skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that Craigslist must have made some monumental misjudgment when they didn't expand internationally. I for one, for example, only know of them from hearsay as some kind of obscure US-only classified ads site.
I do too! I can't use Medium, it gets so annoying.
There is no such thing as an 'exponential curve' in our finite world. And the derivative of the sigmoid is a bell curveish thing.
This worries me. South Korea's mass testing alone was not enough to contain the coronavirus outbreak; they relied on social distancing measures too: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southk...
People like to make this argument as a blind for, "I am tired of building buildings with expensive seismic retrofitting and anti-fire measures, or to even consider they have modern electrical infrastructure." I don't like those arguments very much, as they place an unfair burden on buyers and often represent burdens on already wealthy people, who tent to project far more burdens than they shoulder.

But if we're talking about "the homeowners around us are using the government to enforce scarcity because they love being ghoulish landlords rather than productive members of society" they yeah, I'm on board with you.

Both of these fit through the keyhole of "building regulation" so I'm trying to draw lines to show you where I stand.
How about the future value of dollar spent today? What the best and brightest do is advance science, including the science which later alleviates the issues plaguing the the bottom 1%. This is the whole idea of universal education in the first place. It pays for itself in the long run. The top 1% pay super-extra dividends to everyone.
Yes. Unfortunately, it's a double-edged sword. The same technology is needed for the FOSS community to create secure hardware.
My initial thought is "yes, if you invest in the vintage immediately following a recession, let's see what the authors say". Then I am greeted with this fun paywall:

> You may purchase this paper on-line in .pdf format from SSRN.com ($5) for electronic delivery.

> You are eligible for a free download if you are a subscriber, a corporate associate of the NBER, a journalist, an employee of the U.S. federal government with a ".GOV" domain name, or a resident of nearly any developing country or transition economy.

A subscription in the US, where my tax dollars fund this work, is $2675/year for the whole body of work, or $705/year for just this subject.[1] WTF!?

So I googled the title and it's available for free, legally on SSRN[2]. Maybe change the post url to that?

[1] https://www.nber.org/wpsubscribe.html

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3241102
> than just testing positive which could be attributed to testing errors

We know that these RT-PCR tests have about a 30% error rate and the errors are almost entirely false negatives, especially early and late in the infection. There's informed speculation that one of the reasons we're still unsure if kids get it less or just test out less because their immune systems fight it off so well that the load is more frequently under the 'positive' threshhold.
The API of a COM object is described in a Type Library file (.tlb suffix).

This is is not necessarily available for every COM object.

COM objects intended for use with C++ work without it, because the COM interface is based on calling C++ virtual functions, for which you just need a declaration from a header file.

To discover the API of a COM object without the .idl file or type library, you have to do binary reverse engineering: disassemble the functions linked into the object's vtable.
SPORE – Bicycle Day Virtual Event
Google Pay PayPal Vulnerability Fixed
I really like this point, and 100% agree having had a wee one recently. I've found I'm more discerning about opportunities, not jumping headlong into any new thing.

If anything having a kid has helped me focus, by cutting out a lot of extraneous noise in other parts of life.
Well, considering all s-curves are exponentials at the beginning, it naturally flows that you can only make an accurate model after the inflexion point.

Since we're on HN, I'll plug a question I've had for a long time:

Do IPOs/liquidity events/exits/etc all happen when the right price has been determined; ie when we can see what size the company will be, and it is no longer useful to capitalize it further? When all growth paths have been explored. Is that time the inflexion point?

What does the conversation look like with the VCs when they see the inflexion point?
It's a novel way to store hydrogen instead of a traditional high pressure tank.

This is a teeny tiny problem for a hydrogen cars. It doesn't really address the problem that fuel cells are ridiculously expensive, or that there's no filling network, or that there's no good way to fill them at home, or that fuel cells are themselves only 50% efficient typically.
You’re already headed in the right direction by being aware of it. I don’t have any specific advice (my own natural know-it-all-ness started to fade when I was 30 or so) but being specifically aware of it is definitely a benefit; it at least allows me to pause and notice it and adjust.
> than just testing positive which could be attributed to testing errors

It's a direct quote from an attributed expert in the Los Angeles Times.
My experience with fellow post-exit folks is that at around the 3 year mark everyone wants to offload you. People are citing 5 and 10 year ventures as "long-term" which really shows how incredibly eroded the concept of "long term" investments in the US are.

Revitalizing the US electrical and transit infrastructure is probably a century long project, with individual states taking anywhere from 40-75 year. But let's talk more about how Magic Leap secured a lot of debt financing, I guess?

My advice for you is that it makes absolutely 0 sense to bite the hand that feeds you right now.
You got yourself confused because of the US centric view. The real problem here is US literally took the entire market for global scale online services. Companies like Google don't even pay much corporate tax in countries like Australia. Why should other countries further damage their economies to anger their No.1 trading partner China to defend such US monopoly?
My observations hint at two primary reasons:

older women who would be uncomfortable telling men that they are "doing it wrong"

Differing standards for moms and dads. I get kudos for doing anything with my kids. She gets told she is parenting wrong
OP hasn’t even published their email address?
While this does open up the code (sans descriptive text) to external attacks, I rather feel that once you have a logic analyzer or compromised microcontroller on the logic bus of your secure device you've got the attacker on the wrong side of the airtight hatchway.

I'm personally much more interested in what it means for 'attackers' who wish to use it to open up their own hardware. Perhaps that might not align with the goals of Xilinx or the OEM, but it's great for their customers!
Are U.S. companies too short-term oriented? (2017)
YC Summer 2020 interview acceptance – a fantasy
The YC Summer 2020 batch results will be out tomorrow. Very likely, we at Toonclip.com will get the boot. A little fantasy in the meantime. Below is Siebel of YC inviting us for an interview :-)

https://toonclip.com/player?key1=802d8d51ec

If you have also applied, you can create your own fantasy by forking the above.
I don’t know much about git hooks, but I think that it would be fairly simple to wrote a small one that parses the changes for the todo comment and then calls to Gitlab’s API. Double points for closing the ticket if the todo comment is removed.
Yes, but once the outbreak is at a low enough level, and you have sufficient test bandwidth, you can manage it via testing and tracing. Everyone who gets sick, with anything, gets tested (in some variants of the plan every everywhere gets tested every N days). If you find a positive, quarantine them and test everyone they came in contact with. Repeat.

This reduces the rate of spread by catching community transmission before the end of its cycle. And it's worked with other outbreaks in the past. But it depends on having a very large available pool of rapid testing, so you can't do it when you have thousands of cases per day. But a few dozen... probably. It definitely seems to be working in Korea.

But again, it only works once the outbreak is well contained. Stay home.
Piecewise. A exponential forecast may be a better model for example for policy making on some time period than a linear one would be.
>3.5 Wrap-Up: What Went Wrong?

>These two attacks show again that nowadays, cryptographic primitives hold their security assumptions, but their embedding in a real-world protocol is often a pitfall. Two issues lead to the success of our attacks: First, the decrypted data are interpreted by the configuration logic before the HMAC validates them. Generally, a malicious bitstream crafted by the attacker is checked at the end of the bitstream, which would prevent an altered bitstream content from running on the fabric. Nevertheless, the attack runs only inside the configuration logic, where the command execution is not secured by the HMAC. Second, the HMAC key K_HMAC is stored inside the encrypted bitstream. Hence, an attacker who can circumvent the encryption mechanism can read K_HMAC and thus calculate the HMAC tag for a modified bitstream. Further, they can change K_HMAC, as the security of the key depends solely on the confidentiality of the bitstream. The HMAC key is not secured by other means. Therefore, an attacker who can circumvent the encryption mechanism can also bypass the HMAC validation
Hm, I didn't know about that. Thanks. Though, I use bash mostly.
True. Expectations of sharing personal items is one of the biggest.
But the snark has a point: Paul Graham is qualified to give advice about startups, but what qualifies him to dispense parenting advice? Like all other parents, it sounds like he's making it up as he goes along.
Doing it client side might make it hard to do things like accepting MRs from forks.
Let’s be honest. Most of the people on this site work from home (no financial worry) and are unmarried or probably no kids. They wouldn’t have any idea about the real cost of this quarantine to the 22 million unemployed Americans (and growing) who’s families were hurting even before this forced, indefinite unemployment.
3 new cases of coronavirus in Korea today

1 person has died this year from coronavirus in Seoul

Looks to be near the end of the outbreak for Korea
I'm pretty sure with EMV that the processors don't care about signatures anymore, at which point it's the store choosing.

A little bit of reading I did suggests that the till software is often the stopper.
> like it's just about to fall over

What's even more, if you do manage to tip 8 over on its side (probably not so easy, I expect it's like a bop bag)... it becomes infinite.
"Saving State $40 Million Per Day"

As a back of the envelope for that "$40 Million Per Day" we used to spend, we would have gotten something of greater value. Probably far far greater value.

So we are also losing over "$40 Million Per Day" through lost traffic.

There is no silver lining, it's just giving us a minimum of the value of traffic.
In Los Angeles, there may be fewer car accidents but I’m afraid the ones that do occur will be more fatal. The lack of traffic is allowing people to drive at unsafe speeds. While there is dramatically less traffic, there are still a lot of cars on the freeway. The few times I’ve driven on the freeway, there have been many high speed impatient drivers weaving unsafely between the many remaining cars.
A right to digital self-defense will prevent abuse of Covid-19 surveillance apps
South Korea demonstrated from the beginning on how to deal with this (despite their slow start - which still is super quick compared to most western countries).

But its completely wrong to think they passed it. They also have massive impediments at the moment. Back to normal? Far from it.
I’m a founder, this piece stirs my heart.

However, build what exactly? I don’t disagree with building hospitals and important public infrastructure. However:

1) More exponential growth isn’t by definition for the better
2) We need to ask ourselves, brutally and honestly, what actually needs building, and what doesn’t?

Aside from the obvious tangible tech and infrastructure we can build, there are also many tacit things we should be building and investing in, but that are difficult to measure: International cooperation, resilience, creativity.

There’s no point in building more infrastructure (Andreessen) or trying to populate other planets (Musk), if we continue having paralyzing social inequality and international conflict, which destroy what we build. ️
I think most people would say, although you might observe such sizes when cutting wood, temperature and humidity will swamp out those precisions within a day or two.
R0 is currently less than one in many states: https://rt.live/

So right now they actually are locking down sufficiently to shrink the number of cases.
The RFC admits that and then says:

>2.4.2 Transcending Environmental Considerations

>However, we might get lucky. So, Y10K dates are able to represent any possible time without any limits to their range either in the past or future.
For an astute fictional account of a pestilence, read “The Betrothed”
Which bus venture was it?

The devil is in the detail with these things, and I think the point is that, while regulatory capture is a huge problem, there are often legitimate and/or competing interests calling for these regulations to be put in place. Builders don't necessarily like every code they have to adhere to, but that keeps houses from collapsing.
Does anyone else feel this is extreme amount of pushing/hand-holding to kids to have them learn programming?

My own experience is this: (1) kids meticulously observe what their parents do in their "natural" state and get interested in that, however, (2) kids develop sort of "not for me" or even outright repulsion for things parents what them to excel at.

So the best way for kids to get interested in X is just to do that yourself all the time and let them approach you with questions while never let them feel that you are way too good at that. One technique is to do Conway style "blunders" while teaching something to kids. This apparently makes them feel that there is room for them to come in, contribute and think independently.
The US will hit 40,000 deaths today.
I partially did. I think the article puts its finger on the main "pulse" of the general problem most people feel with American, perhaps more broadly Western, society- but doesn't offer anything more substantive then a vague "call to action"

if I had to make succinct guess to this "general problem" - I'd wager simply that most people feel like our current institutions are failing to meet most of their needs, and there doesn't appear to be any sense that these problems will be readily addressed anytime soon
It's a logistic function, which is different from the “bell curve”. They look pretty much the same, but their mathematical properties are really different so they should not be confused.
I think they are both from the same author.
As someone who really like reading your blog articles, I'm super happy to see this :) I'll probably purchase it, as a part of my strategy to make my friends and colleagues start scala :)
I'm looking forward to a "advanced scala programming" follow up ;)
way more complicated how?
In practice this results in too much time spent “cleaning up” and not enough time delivering business value. Hence why tech debt tickets are valuable, they allow the business to decide when to spend time on them.
> With COVID by the time you have a negative test result back it’s no longer even relevant.

A family friend died on Friday. His heart went out on him. Big guy on his 60's. He got tested for COVID-19 before he died at the hospital. He and his now widow had some sinus congestion. She couldn't enter to he hospital to be with him when he died. A few days later, his widow got the negative result for her husband. She is alone, scared, dealing with this loss. can't see her kids or grandkids. She can sleep a little better at night knowing that death is not knocking at her doorstep.

Relevant? From a human perspective it is most definitely relevant. Maybe not as much from a epidemiology or number cruncher's perspective but like all expert opinions they are open to interpretation and second opinions.
Statistics are easy to cherry pick for whatever agenda is being pushed behind the scenes.

Just like masks were not relevent at first. They were scarce. Suddenly they are relevant for the public to use. I believe this testing scarcity and related lack of any cohesive national mobilization is the biggest failure of our US government. From a public health perspective this dismissal of negative testing is just a way to manage the demand side for testing.

Public health and epidemiology experts have very different motivations than individuals dealing with loss and fear during this crazy time.
Their algorithm is based on revealed preferences (what you actually watch multiple times), not stated preferences. If you like or follow someone, their stuff goes into your Follow page, but the main page is algorithmic and likes have very little impact (to discourage click farms).

Tiktok's are not limited to 6 seconds. The limit is around 1.5 minutes I think.

Finally - it's a very creative app. It encourages remixing of both audio and video, so you could sometimes be watching something with an audio that is 2-3 meme levels deep. You can edit video (not just a simple editor) in-app as well.

Edit: I should also mention that you could use the app and consume content on the app without creating an account or logging in. If you do want to create an account, you could use "Sign in with Apple" and select Apple's anonymous email relay feature, and also select to not give TikTok your real name.
Very funny.

If I read the manual for everything I've ever used, I'm not sure I'd have time to actually accomplish anything in the end.

Sure, let me spend a day reading through the lists of keyboard/mouse shortcuts for every piece of software I use just to see if there's anything useful in there? No thanks...

Good UX would pop up a balloon informing me of the feature after the first time I held down my left-arrow key for more than, say, keypresses.
>Now, researchers believe they have developed an alternative method that would allow the storage of high volumes of hydrogen under much lower pressure.

They'll still be 100 reasons to favor battery EVs to renewable hydrogen fuel cells. Better storage does not increase its inferior well-to-wheel efficiency.
It's always wise to keep your payment integration thin, so it's easily swapped out for another processor. I use Stripe, but I don't let them do anything more than store cards and charge payments - I run subscriptions on a cronjob instead. The risk of crap like this is a liability for your business.

There are other payment processors, give them a shot.
Most state waited for at least one city hospitals, if not a region's hospitals, to be overwhelmed before acting. Despite hard medical evidence of high contagiousness.

Lockdowns were not irrational, just the fruit on not having enough masks ans test ready on time for selective quarantine.
Countries treat prisoners as less than human everywhere in the world. It's awful, but it's real, and substandard health care from machine learning applications is precisely the kind of thing states everywhere would likely use. Most people are not so easily shocked by this.
> Imagine for a second, that you declare a region, say 1 square mile, somewhere as almost completely free of all regulations.

Can you murder your competitors in this 1 square mile? Can you steal their inventory? Can you hijack their equipment? Can you threaten their employees? Can you force your employees to work overtime till they drop? Can you dump all your industrial waste wherever you want in that 1 square mile? What about animal/human testing?

That was not much more than one second of thinking but that’s about what this idea deserves.
Yes, though the point being that most will not filter out the air that does pass thru them enough to remove any virus level material in the airstream. Hence if they went in in/out or just got blown about by the aircon, it would make no difference to the virus due to its size.
I think the world needs, "Scala, the Good Parts". Hope this book is it.
You'd be surprised how well a common philosophy in the community keeps everything nice and tidy. If you look at old clojure libraries like Incanter which were still heavily influenced by CL they're nothing like recently developed ones.

The preferred way of doing things is like this:
Data > Functions > Interop > Macros.

Clojure discourages mutability and side effects. CL embraces them, it doesn't even have immutable datatypes, let alone sane deep equality.

I don't see how C++ is relevant since even Rust has unsafe.
It's not cool when someone gets preached like a prophet. VC stuff, OK, but kids? Come on.
> you’re asking for a completely different concept.

Yes! Exactly! Robot-shaped cars that weigh multiple tons at travel at 45mph are a bad idea! It's too soon.

> Asking for the infrastructure to change to adopt AV’s is a pipe dream. Never going to happen.

Sure it will. There will be "smart dust" in the asphalt, etc.

> This meanwhile is already happening

Fantastic!

> We’ve been testing on toy cars for 15 years.

How about 30?

If my robots go out into the world and kill people I'm going to feel bad for making killer robots even if they look like cars, have people inside them, and everybody else is killing people with their cars.

Is that so goddamned crazy?

Don't make killer robots.

"Am I going crazy? Or is it the world around me?"

> We’re not ready to remove the safety driver but we are ready for the road.

That sounds wrong on the face of it to me, but let's grant it for the sake of argument.

Build yourself a city, populate it with people who have signed waivers, and use that as your test lab.

Self-driving Lark? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobility_scooter
Alan Kay on General Magic
This seems to be a more generally useful link?

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/

It has links to other parts of the guide in the sidebar.
> If you don't trust Google or Apple to do what they say they do then you need to stop using their OS and hardware.

How realistic is to expect populace to exclude their choice of smartphones that are the dominant ones in market?
I wonder if the VT-d disablement is required for the rootkit to work. Ideally you'd have VT-d in macOS for virtual machines, but then again you also don't have Thunderbolt so maybe it's simply not complete enough to enable 'everything'. (and if you really need everything you should probably just buy a Mac anyway)
Emus4u
With broad, random tests for antibodies, Germany seeks path out of lockdown
It it not racist of course, just dumb.
The majority of homeless folks have phones. Some estimates peg smartphone ownership among the homeless at 80%..

https://www.cnet.com/news/homeless-not-phoneless-askizzy-app...
Choosing the right tool: JavaScript vs. sed
https://herebeseaswines.net/essays/2020-04-19-choosing-the-right-tool-js-vs-sed
I am a junior Web developer and have just started to learn sed. Why don't more web developers use sed? I am sure there are quite a few who know this gnu-tool, but I can't recollect if I've seen sed being mentioned in the JS community. Yesterday I started to make a simple hobby project, but I quickly realized how stupid I was to use JS instead of sed and decided to compare a JS and sed solution (limited scope though).
Could not disagree more.

The entire point of enumerating rights in the constitution and it's amendments is so that they are _not_ subject to changing circumstances.
Yes, it is a totaly different type of confussion. More cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning
Sorry for your loss. You're right about age being bad enough on its own!