skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's maybe because someone who has a "strong enough health" to tolerate smoking, builds some resistance in the short term. That's in the long term that smoking is really deadly though

That kind of study would also find out that people doing daily physical exercise would be much less affected by Covid, etc..
First look: I like this. I like that it will help raise awareness of time I waste on some sites, but that I can easily bypass it if and when I need to. I like that I can choose to have it work only on some sites.

I've tried to use other somewhat similar extensions or tools in the past but removed them as they often "got in the way" of what I needed to do. Right now, this seems to be just right for me.

Thanks for doing this.

Normally, I immediately delete any unsolicited emails. However, if you want beta testers for any other creation, feel free to email me (username at gmail) mentioning that you created intention. I promise to have a look at what you create and to give you some feedback.
> (I'm not sure how, since the attackers don't complete the transaction).

Its called "pre-auth" or "pre-authorization". It will show up on your statement for up to 48 hours but then will disappear since transaction is not "settled". During this period you would see a descriptor of transaction like NIKE NEW YORK 310XXXX, or if its dynamic/soft descriptor and merchant is utilizing it, it may say your order number and store like NIKE.COM 11-3939329.
It's a 2-in-1 at 2x the cost of the competition and with less capacity or supportnfor x86 apps/etc.
Ha, I didn't even notice the username! I agree consensus (or lack thereof) is an useful property to demonstrate. I think I may have been a bit of a pedant in my prior comment.
NASA does software testing and QA
Instagram and WhatsApp are anomalies. To try and find general tendencies, we should try and cite the typical story, not a three sigma exception case.

Secondly, headcount is a darling of many HR systems. You might cite exceptions with Google or Stripe but your typical corporate environment will not put much effort into fairly evaluating career advancement (e.g., measuring impacts, outcomes, risk) for anyone.

If you are sales or profit focused, lucky you. But outside of that, most HR systems will use simple metrics like "how many people report to you" or "how much budget do you control" to evaluate your promotions and pay. Some will even have literal formulas (e.g., you need 6 reports to go to Director; you need 6 Director reports to go to Executive Director; etc.)

It is done because it is easy and convenient for HR. Unfortunately, obviously, people then try to game the system and over-hire.

You might have to produce an "impacts report" at EOY but that is often HR-theater. Get down to "why" and you will find it came down to how many direct reports you had. Or how much budget you burned.

If your incentive system rewards hiring over results, expect headcount to grow I urge those in governance positions to ensure their organizations have a real impacts assessment system to evaluate employee progress. There is no better way to kill motivation among workers than tell them that impact has no effect.
Google release BeyondCorp: A VPN alternative
US Senate on Russian Active Measures and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election [pdf]
https://stripe.com/privacy describes what we do in some detail (including disclosing that we use this kind of browsing data).

More broadly, I assure you that Stripe.js and our fraud prevention technologies are very carefully designed with full compliance with the relevant California (and other) statutes in mind. I’d be happy to connect you with our legal team if you’d like to discuss this in more detail. (I'm patrick@stripe.com.)
Yes. The best situation to be in is to have been through it and be immune.

For those of us who aren't showing symptoms and aren't at high risk for exposure, there's no point in testing us unless the test becomes super cheap.
Yep, I linked to it at the bottom.
this extension has helped me save a ton of time on distracting websites -- particularly Hacker News

I also love DK's other extention, hidefeed.com, which I use for sites like LinkedIn where i need to go to do work, but don't want to get sucked into the newsfeed.
> but by a "customer" whose credit card number had been stolen somewhere and who saw on his statement our company name (I'm not sure how, since the attackers don't complete the transaction)

I detected a hacked database this way. My credit card (a burner from privacy.com) notifies me of any transaction, including pre-authorizations.

Most likely your customer saw the pre-auth show up.
Well, rarely done isn't the same as never done. docs.rs has exactly the tradeoffs the parent comment is talking about: we have a long-running daemon thread that uses `catch_unwind` and builder threads that occasionally panic. We've had [issues with memory leaks](https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs/issues/656) in the past - they weren't related to unwinding that I know of, but it's still possible that they were.

However I'm not in favor of the proposed solution - if the docs.rs server aborted every time a thread panicked we would have a lot of outages!
> I also wonder if he handed over just the source code to the shareware version or the full version?

It's probably an #IFDEF or an if (registered) somewhere in the source code.
Excuse my ignorance, but is there an atheist form of AA and similar 12-steps programs?

My knowledge of them is very limited to pop culture (like its depiction in TV shows such as The Wire, Breaking Bad and Grey's Anatomy), but their depictions always seemed annoying to me because they are all about god, submission to a "higher power", and "the original sin"/"flawed humans" in one way or the other. If you are actively atheist, you will find this approach off-putting and it won't help you.
Programming language Rust's adoption problem: Developers reveal why
I'm from Germany working for US companies.

I'm "exporting" my work from Germany to the USA.
This is very cool. I'd like to include this library in the website builder we've built for Webase [1]. We currently have a color background and an image background but these patterns would make it easy for non-coders to add some panache!

Thank you for sharing!

[1] https://www.webase.com
We didn't even have FDA approved test kits until last month, I imagine that similar agencies exist in Japan which required government intervention to expedite the process. I know you want to believe they had nefarious intentions but bureaucracy and incompetence are often the culprit when it comes to government.

In the US it wasn't just a matter of getting tests made, but getting all the various states and private testing centers connected so the federal government could aggregate the data. Smaller countries or those with socialized/public healthcare had an easier time at this because their systems were already unified. Tiny countries like South Korea trying to talk down the US for not getting tests out as fast is them is humorous. California alone has greater landmass and 80% of SK's population.

Besides that, Japan is still doing very well despite their population density meeting/exceeding many major hotspots. And the US is likely out of the woods, we should definitely be back to normal next month.
>...fenced off, so the road isn't actually passable...

Is that actually true if you are on a bike? In my city OSM is a good source of unofficial bikeways. What does the cycle layer have to say?
Always Measure One Level Deeper (2018)
Where is the $60B/yr going? It's not all AWS. They could buy a lot of mugs for that.
I’d say it’s a relief if you test positive and then 14 days pass and you experience no or mild symptoms. But I know for me, personally, I’d be a nervous wreck during that period waiting for the symptoms to come (but I also have an underlying respiratory condition so that’s a big part of my anxiety).
This seems in line with the March 19th investor call: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186865/uber-rides-decli...
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How many bike paths have been added to OSM as a result of the Strava heatmap identifying them?
Saves the risk of infecting someone or being infected at a testing center. You don't want to be going near a hospital these days if you don't have to.
Part of it may be code style, but another part comes from just how much LLVM IR the frontend generates for just about any code style.

Part of the reason LLVM runs so much faster on C than on Rust is that Clang is smarter about generating less/better IR from the start, so LLVM's optimizer has less of a hole to dig itself out of.
>> Stripe records the full URL, including query parameters and URL fragments (e.g., /account?id=12345#name=michael), which some websites use to store sensitive information.

Can you comment on this part as well? If you collect sensitive data unbeknownst to website owners and users you are most likely in for some trouble (i.e. gdpr)
Nvidia Announces Monai Open Source AI Project
Ametameric: A 16 color palette for dichromats and trichromats
I use LUKS on my work laptop (company policy/etc). Sure the AES-NI bandwidth is a few GB/sec/core. But it definitely slows things like kernel builds down by more than double digit percentages. Turns out latency is still important for storage and making an extra pass over all the data doesn't help.
Third — and related to both of the above — figure out an investing model that is suited to outcomes that have a higher liklihood of success along with a lower upside.

The tricky part is that the type of build projects Andreesen argues for are more costly, have a higher risk and a lower upside compared to most software startups.

We need substantially more capital allocated to the VC segment before the focus will shift to these projects.
> The question raised is, more broadly, "Is Stripe collecting this data in a legal and ethical way?" This too can be readily answered in the negative.

I think the real issue is that in the U.S. most people's views on things like basic analytics software aren't shaped by reading books on digital privacy or taking classes on privacy law, but rather by some vague cultural memory of the holocaust. It makes it very difficult to have a rational discussion with people.
"Jamstack" has to be the worst name for an architecture ever. "Javascript", "APIs", and "markup"... uhhh you mean like what the entire web already runs on?
I see.

From the outside I had the impression successful defense attorneys would try to convince the jury by confusing them, which seems quite easy because the jury usually isn't educated in law.
Node.js 14 release: New diagnostic tools, features, and performance enhancements
For a starter I did try my own hair trimming
I felt like “shadiest” was hyperbole meant to mean “very shady”. Also while the others mentioned might be bad, the NSA is probably the “best” at being covert and probably the most active of all of them. So they might truly be the “shadiest” by sheer volume of covert things they do.
Testing in the modern sense was impossible as a matter of science.

Modern contact tracing could in principle have been done, but it's my understanding that it wasn't. The kind of tracing in the Broad Street outbreak is very different - cholera mostly doesn't spread from person to person, so John Snow had to figure out only where each of the victims spent their time and not an exponential sized web of people they went out drinking with.
Show HN: A listing website fighting cutthroat prices for masks
1600AF seems to be a lifecycle replacement for the 1600, probably for contractual obligations.

Seems to have plenty of inventory on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XTQZJ28/
Yeah, making a secret prediction seems only justified when your position is in the extreme minority and when it contains fairly surprising and/or specific claims. When your claim is just supporting a "strong minority viewpoint", doing so secretly ridiculous.
In my opinion, there _is_ a moral issue. Not in that they collect this information for fraud prevention; that seems like a reasonable use for that data. It's in not having informed consent, in not having a clear document describing what is collected and when it is purged. And that document would need to be consumer-facing (since it's not the vendor's behaviour being tracked).

Responding after being caught is… good, but not as good as not needing to be caught.
Hm, this is a bit strange. It should work fine on Firefox, and a lot of other people on this thread seem to have no issues.

Can you share what OS you're on and other extensions you have installed?

Feel free to reply via email — my address is dk@getintention.com.
Author here.
We have created this platform in 4 days during our Easter bank holidays. The main stack is React, NextJS, Hasura, Vercel now, Cloudflare Workers and Digital Ocean. We are positive that we can scale to 100.000 concurrent users with this setup on infrastructure for $40/month.

We are a non-profit and our main goal is to make pricing of masks and other protective gear more transparent.

Looking forward to reading your feedback :)
I think it's problematic to let some random people who don't know anything about law decide such important things.
Maybe we should publish a complete log after all. Especially with the title edits, we've been doing them for so long now that they really have become routine. It's pretty much a craft at this point—a very tiny and trivial craft, with many tiny rules and heuristics. I used to mildly resent having to do it, because titles feel so, again, trivial. But eventually it dawned on me why they are such an emotional thing. There's more about this here if anyone cares:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20429573

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
And started a project in react for the first time. A beginner.
Yes, I would say it's conditional. They should be more explicit about what data they're collecting from users. Opaque enough to not reveal all of the exact techniques, but clear enough so site owners can make an informed decision. (Someone dedicated and experienced enough could probably reverse engineer Stripe.js and figure out everything it's doing if they really wanted, but they're also probably updating it regularly.)
What would make you different from the many many EUA antibody tests already on the market? How are you going to get yours approved for OTC at-home use?
The first paragraph mentions it's just a collection kit. Comes with a shipping label.
> Right up there with Newsom and Cuomo.

Cuomo cut Medicaid funding by $6 billion during the pandemic. He dragged his feet on issuing a stay-at-home order for a week after the city government had asked for one (the governor has the sole authority to authorize one in NY). San Francisco beat Cuomo to the punch by nearly a week, even though New York had been hit earlier and harder with COVID-19 cases. Cuomo also fought against closing NYC schools even after the city and teachers were already on board with the idea. As a result of New York's sluggish response, community spread of COVID-19 happened much more rapidly than it did in other urbanized areas of the country (most notably San Francisco), so hospitals were already overloaded even before the stay-at-home order had been issued. On top of that, Cuomo also expanded pretrial detention for nonviolent drug offenders during the pandemic, which puts even more people in unnecessary close contact. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/cuomo-has-learned-no...

As of today, 1 in 1000 New Yorkers who were alive a month ago are now dead. Cuomo might not be the only person responsible for the current situation in New York, but it's clear that things would be better in New York had Cuomo taken action instead of fighting public health officials at every turn.
This looks really interesting. I've found the best way for me to stay focused is to just block sites via my /etc/hosts file. I'll unblock it when I'm done working and then block again at the end of the day so I'm ready to go in the morning.

If I mindlessly type youtube.com in and hit a error I immediately realize I did that mindlessly and get back to work. I've been doing this for a while and it has worked every time.
Luck certainly plays a factor but experience cycling on the roads is key.

When I cycle on roads I am hyper aware of my surroundings. I am scanning all around me, including behind me every few seconds. I’m also specifically looking at people’s faces and assume they don’t see me until we make eye contact. I also take space aggressively - if there is no bike lane I will bike in the middle of the car lane until I see a safe place for the car behind me to pass, and only then move over. This might piss off the cars behind me, but as long as they see me, its OK with me.

All these techniques make sure that I am seen by other cars and nothing surprising happens. This kind of riding takes years to build up experience. Anectodal, but through my 25 years of heavy commuting on a bicycle on roads shared with cars I’ve never had an accident - but I’ve certainly had several while driving a car. Ive also had several close calls on bike trails because those tend to be filled with pedestrians who aren't looking at all and don't follow any rules.

For sure I could go out biking tomorrow and get killed but freak accidents happen in all areas of life. Personally I don’t feel in danger on the roads - but everyone’s tolerance and experience is different and that’s one of the cruxes of giving good bike directions.
It's now free to sell on Google
Isn't it a notifiable disease? Wouldn't that put the onus on the testing company to report a positive test?

I'm not sure how that works in the states.
Once you have a stolen card though, what large purchases could you realistically get away with that won't leave an audit trail right back to you?
Why not address it here publicly? I don't think you want/expect everyone observing this discussion on HN to reach out to you.
The Ryzen line lies entirely in the top half of AMD's current offerings, doesn't it?

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors-desktop
We've currently got an extended period of time ahead, where we'll have to learn to do without a lot of the cultural opportunities that come with city life.

A lot will depend on how much and how rapidly lockdown can be eased. If we spend 18-24 months without many of the benefits/opportunities of city life, or at least with those opportunities significantly diminished, culture will rapidly shift to different models - and those are likely more location independent.

And yes, of course rent is a supply/demand question, but the current experience is "the rent is too damn high", and that puts a certain amount of pressure on city living. Take away enough upsides, and it's not worth it any more.

Rent might drop as a result, but it will be a lagging indicator of cities becoming unpopular.

At the same time, closeness to social groups is being valued higher, because we're currently learning that a lonely/isolated life is not a good life. And, like any traumatic event, we're also learning that a supportive community matters, a lot.

You seem to assume that current forces and values hold, despite a global traumatic event. I think that we're in for a complete change of the landscape. The future will tell.
A CSS only library to fill empty background with beautiful patterns
It's a shame the commissioner couldn't have had a bit more of a sense of humor about it. Except for him being a jerk the story is pretty much pure slapstick.
Quitting smoking is attainable.. Sure there is some uncomfortable days, but its completely tolerable. The greatest marketing tobacco came up with is how difficult it is to quit. Its a mind fornicator.
The Techstars Seattle 2020 Cohort
University stops using Chinese testing kits after some found to be contaminated
it doesn't need to be a MITM.

He was called in a land line. The caller could just have pretended to hangout and faked tones when the author called back.

I'm not saying that is what happened, but it's way easier than a real 411 MITM.
Well yes, that's the point, I don't know what app to install. Sounds like OsmAnd is a good start, cheers.
I don't get what this has to do with ethernet.
So how is this going to play out? Negative pricing like in oil?
@mods can we change the title to "Why I should have" instead of "why should I have"?

The current title reads like a question with the question mark omitted ("Why should I have used C, not C++?") which, at least to me, implies that it's saying C++ was the right decision. The thesis of the post looks like the opposite.
This is a fair call-out. We have actually worked pretty hard to ensure that our Privacy[1] and Cookies[2] policies are clear and easy-to-read, rather than filled with endless boilerplate jargon. But we still did make a mistake by not have a uniquely clear document covering Stripe.js fraud prevention in particular.

[1] https://stripe.com/privacy

[2] https://stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal
Yeah, I'm hoping we'll see serology tests soon that truly are 100% "at home", operating through a test strip. They already have had these tests available in China and other countries since February, but since the US is apparently a third world country in 2020 we will be lucky to see these tests before 2021.
Most versions of the "virus escaped from a lab" theory imply that it was created as a bioweapon. We have really good evidence this is not true, with the genetic sequence placing it within a family of coronaviruses that infect bats.

What I don't understand is how you can believe this:

> China is an untrustworthy, paranoid, autocratic state with a history of deadly epidemiological coverups (SARS), and it mishandled and lied about the covid crisis early on.

and still not entertain the possibility that Chinese scientists were studying the virus and there was a lab accident that China then covered up.

Even if it was a a biohazard level 4 lab, "Biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) is the highest level of biosafety precautions, and is appropriate for work with agents that could easily be aerosol-transmitted within the laboratory and cause severe to fatal disease in humans for which there are no available vaccines or treatments." [0] It's not immediately clear to me that an unknown virus found in bats would immediately be treated as a BSL-4 human pathogen, but, even if it was, the possibility of an accident still exists. With this virus having a relatively long incubation period, and the possibility of asymptomatic transmission, it's entirely conceivable to me that such an accidental escape of a naturally occuring virus could have occured.

TL;DR: China has covered up similar situations in the past, so it's not a big leap to believe a naturally occuring virus could have escaped from a lab.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#Biosafety_leve...
> Unless you've invented a mind-reading device I'm pretty sure you're talking out of your ass.

You may feel that. But you can't know what other smokers feel, either.
The "Show HN" for this is on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933697

can you please check for duplicates before sending submissions?
Put your money where your mouth is, and put in the terms that this data will ever be sold/rented to advertisers. If it is, pay a penalty of $25 per datapoint.

Also, if not advertisers, who will get this information?
Make it any “third party”.
I'm not sure if you saw the interview on Polygon [1], but I really liked hearing about doing the first Tekken port from arcades to PS1 and dealing with the newer memory constraints.

[1] https://youtu.be/XB0mgLo9lEw?t=1214
Poster said they worked there, not that they just got fired from there. Read the post.
how would you even know? you can only judge them by what they mess up and get caught doing.
> reasonable and widespread

One of those can be factual and the other is clearly subjective.