skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably also helps if you're already at the top and have a product people generally like and prefer to the competition. Something like this could possibly kill a company before they get off the ground. But once they're established and everywhere, it takes a whole lot for users to care enough to stop using something they otherwise don't have strong issues with.

It also helps if there's a tangible issue that end users actually see or feel. Zoombombing is an example, but it's easily prevented (unless there's an internal collaborator on the call intentionally leaking the meeting ID and password), and they can do various things to address that.

Other examples would be some sort of worm infecting computers through the Zoom client, or direct evidence that any stranger could've been or was spying on their calls undetected (rather than the more abstract China routing and E2E issues).
Many of the decisions to put in these aspects were not well thought through - they were 'neat ideas' that were just implemented.

It's amazing how many bad UI patterns get replicated through the years by teams with little experience or who don't use their own frameworks.

Also - it's a hard problem.
That's for next year. But you are right, I think the only aspect OP is missing is standardized test scores. Multiple colleges will go optional next year, so OP should retry again.
I have a relative who is blind. I have told her I think there are 2 strong opportunities in technology that I can think of that might suit her. Granted she is not tech savvy so may not apply for you.

1) educating other blind people in how to best utilize technology. She was always "legally blind", but has been 100% blind since the 90's so picking up technology has not been easy for her.

2) Accessibility QA. I know this probably could feel like a "step back" from being a developer, but I think the world (especially large companies who are becoming more and more dependent on their web presence) NEED more people who can help their teams understand the world from the perspective of a blind person. There are people in these positions obviously, but I was surprised to learn that most of them can see, so I don't put much faith in their ability to do justice to their jobs.

Finally, this sort of goes with #2 above, but I think there's opportunity and a market (think government subsidies) for people who want to build accessibility technology to make it easier for blind people to use technology. I think this probably should start from standardization. There are a lot of standards out there, but I think not enough.

PS. I think one of the best first steps will be to start to learn Braille. It likely will be easier to get started while you can still see.
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While the current administration is turning a blind eye and I wish they wouldn't, the Russian connection here was only discovered after many layers of digging, and is still just conjecture.

After a few more iterations, they will learn how to close the gaps and be more and more untraceable. I don't know how it is possible to combat that.
Ask HN: What is a good tech stack for a startup in 2020?
"It depends.", you are correct. But, what is a >probable< good overall stack that you would use and why?

Talking about: SaaS, Web.
The video game benchmarks really show that it's still not powerful enough to play less than 5 years old video games in good conditions. Old games are fine, as always.
You would need a suitable formation in terms of geological properties and then you'd need to drill and complete an injector and a producer well. Best case, you would probably lose half the stuff you're trying to store due to multiphase flow in reservoirs being a total drag. Worst case, the oil you're storing isn't compatible solubility-wise with the residual oil left in the reservoir, and you cause massive asphaltene precipitation and lose your entire storage well.
What makes it hard to believe, exactly?

One way to explain the hospital surge in NYC is that a small percentage of people have had a highly fatal disease. Another plausible explanation is that a much larger number of people have had a less-fatal disease.

To date, we've had very poor estimates for fatality rates and prevalence. It wouldn't be shocking at all to find out that we're off by a factor of 10-, 20-, or even 50-fold.
That's hard to measure. If Go had sum types and generics I'd be more willing to give it a serious try , but in its current state I don't see myself writing complex algorithmic code in it. Maybe other people feel the same, especially among the crowd already used to static typing.
>Lawmakers don't have any actual power

This is not true at all. Congress controls the purse. CBP can ignore all they want, but they would probably be more pliable if they were not getting paid.

Also "...all civil officers of the United States" can be removed directly by the Senate. In practice this is limited to heads of agencies at the lowest but that is just a practice, anyone executing federal power is applicable.
There’s a decreasing number of positive test cases each day in NYC too though. At highest point was 50% and now under 30% or so. I’m not sure if those tested get the antibody test as well but it implies a larger percentage of symptomatic people are testing negative in nyc.
Being for gun rights != supporting the NRA. Plenty of people (even many Democrats) support gun rights and the 2nd amendment.
The technical term for this is contango [1]. Last time this happened to crude oil was after the GFC, as mentioned in the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contango#Description
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This is a fascinating example of real world propaganda that, given the impact of the pandemic, has a high probability of being in history textbooks. Given that, I’m curious, how do does the HN population think we should respond?

Imagine looking back on this in hindsight. What type of picture would we want to paint for future generations to learn from?
Story without full screen ads on mobile: https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/facebook-bans-anti-quarantine-...
The goal of business is to undermine competitors. It's hard to imagine a good person with such mindset.
Well, if you're breaking the law and being photographed, maybe a face mask is a good idea. And maybe, given what they're protesting, the face mask has a certain ironic humor to it.

Or maybe they're hypocrites, or just not thinking very well.
How exactly? Serology has nothing to do with figuring out which version of the virus you have, ignoring the fact that there are no distinct "strains" to begin with.
My understanding is you still take delivery. It might be in the form of a fleet of tankers or barges arriving at your office. But, you will take delivery, whether you like it or not. Any responsible trading firm that deals in futures should have mechanisms in place to deal with physical delivery.
It needs to be emphasized here:

This virus is much more transmissible than the viruses we usually deal with in humans.

If a virus has a low fatality rate, but is extremely contagious and prevalent, hospitals will get overwhelmed. A small percentage of a big enough number is itself a big number.

The subway and high-utilization of buses are likely factors in NYC vs. LA. LA is much more representative of the typical US city.

Frankly, I'm not sure why so many on HN are surprised by this. The scientific data on asymptomatic carriers coming out of Italy, Germany, South Korea, and Iceland has been very clear on a majority asymptomatic frame for this virus. I think that maybe authorities and responsible people are concerned that this information could lead to people flouting lockdowns more.
According to the New York data, the fatality rate is about 0.5% for tested persons without underlying conditions. Considering the gross selection bias it likely means actual death rates in the healthy population close to that of the flu. It is this data that shows the lockdowns were a complete illegal overreaction. Locking down nursing homes would have fixed most of it.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...
Python 3 syntax is mostly a superset of the 2 language, except for losing "print." The portability issues are around changed semantics of the main string type, changes to the C module API, and renaming of standard library components — rather than syntax. That's been my experience, anyway.
863 people were in this study. A market data firm selected those people.

LA proper has about 16,000,000 people.

This study should be taken with a grain of salt either way for now.
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What does “reciprocal seeding of infection“ mean?
I think I might be offside with this as per site rules, but does this link really need to be Breitbart? They're an incredibly deceitful organization that exist almost entirely to whip up people's bigotry and sexism. Surely another link can be found.
The video of him fooling someone into thinking Elon Musk had joined their Zoom call was quite funny. Unfortunately the voice was all wrong (sounded Russian) but the person was still fooled and surprised.
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Is it really possible for a single developer to maintain feature parity with Chrome and Firefox (or even webkit)? If you're a single developer maintaining your own browser, you must choose between maintaining your own incomplete engine that lacks many html5 features the users want, or adopt blink/webkit/gecko and instantly gain feature parity with mainstream browsers.
> Matrix Multiplication Operator

Does this use SIMD instructions?
Even the Diamond Princess showed a 50+% asymptomatic rate and that group skewed way, way older than average -- you know, people who take cruises.
A good businessperson only makes a sale if the person on the other end will come back for more.
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Assuming this is all true, how do you even tackle something like this while preserving the concept of freedom? If the government goes after groups of people for "meddling in elections" - well, that's very vague, isn't it?

Maybe most people don't have a problem with the FBI looking into domain registrations, cross-checking credit card payments, obtaining warrants for Google Analytics / Namecheap / etc...but investigating random web developers for alleged "ties to Russia" sounds eerily similar to McCarthyism.
Not necessarily. The US government has supposedly been seizing masks off stockpilers who've been trying to price gouge, paying them the normal, non-inflated price, and then feeding them to hospitals through the normal supply chain (because they're not interested in setting up their own parallel distribution infrastructure).
I mean, to quote the article itself:

"A Twitter account tied to Murphy’s email address promoted nothing but spammy paid surveys for years. And a Skype lookup on his phone number curiously returns a Russian profile under the name валентина сынах (translated as “Valentine Sons”)."

Not saying it's a smoking gun, but it's hardly as baseless as you're claiming.
Your comment could literally apply to any content, created by anyone.

The person in question has a relatively large YouTube following, his small business provides services for computing, phone and laptop devices including general recovery and board repair.

He's also acted as an independent advocate for right to repair legislation at his own expense.

He was specifically affected by the PPP process and the fact that the larger banks prioritized their larger leveraged customers rather than the small businesses the legislation was really meant to help.
I have to agree with you on "birds without flight". Google does manage to infer "flightless" from "without flight".
From 2018.
> less than 40% of the people tested give a positive.

FWIW, Queens and Brooklyn (Kings county) are at 50.7% and 48.3% positive tests respectively.

https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...
Yeah, trying to do the basic math on the implications of these figures...[Not claiming they're true, that's a different question]

The article says 221,000 infected at a 2.8% rate, in "early April". So they're assuming a 7,892,857 population. Currently, we have 601 Deaths total in LA[1], which we can assume are a result of early april event on April 20. So a 0.002% "fatality rate" relative to total exposures, "Woohoo" (NOTE, this is an optimistic figure implied by this study, the standard 2% [edited] previously claim but still not equivalent to the flu, which has 0.2% [edited] relative people who get sick). Now, with weekly doubling: 221,0008 = 1,768,000 infection now = 22.4% - > 4808 deaths. However, past 10%, we can ask whether we start reaching saturation/diminishing returns. But that is a key question.

-- Let's look at NYC. There we have 14,500 Death. Using the article's implied figure, 14,500/ 0.002 = 7,250,000 infected on April 1, out of 8,398,748. So this implies an infection rate of 7,250,000/8,398,748 = 86.32239%, which, in fact, seems very implausible and which implies; a higher death rate among "vulnerable people". Maybe we're about to hit full saturation with NYC and see an immediate decline.

Now, the other bad* scenario is the possibility that a lot of sickness and death NOW is being driven by reinfection, that exposure isn't giving much immunity at all and instead of the unexposed dying, what we're seeing is the re-exposed dying and with this dynamic, the death rate settle into a steady and unacceptably high level. Note that Italy, which has seen a high death rate, hasn't a strong drop-off at all, just gradual plateauing. IE, guess what, one possibility is "herd immunity" just doesn't exist for this virus.

Anyway, time will tell, literally a week will tell if NYC has enough fatalities to make this 0.002 exposure-to-death rate numerically impossible.

[1] covid-19.live

Edit: corrected conversion ratio to percentages.
Only a few hospitals in the very worst hotspots have hit the breaking point. I don't mean to say that we could have or should have done nothing, but the idea that there's been some widespread breakdown in medical care is just not accurate.
That's just your opinion.
The domestic supply of disinformation has always outpaced the foreign supply. That doesn't mean they both don't exist and can and do have an affect.
And because social media platforms incentivize controversial opinions that get lots of engagement, even if most of it is disagreement. Twitter's particularly bad for this because of it's default-public-broadcast nature, but you'll see this in public Facebook posts as well. (eg, I have a friend who is a state-level politician, and I made the mistake of reading the comments in one of his posts, and they're all sub-human trolls. You know; you look at the profile and there's no content. Just 'evocative images' like stylized pictures of the constitution and the US flag, but no original content, no grandkids pictures, etc).
Just to clarify for anyone who at first misunderstood the comment as I did: the integrated graphics are not so powerful, not the CPU itself. So you'll still want a dGPU in your laptop if you plan to game.
Illegal, no, but a massive overreaction. This is why the Swedish model (of telling people to take reasonable steps like not getting too close, and staying home when sick, and away from old people) is proving so successful. They've even started to see a flattening of the curve alongside the rest of the world without lockdowns. [1, 2]

[1] https://fee.org/articles/sweden-s-top-epidemiologist-covid-1...

[2] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?location=Canada&location=Sw...
Shrug. The last commit on the Python.org 2.7 branch was 3 months ago, per the release notes from the other thread today. It wasn't especially active before that. By their own plan, Python.org 2.7's "last commit age" will continue increasing forever.

This isn't a great metric for evaluating Python 2 forks, that's all.
I feel Mary Celeste would have been a better name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste
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There is a permanent Windows Activation message (white text on transparent background) in the lower right part of the screen which my brain already blocked so it's not distracting at all. I only notice it after taking screenshots.
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New York, Italy and Wuhan are all the evidence you need. The virus is perfectly capable of overwhelming local health care systems, at which point shut downs are the only responsible option.
That link shows that the NRA may have had some contact with Russia pre-2016. Even that much is disputed. But even if true, it is a "long* way from controlled by Russia, either via money or pressure.
Just a press release, no pre-print. That being said it was being co-run by LADPH it seems. Many people involved were also involved with the Stanford study which has been very thoroughly criticized for its assumptions.
People should downvote confident assertions like this that lack supporting data, along with the dismissiveness that people are fearmongering.

There's a chance you're right, and people want this to be true, but when you're wrong you're very wrong and people die.
More of a truffle?
I mean NYC publishes the number of positive tests each day and it’s dropped from 60% to 30%. So majority of people proactively getting a test because they are symptomatic are showing up negative. Hard to believe a very high percentage of all people have had Covid, then. https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1252317247785271297...
If you were starting a project now, you wouldn't choose this. It was done to prove a point that Python 2 could have gotten (nearly) all the Python 3 features without a hard/breaking change.

Their point has been made, but it's not like the Python community is going to unmake those changes. If you're starting a project, you should definitely use the current version of a language that is supported by a zillion developers, rather than picking a (practically experimental) fork of the old version.
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/mark-zuckerber... has the full interview the story is based on
typeof in JavaScript is a unary operator, not a statement or a function. Which makes sense and squares with instanceof.

It would be bonkers for print to be a unary operator because it's just a side effect, and so I feel that your point in this situation is correct where it would not be in your other examples.
Given what they’re trying to protest, probably the very last one.
"shirt -stripes" seems to work on google.com at least, even though they and others like DDG have been getting really bad at ignoring "-foo" terms recently.
HN keeps mentioning dark SEO and companies gaming the ranking.

That might explain a lot but I don't think so.

Just look to how they are messing up simple searches because of basic lack of quality controls:

- Why doesn't doublequotes work anymore? Not because dark SEO vut because nobody cares.

- Same goes for the verbatim option.

- The last Android phone I liked was the Samsung SII, and last year I finally gave up and got the cheapest new iPhone I could get, an XR. My iPhone XR reliably does something my S3, S4, S7 Edge and at least one Samsung Note couldn't do: it just work as expected without unreasonable delays.

- Ads. They seem to be optimized to fleece advertisers for pay-per-views because a good number of the ads I've seen are ridiculous, especially given that I had reported those ads a number of times. I guess what certain customers that probably paid a lot for those impressions would say if they knew that I had specifically tried to opt out from those ads and weren't in the target group anyway.
Please, if you read this and decide it's a great idea, don't start bugging open source maintainers to officially support Tauthon in their projects. The most disruptive voices I've encountered in the last 6 months have been doing this.
That would be great if it were being distributed by FEMA or whoever and there weren't obscure private brokers involved.
It's a little overly succinct, but I've heard:

Parallelism is for many things working at the same time. Concurrency is for many things waiting at the same time.
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Why would anyone want a “stay locked down” PAC? It’s not a political position that really benefits anyone, it’s a humanitarian one.
Your general point is correct, although in this specific instance, replacing the loop body with

z **= 2
z +=c

gets rid of the temps. But yes there are cases where that isn't possible.
For companies, treating humans better is nothing but diminishing returns.. so you need to ask, "why would companies want to treat humans better?"

This problem is solved by government and societal rules that dictate what is appropriate.

We still live in a world with rampant child labor, corporate pollution, extreme tax avoidance, etc. These aren't entities that are known for their compassion, and are actively working to loosen their constraints on a daily basis.

For most the problem and necessary steps towards resolution are more or less obvious, with the primary problem being the corporations have a significant advantage in money and influence.
Provided the people were chosen truly randomly/make up a representative sample of the population, 863 is more than enough to get an accurate estimate of the infection rate. ~1000 is a big enough sample size for the entire US, let alone just Los Angeles
I'm not sure but I interpreted it as indicating that the appearance of the outbreak centering at the transit hubs was the result of 'seed' infections traveling from outlying sources 'in' toward the transit hub.
slight nitpick

It is not a grammatical error: such an error would mean that the sentence is not constructed according to the grammatical rules (of English), when clearly it is. What you probably meant is that it's a semantic error: the writer used a construction which doesn't not convey the intended meaning.

As an example, substitute the impossible fact of both wearing a mask and not wearing a mask by "both walking and not looking frontward" and you would obtain a sentence following the same construction, yet doesn't seem to carry an incorrect meaning.
This isn't ideal as a version upgrade may also change the parameter type from a third party library, and these tools cannot detect it:

old.py:

bs = raw_input()
# Call a 3ps which originally accepts a bytestream, but now accepts a string
some_3rd_party_function(bs)

After python-modernize:

from six.moves import input
bs = input()
# Your code using bs as a bytestring still works
# Runtime Error:
# This now accepts a string, and you need to modify your code to deal with random TypeError popping from everywhere
some_3rd_party_function(bs)
I believe the transition from Perl 5 to Perl 6 was worse. (A good overview of it: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-ren...)
50? Just initially, but in a week or two more of these developed symptoms, so more recent number was just 18%:

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a...

"Setting: Diamond Princess cruise ship, Yokohama, Japan (n=-634 tested positive).

Proportion: 18%"

Also:

"23 Residents of a Long-Term Care Nursing Facility King County, Washington

10 (43%) had symptoms, and 13 (57%) were asymptomatic."

But then:

"Seven days after testing, 10 of 13 asymptomatics developed symptoms"

That means that just 3 of 23 remained asymptomatic there too, i.e. 13%.

It is estimated that the people mostly spread this virus exactly in the phase where they still haven't developed symptoms, and the virus can be detected. But that doesn't mean they will remain without the symptoms.