boy (color) as well. In all my years of school and daycare I remember seeing exactly one kid with one, and even then it wasn't used for photos since no one had a camera. We ended up just printing Pokemon sprites.

6 AA batteries was also an extremely luxurious allotment...
Yes. However, we only care about compressing natural images and they are not a big subset of the space of all possible images. In practice, we find that neural networks are quite good at making predictions on pixel values, especially when we frame the problem in terms of super-resolution.
The argument seems to be that because the government adopted business operating, they should get a hand.

I'm not sure I buy that. When you're a business owner, you take risks. Also ones that you weren't explicit about.

Suppose the government creates a rule that adds paperwork, so that all businesses now need to pay more to fill in docs. That could easily be the thing that kills certain businesses. Should they get bailed out? This actually happened in my business.
No, if companies aren't allowed to fail then the economy is broken. Every time a company is bailed out it just incentives less accountability in the future.
Besides, no one is going to bail out the small, or even medium sized companies despite what politicians say.
For good reason too. I'm sure there are many tens of thousands packages delivered in a decent sized city every day. With thousands of drones overhead the noise would be significant and even rare failures will occur regularly, crashing tens of kilos down on houses and people.
Weird and stuck to weird standards where there are any :D
That in and of itself isn't particularly useful or meaningful. There are languages with even less syntax than Clojure, but that doesn't necessarily make them more practical or ergonomic.
NoSQL doesn't magically solve the CAP theorum in my experience it actually makes it worse.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22809865
The vulnerabilities of this business model laid bare. If you're a business like Airbnb you have to be global, otherwise a competitor will be and they'll eat you up. You need solid in country representation otherwise competitors with a deeper regional focus (even smaller companies) will have better offerings and eat your market share. It seems being global and local is possible with 13,000 employees.... except when tourism crashes 90+%.
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I would suppose this is a very common struggle among IT professionals. A few things that have helped me, some of them already mentioned in this thread:

- simply don't do it; prioritize more important ideas.

- start smaller - some ideas are just too ambitious, try to come up with the smallest end product that is still useful.

- don't talk about it - just by talking about what you are planning to build gets you a small dopamine release, discouraging you from finishing the project.

- scratch your own itch - create something that will help solving a problem you face frequently.

- get other people involved - invite other people to collaborate building or just using it so you have people to hold you accountable.
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I WA we were doing around 7k-8k tests/day 2 weeks back, now its between 4-5k
I interviewed a ton of companies as we built this and nobody is finding it easy to get candidates to respond. They all have issues finding people for the top of the funnel, especially smaller companies under 100 people.
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A British MP (I cannot for the life of me remember who) came under fire for owning a company made its money doing this - take existing content, shuffle the language round a bit and publish it with loads of ads.
Roku has, until recently, tried to support all of their devices with current software updates. It's very refreshing to see a company not abandon their devices. It's likely so they can maximize the number of clients, but it's still a nice gesture.
Why has this article been flagged?
Ouch, someone is a bit grumpy today :)

Sorry for the mistake, we are building something over here.
Your recommendations are excellent. Thanks
Any reason why phrack talks about 2016 vulnerability 4 years later? I was thinking that once security advisory is published it is a fair game.
95% of the problem is having an up to date record of zip/postcodes. As long as you treat the postcode as a separate field, the rest of the address can be handled by the courier. Most couriers will go off the postcode to determine whether or not they can deliver a package and cost the delivery - even if the rest of the address is garbage.

IMO, A database schema for addresses should consist of: (Country, Postal code, Address). I would split Address into 4 strings and let the user fill out whatever they want in them, in whatever order. I'd also suggest that is isn't even necessary to validate this information on your input forms - but the validation is best performed by contacting the courier with the information input by the user when requesting a delivery cost. (And if this validation fails, email the user back). One suggestion would be to forbid commas in any address fields because CSV formats are accepted by some couriers with varying degrees of support for quoted fields, and often end up requiring manual intervention.

Unless you are the courier, you should probably not waste your resources on attempting to normalize any other parts of the address.

This is from experience in a business which ships hundreds of international packages a day, and tens of thousands domestically (UK).
I don't know if it's accidental or learned but he's really nailed the speech style of typical BBC documentary programming. Either way, his videos are generally very good and entertaining
I had a Roku. Replaced it with a second hand Apple TV after software updates stuck ads all over the menu.

Pretty shit thing to do to paying customers, and one of the main reasons I’m so hesitant about IoT gizmos in general. Might start out great, but the provider can turn it to shit at a moment’s notice with no recourse.

And it looks like this continues to get worse since I bailed: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20902423/roku-tv-interact...

They made a “more ways to watch” feature to automatically find when content is available on a streaming service, and then two years later gunked it up with advertising that you can’t disable short of turning off the feature entirely. Cool.

Makes you wonder if the real reason they built that feature in the first place was as an excuse to monitor everything you watch and monetize that data.
It would be nice to see a layer deeper on the “focus areas” as the role/skills of a digital marketer can be casted pretty wide :)
> What would you change/overhaul about the current system if you could ignore compatibility?

Say, you have some endpoints which can do a public key crypto signature verification. Part of the cookie data is such an endpoint URL. If a script loaded into a page wants to read a cookie, the endpoint defined by the cookie checks the signature of the script and the browser accordingly allows or not access to the cookie. As you'd sign the scripts during deployment, the private key is not even on the public servers.

For performance reasons probably wouldn't send the entire script just a hash of it so it's like GET https://example.com/check?hash=1234567890&signature=abcdef and there's a simple 200 or 403 response. You could make the API such that you can bundle multiple hashes and signatures together so the entire overhead over the network is a single request for every endpoint. If you want to be fancy, you can have a response body for the 403 response which tells the browser something like "this hash is of an outdated version, plz ignore cache and load a new one".
There are factories that specialize in small batches. Just some quick searching seemed to suggest that you could be getting O(1000) parts a day at a cost of a few thousand dollars (for the initial setup) plus a few dollars a part [1]. I'd imagine that the lead time is a few weeks rather than days, but if there's already a stable design wouldn't this be the best bet?

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2013/01/protomold/
The problem is that most people won't take that risk. We interviewed 60+ engineers and they wanted to know more about what it is like to work at a company in order to better filter who might be a fit.

It is about explaining who you are and how you back that with specific actions. Not to mention technical practices and methodologies.
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Just tired of this all... the whole handling of this has been insanely incompetent, especially at the federal level
In theory it makes sense: Hospital in New Mexico has 2 million masks, while in NY they have none. Being an emergency that can and should be done. I said in theory...
You might be happy to know about Flashpoint, the Flash games conservation project: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
What does a newsgroup offer in 2020 that a discourse instance or similar doesn’t? It feels like text from the same category as the text-only mailing list.
I'm going to guess because it's pointing to a forum post which is just a link to the article, and the title is misleading.
So I’m curious, we have a tendency on HN to assume every problem has a technical solution; from autism to inmate rehabilitation, from food insecurity to poverty, solutions are just one good SaaS idea away.

Is covid@home really going to solve this by donating cpu cycles before traditional medical research creates a vaccine? Is turning coal into code (ala Bitcoin) that productive in this case? Because I’ve run the app but feel like I’m in some kind of techbro bubble to believe I’m making even an iota of difference
You say we have the more agency than the people who preceded us, but you fail to realize the only reason that is the case is because those people reached out and took it for us. You're a bit of a hypocrite if you lavish in benefit from their actions, but fail to pick up their torch.

> We have no agency against death, nor ability to ignore the survival needs of the body.

When death becomes escapable, I can guarantee you that the escape won't be affordable for us. There are 2,000 billionaires on this planet, and every single one of them will have access to it decades before you or I can dream of it.

Their achievements don't warrant the power or privileges they enjoy as a result of their wealth, and everyone deserves a shot at that kind of success. If the game is rigged from the beginning, the winners get to run the world, and they want you to work 48+ weeks every healthy year of your life for them, what's the point of playing?

I'm not even asking for their power or wealth, I'm just asking for the same ability to pursue my own ideas with my time instead of being forced to trade my time for money through employment. We live in an era where the vast majority of "essential" jobs are beginning to be automated, and this is achievable within our lifetimes.

> What have we done with this power? For the most part, we trade it for safety, comfort, security, not freedom.

This wasn't ever our choice. As long as fields need to be plowed, and factory lines staffed, you weren't allowed freedom. The people who are in charge want you to work, so they can be rich, so they made sure you had to do something for them in order to feed yourself. Now? With automation the need for human laborers is dropping, so we can feed and house ourselves with less effort than ever before. Let's use this to free everyone from the shackles of wage-labor, and allow them to pursue their own desires with their lives, like the billionaires get to do.
Exactly. Clojure's syntax is as simple as pragmatically possible, but not simpler.
A great quick video from the BBC on the subject: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FEaFgJyfA
Yes, you can: https://www.google.com/amp/s/hbr.org/amp/2019/04/research-wh...
What's the sticking point here? What if you have competitors doing the same arb? Seems like it's not a pure guaranteed arb. What parameters are pushed to the margins?

I'm an ex derivatives trader so you can go into details.
'lie' is too strong a word perhaps, but 'story', in the sense that Harari uses it in Sapiens, is exactly what it is. A fiction, but not less real.
[I'm no microbiology expert, so obviously take this with a grain of salt :-).]

I'm not sure whether the initial dose affects the severity of the disease, but it seems clear that it at least affects the probability of infection. The individual action hypothesis [1] posits that each individual pathogen has an independent chance of infecting a host, i.e.

P(no infection | n pathogens) = P(no infection | single pathogen)^n

So if one is exposed to a single unit of the virus, infection is theoretically possible but unlikely. At higher doses infection becomes overwhelmingly likely.

I don't know how accurate the IAH model is, but there seems to be a good amount of evidence that infection rates are at least positively correlated with dose, e.g. [2].

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.200...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2869824/pdf/120...
Oh, spot instances to save lives!

There is also https://covid19-hpc-consortium.org/

COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Members: a lot of universities, federal agencies, NASA, US DoE, IBM, Amazon Web Services, AMD, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, NVIDIA,

compute muscle -> Over 402 petaflops, 105,334 nodes, 3,539,044 CPU cores, 41,286 GPUs, and counting.

To join - go to https://www.xsede.org/covid19-hpc-consortium

Just curious - are Apple/FB doing anything about it?

EDIT: Apple is helping in a different way (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/5/21209270/apple-face-shield...)
USA mailing addresses are strictly that -- an identifier for the convenience of the Post Office which may or may not correspond to the underlying jurisdictions for things like political boundaries, tax authorities, etc.

I learned this when setting up voter databases. A house that is in a given city/precinct/etc (the atomic identity is parcel number) may have a mailing address in a completely different city. There are many such cases for Los Gatos vs Saratoga, for example. Also, the USPS considers every address to be in some "city" even on unincorporated parcels.

Back when phone area codes and prefixes had precise geographical meanings, many edge cases ended up on the "wrong" area code (e.g. Sunnyvale numbers being in 415/650 instead of 408 between the 85 freeway and the Sunnyvale border).
Just because there is no evidence (yet) doesn't mean it is misinformation
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I think you’re leaving out the key aspect of Airbnb’s move, which is to transform a large amount of housing into hotels without appropriate regulation. That’s what enables it to be so profitable.
As long as the place they are procuring them from is replenished.
Not NYC. Long Island, but headquartered in Tokyo. I’m avoiding directly naming them, so I don’t have to deal with any agita, but they make photographic equipment, and are a household name.
Why not in practice? One of the positive features of this pandemic is that the infection is peaking at different times across cities. That means it should be possible to surge PPE/ventilators/personnel to the hot spots, and shift those resources over time.

Anyone who disagrees with this strategy should suggest an alternative. Allowing life-saving supplies to sit unused in hospital stockpiles while people die seems like a pretty stupid alternative.
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For the same-origin problem, the web server could return an Origin header which defines the origin. So the server on example.org could serve https://example.org/~username for anything in that account. The defined origin would have to be under the scheme, domain, and port served by the server, of course.
Also, in some cultures like in Spain the legal surname is typically the first family name, which might be the first of two or three family names.
the only time i heard anything like this was by Ayn Rand, but even she wasn't that inflexible:

> My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Playboy, March 1964
Ok, so don’t use a home grown payments system, that sounds daft.
I love KV and think it is a great idea!

We are a different in that we are building a robust career pages for engineering teams that are specifically designed to attract engineers. It is more than just the culture, it is about showing what it is like to work on the team and help the company build a pipeline of great talent with a variety of features/outreach.
local taxes are rarely based on the street address

No, they're based on the underlying geographical boundaries based on the parcel number. This usually corresponds to the city in the mailing address (in contiguously Incorporated lots) but not always.
Being shitty about commitment and affection in your romantic life does not by default make you an awful person. It makes you bad at strong romantic relationships perhaps. There are however many other metrics of what makes someone good and bad in a moral and human sense. So please, lay off the "if you ever cheat on your wife you must be a piece of human garbage" nonsense.
The actual difference here is the encoding, into a representation of a dataset annotated by thousands of people. Sounds like a basis of knowledge or even understanding.

I bet this scales way better than any other method on large datasets
“ put options on the common equity” you mean index or that company’s? Because you can’t buy options for Airbnb as it’s not IPOd yet
Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention?
I have what is possibly a very simple, cheap and quick solution to solving the COVID-19 pandemic. The problem is I am in Australia and only someone like with clout in the USA or Europe like Bill Gates can put it into practice. Any ideas how I can get their attention?