skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that Bayes Theorem is taught in high school basically conditional probabilities and inferences. The issue is that applied Bayes Theorem is not taught. What do you do with information given with the data at hand?
In a strange way your statement "accept that their influence must be curbed ..." sounded an awful lot like how pro athletes don't really get a choice about being role models for young kids.

The difference in the two groups is the affluent can pretty effectively build hedges (literal and figurative) to keep prying eyes off what they're actually doing, while pro athletes by design are in the spotlight.

I wonder what would happen if the affluent were compelled somehow to acknowledge just how much wealth they have and what they do with it. Maybe this already happens via tax returns but most people don't know where to look?

In any case, as you've stated, if capitalism has taught us anything, "morality" or "should" have zero effect on actual societal behavior. There must be a forcing function where the benefits of a particular behavior are obvious and outweigh the negative.
There’s no evidence that that mechanism is effective any longer. The United States regulators seem to be entirely content with fake not-monopolies (eg ISPs) lying about how much competition they have, and let monopolies or duopolies fleece millions for essential services or products as long as they spend the requisite amount of kickback via lobbying.

Admittedly those are public utilities but the attitude seems to hold true in antitrust as well. Walmart is probably the best example there, or now Amazon as evidenced by TFA.

Sometimes I wonder why Walmart and Comcast are allowed to behave this way while T-Mobile is not. (EDIT: Google says “nevermind”: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/technology/sprint-t-mobil...)
Such a difficult thing to regulate. The instant you stop Amazon from selling on its own platform, they will open a subsidiary Amazon Retail, which is a favored customer on their platform. Whatever new regulation you can come up with, there will be armies of corporate lawyers ready to satisfy your requirements while still capturing that audience who is ready (and wants) to be captured by a platform-branded generic option.
The outcomes aren't just death and recovery. There's also the possibility of long-term heart, lung, and kidney damage. And the blood thinners used to prevent coronavirus blood clots can cause brain bleeding. Those happen in younger people, too.

And realistically there's no way to isolate those over 50. They generally live with, work with, or are cared for by younger people.
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It's slower but generally will not trap unless the processor is set to do so.
Or used to be? What I reported is a change in this behavior. It doesn't allow someone browse those few photos and videos before shows a popup asking for a login.
This doesn't explain problems on the state and local level, even in liberal cities:

"If paralysis ended once you walked out of the Capitol, we wouldn’t have a housing crisis. We’d have better social insurance infrastructure. We’d have better infrastructure, period. But it doesn’t.

To put the question simply: Why is Penn Station, the flagship rail station in New York City, such a dump? Why can’t the richest city in the richest nation in the world have, at the very least, a train station with seating, some nice restaurants, working elevators, and an absence of human waste falling through the ceiling?"
This is exciting. I've been following the idea for a month or so. Did you know that a group in Israel has tested the idea and found that it worked with the swab tests?

I have a link on my notes below. I'll add your site to the reference list at the top tonight.

https://github.com/EFavDB/pooling
I like horsengoggle.
On the count of 3 everyone holds out a number of fingers. A pre-decided caller counts that many around the circle of players.
I think this is a deliberate decision, although I'm not sure why.

You can download the videos if you're savvy enough to open the dev tools, delete the transparent div, and find the element with the video (which may not be a URL but one of those weird blob: ones). Simples.
"With reference counting, objects are recognized as obsolete due to their reference counts dropping to zero. Deallocation of these objects leads to transitive deallocations of other objects because of their reference counts transitively dropping to zero. Since this is an inherently sequential process, this leads to a similar significant pause as with a stop-the-world garbage collector."

There are three primary performance penalties for reference counting:

1. This, where dropping one link causes a deallocation chain.

2. A typical heap implementation will leave live objects scattered throughout memory, leading to cache issues.

3. Maintaining the reference counts may cause writes to memory, leading to other cache issues, plus atomicity.
There are _humans_ who are currently volunteering to get infected by the virus who would probably gladly participate in such tests.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01179-x
You have the wrong end of the stick. I am not here to forbid some words, but to liberate others.
Is life significantly better for retails selling through grocery or other retailers? What stops Safeway from one day selling a competing product under their store brand? And then they'd still be charging you for shelf placement.
So, just don't buy it? I dunno what to tell you -- it sounds like a lot of your identity and mental health is wrapped up in what Apple's product people want to develop.

Personally, I would never want to go back to the crappy headphone connectors. The connector always wore out on me. So while I understand why you might want a headphone port (and some people likely want an in-built parallel or ADB2 port), it's hyperbolic to call it "utter madness and gross incompetence".

In reality, it's just someone having different values than you. Why is that so difficult to accept for some people?
No, because apparently it's in the public interest that it be seen. See https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-we-cant-block-trump-be...
Apart from very useful, also very easy to setup

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
Ah, so you're referring to contractual issues (I posted an image and now Instagram's sub-licensing it to everyone a la https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/judge-smacks-dow...) rather than technical ones (user can't right-click save-as)?

Makes sense, thanks.
Huh? The author isn't writing about housing prices in SFBA.
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Who knows if Shopify employees are not doing it privately!?
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I Prefer Systemd Timers over Cron
Why do you think so? There has been no indication of this.
And you don't have to feel like a supplicant:

"Please, Mr. Computer, can I do some work now?"

"I say theee NAY! For I must now proceed to install 20 minutes of updates and I will also not shutdown. HAR! HAR!"
I don't know if the hospitalisation rate is so out of whack vs the flu. It should be higher. But does 20% of the population catches the flu in a matter of weeks?
This shouldn't be getting downvoted.

Many of the countries testing "more per capita" have a lower population than cities that many here on hacker news wouldn't even consider "real cities". Scaling testing in the Isle of Man above the US only takes a total of 1100 tests. Of course they are testing more per-capita than we are.
I've had this thought as well, and certainly there seems to be nothing preventing them from going down that road. Though at least with Shopify, it's theoretically easier to move your website to another platform/service or just roll your own.

I'd say that you're basically at their mercy with regards to the charging a percentage of revenue though. I mean, that's how all card processors work.

By default I trust Shopify more than Amazon, and in both instances your business is essentially succeeding 'at their pleasure' so to speak. So I thought on it for a minute.

I think the main difference comes down to individuals in the business and culture. I'd elaborate more but I'm not sure I want to write that much speculative crap on the internet this morning, and I should get something productive done with my day.

EDIT: Also just realized, that if you look at my spending habits, they 100% imply I trust Amazon more than Shopify.
There is no official support for PPAs on Debian. You can configure a Debian system to use them, but you'll be installing packages built on and for Ubuntu, so you'll be risking breakage unless the package maintainer has already taken the extra time to test for problems on Debian (which is rare).

This feature request shows some community interest in Debian support, but as far as I know, it hasn't gone anywhere yet.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/188564

I wish Debian offered its own equivalent of PPAs.
Anecdotally, I was never able to complete signup for Instagram, for similar reasons.
The same thing happened to me. And I was trying to sign up/log in to Instagram through Facebook. Why am I allowed to log in to and use my Facebook account but not allowed to sign up for Instagram using my Facebook account? If they thought I was a bot or fraudulent user then surely they'd have the same concern about my Facebook account? It doesn't make any sense.
If you're in a browser with adblockers and you're not signed in, there's not much they can do to monetize you effectively. I assume this is just a means of forcing people who use instagram in the browser to at least admit who they are so they can tie browsing to a known tracking id.

I'm honestly surprised instagram even lets people use the app in any meaningful way on desktop at all.
This is a misunderstanding of my goal. Even if we share everything we can there is always novel work someone needs done, and we can get paid to do it. But also if we share everything we can then most of life will become much cheaper. My end goal is to reduce the marginal cost of living to near zero and then arrange society to provide for everyone. In that case you wouldn’t need to pay the dentist or the mortgage. But IP restrictions add costs everywhere, and those costs must be eliminated. Perhaps we can’t eliminate a mortgage, but we can make your car cheaper to repair and we can make the goods you need much cheaper. Remember my goal is to make life better for all. And I know it is counter intuitive. That’s why I say we need economists to study it. But the goal isn’t sad, the goal is to thrive. The status quo, where a majority of people slave away their entire lives even in the wealthiest nation on earth... that is sad.
Honestly, I dont know the answer. Maybe its blockchain like tracking in the image file? Maybe its something else... There are many technologies available that can fingerprint a file, and others that can ID an image. A service that includes this type of feature would be good. And of course, anyone can screenshot an image, but they cannot resell a screenshot for commercial use.

But in the end the EULA of these apps are designed to shield the entities from liabilities while offering them many options for re-distribution of others work. That's the biggest problem.
I just save them to memory, by adding them as flashcards to ANKI. :)

It's the software that changed me from an idiot to an average person.
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Or it will allow small businesses space to compete in India instead of taking a shortcut of allowing unfettered access by large corps to increase commerce, but in a way that funnels profits away from India itself.

That portion of the article is basically the opinion part. I didn't find great coverage over the full details of the regulations themselves.
As an enteprise and private user of mac, I think there's one thing that you didn't touch.

Mac no longer serve as a 'development machine'. For instance, in my line of work I have a 64 core cloud dev box that I use, my mac are used to connect to that box and serve as a frontend. Granted, there are still workflows that happen on the mac (i.e. IDEs for language that can't really work without one), but more and more things happen directly in the dev box, somewhere far away from home.

And I think that will be the future - that's why I think the air is a great machine. Top out the user experience and design at the cost of performance, which even the enteprise customers are starting to need less.
germany has been doing this for a while now
An engineer at WWDC19 announced as such, yes. You may have to disable some security features to do so, however.
Windows may support hires, but doesn't have high quality icons, and most of the apps are a bit rough. Doubly so if you drag a window from one monitor to another.
Right click on the icon and look at the compatibility tab.
Even 100 years ago people knew that masks are critical for controlling pandemics (and not using them led to prison sentence). It seems like healthcare is going backwards by suggesting people against using it.
I am curious how you were able to confirm that "It was hacked and taken over by a Russian account"
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We live in an age where cars reboot while driving (Tesla). It's bizarre because we never experienced it before.

But the additional flexibility offered via software updates is the core power of software. Where we are able to replace hardware with software functionality, there's additional flexibility for improvement and iteration. That's a valuable add.
This is a similar level of trust that you give to banks not to seize your money, or to your bodyguard not to do you physical harm. Stealing data from a customer paying for hosting would be _very_ different, and much more scandalous, than identifying trends on a competitive marketplace and taking advantage of them by launching competing products.
I really like the fact that this technique is very fast and doesn't use any external technology (dice) or information.

However, I also have to plug this Android app our gaming group has been using for the last few years. It has one simple job, and does it very well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tendadigit...
Quora is not a democracy, this is indeed the nature of the social networks
That was ages ago, from my perspective
Seems like a case of a metric becoming a goal
And 51% is quite misleading. 24% of the US population lives in the 30 smallest states. That means that effectively 12%* of voters are responsible for a supermajority of senators. Or if you consider the filibuster, 41 senators can represent as little as 11% of the US population and are elected by 5.5%* of U.S. voters.

*Assuming a uniform population-voter proportion across states, which is undoubtedly not quite the case, though I don't have the exact numbers handy.
Do we know why this happens?
Had the same problems, ultimately swayed me away from signing up at all.
It's a possibility, and I shouldn't doubt Facebook's reach. Anyway, these friends and relatives I've asked for help they all have Instagram accounts and use the app regularly, always logged-in, and yet that popup showed up in their first attempt to see a picture logged off.
> It's worth noting that Geekbench is a pure microbenchmark.

This isn't just a note, it's an important clarification.

Microbenchmarking is used in-lieu of proper benchmarking because you can't do proper benchmarking.
I can't really argue with that.
I'm starting to wonder if there aren't 2 (or more) transmission methods for this virus with differing symptoms. Aerosol transmission with 'I got a cold' type symptoms, and droplet transmission with 'I got the worst cold I've ever had' type symptoms.
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Hey all,

In the last 20 minutes, I got probably around 200 emails congratulating me on registering to the website/newsletter.

This is my personal email

In addition, my credit card has been used to purchase 850$ worth of goods (called Amex, canceled the card).

I changed my email password obviously, canceled the card.

What else can I do? Did this ever happen to you? Have any advice?
Will you be able to support modules in the future?
I had a similar experience. Tried to create an account, but it gave me an error, so I tried again, and it said the account already exists. Clicked on forgot password because I didn't know what the password was, and it said the account was banned for violating the ToS. My theory is that it's because I tried to create an account without linking it to Facebook, so it "accidentally" threw an error, hoping I would create a facebook linked account. Twitter does something similar, where they say a phone number is optional, but they'll immediately lock your new account and say that a phone number is the only way to verify you aren't a bot.

I don't think it's an accident that these high-value tech companies regularly have "errors" when you try to create an account using a method that gives them less access to personal data than other signup methods.
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That it's a lower bound for IFR in NYC. With how widely that changes based on age alone, it could also vary based on location. Such that NYC could conceivably have the highest value for that in the US.
Hi HN,

Happy to share Inverse, a Chrome extension that empowers teams to have conversations and share knowledge on any webpage. Unlike email or chat applications like Slack or Teams, where information is siloed inside each app, Inverse lives alongside you in the browser so you can view and take part in discussions without leaving your current tab. These discussions are tied to specific URLs, so you can create a common thread that connects related pages, like a document, ticket, design, or dashboard.

Any feedback or comments are much appreciated!
I'm fairly sure uBlock Origin removes that banner (it does for me).
I hate it even more when they try telling me that "that is not a valid email address" - welcome to RFC5322, people...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322
Yes, but those are for single-use exemptions. Outside developers can still disable those entirely.
> Imagine if States could try different healthcare systems, or basic income, etc. Citizens would be able to vote with their feet and move to the best systems. This should be a bipartisan movement.

Health care and basic income are... interesting... examples of what you're talking about. Government should certainly take better care of people at the bottom of the income ladder who need health care or money but if people who need that stuff "vote with their feet" and move to a few states that experiment with providing that stuff, the result might not be very positive for those states.

There's already an economic race to the bottom dynamic among states in a lot of ways. Delegating things the federal government should provide for everyone to the states is going to make that a lot worse.
Its even more absurd when you consider the entire foundation and basis of their wealth and power is the society they'd rather run away from than protect.

There are no billionaires in mad max world.
It blows my mind that people still use Facebook products. I disconnected in like... idk 2014? 2015? And never looked back.
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This was banned by india in december. It got a lot of press about ‘uncertainty’ when that happened.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/05/amazon-how-india-ecommerce-l...
Sounds wonderfully abusive!

So, say, if I called you and you picked up, I would be able to prevent you from calling anyone else by not hanging up indefinitely?

Just great. Will the system not disconnect if you dial 999, too?
If there are gov. regulations to enforce it...
By this logic all jobs are overpaid. Why should programmers command a high salary when anyone can search stackoverflow?
That is the point of federalism. Unfortunately, we have forgotten the virtues of federalist governance in favor of increased centralization. This needs to be fixed.
I have a theory that we'll get a lot more of these walls going up, not for onboarding users, but to sidestep the legal precedent for allowing webscraping that the LinkedIn case set. I want to say that the LinkedIn ruling hinged on the data being publicly accessible to anyone. If content shifts behind an account signup if imagine that's no longer the case.
Can anyone with more knowledge in the area give more insight into this theory?
This may or may not be relevant:

>Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
Maybe if banks and other companies didn't have a 10-level nested phone tree, we would.
I had a friend who worked at a milk factory. They took their 2% organic milk and piped it into cartons with different labels: brand names as well as store brands, off to be sold at various price points.

To his company it didn't matter at the end of the day if people bought the brand name or the store brand, it was all the same stuff.
Localism is rarely the answer. The housing crisis is the primary example of this. The US has one endemic problem, which is local interests successfully lobbying federal government and putting the interests of the few ahead of the interests of society at large.

It's local homeowner associations, the tendency to litigate everything, the inability for large actors like government or business to purchase and develop land. The one person who symbolizes the reason why modern America can't build for me is Erin Brockovich. A person without any formal training in the legal field suing an entire project into the ground, although as it turns out there's actually no scientific evidence for any of the claims, yet she's celebrated as the little guy who stuck it to the man.

Devolving power to the states may only weaken the federal government whose resources and knowledge are needed to provide large scale infrastructure. The deficit here isn't in the billions, its in the trillions.

I'm not in principal opposed to experimenting with local democracy or whatever but it needs to happen on the back of a federal government with sufficient capacity and competence and power to act quickly.

For the "states as laboratories" thing to work you actually need a mechanism to ensure that the things that work actually get adopted. I don't see this happening in the US. There's way too many inmates running their own asylums.
They are using Facebook tactics and they are doomed to fail as Facebook did. Well ... I cherish for their innovations. Good bye Instagram.
I don't see anyone sharing it, but the video for this talk is here: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/facebook-google-bpf-linu...
All things equal, it would be better to get it out of the way sooner. However, what it doesn't account for is:

1) can we flatten the curve enough that some people never get it because we get a vaccine?

2) can we flatten it until we find an effective treatment protocol, saving lives?

3) if we did nothing would the hospitals be overwhelmed leading to additional loss of life and a higher death rate?

The first two are speculative, but the last one is pretty much certain looking at Italy and NYC. Without lockdown it could have been so much worse.
The UA string is real, just misleading. The other two resources aren’t public throwaways, the domain and source addresses belong to me, or a version of me (as much as IANA allocated resources can “belong”) and otherwise appear normal, but are only used for traffic to untrustworthy shitweasels.

It’s not impossible, but it is unlikely that it looks like a bot.

I figured it was actually the other way around, or at least a slightly different shade of things; not so much that it looked like a fake account, more than it looked like someone they couldn’t correlate to any other identity and therefore has no consumer surveillance value, ergo I can either fill in the blanks, or fuck off. Whatever the truth of it, I chose the latter