skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make a program which changes the password that you mention to something random (as in, the executable executes Random() on start and changes the password). After that the programs waits for one month and at the end outputs that string to you. This has the effect that 1. killing the process won't do anything because the password is alredy changed 2. you can't figure out what's the new password because it was created during runtime and it's random 3. you have to wait for 1 month for sleep command to finish and outpuy be displayed in the console.
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Please keep canned arguments and name-calling off HN. It leads to much lamer discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Sure, but when Google have been starting out they didn’t have to compete with...Google (as it is today). While companies that would like to enter the market now have to. And Google has a massive competitive advantage: their data and their scale. Not saying that regulation will necessarily help, and it’s not Google’s fault that they’re so good, but it’s silly not to admit that it’s hard to enter the search market today.

Now DDG is interesting. Their results are noticeably worse (YMMV). But they are using privacy as the selling point. I wonder if you can possibly have results as good as Google’s, or be as big and profitable as Google, while maintaining user’s privacy. I guess we’ll find out.
Your first 6 paragraphs are not clearer than the article:

Some background: Remdesivir works by interfering with the cellular machinery that allows viruses to replicate inside a human host. It is a pro-drug, meaning it must be metabolized and undergo a sequence of five bioactivation steps before it becomes GS-441524 triphosphate, the active compound that impedes viral replication.

Remdesivir isn’t Gilead’s only antiviral nucleoside analogue. The company has also developed GS-441524, another pro-drug that, as its name suggests, the body also converts into GS-441524 triphosphate, but in just in three steps. GS-441524 is easier to synthesize than remdesivir, requiring three steps instead of the seven needed for remdesivir.

You've omitted the "antiviral nucleoside analogue" jargon but run off into the weeds relative to the comparisons of the number of bioactivation and synthesis steps.
Every few months, Fake Satoshi gets super dramatic in order to stay in the news, when really the only thing of interest he should be presenting is proof that his self-proclaimed secret identity is true.

Until that happens, everything he says requires either deeper inspection in terms of outside corroboration, or a hard pass.
> A cubic polynomial vs time would be a terrible idea, but the dashed and/or dotted red line (that people seem upset about) is obviously not a cubic polynomial vs time.

What? The chart's creator said it was a cubic polynomial. Mr. Hassett said he had employed ‘just a canned function in Excel, a cubic polynomial.’”

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21250641/kevin-hassett-cubic-mo...
And yet this single DA is the one who's able to request an appeal with undoubtedly more weight than the developer.

https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1261325118774493190
Also for bitcoin- based protocols (Block DX)
How come Google can't detect who was there first? Last I checked they had a massive index, timestamped even, of webpages. Dumbfounding.
I never programmed flash, but I consumed plenty of it. The internet is a less interesting place without flash websites.
> I don't think that Google is somehow pushing liberal objectives in a meaningful way.

if they were, i'm sure a careful examination of topics highlighted in google doodles i'm sure would illustrate this one way or another
You are completely wrong. She's an excellent public health official. Her work in HIV/AIDS is highly respected. She has pushed a modern data-driven approach to a field where that is not common enough. At the heart of being a good high-level public health official is good political skill, something Birx excels at. Her ability to maintain her leadership role under Trump is impressive and important.

You can't improve public health without support and money.
> The cliquish gives them license to support whatever insane ideas the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world prefer.

Was that sentence necessary? There are so many conspiracy theories about Epstein that its not clear what you are expressing here and I'm not sure I care to know.
Such as what? Could you be more specific please?
And governments can’t just print more of it at their whim.
Computers don’t give a damn: The improbability of genuine thinking machines
Why is that the correct metric to use? CNN is a global news outlet, while Fox is primarily domestic. Unsurprisingly, CNN ranks highly on a measure of global website visits. What does that have to do with preferences in the US?

I mean, one possibility is that Google’s algorithms are causing the politics of web site visitors people in France to affect the search results of people in Kansas. That seems like an unintentional form of pressing liberal agendas.
I live in a town of about 16k people. I don't think we have any of those delivery services.

But those services tend to mostly be in the biggest metro areas. Lansing is relatively small from that perspective.

So I figured that's why he framed it that way.
Wow, that's hugely impressive for a 1-man operation. You're like a song that you hear on the radio with solid guitar, vocals, drums, etc. and it turns out it's all 1 guy by himself who recorded and mixed those elements together. It may be possible, but it's definitely not common.

Also, to any VC's reading this, this guy will spend $1 better, leaner and farther than any team you can name, and he's already demonstrated he has the chops w/this project.

Finally, thanks for sharing this. This is the kind of quality post that 100% justifies the time I spend on HN.
It sounds like they are very aware. https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2020-01-15/fip-drugs-continu...
I would assume the “free market” here is that these companies will over-extend themselves so much that they will no longer be able to hide the bugs from the malicious parties and their devices will start getting hacked en masse.

I would assume, however, that there is no law forcing minimal security so you can class A them, can you?
Wonder how long before the DoJ focuses on Amazon too.
I'm just going to comment on the graph, not the tweets. The graph shows three predictions from IHME.

One, the blue line, is a model from 3/27. It matches the data okay.

The second, the yellow line, is a model from 4/5. The agreement of this line is much worse, and the fact that the model did worse with more data is not promising.

The third, the teal line, is a model from 5/4. The data (black) ends at 5/4. So the agreement of the teal line with the black line is not a prediction at all.

The red line, a cubic fit, is totally irrelevant. By "cubic fit" I infer that they mean some kind of low-pass signal filter. Fitting a simple model like that to a complex time series without some motivation for why that model was chosen is the mathematical equivalent of treating tuberculosis with mercury.

My point is: it sure doesn't look like the models are doing a good job of predicting death rates. And that's just from the graph used to advertise them.
As someone else said in here, I don't think they've open sourced the Pocket server software...

At least I haven't seen it yet.
I think it's meant to be read as, "rich, powerful, and totally undeserving of influence."
Is it? Or is it evidence that Barr is a traditional, religious, law-and-order conservative, writing at a time when law and order was in vogue even among Democrats? It should be noted that in 1992, the increase in crime rates compared to 1960 was still significantly larger than the increase in incarceration rates over that same period. (In 1992, crime rates had increased by a factor of 5x, while incarceration had increased by a factor of 3x.)

Likewise for your point that Barr endorses a theory a unitary executive. So do many people. What does that prove? It’s not a controversial idea. The very first sentence of Article II of the United States Constitution says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” It doesn’t even say something like “there shall be an executive branch and the President shall be in charge of it.” It vests the executive Power (capitalization in original) in a single person. Article I and Article III, by contrast, “vest” the legislative and judicial powers in institutions (Congress, and the Supreme Court). The choice of phrasing appears pretty deliberate. And notably absent from Article II is any mention of career bureaucrats who can exercise the executive Power" of the United States independently of the person in whom that Power is vested.
> On the advertising front, Google is no longer the only game in town, so by definition not a monopoly.

Who are their competitors (I've not heard of one that isn't directly tied to a platform (a'la facebook))? How is the market segmented between Google and their competitors? If google had, as an example, 80% of the market share, it could still legitimately be considered to be a monopoly, even if it had 1000 competitors fighting for the last 20%.
Hm, I thought we got that fixed up.

Put the school you went to or the last company you worked at, if it still exists when you apply!
When did it lose its meaning? What did it mean that it no longer does?
Or just put Qbix
Well, regarding that quote (interesting no doubt), see some important caveats at https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/alan-kay/ which goes into some detail on evolving views about OOP (including that quote). It turns out that Alan Kay did not coin the term “objects”, though he did coin “object-oriented programming”, but even in Smalltalk, messages were only one idea of three: the post concludes that “OOP consisted of three major ideas: classes that defined protocol and implementation, objects as instances of classes, and messages as the means of communication.”
Tesla poised to reveal 'million-mile' battery as soon as this year
This is why people should use P2P exchanges like Bisq or localbitcoins. The moment you transfer your coins to an exchange is the moment you lose control.
People think that with FP you end up just copying a bunch of stuff constantly. But in my experience, that's rarely true: structural sharing minimizes copying so that the performance is usually on par with in place mutation. In fact, in some situations, the immutability guarantees make the program faster than the mutable version.

Moreover, advanced compilers (like GHC and the OCaml compiler), can often turn functional code that allocates and copies into in-place, GC-free code.
You can easily test your Coffeescript code with a dynamic type checker and be perfectly type safe, even at runtime! Why for gods sake convert your code base to another language primarily for imaginary type safety?

But for some strange reason entire armies of developers move to Microsoft's Typescript, living their imaginary type save dream. Moving from a language as Coffeecript to Typescript is like dropping at least 25% of your productivity. Not only you'll have to write more code, which in itself increases the chance for bugs, but you'll also be fighting countless compiler issues, installing numerous @types modules, having intellectual discussions about types and whatsoever to make it 'kind of work'. Oh, and almost none of the TS code bases I've seen are without the 'any' keyword, which is actually an instant breach of your type safe haven. IMAO 'any' should never pass a code review in a Typescript project if you want to stay true to your religion. With such a strict regime, like you are forced to with real strictly typed languages, would completely eliminate TS. Without 'any' it's practically impossible to write a large code base with it.

I wrote numerous relatively bug free applications in Coffeescript, small and large as well. Just do good testing and you'll be fine, and as a bonus you'll have type safety at runtime! The mine field is not types IMAO, there is so much more to high quality code bases.
Yeah, could be, but if that were the problem, my guess is that the question would be different. How do I help my business founder understand what to look for and value when hiring, etc.

The issue is that OP question is an answer to the real question, which goes unasked.

Cheers.
I abhor such... dehumanising (for lack of better term) "features" whose advertised benefit is saving time, but has a subtle effect of gradually delegating decisionmaking to someone or something else --- whose goals may not be in your best interests.

Every time you "didn't have to think" is a time when someone else did the thinking for you. Take that too far and there is no you left in your life.
C# Delegates with IoC Containers and Dependency Injection
Skrmiish – New competitive online gaming app joins forces with Gravity South
I wanted to do that but was told that Reddit encountered security issues with this, and so moved away from it in favor of a complex widget UI, which would not be a good fit for HN.
Oh, it looks like fat fingers on a phone. I'm not even aware of this OP
It would be much more interesting to have details at the local level, in particular the hardest-hit areas like Madrid.

I'm not surprised at all of these percentages in general, due to the (forced) reduction of infections.
Nice vid!
haha. JavaScript bad
That works for the search results, but the pages to display the periodic transaction reports embed the data directly into tables. Here's an example: https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/ptr/8db16cde-8a14-4...

So I think we'll still need to parse from the HTML. But it might still be cleaner than using Selenium, so I'm open to any code changes.
Lol, I believe that. The problem is that these days it seems like the message either has to be only visible by friendlies, or reduced to the simplest and rote version that's impossible to misinterpret if you want to avoid people trying to tear it apart, and even then they'll sometimes pull it into some wider framework of society and what it means when views through the lens of X, Y and Z and why you should be mad. That's a high bar to hit just to tweet something.

It's crazy, and twitter's where it's easiest to see, but you can also use a news aggregator like news.google.com and get a good dose of it just from the headlines about what is ostensibly the same story from different news agencies. Wild times.
In summary, podcasts make people feel like they've learned something but they haven't really?

Unless it's trivia and current knowledge type stuff.
Note that "cable news network" is an important qualifier in that statement. The network newscasts (ABC, CBS, NBC) each see 3x Fox's news programming viewership.
The mpv commandline client is quite frankly one of the best that exists (though I'd not recommend it for driving).

Podcast Republic has proved reasonably un-sucky.
I definitely won't argue that telecoms play fair, but there are high barriers to entry for starting a telecom. If you start a new telecom only to compete for customers with an existing telecom in a certain area, you have to pay a huge expense to build out your network and your upside will be limited by the ensuing price war.

Not arguing that starting a telecom is easier than a search engine, but I think a large part of that difficulty is inherent to the industry.
I'm not defending the CDC. I am astounded at how poorly cities and counties record and report their own data and depend on the CDC. I want to see more decentralized recording and reporting.

I have no idea how political things are at the CDC. Many there claim that they have had their budgets cut below workable levels. That's entirely consistent with the stated purpose of the current administration.

We should get used to not having anything useful at the federal level.
House allows remote voting for the first time in its 231-year history
well, when you place cryptocurrency with an exchange, you're giving them the keys, no one's stealing anything.
Yes it's like stealing a credit card number or generating one.

Can someone steal your password?
I'm sure I don't need to point it out but:

If we believe for a moment, this is a play against Google's liberal position, or at the very least Google's employees liberal outlook.. (I will try to pull up references).

Lets say it's true: These actions are by all accounts the same as the old communist states.. Only this time they're under the guise of legal proceedings which have some precedent. Americans would usually be so alergic to the idea of such a thought that there would be uproar.. But nationalism and faith in a leader/idea has prevailed.

I would argue that it's super rich for the Justice Dept to be worried about antitrust all of a sudden, as a European, I've been fortunate to be protected far better than the US over the years by why of data protection laws. Also knowing Google and other major tech companies penchant for moving their headquarters abroad (Ireland for example), its super interesting to see a swift interest in antitrust..

The US has had, and still does I believe, a huge fight to get chip & pin on debit and credit cards because of insurance liability.. But hey.. Those tech companies.. Gotta get them first.

I'm no tinfoil hat wearer, but if it walks like a duck .
It would not have "been cleared up", because the CEA didn't make an honest mistake, it was a deliberate attempt to seed disinformation in order to support the President's political agenda.
After all the bungling they did on Corona they should rather be happy if they survive as a organization. You had one job ... and everything. Clearly some major reforms are needed.
I almost want to start a customer service pledge that says "We won't do anything special based on social media unless it retroactively takes into account other customers, and involves process changes that would resolve the problem in the future."

Then at least they would be internally consistent about things like this. Too many Google products have "support by public outrage".
It turns out people want centralization :) I'm sure users mostly understand it but they give the keys away anyway.

Core tenant of cryptocurrencies is purely anti-human
You can make almost anything "successful" if you try hard and enough and spend enough money. If we just got rid of subtyping and mutation (which imo, are the core "features" of OOP), we would be in a lot better place. Though, if OOP means just grouping data together and providing functions that operate on that data, I don't have any problem with that. Most functional code works like that, it just doesn't mutate the data.
Thanks, I'll look into that, and you're welcome to ping hn@ycombinator.com about it.

If it's simple to add and isn't going to break anything for anybody, we'd be happy to.

Edit: ok, as I understand it, it's simple enough to add except that you have to figure out what the color scheme for dark mode should actually be. Is that accurate?

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062.
Keys have value, they are not yours, you take them, you stole them.
giphy is so laughably bad. maybe 1% of the time you get an actual relevant gif.

seems like a perfect match.
So much of everything is about connections and reputation. Tech in particular holds up a guise that people are chosen and ascend because they are “good”, meaning, they are good at what they do. That’s part of it, but it’s an insufficient part, and you can do pretty well in a career being solidly average at what you do.

The real currency in my experience is one thing - relationships. Do I think this person likes, respects, and would vouch for me? Everything else aside, that’s what people optimize for when they choose who to promote, respond to reference requests, and generally in who they engage with at work.

Oftentimes It seems like it may not even be a conscious behavior, they just know that’s who they have a gut feeling about.

I definitely wish this wasn’t the way of the world, as someone who isn’t a natural when it comes to building relationships in a professional setting. But I also don’t let it get me down. It’s an element of human nature that’s hidden many layers deep in the workplace.

When I finally faced this fact and started devoting some of the time I previously spent on hard skills, I realized it was far and away the more impactful way to allocate my resources.
As someone who took statistics in college and worked in data science for a period of time, I understood very easily. But I don't blame someone who never fitted a curve to not understand - and that is most of America.

The problem of today is not most of America have never fitted a curve and not understand the difference between training accuracy and prediction accuracy. But that they choose to not believe or even hear out those who did.
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If I may add to the weirdness, there is also his speech on "militant secularism"[1].

[1]https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-...
the customer could have just gone to our website and ordered directly from our online ordering store and we would not be charged a commission to GrubHub or DoorDash.

Is there anything we can do to start a counter movement to help restaurants figure out how to get people to more reliably type in the name of the restaurant they are interested in and order directly? (Or some other work around? I would love to start an app for my small town that lists "What's open now" for example.)

I support gig work, but for various reasons I'm not a fan of services like DoorDash. I don't think such services are a good thing at all for anyone involved and I'm happy to support some means to give push back against such and try to find a way to help protect restaurant owners from these predatory business models.
https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?disbursement_purpose...

I'm going to leave this ambiguous too :)
You can drill down into US traffic, sure (and I'm sure Google delivers results that are ranked appropriate to region), but Fox still doesn't win there - it's beaten by Huffington Post, CNN, Google News, and Yahoo News.
Ive been waiting for mainstream workstation motherboards with this capability for years. Presumably a pci card is how this would be handled in practice for now. My naive take is that toolchains are still too convoluted and bogged down with licensing schemes to deliver the kind of real-time highly integrated adaptability this would require for individual users. Would be great if the barrier to entry has in fact dropped enough that university-sized networks could consider them.
I think economists are still happy to use the current term.

The Herfinadahl-Hirschman Index is a widely used measure of market concentration. It's calculated completely independently of how the firms in the market go about getting and protecting their market share.

If the HHI is high enough, and depending on how important the market is, this can be a sign that the market should be investigated to ensure that there aren't monopolistic anti-competitive or anti-consumer practices taking place.

Google is by far the biggest player in the search market (outside China at least), so I don't think an investigation is unjustified. There have been more than enough posts on HN and elsewhere about decisions Google have made over the years that show disregard for both competitors (not so much in search, but in other areas where Google has a footprint) and consumers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl%E2%80%93Hirschman_I...