skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not that easy

We are a small startup and we were outpacing 2 of the 4 giants

They resorted to outright illegal stuff

manipulation of search engine results
not delivering our emails when it was to their email service
hacking attacks
click fraud on our ads

*

The REAL problem is not that they have monopoly status and cannot be outpaced

The real problem is that they abuse their monopoly position, do illegal things, and get away with it

Now we are building

both a platform

and

our own search engine

Consider the absurdity of that

Instead of just building a better product (which we had) and being able to win and/or compete based on that

We have to literally build our own entire ecosystem

How many startups can do that?

Should every tech company that happens to be competing against the big 4 monopolies be expected to do that
That is interesting because I have never had a problem getting a refund from PayPal, with one exception notable exception. I assumed they always sided with the buyers.

In the one exception the seller had proof of delivery, yet it was not possible to have been delivered that day because of a road closure. PayPal sided with the seller. A year later out of the blue, with no prior communication, the seller sends me a full refund and said the package was returned by the delivery company. No idea where it has been sitting for about a year before being returned.
> I can't see any way selling .org from a non-profit to a commercial entity who is profit motivated makes sense at all.

It’s not about making sense. It’s about making dollars.
If libc.so is infected, wouldn't it be possible to create a statically linked cleaning program that directly uses syscalls to talk to the kernel?
There are some questions here about filtering effectiveness of surgical masks. Here is one study showing 96% filtration of aerosolized bacteria although unfortunately it does not compare against an n95.

Figure: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Filtration-Efficiency-an...

Full study: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
You can see the results here:

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

Yeah it's significantly faster and smaller than Vue 2.
Tolkien wasn't tortured, but he fought in WWI.
The demonyms are "soldier, sailor, marine, airman" for the US Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, respectively.
When worn normally, or when well sealed? Are there tests of this? If they are both melt blown fabric then it seems at least plausible that this thing could work. It should be tested of course, but it seems like they are in the process of doing that.
Perhaps an opening here may line up with your skills? (disclaimer: I have no involvement with them; looked at a job opening months ago and remembered they have a Costa Rica office upon seeing your comment)

https://www.janeirodigital.com/careers/
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It is healthy, but discharging to 0% isn't and keeping it at 100% isn't either.
It is best to plug in at 20% but only charge to 80%. Then every half a year you do a full charge to 100% and a full discharge to calibrate the battery management.

But sadly that can't be configured on a MacBook.
No, you can't say that about Tesla, nobody ever said making an electric car was literally impossible. Quite the contrary, the technology is well understood.

The experts raised the red flags very early that what Theranos was trying to do didn't appear to be scientifically possible based on current knowledge.
> As such, it's incredibly unlikely that the # of real cases is some large multiplier of the number of confirmed cases in any areas that are regularly testing people with flu-like symptoms.

For example?
Yep, you definitely need to implement user authz for _every_ resolver indepedently and safelist/allowlist only those operations you'll use. You probably had to disable introspection in production too.

Out of curiosity, could you name the third party security firm?
Really interesting read, thank you.

How Influx Data plan to incorporate this? (Or did I miss that in the article somewhere?)
GreaseMonkey is the "legacy" option. ViolentMonkey runs on Chrome. TamperMonkey runs on Firefox.
Hardly "collusion" that most nations have some form of debit payment system that is independent of the Visa/MC networks.
Hopefully, this is the peak we expected, meaning it won't keep going up by very much.
Its around 350, the battery is dead from being plugged in at work 10-12 hours every day.
From tfa: “you simply install ViolentMonkey (on Chrome, use TamperMonkey for other browsers)”

Greasemonkey is old news.
Their site still seems to be up. I don't quite understand what they do but it's still running

https://purse.io/how-it-works
That's the pre-symptomatic infectious period. Which is not the same as the pre-symptomatic period.
Selfie2Anime: Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Turns Selfies into Anime
To my understanding the biggest reason GitLab chose Vue was because they were able to easily mix it in with their existing stack. That's part of what I was referring to by "drop-in". You can do the same with React but it's more heavyweight unless you plan on porting the lion's share of your app to React.

As for the others I'm not sure what they're using Vue for specifically and can't really speak to the technical reasoning behind it. I'm not saying that you can't do serious development in Vue but rather that all else equal I will guide teams to adopt React, mostly for the better developer ergonomics.
If anyone is wondering why we have vaccines....Well we are living in a time where the global population lacks a vaccine and has no immunity to one single disease. One. How's that working out for you?

So yeah, let's all not get vaccinated, then we can experience this for like, lots and lots of diseases. Maybe each one "only" kills 1-2% of the population... yay!

Seriously though - if this doesn't kill the anti-vax moment well, then I guess there's no vaccine, or cure, for being stupid.
It seems to me the structure is a bit different. Much more material for the N95 rated ones.

Though to be fair, my reusable KN95 (claimed), from China is just as thin as a surgical mask.
Why did your implementation have a case-sensitive check for a fixed list of algorithms, and why are you blacklisting vs. whitelisting acceptable algorithms? 'Old, stable' codebase or not... this is production code for a security product and seems like something that would be picked up during an audit.
"The cyanobacteria producing the oxygen caused the event which enabled the subsequent development of multicellular forms." Seems like it was ultimately a win.
So agree, numbers don’t lie. But... handling emergencies effectively can lead to problematic numbers.

My brother and I discussed this at length.

He claims (and I have no reason to doubt) that New York has 5x the usual death rate right now. About 2x the usual death rate is clearly COVID-19, another 1x is probably COVID-19 but not tested, another 1x is unclear and the rest are people who likely would have died anyways.

An example of that unclear bucket are people dying from heart attacks. COVID-19 stresses the heart which can cause that. However thanks to COVID-19, EMTs have moved to "Do not do CPR and if we cannot revive, do not take to the hospital." This procedure makes sense because CPR on a COVID-19 patient sprays the whole room with COVID-19. And taking someone with it to a hospital likely will cause them to get it, and it is particularly bad in people with heart problems.

However it also means that heart attacks have a higher likelihood of killing you than usually.

So..people die of heart attacks. Is that heart attack attributable to COVID-19? Is it fatal just because COVID-19 has overwhelmed the health system? We don't know and aren't trying to find out because knowing isn't the priority in a world where our health care system is stretched to the breaking point. All we really know is that people are dying.
My initial guess was MagSafe, since that’s where I first saw it. With a breakaway cable, it’s less likely you’ll be able to keep a solid power connection.

I’m a little bummed to learn that this apparently isn’t the (only) reason.
On top of all that, remember that this project is doing that reliably enough to use as a disk while sharing CPU time with the rest of the system. It's not running on a RTOS or doing bare metal trickery, so achieving tight timing is really hard and you end up wasting a lot of CPU time just doing that.
Sorry I didn't see this until just now, but the bread didn't rise at all. Just a cold lump. The second loaf came out great though.
Chrysler would have reorganized under the bankruptcy code, shed the pensions hobbling it and emerged as the most competitive US automaker.
Steve Jobs was strongly adamant about the size of the iphone.

Likewise, Steve Jobs saw hypercard as the future, wanting it to sync up online between people, being like the future newspaper. It's no longer maintained because it's modern equivalent is a web browser. When Steve came back to Apple he pushed hard for advancing web tech instead.
Herd immunity is derived from R0 and "susceptibility" percentage. The value for the latter also varies with disease and strain.

If you look at the Italian data, their % positive level never crossed ~30%, and overall averaged <20%. That might indicate that susceptibility for this agent is well below 50%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...
perhaps you could explain what your stance is

are you French?

why do you think it is harmful to French citizens?

What qualifies you to share this opinion
Tbh I don't know anything about it. Their blog post seems technical and well-thought out. They aren't offering these things for sale at $50 a pop, so they're not trying to gouge the public. They are going through the necessary testing. It doesn't seem like an effort that can be slapped down with internet comment outrage.
It's astonishing how quickly it happened, too. People underestimate the effect of a decade, but a decade feels so short. I still remember YC startup school in 2007-ish.
Best part:

> We note, however, that if a significant fraction of these ejections involve hypervelocity planets, then the number still inthe galaxy may be notably reduced as these bodies would be traveling in excess of galactic escape velocities, and so could become inter-galactic planetary bodies (Beastie Boys, 1998).
>but it's definitely problematic making the video footage publicly available

Which is why they informed the press that Clearview kept that footage and made it publicly available.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but a small amount of proof is necessary to verify such claims. A few seconds showing that some people were at an apartment building is unlikely to be sensitive, and it's entirely possible they contacted the people before publishing.
Getting other people to order stuff from Amazon for you, and pay them in bitcoin...

Looks like a way to order bomb ingredients without leaving a financial trail... Can't believe there's a big enough market for that...

Was there any other benefit to this service?
I agree with your sentiment

I'm Canadian and I've seen that the US tends to let companies do anything, provided they funnel enough campaign funding to politicians via lobbying

basically legalized bribes
Thanks for the info about the team structure Patrick! Hope you're staying safe out there
Women are less effected overall. It is thought it is due to ACE2 receptor distribution in the body being different than men, but they don't know. However there is statistically significant worse outcomes/disease severity for men.

Pregnant women basically puts the cap of the upper age at around 40. This disease the virus causes in the body is very much worse for those that are older.

The study tested pregnant women admitted to the hospital to give birth. There are a lot of doctor appointments and lab work to check things in their last trimester. So they could've contracted it through those high risk places or routine contact with health care workers who I would say are also high risk.

Still, the study showed on admission that they were positive so they probably didn't get it from the hospital, unless on admission actually means some time after. That assumes it might be able to be detected so soon into the infect as well. It is a bit strange in that regard that it is such a high number.
I don't know if it's helpful or not for you to hear this, but as another serial startup person, I strongly second what he's saying. And marketing is a learnable skill, not a personality trait. It can even be engineered! It's also how you acquire social capital, and a "brand".

Another way to think about it is: by writing comments like the one you wrote above, about the unfairness of it all, you're already marketing. You're just doing it badly.

I don't want to sound like I'm picking on you, because this is an incredibly prevalent handicap among smart tech people.
N95 masks use a special fiber mesh made from "melt down" material to obstruct the passage of viral particles. Surgical masks are for droplet protection only. It is disingenuous in the extreme to make claims that a surgical mask can be "upgraded" to an N95. You can improve the airflow yes, but you should make the claim that it might be better than a standard surgical mask, not anything like an N95.
The first peak, that is. It's likely that during the many re-openings to come, we will have other peaks.
A planet formed in another star system would very likely have very different isotope ratios than one formed here. Earth has very similar isotope ratios for most elements to meteorites.
I agree. Parsec makes it excellent. I really like the Paperspace vm combo there. Super easy to setup and I've noticed no issues. It's more expensive than Nvidia's service (to which I also subscribe), but you can play whatever game you want or do anything else you want.
> I was deeply disturbed by recent reporting by The New York Times about the nearly 70 million online photos and videos of child sexual abuse that were reported by technology companies last year.

If the tech companies are reporting 70 million photos and videos, doesn't that mean current measures are already effective at finding and reporting massive quantities of child sexual abuse content? It's like complaining about firefighters putting out too many fires - even if there is some real problem causing an excessive amount of fires to start, there's no reason to interfere with the firefighters successfully combatting the problem.

It is quite frightening that the bill's prominent supporters won't list even a single problem with the current system that they hope their new "best practices" would rectify.
I worked in the commercial department of a state financial institution and I loathed SBA loans. They were such a pain. Everybody hated them. Lenders, processors, underwriters...but not the VP!

I mean I get but ffs why? Let the big companies do it. They're just a hassle.
Here's a short relevant Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9uemks/greasemonke...

Though I wrote Greasemonkey originally, I have no idea regarding the answer to this question. What I can say is that Anthony Lieuallen is a super standup guy, which is why I handed it over to him and Johan way back. Based on that alone, I personally continue to use GM whenever I have a need.
In the public transport space, batching is absolutely required, usually there's a mechanism of "preauth on first tap" and rapid distribution of deny lists.

Payment requests are accumulated and batched, combined with "capping" of travel costs (eg max/day, weekly discounts etc).
As someone pointed out to me, the euromomo website is useful for this, it tracks the total mortality rate across Europe and compares it with the historical data.

By ignoring the hospitalized/homestuck difference one can have a clearer idea of what is happening. Sadly I don't know of a way to get the data for the whole world.
Now that they got rid of the Plus moniker, I hope they drop the "Max" from the Pro Naming.

So we end up with a Line up looking like,

iPhone 12 Pro 6.1" / 6.7"
iPhone 11s / 12 5.4" / 6.1"
iPhone SE 4.7" / ( I think there is a 5.4" coming in 2021 )

I mean the whole iPhone 11 Pro Max is getting very "Microsoft" naming alike and un-Apple.
Rails dev sponsored on GitHub (Twitter)
IRC is where you go to play the idle game, right?
you are not missing anything

Most AI 'experts' take things that are very specifically NOT INTELLIGENCE

such as

Machine Learning
Big Data
Evolutionary Algorithms
Neural Networks

and pretend they are 'the machines becoming sentient and intelligent'

At some level it is sort of understandable - that's how they can get a lot of funding

at the same time

it's ridiculous from both a scientific standpoint and from a programming standpoint
Ethos Capital is clearly a front company. There is widespread agreement on this.

I disagree with the other commenters on who is behind the front company. One is saying Putin, but Russia is very cash conscious and this is not their style.

I could be wrong but typically the Chinese have gone for the major overseas buyouts.

What is clear is that even if they succeed in buying the fallout will come soon. Maybe a year, maybe two, but it will be an easy win espionage investigation that is sure to net at least a few American citizens. The last time this happened was in 2016 so more frequent than one would think.
Leading through the uncertain uncertainty Covid-19
I believe that if we loosen things a little soon, this will be the main one. I think it is likely that we have reduced susceptibility by 15% in New York already. And seasonal factors are swinging to be on our side.

If R0 was 2.5, a virus with Rt of 1.9 (*0.85, and then a little seasonal benefit) is still scary, but it's a completely different ball game.

On the other hand, if we don't experiment with reopening a little soon, we'll lose the chance to effectively use the time where weather is on our side...

Emphasis on "a little". Slightly increase the set of permitted activities, designate an industry or two more as permitted, and continue to encourage mask wearing.
Or maybe they don't actually need the dependencies. There is a style of writing code to minimize dependencies and many people value this.

I would take the sqlite amalgamation as an example of good use of "few files, few dependencies". First off, it is above all a solid piece of work. It is distributed with one header file and one .c, even though it is developed as multiple files. Iirc the sqlite website cites a ~10% speed improvement or so due to the optimizer being able to do a better job across the whole library. In my opinion this is a better reason than "tracking dependencies sucks" or "omg too many files".
Sign up for the world's largest Covid-19 hackathon: OpenHacks
If the total cost is under $6 trillion, I think the Fed can swing it.
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First off, not everyone likes those technologies for a variety of reasons--and solving a front-end solution a an alternative is valid. Outside Elm, PureScript, BuckleScript, and ReasonML all work fine with JavaScript libraries and have React interop/wrapper libraries already. I may dislike it, JSX is supported out of the box with ReasonML. I think some pain with JS interop could be worth the trade-off for either better types, managed IO, no null by default, immutablility by default, no option for any, exhaustivity, and the list go on--not just as a linter feature or a config option but built into the language.
Didn't NY just add 3+ thousand that weren't counted before?
That's all public data, if you ask Clearview.
> You can't obviously connect an individual lurker to a log

I don't think that's necessarily true.

While I don't know if the IRC Server software supports it, there's no reason you couldn't encode some kind of unique tag into the stream of IRC messages sent to each client. Unless you were running two clients and diffing their logs you wouldn't notice.

It could be as simple as seeing additional events, or modified whois/client information on join/leave, or even completely fake client join/leaves.
We also don't know yet (or at least I don't) how easily asymptomatic people are able to transmit the infection, which is why I'm perplexed by this quote from the article.

> “With regard to COVID-19, we’re learning that stealth in the form of asymptomatic transmission is this adversary’s secret power,” said Rear Admiral Bruce Gillingham, surgeon general of the Navy.
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Wow, that's amazing!
I cannot find it, but a few years back I saw a car hack whereby you could buy a basic model car and enable some premium trim features (I think it was underbody LEDs) via CAN bus hacking - the hardware was present in the basic model car but disabled.

So yes, people do accept this even if they don't realise they're accepting it.
We need widespread home antibody tests. I had a bad chest cold for a month recently, probably just a cold but I sure wish I knew for sure. If I found that I have antibodies I would try to volunteer to help in the fight and donate plasma. It would completely change my behavior, but I may never know unless I get sick as a dog with usual symptoms.
This is a garbage number.

New York reclassified a bunch of folks that died over the last few days as COVID deaths under their new methodology, where all deaths are covid deaths if there is even a hint that they might have had COVID.

These are not deaths that occurred in a 24-hour period. These are deaths that were reported in a 24-hour period, and covers basically everyone with any respiratory illness who died at home on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

Trying to compare that to a rate of deaths in hospital of likely or confirmed cases (the methodology used from last week until Tuesday), or hospital deaths of confirmed cases (the methodology used before last week) is meaningless.

If you change methodology, you really have to go back and recast historic numbers. But that isn't being done.
This was testing people admitted to the hospital while going into labor. How easy would it be for a person to distinguish symptoms of being in labor from symptoms of having the illnesses?
Somebody needs to primary her.
ETA? I filled out the form and it said it wasn't quite ready for me (Founder).
I think this is because NY is now reporting probable deaths, and not just those who tested positive before dying.
There's no way 3 rubber bands turns a surgical mask into an N95 mask. There are studies that look at the abilities of different materials, removing the seal component entirely, and the two masks have very different profiles. (I don't have them saved, but I've come across several over the last few weeks when looking into alternative to N95 masks. Here's an article I found with 5 minutes of searching that has some refs to relevant studies: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...)

Better seal than a surgical mask without them? Even that I would contest because you are loading the area directly in front of the mouth with more moisture and higher air pressure than designed. Exhaling will puff a regular mask out slightly, which diffuses the exhaled breath across the surface. This straps a 3"x1" segment of fabric to the lips and nostrils and you lose that diffusion. I'd also imagine this would make reuse even more risky, since the rubber bands would wear the hydrophobic coating off and snare small strands of fabric. And then there's the sterilization/sanitization of the rubber bands. And the aging/failure rate of these bands. And then... you get my point.

Maybe they meant well, but this is the type of bad information that is actually dangerous. "Tell Martha in procurement that we don't need the fancy masks and put in an order for 10,000 rubber bands. Why? This MIT Apple Engineer said so."
What I don't understand with these technologies, is how you do continuous deployment without breaking all running client sessions evertime.