skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same in Seattle. They give me a delayed estimate but usually I've been getting my packages days earlier.
I have found dell particular unreliable with bad design decisions (coil engine, overheating and fan nose) plus multiple hardware failures.
A handful of the first SARS vaccines “worked” (in that they led to antibody production), but also had nasty side effects.
ah censorship in America, damn it feels good to lose liberty
You'd need to ban pretty much everything if that was the standard.
The amount of testing for influenza is nugatory. Most of the CDC data is collected by surveys, not tests.
It seems like part of Microsoft's goal here was to direct traffic to Edge and Bing at the expense of actual usability. See also: the "help system". Luckily there's a lot of third-party stuff to replace the search feature.
This is really old information
"so they do these cool things, which of necessity break a model some of you will have been familiar with for 50 years in some cases, but its amazing"

(in my case, 40 years.)

There is considerable merit in new things. But there are also costs. And, there is the proplist version of this story in OSX. So, I know this is a "thing"
> 5 digit feedback, 99.9% positive, all the "eBay verified/premium seller"

Yeap, it's all smoke and mirrors.

Also it's ridiculously easy to ask them to remove any negative feedback.
> They never do away with anything besides the most harmful, hate filled rhetoric.

who decides what speech is "hate filled"? this is free speech 101. what is the point of a publicly accessible social platform if people can't express themselves freely?
I stayed home the whole time. Was totally shot. And if they're right about COVID-19 spreading asymptomatically around 2 days before symptoms start, if my memory serves me right that would have coincided with the weekend for me.
I'm not sure how that matters. We have a lower bound for an optimistic demographic representation of the country. If NYC is younger and healthier than average and is at 0.2%, why would the lower bound for the country as a whole be lower?
This wasn't from an article or written source, it is from personal experience. I took the exact same listing, guest count, and dates, and got different prices in my browser vs Airbnb iOS app. I checked a 2nd listing, same story. This was about a year ago; I have not checked recently if it's still the case.
Not everyone is interested in what a random "shopper" decide that someone is going to get. It was tried in USSR where the shopper was whoever was a manager of a supermarket. Those got solidly trounced when the first "swiss markets" showed up.
http://web.archive.org/web/20150121193235/http://ifyoulikeit...
Invoke-WebRequest doesn't even work correctly on windows for a large amount of very vanilla web functionality.

Powershell is a nice idea, but Microsoft is kidding themselves if they think it's even close to the alternatives.
Ever considered that a lot of people who become doctors aren't just factoring in financial tradeoffs in career decision? Like, the desire to heal people who are sick?
It's bit frivolous question, but would it be easy to use stdin/stdout as transport for capnp?
Doesn't agility make even less sense in a file format? Browsers, for instance, don't need format agility to tell a PNG from a JPG. Meanwhile, PDF tried to provide exactly that capability, and it is a world-historic security disaster. The cryptographic equivalent is PGP, and... I rest my case.
Or programmers in general. I bet they did not think, that Java consuming more memory can be inconsequential as in: it would free it if pressed to.
What other players are going to emerge in the market?
You are looking at data from 2016, comment below has an updated source of data
So far as I can tell, your extremely confident, categorical interpretations of your own citations are basically mistaken, across the board. As I read [0] it is not, in fact, a blanket declaration about transmissibility. As I read [1] it is not in any way an inaccurate statement (see [3]). When read [2] it's clear that it is not a blanket declaration not to wear masks.

Meanwhile Youtube is going to take down videos claiming 5g caused the coronavirus, which are obviously wrong and obviously causing harm. And instead of looking at cases of obvious misinformation the policy targets, you would rather we go down a rabbit hole of idiosyncratic disputes about the the meaning of WHO statements, all while keeping up blatantly inaccurate misinformation.

Tying ourselves up in that frivolous debate would let misinformation flourish.

[3] https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavir...
Amazon has done a lot more than you describe. Their marketplace has been a major online venue for retailers not just manufacturers and distributors. Companies (typically small) that focused on small niches (e.g. triathlon equipment). Amazon has siphoned off the best-sellers and high margin items from these sellers, making their businesses somewhere between less profitable and completely unviable.

The model here is not "Safeway and Walmart and every big retailer [ using their sales data]". It's more akin to the flagship store in a mall actually owning the mall, and requiring that all customers check out via their registers. Every other vendor in the mall surrenders all their sales data to the flagship, which it uses to decide how to use its own internal spaces to sell with higher volume and/or profit.

The own-brand stuff that Amazon is doing is dubious, but sure, I agree that many large retailers do it. Most large retailers do not operate 3rd party retail marketplaces, however, where they can siphon sales data from largely unsuspecting 3rd party retailers.
On the one hand, there are decent technical tools to deal with this kind of thing; I'm directly familiar with Ansible's support for controlled rollouts, most container management layers happily support blue/green deploys, etc. On the other hand -

> Some people obviously couldn't be bothered to step their release along over the course of a couple of days, and we had to find some way to protect the production environment from them.

That's easy: HR. By all means start by being nice, but if people refuse to be careful then they can burn down someone else's prod.
I'm surprised at how upset people are about this. The amount of garbage on the internet now is immense. Invoking free speech, more and more of the internet has slowly become 4chan and I don't understand why more people aren't sick of it.
Yes this is happening all over this thread and is absolutely not a valid comparison. I'm also seeing people compare age-stratified Covid rates with overall flu fatality rates which is also invalid for similar reasons.
That's because all of the statistical reporting is whacked up across the globe. The only thing that can reasonably be measured now is CFR. Without extensive, reliable serological testing with high specificity, IFR can only be guessed at.
While I really would like UNIX shells to get the ability to pass structured data, one problem is that most shells out AFAIK there don't give the ability to pass structured data natively.

For these structured shells(like Powershell, elvish, Nushell) to succeed, they should...

* have a spec on how to pass structured data from a native executable (without function calls like 'from-json')

* implement some structured data functionality in all GNU coreutils at the very least

* and push the 'structured shell evangelists' to implement these schemes on other programs.
Yes this sounds like an antitrust situation to me (I know they are not technically a monopoly but different countries have different takes on these laws so it's worth considering why they exist).

A phone wholesaler with a retail business will be broken up since it is a problem for their other retail customers.

This is quite similar where Amazon is acting as both the provider and a retail customer competing against their other retail (marketplace business) customers, with a number of advantages.

Having them forced to provide services at arm's length, at published costs, with audited public books and no inside information would level the playing field. They probably already account for advertising "spend" internally anyway if they're smart, since as another poster alluded they miss out on PPC when someone clicks on an Amazon product so need to know what it cost them.
I've advocated for a "canon" of books for software engineering and computer science that could be taught in school. The canon would accomplish several goals: it'd inform students about the less technical but profoundly important ideas within CS (Brooks' No Silver Bullet, The 10x cost incurred when moving from stage to stage in waterfall, how to treat and manage failure, etc.), it'd teach students how to think about problems (How To Solve It by Polya, The Design Of Everyday Things), and it'd provide history/culture (Coders At Work, Soul of A New Machine). One should, of course, learn how to program in a CS major. But there's diminishing returns on teaching programming in a class; ultimately students must make the shift from learning in class to teaching themselves. Perhaps teaching more of the "soft" aspects of CS would give better returns, especially as the students move up the ranks and start managing people.
I'm more forgiving about taxes being left out, only because it's an equal percentage for each listing. If I have a map of 10 listings, and they're all N% less than they should be -- I can still somewhat easily compare them, as they are all equally wrong.

There might be edge cases to my thinking, as if you map view listings along a jurisdictional boundary, there may be taxes in one city and not another.
Somewhat related, I've been fond of flat-file or file-based configs as well. Such as Nagios/Icinga has configuration files, but now seem to suggest a database & UI/API.

File-based config made scripting the generation of the configs pretty easy and updating for changes by just overwriting the files and reloading the daemon.

IIRC, similarly TWiki also uses individual files for the pages and configs with RCS (Revision Control System) per-file to track changes.
>In the general population overall, Covid is undeniably more deadly than the flu, but only about 3-5x (and I think 3x personally right now).

I don't see how you get close to 3X more deadly than the flu. If 14% of New York state residents have been infected, 20M population, 15000 deaths + another 3000 that are infected now and will die (this disease takes a long time to kill people) you get an IFR of 0.64. If the IFR for flu is 0.05, that makes covid 12X more deadly than the flu.

Lots of people reporting an IFR of 0.5 based on the NY serological data; that is "right censoring" the deaths. It's got to be a bit higher than that. Either way you have covid with 10X the infection fatality rate of the flu. If worst flu years have IFR of 0.1 then covid is still 5X worse than the worse flu seasons. And as contagious as the worst flu seasons too.

So twice as contagious as the flu, 10X deadly. Much more likely to put you in the hospital, and thus overwhelm the hospital system, causing many ancillary deaths. This NYTimes article sums it up: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/well/live/coronavirus-doc...

At the peak in NY, hospitals stopped seeing heart attacks and strokes, because those people were too afraid to go to the hospital. Many of those people died at home, as supported by the overall death rates in NY.

The narrative put out there by those that look at the recent serology results and say "this proves that this disease was really just a bad flu all along; we can reopen the economy without fear" is just not supported by the data. An IFR of 0.64 and hospitalization rate of double that, like 1.2%, for a disease this contagious, shuts down the economy until we get a vaccine or effective treatment or a Korea-like testing/tracing regime in place.

And one more thing: the Great Depression was great for public health. https://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290

Yes suicides go up. But this is more than compensated for by other benefits. Overall, people may well be much healthier in a depressed economy. We will certainly see a decline in car accidents.
CFR has been steadily rising in Germany. Perhaps you want to cherry pick another country?
Who is declaring that hardware "official" and if they're calling it "supported" shouldn't they be supporting it?
Testing has not increased. Look at the chart here:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/test...

(Direct link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/images/lab-specime...)

We've been basically flat since mid-March.
A model estimating the date for the ease of the lockdown
Jakarta and Istanbul have a huge rise in deaths, similar to European countries, but they have suspiciously low recorded numbers of deaths officially due to Covid. http://archive.vn/vOoRp

It looks to me like you are cherry picking data, and wrapping it up to appear objective. Looking at “case” numbers from countries with poor heath systems is especially misleading. Australia could be an outlier. Jakarta and Istanbul are better proof that temperature is not that important.

My prior is that I have seen lots of people use the “temperature” argument because they want to believe it, which trumps your prior, wink.

Edit: Note that science is mostly about finding counter-examples to a hypothesis. Jakarta is a good counter-examples to the hypothesis “Covid is not much of a problem in hot temperatures”. Istanbul was not (it is actually tepid there in March). And this brings up some other counter-examples: https://thehill.com/homenews/coronavirus-report/494428-trump...
> The WHO has been spreading misinformation from the start, including claims that covid does not spread from human to human

Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.
I'm sorry, what is IFC?
Except failed vaccines can induce a response that makes you more susceptible to the disease and with worse symptoms. It’s called antibody-dependent enhancement:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12725690/

Just about the last people you’d want to risk that kind of vaccine trial on are healthcare workers, who are already in short supply.
Pennies in your pocket is still preferable over dollars in someone else's when your kids haven't eaten in a week, which is the reality in a lot of these situations.
No, I don't. I use Linux strictly on the desktop.
I'm disappointed not to see the pragmatic programmer there. I would think that it's great reading, not only for every software developer, but also for stakeholders and product managers.
I imagine that what is discovered trying to develop a vaccine for this will be readily applied to other viruses.
We can't wait for markets to sort themselves out while a few executives and their well connected friends control and decide the information we get to see and hear. The stakes are too high to wait for a market solution here.
This is the heart of the issue. Just because legitimate and identifiably bad advice exists doesn't mean this is suddenly widely applicable to all health information. Youtube isn't banning content that the WHO is "absolutely certain is true" either, they are using any of the (frequently changing) general advice coming out of WHO.

There's always tons of grey area on what is true or good advice. No matter how much 'science' is thrown around, or credentialism ("they have a PhD!"), or credibility some international organization has, that does not make this any less true. Especially when it comes the speech of the general public - not some advice via some formal expert forum or government body.

Even Snopes.com is littered with incorrect and politicized positions, and unlike the WHO, their actual stated goal is trying to determine what is true or not. WHO has a million different incentives beyond this.

What is useful advice for governments to disseminate, given tons of competing interests (which is what WHO specializes in), doesn't automatically translate to what regular people should be allowed or not allowed to discuss in an open forum.

Additionally, we're not being asked to just trust WHO to have good advice and good intentions, Youtube is telling everyone to trust WHO information proxied via an Youtube moderation teams interpretation of it, via an opaque no-appeals process.

Anyone who has used any major platform before (Reddit, Paypal, etc) knows how stupid moderation teams can be. And the vast majority of moderation teams haven't been stupid enough to try to determine what is 'true' or not. Because that's crazy.

The only way I might support this is if it helps bring about the demise of Youtube.
The british army tested nerve agents on un-knowing Army recruits and accidentally killed people.

The Australian army tested anti-malarials with good intent and caused huge mental harms (they are pretty psychologically active and can trigger suicide ideation)

The US army has form for testing on recruits without adequate consent or information

Overall, the whole "for the good of humanity" story here is that the consent is weak, the support is weak, the costs are not borne equally. I would not advise any young person to be guilt-tripped into volunteering for this.

The track record here is very poor
This comment made me go and try out Invoke-WebRequest because I'd forgotten what it was like.

Being able to do simple web scraping like this in a "shell" is pretty great:

$hn = Invoke-WebRequest https://news.ycombinator.com/
$hn.AllElements | Where {$_.TagName -eq "a" } | Where { $_.Class -eq "StoryLink" } | select "innerHtml"
Applying US law for the rest of the countries is another problem.
Incremental Static Generation with Next.js
Temporary but for over a month already.
> You just need enough movement to clear out any hot air that is building up under the laptop.

On a nearly totally different tangent, our own bodies build up hot pockets of air indoors as well, where there's no natural breeze to get rid of it. Getting rid of it creates a surprisingly strong cooling effect where you probably won't need AC for a while longer than you expect - and "air circulator" fans are pretty good at doing it over a whole room, so you don't need to keep a fan directed at yourself.
Funny, at least in my neighborhood in Seattle, I've been seeing those vans all over the place.
I generally agree with you. But in the way that our defense budget is a significant portion of our federal budget, leaving many other state and federal needs un-fund-able, I'd suggest that there's a similar ratio of "elephant" medical research areas starving us of solutions to maladies that may be deserving of treatment.
> That's easy: HR

Unfortunately, that approach doesn't scale well. In a larger company, there are always new users discovering the systems and how they work (to varying degrees). If doing the right thing isn't by-and-far the easiest path, then it's highly likely someone will misuse the tool – no matter how smart they are. It's far easier to make the interface really easy to use than it is to educate users on proper usage.
We...don’t actually.

The NIH started phasing chimp research out in 2013 and USFWS declared them endangered (and thus off-limits for anything invasive or distressing) in 2015. Great apes can be used for observational studies (like kids), but I think even drawing blood for non-vet reasons is now pretty regulated.

Other primates, especially rhesus monkeys and, increasingly, marmosets, are important model animals for lab experiments but are less closely related to humans.

Sources for the down voters: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statem...
> The WHO denied human-to-human transmission

This is one of those completely false things that people only believe is true by repetition. Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.
Related, I've been trying to figure out what the best way to populate a Redshift database from regularly updated SFTP sources is and I can't quite figure it out. AWS Glue? A function in Lambda? This?

AWS presents so many options that it's a bit overwhelming.
Skimming the implementation, there is buffering, but it looks like it's bounded, so tight looping Write() you should still end up blocking on the OS at some point.
Is it appropriate to flag HN comments that are so blatantly wrong like the one you replied to? If YouTube is taking down misinformation, is HN doing the same?
Adult astrocytes key to learning, memory
"It means that people who aren't as smart/savvy/wise are fair-game."

Worst thing is it completely disrupts some of the best people who are completely genuine and take things at face value. It wouldn't surprise me if normally decent people have been quite corrupted by their experiences online with trolls and fakes and scams.
The level of censorship that Facebook, Medium and YouTube are applying right now should be terrifying to anyone who cares about free speech.

Dissenting opinions are important for a free society. If facts and truth are on your side, what are you so afraid of?

Aaron Ginn's "evidence over hysteria" post (1) that was quickly censored by Medium is a good example for discussion. Aaron may have been wrong, but he made his case civilly and argued in good faith. Do we really want to elect these platforms as the thought police who decide which ideas or information we're allowed to consume? Especially right now, when the "official sources" like the Whitehouse and WHO are lying to us!

In the words of Naval Ravikant, "Give your worst political enemy the power to decide what is "hate speech" and what is "disinformation" and then you'll realize that free speech isn't something we should ever compromise on".

(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hyst...
The last paragraph is the best;

”Come spend a day enjoying yourselves, the fair beckoned; lay down your placards and your pistols, and take up your rightful place in the front rank of civilization and the “march of progress.” The fair exhibits were designed to domesticate the restive immigrant workers of St. Louis by turning them into white people.“
It would have to be done outside the US.
I 100% agree with this.

In a matter of 4 days, Amazon went from next day shipping to 1+ month "estimated" delivery timeframes. This was the final straw for me to finally commit to finding items from non-Amazon sources. So far everything I've ordered has come in a reasonable timeframe. Possibly, taking one day longer, but not 15x longer.

I ordered an air conditioner that showed up 2 days later with free shipping. Yet, Amazon failed to ship a PS4 controller for 3+ weeks (ended up cancelling and doing Best Buy pick-up 10 minutes after I ordered).

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Oh yea. I almost forgot about the thermometer that my wife order on March 28th. Today is April 23rd and we still have not received it. Estimated delivery is May 7th.

Maybe Amazon doesn't consider that an "essential" item, but I certainly wouldn't place it on the list of "useless" items.