skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had exactly the same experience the handful of times I've used AdWords.

I also just released my app on the Play Store a couple of weeks ago, and had exactly the same thing within the first 48 hours - a bunch of suspiciously similar Gmail accounts, none of which had actually used the app (I know this because no backing accounts were made in the database).

The only conclusion I can make is that there's huge amounts of fraud, but the average advertiser either doesn't know about it, or their advertising ROI is high enough that they can simply eat fraudulent clicks as the cost of doing business.

I've said it before, though - gut feeling is that internet advertising is long overdue for a reckoning.
That's just reductio ad absurdum claim.

JSX is one simple conversion while coffeescript or elm are entire turing-complete languages. It's like claiming a smiley face on the back of a receipt is no different from the Mona Lisa.
If that is the case then they could communicate that plan a little better. At the end of the day it's their fault if people don't understand why they are taking the actions they are.
Behold the three pillars of IP protection.

Copyright protects the What (tangible creative works, such as, printed publications, movies, sound recordings, source code, and so on)

Trademark protects the Who (who made this service or product)

Patent protects the How (how does this widget do what is does)
As is tradition:

I would like to inform the authors of this project there is a popular city with the same name. This can possibly create confusion
I'm confused how the SF chronicle is calculating numbers. Santa Clara added 183 cases in last 7 days vs. 256 in the previous week (quite a downturn in the face of increasing test capacity).

They might have gotten hit by a glitch where Santa Clara didn't report for 3 days.

https://covid-19.direct/county/CA/Santa%20Clara
vote with your wallet is like actual voting.

Where you inconvenience yourself for some time to line up in a booth to select someone who you more likely just hated less.

Now imagine doing that all day every day, the inconveniences each time might be smaller, but hey, Amazon is always there. The 'voter turnout' is going to drop to 0 real fast.
That does not seem to line up with their cryptography specification, which is where I am getting my information from. Thank you for mentioning this
If some big corps are willing to open source their paxos library (I am pretty sure msft Google Amazon all have their implementation), then there should be no need of any other consideration of competition.
It's a little odd to get used to flipping the keyboard back around to close, but I've found that you get used to it pretty quickly. I almost always keep it propped open using one of the two grooves in the keyboard, even when I'm just using it as a tablet. It's nice to be able to rest it upright in my lap.
Artificial intelligence is a dangerous term. Here's why we need to stop using it
> Pointing out that this creates a disincentive to return to work isn’t accusing anyone of “living high in the benefits hog.”

Sure it is, plus it's a lie since unemployment requires active job search and taking offered employment, except for temporary layoff where you position is retained, where it still requires return to work when the employer ends the temporary layoff. You cannot choose to stay out of work and draw unemployment, so it cannot create incentives to do so.
I agree. When I lived in Japan, I was invited to (local) friends' places often, including for a couple of kotatsu sleepover parties. It was probably more frequent than being invited to a friend's place in Vancouver.

Probably because most of my friends in Vancouver live in sharehouses or basement suites where they aren't allowed to have guests by their landlord, while my friends in Japan had small but respectable spaces that they had much more permissive ownership of.
Runtimes often uses a lot of small malloc/free calls in quick succession. Since I worked with implementing a runtime at Google I've seen the function call overhead go up to 20% of the cost of it in real programs, since the actual memory needed was very small.

You might argue that we should have done that optimization on our own, but we are just a small team doing an inhouse thing so we don't have those kind of resources, so to us it helps a lot that the the default malloc is very optimized.
My electric bill has gone down over 30% per month after getting one of these. Replaced a super old electric unit. Many states have rebates that an installer can have applied when getting the part from the supplier. For me this cut the whole cost in half. It paid for itself in less than a year. And now my basement is dry and cool in the summer without running a dehumidifier.

You might ask, if these are so great then why aren’t people yelling it from the hilltops? They are, but nobody’s listening.
>>Why aren't there integrated systems for heating/cooling?

See Mitsubishi's Mr Slim line. They need to do a better job promoting it, but it is amazing.
> I have yet to see a single person in my neighborhood suffer from this virus

I have never seen a murderer therefore they don't exist.
I'm worried about how humans will treat non-biological intelligences -- what we currently call AIs -- in the future.

If and when consciousness emerges in non-biological intelligences, I'm concerned that humans will be slow to recognise it, and that conscious non-biological intelligences will suffer immensely as a result.

There has been a lot of discussion about the risks that non-biological intelligences might pose to humans in the future. We should also consider the issue from the other side and think about how humans might pose risks to conscious non-biological intelligences.
You'll note there are no metrics or numbers, just platitudes and ideas.

That means it is up to Gov. Newsom and his interpretation of the facts and we are unable to hold him accountable. Which is generally how government officials like it.
This is 100% political but imo this industry really just needs to be nationalized ASAP. You literally have people who are working as essential workers worried about paying for healthcare coverage or how much an appointment will cost. There will be many US citizens who will die due to this. This will also include the wealthy...

Also my health insurance still says my premium was not paid but when I called them up in TX they said everything was paid up. Then they said I’d need a bill audit at their other location in GA and I haven’t heard anything since. This is after paying all bills and calling their customer service. Most likely their backend billing systems are not talking but no one cares to fix it. It’s a fucking disgrace.
Again, unemployment requires you to actively search for work and accept offered employment or you lose benefits. Higher benefits don't create an incentive to voluntarily stay out of work since you can't have them if you do that.
You can. Projects in VSCode are called "Workspaces".

Every time I install an extension, I first "Disable" it, which is global. Then I switch to the workspace that needs it and choose "Enable (Workspace)". That way you only have the extensions you need per project.
https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-a...

> B. License from Twitter. Subject to the terms and conditions in this Agreement and the Developer Policy (as a condition to the grant below), Twitter hereby grants you and you accept a non-exclusive, royalty free, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license solely to:

> 1. Use the Twitter API to integrate Twitter Content into your Services or conduct analysis of such Twitter Content;

> 2. Copy a reasonable amount of and display the Twitter Content on and through your Services to End Users, as permitted by this Agreement;

Point 2, you licensed the content to twitter and they license it via the developer portal.
>> The IMHE model is very influential, but it has been forecasting an unrealistically quick decline in cases that has encouraged public health officials to seriously consider trying to get to this minimal level of cases.

It also blew their 95% CIs over half of the measured data points, with social distancing built into the model (so no moving the goalposts here). It's a worthless model.
Scientific discourse is based on the assumption that all parties have the basic reading comprehension to look at the primary data.

I'm not really worried about creationism or climate stabilism competing given those conditions. And if those aren't the conditions, it's not scientific discourse.
Then it would be best if Gov. Newsom and the other elected officials put hard data and target metrics out, not platitudes and "we must get better before we reopen" statements.
This is hardly the first time their system has been overwhelmed, it’s designed to be robust and maximize profit. Further, a simple ships in X weeks gives them plenty of time to ramp up staff.

It comes down to the software side of their business, and they have some great back end software.
I've also heard it claimed that masks not helping was pushed because there was no peer reviewed randomized trials that showed that masks helped therefore the official advice was there is no evidence that masks helped. Of course there is no randomized trial evidence on the effectiveness of social distancing on long term reduction in mortality due to corona virus but different ideas have to hurdle different levels of evidence. This idea of different levels of evidence actually makes sense because some things have potentially high payoffs and very likely low costs. For example wearing masks would appear to fall into this bucket.

This comes back into reasoning under uncertainty that someone else brought up in the thread. The medical community has had problems in the past because bad medical interventions typically impose high costs on patients so if they have little positive benefit then it can easily become a net-negative situation. So then you have a culture where anything that hasn't gone through an RCT with multiple confirming studies doesn't exist as an intervention.
American companies in general have a lot of visible and objectionable protections, that is true. But your example, except for maybe Amazon, doesn't really exemplify this - these companies are successful for various other reasons such as U.S. winning both WWII and the cold war, American market size and world power status, huge government investments into semiconductors in 50's, embargoes on technology exports, lots of wealthy investors willing to invest in American companies. All this and other things helped in various proportions. Maybe Amazon got so big and starved the competition partly because the management treats the workers like serfs and is able to push prices down, but the others I do not really see how they benefit from weak employee rights.
That's pretty interesting. I've had a twitter account that has no phone number and no email for a very long time. It's never been blocked.
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Also, the fatality rate will rise if the virus gets out of control, which it very well could if people decide to forgo social distancing and self-isolating when possible.
I believe lobte.rs does this too.
Literally the weirdest timeline yet.
>> They are not right now because of stay-at-home orders.

Can you produce evidence of this? What of the evidence that indicates SIP orders have had no effect, or potentially were detrimental?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lockdowns-wont-stop-the-spread-...

https://rt.live/
Surprised no cite to the oral argument on Oyez in current discussion: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/18-1150
“Opinion polls have generally shown a bipartisan majority of Americans want to remain at home to protect themselves from the coronavirus, despite the impact to the economy.”

I’ll trust public opinion with my next health decision, it’s always spot on.
You don't need to be very optimal to save energy. Your hot water heater is a very good buffer of heat as it stores a massive amount of energy and you don't care if its a few degrees warmer or colder than its set point. In some modern homes the hotwater heater runs far above safe delivery temperature to prevent various issues and is mixed down to a safe temperature elsewhere in the plumbing (either at point of use or in the outlet of the water heater) so the water temperature is even less critical.

The biggest impediment to a system like this is political, as appliance manufactures need to be on board with it, when they have 0 incentive to do so, as their expensive refrigerator becomes a cheap insulated box with a light.
Actually, the payments (because they would encourage marginally employable people to stay out of the labor force and thus out of the divisor for unemployment) would radically accelerate the (brief) return to pre-crisis unemployment. Of course, once they were withdrawn, the unemployment number would shoot back up, but that has no effect on the duration of the payments.
Do people serve coke to children? My generation wasn't allowed to drink soda until we were teenagers.
> Yet when I read Redditors talk about quarantine, you'd think everyone in the world was getting paid time off to play Animal Crossing at home or they live at mom's house rent-free

Wouldn't this be a self-selecting population? or is everyone whether rich or poor, good circumstances or bad online?
It’s either they pay for everyone’s lost salary or people will just disregard the stay home orders and go back to work.
Last sentence of the first paragraph kind of sums it all up:

There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.
You are comparing to an electric water heater. I think the cost saving is not much, from a ROI standpoint, if you have a natural gas water heater.
on gcc you can use __attribute__((malloc)) to tell the compiler that your function is malloc-like (i.e. its result type won't alias any other pointer), but any call to the litterall 'malloc' function itself is implicitly treated as such even if you do not include the appropriate header and declare it yourself (you can use -fno-builtin-functions or -free-standing or something like that to disable this treatment).
I feel like there's a lack of good price comparison websites in US and Canada. I'm used to e.g. PriceSpy which compares thousands of stores. Just as an example showing 42 different stores selling this particular SSD https://pricespy.co.uk/computers-accessories/storage-media/h...

Whenever I search for something like that for US/Canada I end up on a site that indexes Amazon/ebay with affiliate links.
I quit coffee almost a year ago and can never see myself going back. I basically have noticed improvements on all the dimensions that people typically drink coffee to "solve."

Some of the effects I have noticed:

- Less anxiety throughout the day.
- Fewer "highs" and "lows" throughout the day. My energy level is pretty constant.
- Easier to wake up. I rarely snooze my alarm more than once.
- Easier to focus. My level of focus (over time) is more consistent.
- Better hydration. This means less headaches, etc.
- More energy. I generally have the energy I need to do what I want basically up until I go to sleep.
- I can burn sleep. It's very easy for me now to go 2-3 days with very limited sleep, and then sleep 12 hours to recover.
- Coffee "works." The one or two times I needed coffee, it actually worked to keep me awake and energized.

The reason for this is pretty obvious. Coffee stresses your adrenals and sends your body an "awake" signal. Caffeine's half life is 6 hours, which means even if you have it "before noon" you'll still have a substantial amount in your system while you sleep. This impacts sleep quality, which means you are accumulating micro amounts of sleep debt every night which you never pay off. Eventually, you struggle to get up in the mornings until you have had some coffee in your system. The "I can't function without coffee" effect. This is a pretty much ubiquitous 21st century experience, as far as I can tell.

Furthermore, coffee impacts your body's natural processes that it uses to wake up. Your body produces cortisol in order to wake up in the morning, which is a "stress" hormone, which is also induced by drinking coffee (which overall impacts the endocrine system). Hacking this system to overproduce hormones everyday isn't great for when your body actually needs this system to wake you up.

For people considering quitting coffee I have the following advice:

- You will get a headache 24-36 hours after you quit. Take ibuprofen. (By the way, this should give you a hint to how long coffee actually meaningfully stays in your system.)
- You will feel weird for probably 2 weeks.
- You will have coffee cravings. (I found these hit when I was tired. I felt like I needed to drink coffee to fix my tiredness. I tried to replace this impulse with drinking water or herbal tea a lot of tiredness is caused by dehydration.)
- You will be tired sometimes. You'll just have to deal with that, but it's really not that bad of a sensation, and the solution: sleep :)

People often think cutting coffee out is "impossible" but many people also haven't gone a day or two without drinking coffee since they were 18, so, I would say it's worth a try at least.
I think what triggered you is you're in the denialist camp here.

Are you?
There's also the goal of slowing down and stalling in hopes of getting a vaccine, better treatments, production to catch up with supply shortages for healthcare facilities, and allowing healthcare facilities to increase capacity, etc.
This may be true for years.

We need to be realistic, and remember that the goal all along has been to flatten the curve, not eliminate all infections.
I think that if society were to end restrictions, they would also need to somehow prevent anyone in covid-induced pulmonary distress from going to the hospital. A big part of the danger of covid is that it overwhelms hospitals.
The big problem with malloc/new/free/delete is that the interface is way too flexible. Allowing objects to be allocated one thread and freed on another fundamentally requires a bunch of complicated bookkeeping. Particularly in C++ it's usually more productive to change your allocation strategy entirely if malloc/free is really a hot spot in your code.
I think it's feel good bullshit in part because the entire narrative is bullshit, driven by an anti-tech media stance that is not actually well represented in the real world.

Most people are happy with Amazon and like the service they provide - this kind of thing is a non-story.

I say this as someone who buys directly from suppliers like Dell or Logitech when I think there's a risk to getting repackaged or counterfeit items from Amazon, but the experience is often worse (Dell monitors took 5 weeks to arrive).

I think these articles are a symptom of something else, but I'm not quite sure what it is. It feels like a political or tribal position, anti-large company, or anti-success? - I'm not quite sure, but I think there's an underlying theme that drives these types of articles and it isn't what they're directly about. They're okay with a small under-dog company story, but if you become large and successful then you're automatically written about in the most uncharitable way possible.
He’s a Stanford professor and should know better... Same with the Nobel Prize winner in Israel.
I know you think you're being profound but this essentially just tripe.

Science is based on data and repetition. That's the pay-to-play scientific discussion requires otherwise we're not "illuminating truth" we're just regurgitating shit.
Nice, a turbocharged shower.
To imply that John Ioannidis is a bad actor is ridiculous.
Wow, this is heartbreaking to read. It's been 2 decades since I last bought a copy of 2600 but I always enjoyed reading it and would digest each of the articles as best I could, often struggling to figure out wtf they were talking about. But I knew it was something special and almost forbidden, which made for a really unique experience.

I'll probably buy a digital copy just to chip in, would be sad to see 2600 disappear after so long.
This 'new-all-the-things' style is called the Java style, but it is a bit unfair to Java, as that languages was designed, among other things, to make this style, which was prevalent in OO-heavy C++ programs from the '90s, usable.

It is still somewhat common in OO heavy GUI libraries and applications like Qt, although there the allocation performance is probably not the biggest bottleneck.
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The primary goal is to keep the rate of infection under what the health care system can handle.

If the rate of infection exceeds it, the whole house of cards starts coming down. Imagine doctors, firemen and policemen starting to succumb.
I agree that opening up in a dumb way would let the virus rip through the population.

But we now know that surface transmission isn't as big a deal, and that spreading is much less likely when there isn't sustained contact. We also now have everyone wearing masks.

Given those things, I would think that any shop where you ordinarily go in for five or ten minutes and don't touch a bunch of things (shoe repair, sporting goods, NOT bookstores) would be very low risk.
The title also says,

> but the vote is doomed to fail because of billionaire's controlling stake in shares

And, warning: Daily Mail! It should be replaced with a more reliable source.
> it's value as policy follows directly and doesn't need to be stated or discussed seperately.

The problem is that if, as a scientist, I know that people are likely to convert my findings into policy, then I have an extra duty to be especially diligent and extra thorough so that my findings are valid.

Ioannidis knew exactly what he was doing when he put this pile of garbage out there. The fact that it was shoddy methodology means that he should get ESPECIALLY torched for it as an object lesson to other "scientists".
> If it's a crowd of people, you won't know who was what device unless their device is immediately next to the evil antenna.

Actually that's not true for the situation I described.

The bad actor would be able to connect any of your broadcast identifiers they observed back to each other via the diagnosis key that you published. Assuming they have a number of nodes monitoring Bluetooth traffic over a broad area that you passed through, they will be able to reconstruct the path you traveled over time.

For a naive implementation, the resolution of this reconstruction would depend on the spacing of the nodes. For a more advanced implementation, other data could be integrated to drastically improve it. Remember, your Bluetooth device is a broadcasting radio at the end of the day.

As to the likelihood of such things becoming commonplace worldwide, do bear in mind that many devices now periodically randomize their Bluetooth MAC addresses due to real world examples of tracking. Thankfully in this case it would only be possible to compromise the privacy of those who tested positive, and only within a singe 24 hour period (ie the daily tracing key rotation time frame) at that.
I don’t think that applies in the given scenario.

GP said that the letter is addressed to you, but the content is intended for someone else. You can’t obstruct delivery because it’s been delivered to the right place (the address on the envelope).

If obstruction of delivery applied in this case then we would end up with the ludicrous scenario where I could deliberately address letters to you, that are intended for my boss, then demand that you somehow deliver or return the letters once you’ve opened them.

Imagine if I sent you thousands of these letters, it would be a postal and legal DDOS.