skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how someone can love their political party as much as Mitch McConnell does. It's party before all else. I don't get it. At all.
Shutdown-Cozy, Hygienic-Possessive, Locally-Remote: 3 Coronavirus Megatrends
> They can't handle when someone is expressive (aka the Tesla @ 420 tweet, he simply expresses his opinion)

He tweeted about having money to take Tesla private, which from what I remember turned out to be false. Lying is not being expressive, it's just that: lying.
So? EM induces other kind of cellular changes. Maybe not as immediately disruptive as ionizing radiation. Just look up the study linking neuroglioblastoma incidence correlates to the side of the head one uses their cellphone.
To be fairly honest, lots of extremely competent people hold some batshit insane opinions about a lot of pretty important things.

I posit Steve Jobs and his alternative therapy beliefs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/
Interesting.

Okay, let's play with this. Let us extrapolate from the strong correlation found by this retrospective review, and postulate that Vitamin D Insufficiency (VDI) is indeed a major contributing factor in either the severity of a COVID-19 infection, or the chances of contracting it. (I am not claiming this is indeed true, correlation != causation, but I think strong correlations are certainly worth looking at and playing with).

It is my observation that in my local area, the shelter-in-place order has resulted in more people spending more of their time indoors and not going outside as much. The park in my neighborhood is empty. I see less people on the bike trails visible from the roads I take to the grocery store. A nature park 20 minutes from my house, the kind that people go to to get out of the city and the hell away from other people, is closed with COVID-19 as the justification and scary signs threatening fines posted at all the entrances. And so on.

With less people getting outside, and less often, that means more people are getting less sun exposure, and less vitamin D. Assuming that their diets aren't changing to make up for that, that means more people with VDI, and those already with VDI getting worse. As such, if VDI will make it easier to catch COVID, or make the symptoms worse once caught, I can't help but wonder if these shelter-in-place orders intended to slow the spread won't end up shooting us in the foot, setting us up for a 2nd wave more brutal than had people been encouraged and incentivized to get outside more.

I really hope I'm wrong about that.
Just curious, why do we need this?
Look at the Asian airlines. Many of them were built recently. My personal favorite is Air Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirAsia
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how wealth works. Wealth isn't conserved. It's created and destroyed. No billionaire has a pile of money or a bank account with $1 billion in it. Their wealth is in equity in the companies they've founded and run. It's invested- used for productive purposes such as building better software and services. Or scaling the number of Whole Foods delivery staff. Or building contact tracing apps. Even if you're perfectly greedy, hoarding wealth as a pile of cash or gold is a terrible idea. You'll end up with far more money if you invest it.
The technical correctness of your comment isn't of practical significance when you argue as follows:

>The 99.99999% case scenario concerns videos that are saying '5g caused coronavirus', and meanwhile you're trying to tie up everybodies attention with special cases that don't represent the majority of cases. People get disoriented with special cases and trick questions.
Also security: if consumer PCs were open to the internet, they would be constantly getting breached in even bigger numbers.
SF Bay Area Shelter-in-Place Orders Extended as Some Rules Ease
Facebook is using this?
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I agree. I got this prompt:

> Cybercrime is viewed as a serious threat to the prosperity and security of developed states, prompting the adoption of cyber security strategies across a range of countries. Although some malicious cyber activities are carried out in the pursuit of military or political objectives, a high proportion of cybercrime is financially motivated. According to one report, this was the case for 76% of all data breaches in 2017.

I had to read it three times to understand it. I could try to make it present the information in a clearer way - maybe something like this?

> Many countries adopt cyber security strategies to mitigate threat from cyberattacks. Although some attacks are means to a political end, 76% of all data breaches are financially motivated.

(The algorithm didn't think this was a valid response, but I like it.)

But it feels hollow because I don't understand what the prompt is trying to communicate. The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year. Is it trying to say that countries shouldn't worry about cyberattacks? Why does it conflate cyberattacks to data breaches? There is no thesis or argument, they seem like disconnected and soulless facts. In good writing, every sentence has a purpose, and they build to a conclusion. Wasn't it confusing when I mentioned how much food the average person eats when it had no clear relevance to anything? That's how I felt with all the prompts I got. This still seems like a cool site but I was a little let down.
I think this is the crux of what drives me mad with these personal anecdotes of struggle. Is this the best we can do as a society, that a few poor people, through work and luck, can become less poor? What's the point of these stories, beyond just sharing one's personal experience? That the society we've got here is the best we can do?
The cyclists have right-of-way and have no reason to expect that that cars will simply come out of the side street without stopping, or even slowing down. By the time a cyclist realises it can easily be too late.
i worked on Wolfers' new book. Lots of improvements have been made to modern day econ textbooks
in the article it didn't mention whether when you recover from covid-19, you are immune to it.
Awesome, thanks for letting me know. I've raised an issue in GitHub and I'll take a look.

Edit: I just pushed a change which hopefully addresses this, which unfortunately temporarily boots everybody from the room. Still a problem with the 2 emoji which don't display on MacOS or iOS (yawn and deaf 🧏).
"except that when you talk to companies that handle their own billing, they can point to individual features that increase conversion by single or double digit percentages that they can't get from Stripe or Braintree"

Kinda intrigued as to what that means? What features in the billing increase conversion by percentage points, but are not available via an outsourced payment provider like Stripe?
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I think that’s pretty much what he’s doing in the second part of the post
The examples given were cars that failed to yield way when legally required. Operators of heavy, high-velocity machinery should do so responsibly or not at all.
No. The RNA fragments must be encased by a lipid "bubble" with the spike protein receptors in order to invade and replicate within your cells. Even if you somehow injected these fragments directly into your bloodstream, your immune system and kidneys would easily destroy these waste particles and flush them out because they are not replicating. They're essentially the 'dead carcass' of this virus.
I am guessing the EV trainer companies have already addressed - but it's not clear to me:

How similar are EV airplanes and ICE powered ones? Aren't there a number of factors that vary from motive power and availability to weight/form factor that make training on an EV not sufficient to training on "the real thing"?
I've started doing something like this naturally. I felt the need to communicate it could be improved but the code per se is not wrong. I started using suggestion, optional, minor, etc.
This seems like a formalization of what I had in mind, thanks
I think this was what those little Chumby devices were attempting to do for people, but they've never seemed to be that popular. https://www.chumby.com/
To be fair, Shopify's prospects for the future look like they will scale far better (and also Boeing's uncertainty in the short-medium term is currently priced in).

Reports were that Boeing's expansion into South Carolina were done rapidly without training up the local workers. Quality control in SC was far below par with the Washington factories.

Perhaps Boeing's fall is a reflection on the US economy. We still make lots of things, but we pinch pennies and quality suffers. Then it catches up to us when it's revealed that we avoided regulatory scrutiny by obscuring a fairly large change in design. Now we hit severe headwinds and the future is scary and uncertain because this is the inevitable outcome of the direction we have been steering for 1-2 generations.
Vitamin D intake via supplements (vitamin pills) results in vitamin D storage in fat in you body. The storage decays over time, and it appears that intake via supplements decays twice as fast as intake via sun exposure.
The official record has traced the first case back to November 17, so it definitely seems at least possible it was spreading earlier than we know.
Correct. You can't magically draft a senior lien. Unless it's a house in an HOA in a super lien state. Or you're the government and taxes are owed. So there are some instances where a senior lien can be recorded later, but an outstanding auto-loan - not that I'm aware of.

Skirting what's owed, playing games with manufactured leverage, getting repossessed - these are all the factors that cause people with lower credit scores to pay a lot more for their loans.
Going to Mars isn't cheap.
Oh science.
If anyone's looking to learn more about road layouts (who isn't?!), Road Guy Rob has a good channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdUXv9yQiIhspWPYgp8_XA
According to this admittedly outdated CDC page[1], the 85+ age group makes up 30% of COVID-19 deaths. Even if you are right about that group (which I think is feasible but unlikely), there is still a huge population of people who are dying who were not previously close to dying.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
It would work in the sense that it would not throw an exception, but it wouldn't work the same way in every situation. Haskell's `greet "themagicalcake"` does not correspond to Python's `greet('themagicalcake')`, nor does it correspond to Python's `lambda: greet('themagicalcake')` in every situation. E.g. you can write

main = greet "themagicalcake"

in Haskell to get a program that just prints

Hello themagicalcake

but the Python program

if __name__ == "__main__":
lambda: repeat3(greet('themagicalcake'))

prints nothing.
I think from the perspective of the cyclist, the car is behind them, and stationary. It isn't in their vision until it's too late, and it won't appear to be moving at all.
2020, the year COVID outranks Cancer as the webs goto diagnosis for anything and everything
this is a conventional comment
See, it's precisely this cult of personality I can't stand about Tesla.
Yup, it's probably just the output of an optimizer and then tested on held-out future data. Not overfitting is the key here and what's really hard. You need to be careful about the number of parameters and the amount of validation data you have.

These alphas will likely be only profitable for a short time period as long as the market data distribution (i.e. strategies of other market participants) doesn't change. So you would need to continually optimize and update them.

The way I think about it is that you are essentially finding the right parameters to "exploit" the combination of algorithms of all other participants, where algorithm could also be a human looking at charts and following certain rules, with a lot of random noise from retail traders thrown in.
An incomplete list of such projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22274981
The Tom Scott video has a good animation on this: https://youtu.be/SYeeTvitvFU?t=119

Because of the layout of the junction the cars are actually approaching from behind the cyclists.
>Well yes - there was a civil war!

Hah, this really puts it into perspective. Despite how bad things are now, it's not 1865.
> Rent control, nimbyism, etc all backed by the current government have made the housing market a hellscape.

The question is if California is soooo bad. Why are smart, intelligent people coming here? Why does capital still invest here?

Part of the answer is other places in the US are slowly failing. So many of the problems have to due with California serving as a refuge from failed economic and social policy in other states and countries.
It's a strategy/ideology he's been rewarded for following?
>> If you have a monorepo, good build tooling, and a good infrastructure as code tool,

Yep, and so many organisations ignore these. Especially after a less successful transition to micro-services.

"you mean you want to spend more time doing non-customer visible development? You just did that micro services thing a while ago!"

"Yes, but to take proper advantage of that we need to invest in the right infrastructure and tooling"

"how can I sell that?"
Ultracrepidarianism
HN is notoriously bad at predicting trends. We're blinded by hate.
Does anyone have a layman-accessible explanation for how exactly this works? My last biology class was freshman year of college, but I find the "body-on-chip" startups incredibly interesting. I take it this is different than "growing" organs via stem cells?
Disagree. MI5 used to run full page,text only ads without even mentioning their org in the text.Those who needed to understand understood the gist of it. Jack Daniels text ads in London underground stations have more text than the other 50 stacked together. It's different,it attracts and it somehow works.
There seem to be hundreds of these sites. They all do the same thing. Off the top of my head I can remember https://file.pizza
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504358/
Vitamin D is the only vitamin that the UK’s NHS recommends most people take - usually they recommend during winter. With the Covid lockdown they have extended the advice to say keep taking it.
Things like notifications have pressure on them to be simple, because users want to be able to decide when they will receive notifications, which means it needs to be easy for them to understand when they will and will not receive them with particular settings. I'm sure there are examples of some non-user-controlled decisions that have much more complicated flow charts.
On the other hand, I love pushing buttons with a throwaway stick, especially during epidemics. The ATMs here just work perfectly that way.
He's been running the company since it was public so if you consider him batshit crazy then I'm sure you don't own any stock.
Was doing some charity bike ride when I was 16 and, halfway through, there was something like this. I'd zoned out and was gonna cycle on through the intersection when someone called out for me to stop. If I hadn't, I'd have been splattered by a speeding Corvette. I wonder if this may have played a factor.
Yeah, and Italy, Spain, and France are some of the sunnier countries in Europe (compared to Germany, UK, Belgium, Scandinavia, etc). If anything I would expect vitamin D deficiency to be less common there.
The key part seems to be this:

> Then click to allow when the system dialog asks if the sample app can control TextEdit via Apple Events.

The author argues,

> This should appear very innocuous to the user, because nobody thinks that TextEdit is dangerous, so one would think it's not much of a risk to allow TextEdit to be controlled.

This is what the dialog looks like: https://imgur.com/a/HRXDG0x

The smaller text is where the app developer provides an explanation for why they are requesting the permission.
You can do this in many ways. But you should use End-to-End encryption to guarantee security. For example, you might use a secret conversation that uses End-to-End encryption on some software like Signal, Telegram and Conversations. Or you can use encryption software like gpg (see https://gnupg.org/) with public key encryption methods, to encrypt the password (or any message), and then you can send it using literally anything, like email or so on.

And here is a guide on email encryption (https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/).
It has been interesting to see the different approaches to future planning in the wake of Covid-19 by the two big ad players.

While Google is looking to scale back on things like hiring, FB looks to be going all in on this opportunity and doesn't seem to be slowing down with future plans specially wrt hiring(though they have pushed back joining dates to the later half of the year). They even considered it wise to do an all cash deal for $6 billion for a minor stake in a telecom provider in India.
I think you're deliberately trolling me so I'm not going to keep responding.
The classification of virus is difficult, but it is not based only in the shape. The shape may give some hints, and help to get a friendly name, but it is not the only property. Moreover, in the last (10?) years it is easier and easier to sequence the genome of them, and understand the relations.

For an more familiar example, think about the distinction of rabbits and hares. I can't for the life of me distinguish them, but they are not very related and biologist can classify them and get the more related species of them (specially if the rabbit/hare is dead and they can open it and look at the inner parts and bones, or even better, make a genetic analysis).

Another example is sharks vs dolphins. Both live in water and they look somewhat similar. (I think I can distinguish them.) Why are sharks a type of fish, but dolphins are not?
Does anyone know when the contagious period (for a single covid infection) tends to end? Are you contagious the entire time you have symptoms? Beyond that point? ("Viral shedding" doesn't necessarily mean contagious.)
I don't have any hard numbers, but I have heard ~85% ICE success rate with out TURN. But you are right, in some cases WebRTC will fail without TURN. Just no one wants to pay to run those servers :)

I would love to see TCP hole punching in ICE, but it sounds like it is super hard to get right.

Consumer internet does a lot better, lots of those failures come from Government/Military/Medical I bet.
Very nice! I'm assuming this is based on the wonderful "Magic Wormhole"? Is it actually using that program under the hood?
Yeah I definitely know what you mean. I've found this works well for meetings with your team or people you work really closely with, especially once the initial novelty of just mashing all the sound effects wears off. There's a cut-down version with just 6 core sounds (clap, yes, no, can't see, can't hear, check the chat) that might be more palatable: https://meeting-companion.azurewebsites.net/
> DigitalOcean saves you on average 122% on your monthly AWS hosting costs, and 140% on your monthly Azure hosting costs.

No. No it doesn’t. That’s not how you compare costs. This is a poorly written piece of SEO filler content.
But this isn't a game. It has real consequences.
> The nice thing about WebRTC is this works (pretty much) everywhere! Someone could throw up Python/Android/iOS/Go/Web/C++ Clients really easily.

Huh, what did I miss?! How do you make a WebRTC-client in
language-of-your-choice? The last time I checked for C++ I only
found answers like "look at the chrome source". lol.
And for tech?
You think Elon Musk's motivation is greed? That people going back to work or not will greatly affect his lifestyle?

Is there any nuance when it comes to Elon Musk, or only fan-boys and haters?
Machine learning identifies genomic signatures of 29 Covid-19 DNA sequences
The alt-text of xkcd 552 comes to mind: "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."
Maybe the market is not so intelligent after all.
One of the original popular use cases for services like this was if you're developing against a third-party service that wants to send you webhooks.

But it's also useful if you want to run something locally and show it to a friend or co-worker. The co-worker bit is especially useful now with people working from home.

Regardless, this space is pretty crowded, so I'm not sure what a new offering could do to differentiate. I'm skeptical of their "6x faster than ngrok" claim, and even if it is true, I don't think this is a use case where that metric really matters all that much.

(Full disclosure: the founder of ngrok is a friend of mine, so I'm certainly biased here.)
I had winter depression for years, and Vitamin D supplementation has all-but completely cured it. If I forget to take it for a few days (in the winter), then I really notice the difference, and taking the supplement (via drops) reliably helps within 2-3 hours of taking them.

I don't see how this could be a placebo as 1. I wasn't really expecting them to work in the first place. 2. I've tried all sorts of things over the years to try and relieve my depression, and nothing else has worked.

It's possible that raising baseline levels isn't actually required to have beneficial effects. Of course, the quantities of vitamin that aren't raising baseline levels must be going somewhere. It doesn't seem unlikely to me that at least some of it is going directly towards production of whatever things the body uses vitamin D for.
I don't doubt this at all.

But at the same time, isn't it suspected that vitamin D insufficiency is linked with a worse immune system generally?

(Anecdotally it made a big difference for me not getting winter colds ever since my doctor pointed out I had a significant wintertime deficiency and I started supplementing.)

In other words, there's unlikely to be any unique link between vitamin D and COVID-19. That this just falls in the wide bucket of "unhealthier people are more affected by COVID-19", similar to obesity.
Not if you use the same password for both of them :')
Doctors Investigate Link Between Rare Childhood Disease and Covid-19
Maybe calling them FAANGULA would have triggered some unfortunate associations…
Do these other ones have native clients? WebWormHole has a Go client, so you can run everywhere Go works! Unix/Windows/Mobile/Web covers a decent amount of platforms :)
I don't think that includes CapEx. So they're making 25% on each car, but they have to spend several billion dollars building a factory to manufacture them that turned up on their balance sheet in previous years. In the same way they're making 25% margin on their car, but they're still losing money - because it all goes into building the facilities to manufacture their next model.
Does it have to be a 'service" or would a simple script work for you?
https://archive.vn/1ghj4
This uses STUN servers to help it poke through NATs. (That's what I mean by "WebRTC's NAT traversal tricks")

There's no TURN server set for this, but it shouldn't be hard to add one. There are NATs where you'd need one to relay all the traffic, but these seem to be relatively rare nowadays. If anyone has any actual statistics on these I'd appreciate it!
I once met a bunch of guys at Graceland that had just flown in a jet for delivery for Fedex. They fly in the plane and then fly commercial back home.
So what's the ideal amount of sun exposure to produce enough for a white guy at 45 north? Is there anywhere reputable that calculates this kind of thing?