skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We run a DTC automotive retail website that has both white-label products and vendor products and have product development and manufacturing capability in house. We also sell through multiple channels like wholesale customers, marketplaces, (including Amazon when it makes sense), and a 2 retail stores.
Are you saying that we need to dramatically change our business model and can only either be a manufacturer or sell other peoples products because this model is unethical?
That measure is so subjective I'd be surprised if it was ever clear cut. You could argue circles with coal, oil, FB, beer, various drugs, fancy rocks. All are double-edged swords (the handle is also a sword (and it's on fire))
That was suggested in some of the forum threads I read. It doesn’t solve the problem though. It just scales the image up and provides the same quality I have now. There were also some suggested profile hacks which I think is what SwitchResX does.

You can also option-click on the scaled options in display manager and get more options but none of those are reasonable either.

The whole reason I use Macs is because I don’t have to constantly hack and fiddle with them. At that point I may as well install a Linux or BSD.

The software quality from Apple was never great but it is really falling off a cliff recently. It’s getting to a point I wonder why I pay the premium.
This data might suggest that the lockdowns suppressed the infection rate down to 20% at this moment in time.

Without a lockdown, a month more of infections would have likely bumped NYC to achieving herd immunity, or 60-ish percent, since 20% to 60% does not take long with exponential growth.

This means two things. One, it would mean that we would have almost certainly overwhelmed the hospitals with triple the rate of infections. We've be leaving people dead in the streets and it would be a humanitarian disaster as every hospital was at double capacity.

It would also have meant that the curve would be flattened for good.
Much of the population gets a flu vaccine so would be tricky to compare.
‘It’ refers to this specific functionality.

If you recompile the XNU kernel you could disable the part that ‘reserves’ the CPU to cool the system. I am not sure whether is is still possible to replace the kernel, but IIRC some Hackintosh people replace it by custom builds (assuming that Apple released the relevant version already).

Of course you probably do not want to do that, this is done for a reason.
Those cities see more widespread use of masks generally. And specifically once COVID-19 was common knowledge, so was the use of masks.

Widespread mask usage doesn't happen in NYC, same as the rest of the U.S. It's very recent this is practiced in the U.S., whether voluntarily or by order of a handful of local governments. And in my local area where it's not mandatory I only see about 3 in 4 using masks.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265549

> Apple says "we are listening now, and here is a new cooling design," then it comes out to be even less adequate that the old one. I can't think of anybody else capable of trolling up their customers like that.

Apple's thermal engineering is simply bad, and doing it bad is a company policy.

There are no other believable explanation to me. Apple been promising to fix their thermal design for years on end, with each year's model being supposed to have better thermals than the previous one, but in reality all their designs were consistently crappy.

The only explanation to that for me is that they took thermals as a subtle marketing feature, just like makers of laptops with crappy batteries always find ways to draw battery life from thin air.
The downvotes I'm getting are telling...

You seem to say this a lot. Why is that?
I actually don't know much about how well France functions as a nation. My European experience is mostly in Germany where my dad's family is from, and infrastructure there is 50x better than in North America.

I'm speaking more from the Canadian perspective; we have a Westminster parliamentary system without vetoes (well there's the senate but that's mostly rubber stamp) and yet we have the same "getting things built" dysfunction that the US has.
Making it the worse pandemic in decades but no where near the Spanish Flu.
perhaps, you should read http://news.mit.edu/2020/age-founders-successful-startups-03...

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/20-year-old-en...
> To ensure to you that this is not a fraudulent call, please look up the phone number for this bank and call us back. Thank you."

Good idea, except now people will think: "yeah, right, that way the call will cost me money".
No. I was not claiming it would be lower. Apologies if the framing said it that way. I was just pointing out that we really don't have bounds on this anywhere else.
This seems very simplistic. YouTube is more than a company, it is a community of hundreds of millions of users and thousands of workers. People use YouTube not just for ability to search and share videos, or the recommendation engine, but for the user created content. The owner of the platform is the shareholders, and their designee, the CEO, is ultimately responsible for the decision. I don't think the broader definition of YouTube made this decision.

I think it's wrong to be okay with YouTube suppressing information and misinforming people about global pandemics just because they own the corporation and infrastructure YouTube is built on. YouTube is abusing their monopoly to hurt people.

People don't like government censorship and misinformation not because it's inherently wrong for government to do these things, but because censorship and misinformation create harm. When you consider YouTube's scale and lack of real competitor - it's obvious that their censorship and misinformation is also harmful and therefore problematic. Even if it's legal, it's certainly not moral.
It is broken out. AWS has provided Amazon's largest operating income since 2018.
My disdain for Pinterest is at unrecoverable levels because of this and the fact they display interesting photos without any details or source listed even if logged in. I often wonder the difference between people that become antagonistic for being forced to signup vs people that are persuaded.
Nothing is ever that urgent. If they insist on immediate purchase, I invariably walk.
> Also, at Amazon scale, you can estimate margin by looking at price variation over time and throwing in some well tested assumptions.

You really can't. You have to do research and modeling to figure out margins. There are probably half a dozen factors that determine a product's margin.
If the infection rate were 50% we would be close to herd immunity (which I've read would require about 70% for this virus), so that would be better news in a sense.

Unfortunately 21% is a long way from 70%, and it's taken a massive amount of death to get to that point.
I intended it to mean throughput.
That guy is brutal!
No Shopify does not. Amazon and Shopify are very different 1

1) https://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platfo...
Now you're getting into canned-vs-bottled-vs-fountain territory, which is a whole different beast!

I enjoy precisely that aspect of canned Coke, but I avoid it from bottles or fountains. Dr. Pepper for those situations.
I recently got a new laptop and bought it from one of those linux specialist places after having a pretty terrible compatibility experience with my previous high end HP laptop.
Relevant to this: Lina Khan's influential analysis - "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox" https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
Yep, I have a standing rule that I don't buy anything marketed by someone standing at my front door (I will make an exception for Girl Scout cookies). Someone at your front door is interrupting you, and creating a power imbalance leveraging long standing cultural norms that you invite people in and are courteous. That may apply to neighbors and friends, but not to salespeople.
Unfortunately I’ve had similar issues with “official” Linux supported hardware. Linux on desktop still requires forum diving.
It sure would be nice to find out the virus is far more widespread / exposure is higher than expected if only that would seem to indicate that the light at the end of the tunnel is nearer than we think ... and a lot of people have been exposed and doing well.
>so that one email address still can't create multiple accounts?

You can not do that. You have no way of knowing how my mail server handles username portions of the address. Maybe bob+123@ is the same account as bob@, maybe it isn't. It is entirely up to the mail server to decide what it wants to do with it. And likewise, you have no way to know any other username portions are not the same account. I can set my email server up to use "x" as a delimiter, and make bobx1 and bobx2 both go to bob if that's what I want.
You are right, there are still issues and vulnerabilities present with using X. That is the case with every distribution mechanism ever in existence.

You would have to be a complete numpty to download and install such a thing as it wouldn't come from anything with first party support. Enough of a numpty that you shouldn't be trusted with root to begin with.

Wouldn't be surprised if this specific thing was scanned for and flagged with their static analysis tool. It seems like something that would be flagged.

> DBus abuse?

When I added the dbus slot for the firefox snap, Canonical wouldn't push to the store until it was manually reviewed. So yes, asking for new permissions/unusual permissions would probably need review.
It's the awkward way they one representative handled a question on Taiwan. Pretending he didn't hear the question. I think it speaks more to the unwillingness of a world health organisation to even discuss politically dangerous topics.
Sure, but I guess that's the point --- the GCs in Java and Go can handle any allocation pattern you throw at them reasonably well, but there's not, as far as I know, such a "one-size-fits-all" solution in C++ (not that it needs one.)
Apple is arguably making some better design trade-offs. This is possible due to them making money on the whole computer/device, and not just the CPU as Intel/AMD/others need to do. So while the others are doing everything possible to both minimize die space and likely keep around a bunch of compatibility cruft that could probably go, Apple is free to go in a different direction.

The 5775c (https://wccftech.com/intel-broadwell-core-i7-5775c-128mb-l4-...) was a good example of a no-compromises (from a cache standpoint) CPU from Intel that just annihilated their other CPUs at the time... it's not that hard to do, provided you're willing to pay the price for it somewhere else.
"We have not performed a detailed comparison against the original version of elPrep implemented in Common Lisp, but based on previous performance benchmarks, the Go implementation seems to perform close to the Common Lisp implementation." LMFAO.
It's disingenuous to call this the same as putting "attack vectors into the kernel", as BPF programs are sandboxed, unlike Windows kernel components. I don't know of any existing proven and secure solutions to this besides BPF, by the way.
Is it? I read the original comment as saying there were significantly different symptoms based on the transmission method. Even assuming that the transmission method results in a significantly different viral load, that's not enough to explain differing symptoms since there's not a whole lot of observable difference between cases with different severities[1,2]. There are some studies that show a relationship, but nothing strong enough to explain a dramatic difference.

If it's true that the transmission method makes a big difference, it's more likely due to some other reason. E.g. maybe mild strains spread more easily in the air (although as far as I know there's no evidence that's true.)

[1] https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2003/2003.09320.pdf

Page 3. "We did not observe significantly different viral loads in nasal swabs between symptomatic and asymptomatic."

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036707v...

Page 4. "There was no obvious difference in viral loads across sex, age groups and disease severity"
Does anyone know any good guides for being aware of these things, strategies used by scammers, and what to be suspicious of? Something that isn't patronisingly simple, but not aimed at teach expert users either.

> “But as it turned out, that other call was the attackers also talking to my bank pretending to be me.”

I don't understand this part - the _actual_ bank said that he was on a different line with them? Wouldn't that mean that the scammers had authorised as him already, in which case the account is already compromised? Also, the bank asking for 2FA over the phone also sounds like training into bad habits, but I appreciate there's different approaches with different banks.

This is a pretty similar sequence of events to one a reasonably intelligent but non-tech friend of mine fell for this week: Got an email saying that the TV licence needed to be renewed. They followed the link on the email, didn't check the URL and filled out their account details to set up a direct debit.

Two days later, gets a call from their "bank", telling them that they filled out a scam direct debit (gets victim flustered to compromise judgement) but they need to authorise them first before they can speak any further... my friend challenged their identity but they used the exact same "fake caller ID" trick - to the correct bank number since they had the sort code from step 1, and that identifies the bank. I knew this (caller ID) was possible in general, but hadn't heard of it being actively used in the UK - only from stories in the US. After "verifying" they asked for the 2FA device code, then (registered a card for ApplePay and) asked them to "confirm" the code they had just been texted, which is the point I walked in and was "WTF are you doing?"

About 10 minutes later while in the waiting queue for the actual bank, the actual bank called them - when we said that we wouldn't trust the call they instantly gave us a reference number to quickly recall the case and advised us to call back quickly. Luckily, the bank reimbursed the amounts taken before they locked it off (apparently some UK agreement from a couple of years ago.)

They were pretty shaken up from the experience, and want to know what to look for in the future. It strikes me that a lot of these cases are hitting otherwise reasonably cautious people who aren't aware that something they think is authentication, really isn't, like caller ID.
The errors the WHO has made have generally been corrected and so far as reliable authorities go on the pandemic there isn't a more reliable one, even if all are fallible. It's a better standard than nothing for stopping misinformation from killing people.
Ask HN: What is your favorite way to do introductions with a new team?
I'm coming up to my first meeting a with a new team I'm leading and am hoping to do something interesting around introductions beyond the generic formula of Name, position, and favorite ice cream. What is your favorite ways to do introductions? What ways do you find are really helpful early on to develop a strong team before going into the storming phase?
Yeah I mean, the brands themselves have generated a lot of buzz. But the average consumer still doesn’t know what Shopify is.
Another way to say this, how does lying tell the truth? I don't understand corporations that decide to lie like this.

I noticed Facebook Messenger does this fun thing where you can open it, start to read a message and then it says "BAM--YOU MUST UPDATE". The fact they intentionally designed it this way makes me want to delete Messenger forever.
> wide acceptance

Messages only works on iOS. iOS has a worldwide market share of 27% (source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide). I'm not sure I'd call that 'wide acceptance'.
Which is addressed in the article and doesn't explain why we also don't see large-scale projects from the private sector.
The referenced study of human dimensions was not the only thing done by the military to improve aviation safety. The discovery of human factors in user interfaces was also recognized. There had been some standardization of the cockpit controls of different aircraft during WWII and before, but not so much for the instruments and displays. That was no easy task, but the problem was recognized and addressed.
They should relying on for-profit corporations to host their videos for free. Pay for hosting.
It's unfortunate that a lot of businesses are now inside of Facebook and Instagram walls.

I know a number of times in recent months I'd end up on Instagram pages for different businesses. I would be scrolling to view their products and suddenly I'd get hit with the sign-up modal that wouldn't allow me to scroll further (well, technically I could if I opened the developer tools and disabled it, but that road block usually stopped me). So, I'd close their Instagram page, move on with my life, and they'd potentially lose a sale.

The same thing happened on Facebook when the page would be covered in overlays and I could barely browse the content. I'd get annoyed and leave.

There's a lot of power you're giving up when you build your online presence inside of another company. The entire user experience of your customer can drastically change at any moment, and you have little recourse aside from rebuilding your online presence from scratch.
The only thing that is above there needs of their customers is needs of their shareholders.
They didn't for the longest while. I'm not sure what their impetus for changing was.
Don't get me wrong, I celebrate any competitor of AWS, even though I use it massively, but Redis is a tricky one.

For start, you want redis to be as near as you can to your application. It many times is used as cache and it makes no sense to have long latencies to your cache layer (many times Redis is even deployed in the same pod as the app using it precisely because you want it to be nearby).
And if your infrastructure is already in AWS (why would you choose elasticache otherwise?) you would be paying all the data from AWS to your external Redis as a service provider and that might be much more than what you even expected to save in the first place.

To be honest, AWS elasticache is not even an expensive service (t3.micro instances work just great and allow you do no upfront reservations, which you failed to use as comparison for obvious reasons).

Really, I don't think Redis is a problem to solve and I'd put my money on someone giving cheaper documentdb alternatives, or redshifts, or managed ClickHouse services, etc. Those are the real killers!

Anyhow, sorry for being a bummer and wish you best of luck!!!
Kind of a tangent (but potentially useful and little known) is the "baker's method" of male contraception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthe_Voegeli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-based_contraception

> It has long been observed that men who work in professions that expose them to heat in the nether regions: bakers, cooks, steamworkers; have had a hard time fathering children. Interestingly, men in these professions were observed to start having children after retiring or finding a new job. Based on these observations, Dr. Martha Vogeli [sic, her name ends with 'e': Marthe] ran a long set of experiments starting in the 1940’s in India. After trying all possible combinations, Dr. Vogeli found a consistent method for inducing temporary infertility in men by a series of hot baths. In short, men who sat in hot water for 45 minutes a day for 3 weeks were protected for at least 6 months.

~ https://www.dontcookyourballs.com/heat-based-contraception-n...
I was pretty decent at music in high school. No interest at all in tech or programming. Went to a top 3 music university for a year and burned out. The hours required were intense. The competition was fierce, and the outcome of getting a music ed degree wasn't that bright either.

Transferred to a nearby university and continued music education for a year. Competition was less fierce but the hours required to stay in the school were still intense. Much more than a CS degree required.

I had my first son during my second year of university. Dropped out. Got a job at a regional gas retailer that's known for paying their people exceptionally well. Moved into doing maintenance. Did maintenance for 5+ years at said gas station. It was great! Pay was good, troubleshooting skills got much better, and I liked most of my job. I ended up meeting my SO there also! Downsides were 50+ hours/week, work weekends, on-call, work holidays, can't choose schedule, work overnights, etc.

Had a breaking point with my boss at gas station. He screamed at me over something small without letting me explain. I couldn't go get another job in the same industry that payed nearly as well. I had bronze handcuffs basically (not as good as golden handcuffs). I had been tinkering with diy project at home and ended up buying a raspberry pi and learning some python. LOVED it.

I started going to university again at 24 for computer science. I worked full time doing maintenance and did 8-12 hours of school per semester in computer science. I felt super behind too.

I joined a programming club that changed my life. Met a ton of great people who set the bar for programming higher than I thought. Won a few hackathons, got hiring letters at a few internships (which I ended up not taking due to needing to maintain my insurance for my son and needing a full-time income).

I went to a ton of local meetups and met one of the partners of the consulting firm I currently work at. He did a mock interview at a meetup with me. We connected on linkedin and he hired me a few months later.

I've been at my current job almost 2 years now. It's been fantastic. I still love programming as much ever. Love the people I work with, and love working in tech.
http://bugmenot.com/view/instagram.com
Unexpected. I'll try my paid subscription with them simply because they deserve it.

I'm curious about your opinions though: will the platform be riskier now for a while, since bugs will be more likely to be found?
That seems like a much cheaper solution.

Aside from china who were welding people regardless of there sick status and had millions of faulty tests.

Everyone else on that list has lower death numbers and a economy not going into the toilet.
The idea that "rightful entitlement" has a much older heritage than "perceived entitlement" doesn't seem supported: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4240

> The earliest cluster of uses of entitlement meaning "(rightful) claim" that I've found is associated with post-WWII veterans' benefits, as in this 1947 Popular Mechanics ad

> In the 1960s, psychoanalysts also start using entitled and entitlement with strongly negative connotations, resulting in the emergent term of art "narcissistic entitlement".

> Meanwhile, by the 1970s, the phrase entitlement programs is being used in its modern sense (defined benefits paid by the federal government) in discussions of the federal budget — and the connotations are by no means positive.
I have been chastised for not locking my desk for this exact concern. It does happen