skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pointing out that it is this article itself that is equating "injecting bleach" with "idea that Trump floated". He did not actually say to inject bleach. So did the 2% hear the question wrong, answer on expected party lines, would approve of a doctor doing it, partisan trolling, or who knows?

FWIW I think what Trump actually did say demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of basic physical knowledge and common sense, typical of empty headed business types. And while another mentally incompetent person could take his words as inspiration to inject themselves with disinfectants, he didn't literally promote this. It doesn't serve truth to exaggerate that he did.

(The terrifying thought is that this kerfuffle was actually a product of him trying to operate in an open minded brainstorming mode. It's not actually a result of him acting stupidly, but rather a product of him trying to be the smartest he can be)
Can you do screen share and use a drawing/navigational tablet instead? I've done some whiteboarding interview/collab this way and it's surprisingly effective for a lower cost and higher resolution.
Their charts also show how mild the last few flu seasons were. I assume during that time people aged and became ready to be reaped by the next big flu or coronavirus.
Does anyone know of a site compiling similar statistics per metro area or per state?

The chart is very illuminating for most countries and for areas like NYC. However, I would really like to see other areas like Florida, California, or a random rural area like Wyoming. I sort of imagine most of people's attitudes on opening policy are based on how many people they know in their network that have been affected.
That's actually what I was wondering whether they have those presence in the countries and UberEats as employees or contractors/third party. I feel like things like background checks can easily be done via third parties.
Weren't the massive quantity of discounts required to entice people to use them factored into marketing? Further I believe they counted the entire price of a shared ride as "revenue" while they only counted 30% of regular rides, even though shared rides likely made them even less money? That would restore the narrative.
I think you mean Liftbridge's author. NATS was created by Derek Collison [1], co-founder of CloudFoundry.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=derekcollison
Was he brought in for this purpose or because his predecessor was a train wreck of potential liability waiting to happen?
Not everybody works on customer facing products. Apple has a ton of software to manage their supply chain and other logistical things, which requires a lot of engineering effort. That’s what happen when you try to control every part of your product development.
There will always be a segment of the population who will take the benefit and use it to make themselves worse off.

But it doesn't matter because far more people will use it for good things like feeding and clothing their families.

On balance, that's better than what we do now, which is that the addicts still abuse substances, but many who are not addicts struggle to provide for their families.
> That's the first time I've heard "open source" used to refer to a warez site.

I think "open-source intelligence" [0] is probably a little more commonly used but both terms basically refer to the same thing -- the acquiring and/or gathering of data or information from public, or "open", sources.

Originally, it was mostly a government/intelligence thing:

> Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is data collected from publicly available sources to be used in an intelligence context. In the intelligence community, the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources).

More recently, it has been used to refer to the act of gathering information by searching the Internet.

> Is this overloading of the term being seeded by someone in order to, in a roundabout way, discredit the open source movement?

To be clear, this usage of "open-source" predates open-source software and "the open source movement" by a few decades, at least. Additionally, as the Wikipedia article explicitly points out (in the first paragraph), "it is not related to open-source software".

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSINT
Who knows. People are just starting to wear these types of earbuds for extended periods of time.
Government of India launched an app for contact tracing weeks before Google and Apple announced making one, which relies on GPS and bluetooth to monitor.
The cloud compute cost for an individual ride can't even be one US cent!

Surely?
WhatsApp UPS limit on video calls to eight people
---"Using the "best" teachers from the school district to provide lectures for every student taking that course"

While theoretically this sounds good, it doesn't work in practice. Kids, espcially young ones (I have a 2nd grader), need that personal interaction with their teacher. Schools are already overwhelmed with the teacher to student ratio. Imporsonalizing this interaction will only worsen an already bad situation.
Exactly. It's like measuring the success of building an airplane by how much it weights.

What's especially interesting to me here is how the landscape has changed since Uber launched 10 years ago. In 2010, you legitimate had to build a lot of your own stuff; at that point Amazon hadn't even launched SNS or Redshift. [1] Docker didn't exist. Etc, etc.

So the question for me isn't, "Can Uber justify their apparently large infrastructure?" It's more, "If somebody started an Uber competitor today, how much of the work could they get from open source, PaaS, and SaaS providers?"
Who owned that debt in the bible? It's not all sheiks and kings these days, but instead pension funds and insurance companies. I'm not sure you can just forget the debt without screwing a lot of people in the process. My guess is the Fed will just print the money as that's a lot more politically feasible than the alternative.

The only question is if we have to print more than other countries.
> have a hard time sitting there all day on the computer by themselves and learning

Is this how your local school is handling it? I can't even make it through full day meetings as an adult and pretty much zone out after 20 minutes of any online meetings I'm in now.
I have no issue with this argument when what is being discussed is presented from the authority of "this is like, just my opinion, man." And if it's a well constructed argument based on evidence I may even be convinced. Dude.

You know how qualified lawyers frequently say "not legal advice" when talking about hypothetical application of the law? Eg Matt Levine and his amusing "money stuff" column.

That.

I'm a doctor. Look at the credentials on my wall. I treat these patients. Believe me. I am saying this with the authority of all those credentials.

(But those credentials are total nonsense in making that decision, it turns out, and should provide zero weight to an argument that is literally life and death). Yeah, i have a problem with that. If their argument was solid and well supported, no need to point at the authority, right?

Yes we live in a world where an option has vastly more weight with the authority of a Hollywood actor. Great. The authority of a pretty person whose only skill is lying convincingly counts.

Your opinion. Well expressed and argued if a little sweary. I don't care about your credentials, nor you mine. No problem. Examine the argument. Address the evidence. Great.
Thank you! The current Internet is not usable, all those paywalls. I miss 2000s.
Yeah it's like the false positives that plague attempts to measure rates of covid19. If you ask about briefs vs boxers the errors cancel. Run with scissors yay or nay, it doesn't.
I agree that the final “thing” that runs containers and provides isolation is Linux kernel, it’s also pointed out in the article :-) Thanks for the feedback! Bocker looks like a fun little project indeed
One more possible factor for the low number of cases that has not been discussed in this thread is the high genetic diversity. Search for 'HLA covid india'.

https://www.ncbs.res.in/content/comparative-analyses-low-med...
It's a bit more complicated than that. You have a period of time to delete the data. And you can keep enough info to know what data you've deleted, so that if you restore from backups you are able to re-delete without having to go through your backups and delete everything. Probably more that I'm forgetting.
> There was a bunch of dead code buried that was only executed
> by the tests, apparently to bump up their unit test coverage.

I've seen this trick used before; puff up the code base with just-gotta-work type filler (e.g., adding layers of abstraction and tons of parameter checking and re-checking) in order to hit some code-coverage metric. I mean, who's going to argue about a layer of abstraction, it's an automatic good thing, right? And parameter checking is what separates us from the animals!

Encountering code like this is usually a Bad Sign.
I'm finding this super difficult to believe, it doesn't pass my internal BS detector. Anyone know how they arrived at this?

Quick order of magnitude calc:

Googling "London to New York flight carbon emissions" I get 0.67 tonnes CO2 in the infobox.

Using https://www.powershop.com.au/carbon-calculator/ as a quick guide, they reckon 0.66 tons CO2 would be generated by power use of about 620 kWh.

Suppose I watch for 12h a day, 30 days, 360h, they're claiming I'm responsible for power draw of clickety clack 1.7kW continous? (split between me, netflix and transit) To stream some video? Get outta here...

My napkin suggests they're exaggerating by about a factor of 10.
It takes 8 seconds for reddit.com to become interactive
If you look at the Uber 2019 annual report, page 64, you can see that revenue was $14.1B, cost of revenue was $7.1B, and sales and marketing was $4.6B.

$14.1B - $7.1B - $4.6B = $2.4B

Driver bonuses fall under cost of revenue, and user promotions fall under sales and marketing. It’s only after subtracting other overhead that the company becomes unprofitable.

Other overhead includes operations and support, research and development, and general administrative. If you read the descriptions of these categories it becomes apparent that they are going to need to lay people off if they cut spending there. Sales and marketing also includes a lot of headcount.

All the above math includes both rides and eats. There are other numbers in the annual report that show that rides is making more money overall while other areas are losing more.
So you come across pandemics and traffic accident risks and your response is you want to stay drunk on adrenaline.
It varies a lot based on what language you’re looking at, how much time you want to put in and what level of proficiency you’re at. Your best bet is probably to search for the learn $language subreddit for relevant apps, resources and blogs. (I can give pointers for Japanese.)
Reading the documentation for FFmpeg, it seems like FFmpeg can also be used to concatenate and overlay video and edit the audio, and supports captions and subtitles and many other functions too. It would seem that Editly supports the use of JSON5, and the use of JavaScript and HTML for custom graphics/animations (although I don't see a lot of the stuff that FFmpeg does in the documentation for Editly), but what I want is the ability to use PostScript for custom graphics and animations, rather than JavaScript. Although external graphics/animations are also helpful, but I think FFmpeg already does that anyways (and it also supports APNG, too, which is better than animated GIF, I think). However, neither FFmpeg nor Editly support farbfeld, as far as I can see.
Really? Are you really so arrogant as to ignore that YouTube is far more likely to be making an ideological decision here?

An expert made a statement. YouTube went out of its way to find a doctor who supported YouTube's ideological slant and used that as justification for taking action.

This obliviousness. This is why we must restrict power. This is why we can't have nice things.
Ask HN: Are Downvotes Necessary?
Why are downvotes necessary? In a system with upvotes and flagging, downvotes do not seem to provide any additional value, and likely often stifle conversation on the basis of personal bias.

I often experience downvotes when I post an unpopular opinion, and the downvotes generally outnumber the comments on the post.

In other words, it is too easy for downvotes to be handed out based on biases, and without the need to explicitly state why an idea is worth criticizing.
They operate in 17 datacenter locations*. Big difference.

The point stands that they have physical infrastructure and all their own stuff in cages around the world, not just cloud native AWS tools.
Tape fanatic here. Lovin' it. Can I get the details? What kind of machines are you using? Is the whole toolchain analogue?
Any strong reasons you chose C?

Maybe I skimmed too quickly but I didn't see this mentioned in that blog post.

Was there a requirement from other teams?
Yes, the ability to hold enough pee without it leaking is something certain high quality nappies do far better than others. The ability to pull the moisture away from the skin as to reduce the chance of rash is done better by certain brands and I would hope the 'non-fakes' adhere to some sort of standard where the material doesn't affect the health of the skin as it's medically approved etc.

If your comment is correct, we could just wrap old tshirts around my babies arse.
Why are we entitled to it?
In the FAQ it says this is going into the Windows kernel. Is there a sockets api emerging for QUIC or will each impl have its own api?
You don't. Social engineering has been the best tool in the kit since long ago. Used to do it in the phone phreaking days. The majority of the time, the person being "engineered" is some sort of customer service type who is essentially there to help customers. It takes a robo-level self-control to essentially say "tough cookies, I cannot help you for fear of being scammed".
This is hilarious considering Oracle is suing Google in SCOTUS over usage of public Java APIs...
Yeah but it's quite a leap from polio vaccinators getting waxed and Shakil Afridi being jailed to "Doctors have a bad reputation in Pakistan" and then imply it's because it's a Muslim country. Many (even conservative) parents send their daughters to publicly financed medical colleges often to increase their marriage prospects. Does that sound like a thing they would do if doctors had a bad rap? Doctors came out and criticized the clerics for lack of adherence to social distancing, I didn't see anyone call them un-Islamic for standing their ground.
One of the toughest challenges of reopening businesses is mass transit
"Even if that’s true, what does it have to do with banning the video and preventing the public from making their own decision?"

Research done on fake news illustrates why ordinary consumers of news cannot be trusted to make informed judgements.

"Right this moment I can go on youtube and look up a million rap videos that talk about guns, violence, murder, and more. I can look at videos that would lead me to harm myself in all sorts of ways if I didn’t have a brain."

Exactly this. This is why it is irresponsible for a global platform to promote this tripe.
There was a talk by Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 Turing Award (I forget which one, it might have been their Turing Award lecture), where they said basically: software engineers are not good as solving performance problems, all the big improvements are really done at the hardware level. I wonder if something similar applies here.

We can certainly improve things in a number of small ways through better software, and when we can we should. Is that what's really going to fix the problem? Or will the problem really only be solved by having efficient energy cell storage coupled with non-carbon based energy sources meaning that large server farms produce no pollution? Not fundamentally changing one's behavior other than using 40kb files instead of 80kb files for sending memes to one's friends seems like it's more there for one to not feel bad about one's self for not having solved the problem.
Well now I'm concerned that I'm on the same side of an argument with someone like you.
From the Nature article:

> The energy-efficiency drive at the information factories that serve us Facebook, Google and Bitcoin.

I'm guessing less, although I failed at parsing the article.
I think most current models will experience some other hardware failure before their flash memory really starts to wear out. Most SSD failures that consumers experience are catastrophic firmware bugs that are largely unrelated to flash memory endurance, which is why they seem unpredictable. Assuming Apple's homegrown SSD controller technology has been rigorously tested against what their own OS will do to the drive, they should be no more prone to such failures than top-tier retail SSD brands. Barring that failure mode, the batteries, displays, discrete GPUs and DRAM probably all have expected lifespans that are no longer than the SSDs.
Thanks, I hadn’t thought to try beginner language courses as an alternative to Duolingo and similar apps! (I’ve done an intermediate-level university course on pronunciation which was pretty good.) I agree that Duolingo isn’t very useful — and the last time I tried it, it didn’t really help me understand the grammar either. I don’t like how it encourages superficial out-of-context rote-learning.
Rather than buying suction cups (for which I would subsequently have had no further use), I managed very nicely by using just a couple of strips of packing tape. Each strip formed a "handle" -- one on each side of the screen, same as you'd do with the suction cups.

There are various ways to manage this, I suppose, but in my case each strip began as a roughly 16 inch length. I folded it 180 degrees at the halfway point and allowed the two legs to stick to each other for about 4 inches. Then the two legs part company, turning 90 degrees but in opposite directions -- and that 90 degree point is where the tape meets the surface of the glass.
I recently did something similar (though I haven't had a chance to clean up or document the repositories for Flutter plugin/Rust library yet).

The Flutter application uses FFI to invoke the Rust library, passing a series of strokes (i.e. coordinates on a 2D canvas) and returning a list of Chinese character candidates.

Although it's not yet stable, I was very impressed with Dart FFI. I've used both JNI and .NET PInvoke for native interop before, and Dart FFI was probably the easiest (PInvoke is fine, but JNI is horrible).

https://github.com/nmfisher/flutter_chinese_character_recogn...

https://github.com/nmfisher/hanzi_lookup (forked from the original https://github.com/gugray/hanzi_lookup)
There was a talk by Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 Turing Award (I forget which one, it might have been their Turing Award lecture), where they said basically: software engineers are not good as solving performance problems, all the big improvements are really done at the hardware level. I wonder if something similar applies here.

We can certainly improve things in a number of small ways through better software, and when we can we should. Is that what's really going to fix the problem? Or will the problem really only be solved by having efficient energy cell storage coupled with non-carbon based energy sources meaning that large server farms produce no pollution? Not fundamentally changing one's behavior other than using 40kb files instead of 80kb files for sending memes to one's friends seems like it's more about letting one to not feel bad about one's self.
Is there any empirical evidence of Price’s law? Would love to see it.

I could only find this study (admittedly from 1986) that disproved the original hypothesis - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030645...
"People should be able to see all the opinions of various experts; doctors in NYC, doctors in Minnesota. Just them on their merits and examine the evidence."

Most people are not qualified to "examine the evidence" and make public health policy decisions. This is why we rely upon the experts. Otherwise you have measles outbreaks in Beverly Hills.
Why startups like Stripe win
About a week ago this came up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936818

PC, the bo55 co-founder of Stripe was the first to comment. Outlining this was feature only for advanced fraud protection.

As a Stripe user myself, I have to admit, I was sceptical. Also - more network payload. Arghhh. Lighthouse death.

Then today, I login to Stripe and get this message: https://stripe.com/au/blog/advanced-fraud-detection-updates

Stripe. Thank you. You are my hero. THIS people is HOW YOU RUN A STARTUP.
> Storms wouldn't cause a problem. These planes travel through air at 800km/h, a storm with 100km/h winds is nothing.

These craft are designed for lift. High winds can make planes "take off" while stationary. Not sure it's a problem for planes this size, but it's definitely a problem for smaller planes.
I’ve wondered this same thing for about 20 years. It almost seems a no-brainer for the credit card companies (Citi, Chase, what have you) or Visa, MC, etc., to have started doing this at some point. But alas, here we are printing on dead trees that I then digitally capture and throw away )-:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_and_the_death_pe.... There are quite a few under-18 cases.

Per the article: "No one was struck or killed in the shooting."

So again, [citation needed] about people committing the "exact same" crime being on death row, given that the crime described in the article is far below the bar necessary to warrant capital punishment.

> let me state that I find it incredible that many people such as yourself believe that the CEO of a multimillion dollar company, who participated in a violent hate crime and avoided the consequences of his actions due to a sympathetic court and typo, is the victim in this whole affair.

And let me state that I find it incredible that many people such as yourself believe that people (especially teenagers) can't be victims of indoctrination, can't possibly feel genuine remorse for their mistakes as teenagers, and must be deprived of their rights forever because of those mistakes. I don't give the slightest sliver of a damn whether he's a CEO or a cashier. Morality is morality.

Comparing a crime that resulted in zero injuries or deaths to two men beating someone to death face-to-face is nonsensical. We can possibly argue intent (i.e. did Patton et. al. intend to actually kill people inside the synagogue), but it should be entirely unsurprising that someone who neither injured or killed someone went relatively unpunished due to said lack of injury or death, especially given that he was willing to plead guilty and testify against the other perpetrators.

Patton still did a shitty thing, but we have every indication that in the 30 years since then he's turned his life around and is genuine in his remorse. If there was evidence he continued to fraternize with skinheads even after that trial, especially recently, then by all means it's reasonable to be skeptical, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
But there was also paper white, which was more of a bluish purple in reality.
why are you people trying to end everything that's in-person? what is so harmful about in person activities?! there's an ugly anti-humanist component in the tech world.
> Should they have that right though?

Yes.

Free speech does not grant the right for anyone to say whatever they want. The US Surpreme court has, as a matter of case law, ruled in specific areas to restrict free speech.

These two doctors, under the pretense of medical expertise, provided false information, and used Youtube to do it.

Google being a large massive publicly traded entity does not have any bearing as to it's responsibility to guard against violations on it's platform.