skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that was the point GP was trying to make.

You're correct that section 230 doesn't require neutrality, but that was part of the point of the legislation. The case law prior to section 230 did result in such a distinction, though not necessarily in those terms.

The cases in question are:

- Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., in which CompuServe was held not liable for content hosted on its systems as it was merely a distributor and did not have knowledge of the content, and

- Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., in which Prodigy was held liable for defamatory content posted on its systems as it performed moderation and was therefore considered to have editorial control over the content

Section 230 introduced a carve-out for internet service companies to avoid liability for user-generated content, but given the case law it does seem like this is otherwise a distinction made in US law.
> A vast majority of those who've contracted COVID are asymptomatic.

Any sources on that?

From the https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E... it looks like at most 17% could be asymptomatic, but I'm not sure if it wouldn't be lower if they waited longer.
I have not been an Oracle fan in the past, especially because of their complicated (and expensive) licensing, but late last year we moved to their hosted autonomous database. The on demand pricing model makes it quite economical, and the performance is amazing.

However, the killer feature for me is that it has application Express (or APEX) included, which is a complete web application development framework, as well as Oracle restful data services (ORDS). With built-in application development and deployment, it is the only complete, full-stack data management platform I am aware of (enterprise level).

YRMV, but it has been incredible for us, both to support our data science initiatives, and for rapidly deploying applications. I couldn't imagine going back to anything else.
Ask HN: Is there a site that lists which businesses don't require masks?
If no shoes no shirt no service is a thing.

Certainly, no mask no service should be a thing.
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I absolutely agree that you can have a good career without having a degree (or a degree from the right school), but you will have a very tough time getting beyond a certain threshold. I understand it's very obvious in France for upper management and public/political higher positions that it's not merit-based. The same is true for most countries, with varying degrees of impact and obviousness.

But if you're not going for that threshold, you'll likely not run into issues. And if you're in niche-careers, it's probably true as well.
They're not going anywhere and it's only going to get more prevalent when Apple moves to ARM. Can't see Catalyst apps being a compelling alternative to the benefits of Electron to any team who has to answer to a budget.

I don't agree with it ideologically because I moved to mac because I loved how Cocoa apps felt, but honestly Microsoft has the right idea in just embracing it because it isn't going anyway any time soon so best just to make sure they run well on your platform.
It's the same user, but with locked down access (by default).
As an example, can't ptrace by default.

A container is a process with some kernel isolation mechanisms setup around it. Unless one of those mechanisms is a user namespace with uids/gids mapped to an unused set of users, you get the same user.
Ask HN: How do you backup personal documents?
Optical audio I/O. Many people might not know this, but you could actually plug in an optical S/PDIF cable into your Macbook Pro, on both the "microphone" input and "headphones" output line, to get digital audio in and out.
I don't think the blog post is accurate, see [1]. From the three providers mentioned above (fastmail/mailbox/runbox) which I have experience with, fastmail has by far the best ui, speed and feel (atm).

As with gmail the fastmail provider does read your email content to provide e.g. search (and in case of gmail who knows what more?). Both will hand out information with a lawful warrant. -- And as long as the government is reasonably sane [2] that's perfectly fine with me.

[1] https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabi...
[2] otherwise I'd try ProtonMail (but it has a price in useability)
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One way to find out is to look at the overall death rates (of all causes) in an area and see how it evolved. NY started doing that and found there's a discrepancy. One explanation among others is that some people who've caught it and died from it never got a positive test (either no test, or false negative).

That seems to point to the opposite happening: a higher mortality that is still not fully understood for lack of accurate data.
Analyzing common sense seems to be getting more popular.
Mid 2012 500gb Macbook Pro 13" (Mojave) here, $90! I think I'll experiment with it more instead of trading it in.
This argument doesn't really work. It appears that the college students want the credits and they want to finish out the semester, but they want a refund of an arbitrary amount of money. If you order pork and they bring out beef, it's reasonable to not pay for the beef if the restaurant ran out of pork, but it's not reasonable to eat the beef (which costs more) and then demand 40% off the price of pork because it's not what you wanted.

There are two critical points to keep in mind: cost of instruction increased, and this was something the schools couldn't control. A refund for the last few weeks of the semester with no credit makes sense (the students can withdraw and get a prorated refund). An arbitrary refund when the students have access to the material and instructors and get the same credits is not reasonable.
Sorry didn't mean to be catty. Just that, our 20-year old code for most people seems naïve and clumsy.
You don't think it would be difficult to keep compatibility with all of the existing Emacs Lisp packages that exist now?
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<< Imagine a highly skilled author who recognizes a younger one that misuses a semicolon or has poor grammar; the older says to the younger >>

I cannot imagine a highly skilled author who never employs split infinitives. Show me that person.

Regarding semicolons, here is Kurt Vonnegut's opinion on them: "Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."

Is that good advice? Perhaps for some writers, it actually is; but it's not about the semicolon, really, but about stilted, bad writing.

<< Isn't this a prescriptivist rule? >>

I was responding to the previous comment "It's also _descriptively_ true that many people regard certain rules as inviolable, which certainly means that prescription is, in some sense, completely reasonable: comply, or we'll refuse to accept you." My direct answer is "It's the prescriptivists 'refusing to accept' who should worry about acceptance, since they are failing on so many levels it's hard to know where to start"
Show HN: An HTTP server (Go) for Apple/Google's contact tracing framework
Yeah, I'm sorry but the idea of dealing with linux compatibility on a laptop or running Windows is a complete dealbreaker for me. despite how bad the macbook pros get i just can't switch.
> Wouldn't this be less of an issue

I'm not sure I understand what issue you would solve with using "[org.clojure/clojure ">1.2.0"]" compared to what we're doing today, which is specifying the exact version we're using. What is the issue you're addressing here exactly?

In general, the Clojure community favors stability (more than others like npm) when it comes to dependencies, so you're almost always defining the exact version of the dependency you want.
Rewriting thousands of packages (some of which have had man-decades of work poured into them) would also be rather convoluted.
> Free speech is different from material harm to others.

This is not a universally agreed-upon belief, and is specifically a belief I disagree with.

Free speech is just as sharp a blade as any other weapon. We seem to think that weapons can be carried safely because human beings will use good judgement about when to use them. I hold the same belief about speech: it is dangerous when wielded incorrectly, and societies are uniquely vulnerable to it above all other weapons. It's no more appropriate to me to allow wholly unrestricted use of speech than it is to allow wholly unrestricted use of weapons.

Most arguments for 'free speech' try to avoid the ethical debate about where the line between 'freedom to say anything' and 'harm to the greater good' is. I consider that line the most critical debate of all. Arguing that speech must never be restricted is just as extremist a view as arguing that speech must always be restricted. I much prefer the position "speech generally doesn't need to be restricted, but I'll make an exception in cases of significant risk/harm to societies".
An idea I came across from some thread HN is to try to write a short TIL blogpost everyday, it might be small trivial thing, bit surely we learn something new on most days.
Marketing yourself is not evil
"Market dominance" might overstate the case.

Apple makes up for a small percentage of all laptops sold, even if you compare manufacturers (rather than "Apple" vs "Windows machine"). They have a smaller share of laptop sales than HP, Dell, or Lenovo, and very close to the same (depending on when you look) as Acer and ASUS:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/818439/global-notebook-c...
High refresh rate screen is the only thing I'd want from that list. I'll upgrade my 2017 MBP when/if a model with >120Hz display comes out. For me it's been the greatest thing in consumer space since HDD to SSD upgrades. Having made the switch on desktop, going back to 60 Hz makes all motions (even scrolling a web page) appear incredibly choppy and distracting for a hour or two until my eyes readapt.
Amazon and Shopify’s race to master time and space in e-commerce
I develop on one of these every single day I just use Visual Studio Code with custom launch.json and task.json that allows me to ssh into the jetson, copy over the compiled for linux code, and attach a remote debugger.. I like never even touch the jetson and all my builds and shit are pushed over... its actually an easy as shit development experience at this point.. You have to kinda know what you're doing... but its all totally usable. The dev kit i have has been running 415 days without any issues running 5 custom programs I've written.
I tried that, but I'm not sufficiently superhuman. Things slowly but inexorably drift out of sync as changes get made in one place but not the other, despite my best efforts. Declaring how things should be and then letting the computer make it so is both less work and more reliable. (This is why I call it "executable documentation".)
I'm sure they're working as fast as they can to automate these folks out of jobs so that someone else can be blamed for being sexist and racist by employing them.

And then the new employer can be the "villain of the month" on HN.
My father works at a warehouse. I've worked in flooring

These are jobs where people work together. Everyone knows who's the slacker & who gets shit done

In flooring the owner would stop by for 10 minutes at smoke breaks & listen to gossip to get an idea of what's going on. He'd shuffle people's schedules around so that he could figure out who was the common denominator of trouble. For the most part there was very little intervention necessary. I happened to take off one day a week at random no questions asked (combination of not being physically capable of doing 5 days a week of that job while also happening to be scraping paint off a house that summer)

So you don't need to keep people on a tight leash. Learn to analyze the noise & intervene when something is clearly going wrong
Yep and then as soon as you add quotation marks it breaks down:

s = f"The {some_function()["WHOOPS!!!"]} is a problem, please look at: {' '.join([item for item in functino_call("whoops again")])}"

This indirectly proves the point I think.
Wake me up when the new Macbook has more ports and better cooling.. the other improvements seem a little superficial.
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make, w/r/t the post you're replying to.

Again:

A family might feed themselves through a combination of any or all of: hunting, trapping, fishing, foraging for wild edibles, home gardening, AND buying from whatever is available on the market.

I'm saying that hunting, etc. are individuals components of a broader strategy for providing food - not that any one of those things is sufficient in and of itself. As as of today, it doesn't appear to me that the commercial market for food is going to just disappear overnight. But if things devolve to the point that you can't buy everything you need, then some of these other approaches can come into play.

Seafood - that sounds like continuing to rely upon the food supply line (fishing boats and their supply chain).

There isn't just one "food supply line." The supply chain for the steak you buy at Food Lion involves a lot of intermediate steps and processing. And those are exactly the steps where we've heard news reports of the processing plants closing down, etc.

My point about seafood is that there are fewer such intermediate steps involved. A boat comes in, docks, and sells their shrimp to the seafood house, and the seafood house sells to the public. The main processing is weighing. And some boat captains even bypass the "sell to the seafood house" part and sell direct.
And this is how we get Skynet...
Covid-19 may be only 10-50x more deadly than the flu. But long term damage to lungs and financial toll of hospitalization during record unemployment are nothing to sneeze at
> At what point will firms rank new grad candidates inversely proportional to the prestige of their university?

Never.

> Prestigious universities equate with more expensive candidates.

But that doesn't mean you rank those people lower. It means you offer them the job at the budgeted salary. If they don't accept the job offer at the salary range you've budgeted for the position, then you move on to the next candidate.

This might make less sense if there's a strong opportunity cost (i.e., missing a candidate because they already accepted a job), but that's not typically the case for new grads.
Something I didn’t know before I became a VP at a middling tech co — as a senior leader, your actions are considered more reflective of the company in general and specifically legally. Obvious in hindsight, but an underling that gets fired is considered representative of not much. A VP, even if they get fired, opens the company to accusations that the behavior they were fired for is representative of the company, because of their role.

For roles where you are a voice of the company, you need people who will use channels, because the alternative is literally bad for the company in ways that are very concrete.

Put more viscerally, I would not want one of my peers going to the media before they talk to me and give me a chance to address their concerns.
It takes about 2-6 deer to provide meat for a family of four for a year. So, a single deer is about two months of meat. (a deer is 50-125lbs of meat... depending on species and size)
I wish I could find the old HN comment I’m thinking of; there was some combination of memory size, board compatibility, chipset and ram that slowed Apple from moving from LPDDR3 to LPDDR4. Such restrictions might still apply to the older chips used in their non-flagship machines.

That is, if I could remember the specific details.
Crucial.

I've got an entire monitor (really a 55" 4k TV) devoted to all the chat windows and communications I'm running for my team, another 4k monitor that I actually use to code, and then my laptop sits to the side as an auxiliary monitor where I can look things up and what not.
That's exactly where I learned of the effect—the game was probably recently mentioned on HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect is the article specifically about the fluctuations.

Come to think of it, apparently in the case of the Alaskan dude just one level of interaction is enough to summon the effect with 100% variation. I wonder what the Costco managers think of the picture on their end and whether they in turn order even more reserves.
Ask HN: Do you ever feel like you've “outgrown” HN?
I've been visiting HN regularly for probably 10+ years now. Almost daily. It's still my main source of technology information today. But looking at the upvoted stories and comments, something in me has changed.

When I started using HN many years ago, I was very much into the "startup" thing. A story about YC? Cool! Lean Startups? Cool! Some YC company has raised money? Cool! Ruby on Rails? Cool! To be honest, I really wanted to be one of the cool kids - I wanted to be part of this. I kind of managed to do that too. I moved to the bay area, started a company myself and got into YC. Company failed later, unfortunately.

HN hasn't changed much. Instead of Ruby on Rails, it's Rust now. Or Machine Learning. Still plenty of startup stories. But looking at the comments and upvotes, I sometimes can't help but wonder how much of it is an echo chamber of young kids wanting to be like their idols and blindly upvoting anything related to what's hip - not dissimilar to me 10 years ago. Is that really healthy?

Yes, there are still truly intelligent and insightful conversations going on here. But a lot of it is drowned out by stories and comments blindly upvoted due to confirmation bias. An example of this are ML stories with 100+ points but close to 0 comments. Probably none of the upvoters actually reads or understands those and just upvotes because it has ML in the name and that's hip! Same for Rust. I sometimes take a look at those posts and quickly see they are just fluff. Why are they even on the front page? Of course, it could also be bots.

I feel like I've outgrown HN to the point where 99% of what's on the front-page is no longer interesting to me because I've now seen several technology cycles, and the same stuff keeps repeating over and over. I now come here only for the occasionally very insightful comments or stories from other users.

Does anyone else feel similar? Where do you go instead?
Boeing tracked the projects people worked on to the tenth of an hour when I worked there in IT as a salaried employee.

It was a disaster and lead to all sorts of undesirable behaviors and malicious compliance.
Having used a '15 (I think) 13" Pro for two internships, I actually found it met my needs really well. I personally can't stand any 14"+ laptop, so the 13" Pro hit a great spot for me of being:

* Svelte enough to watch Netflix in bed with or throw in my bag to take on a commute

* Powerful enough that I never had major performance issues when plugged in at my desk at work, driving an external monitor

I look back on that machine and those internships fondly, and I could see myself going for a 13" MBP (or 14", if they ever release it) when I next need to upgrade my laptop - after I finish undergrad :)
Depends on the Windows-version you're using, I guess.
"I doubt there are enough of them, even in Amazon’s warehouses, to warrant the draconian rules for all employees."

So why do you think those rules exist? Because Amazon managers simply are bad people who like to torture their underlings?

To me, THAT sounds implausible. Maybe the rules are not well suited to solve the problems that arise in such work places. But I'd prefer the critics to propose better rules then.

So, let's go. Assume you are manager of a warehouse and you find many employees take extremely long breaks on the toilet. What do you do?
Replacing the cable is a lot easier than replacing a damaged port.

I don't have enough experience with USB-C devices to know but micro USB ports ended up being too fragile if you have toddlers.
Are the names and email addresses in the sample data real? They seem auto generated but the domains are real providers like Hotmail, Gmail, and Outlook.
such is the curse of privileged access.. Even if they hadn't enabled AD, a privileged admin could have stolen ssh keys, or passwords by launching nefarious sshd's or other daemons.
You could make the argument "but that would have been detected", but then so could watching for "strace" or "ptrace" invocations. At some point, you have to trust the people with privileged access, and make sure they aren't abusing it.
But you understand, there's not a lot of difference in the lighting and power. Not fair to add that to the cost of offices, and then pretend its free for cubicles.

My office buildout was 10 years ago. Prices change. Do we really think drywall in bulk is going to exceed $5000 per cube?
~~2399$~~ 2999$ (EDIT: see replies) in the US, and.... 3924$ for the same model if you buy it in Europe (3629 EUR). That's a bit outrageous.

I still have a Macbook Air 2013, and have been looking for an upgrade for like 5 years, but I was not willing to pay 4k for a laptop with a worse keyboard, a worse power plug, an OS that in 2020 still doesn't have any kind of windows tiling capabilities and quite poor virtual desktops support, a useless touchbar, no wifi6, and the worst webcam ever made.

Selling it at twice the price that in the US doesn't help. I can pay for a plane ticket, and still get it cheaper there.

Also, for a company that markets their laptops as having great displays, its quite ironic that their OS still doesn't support any kind of window tiling to use them efficiently in 2020. The display isn't micro-LED either, so it is instantaneously outdated, and well... the retina display doesn't help you see your macbook-using coworkers any better because their webcams have a resolution of 1x1 pixels.
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We have sneezeguard cubicles where I work. So when I return to the office, I'll have three people within about 4ft of my face, breathing, sneezing, coughing in my direction. The cubicle walls aren't even the old school high ones, these are 60" high. Then I have three people actually in my cube with me. Oh, we're also in an enclosed "secure" NOC so we all rebreathe the same stale air. I'm thrilled to return to the office...
> Objectively, seems to me that list used to be a lot longer on the Apple side

Maybe, but I think the price gap used to be a lot longer too?

(As in, Apple's dragged it up (or perhaps arguably dragged up build quality or whatever that's impacted price) not vice versa.)
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Wow.

Well put. I'm going to use this. It feels quite true that when analyzing the behavior of any entity (and to a lesser degree, a person) it's rare to take time into account. If something wasn't done it's either stupidity, malice, or something-I-don't-understand. It's refreshing to think that it might just not have happened yet, and perhaps never will because there will always be more important things in the pipeline.

So perhaps this idea is a corollary of my own pet aphorism: "Things take way, way, waaayyy longer than you'd think". Everything seems simple and easy until you set to actually do it. The kicker is that even looking back on my own work, I sometimes can't understand "What took me so long?!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23065782
"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

Manual labor in many sectors is structurally underpaid. Nobody with half a brain would ever choose waiting tables as a career, even if they enjoyed it. So you're left with people with no choice or with mental-health issues (or both), who often resent having to do the job.

Whether that's by design or a collateral effect of certain societal and economic structures, is open to discussion; but this is definitely the case. Until we allow that waiter and that delivery driver a level of dignity equal to this or that white-collar job, the situation will not change.