skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically: smoothing data != model forecast

It's a fair point. But what should have a discussion turned into playground name calling.
Ask HN: Talk at me about some basic business things, pretty please
It has been my dream for years to start my own clothing line. My vision is a mass customization knitwear line in mostly cotton or cotton-silk blend (cotton-polyester blends would be okay, too).

A few months ago, I requested the abandoned subreddit r/ClothingStartups and was eventually granted mod status there. It is getting traffic and membership has gone up from 965 people to 1303 in a fairly short period of time while I mostly neglect it.

I am dirt poor and have no funds to spare for anything. I am still in the research phases. I would like to create an app to help me design clothes, basically, and I don't program (yet!) and that app hasn't gotten developed, though I've done some research.

I've read business books and the like since I was a teen. I've done freelance work in recent years, so I'm not completely clueless, but this is a different animal.

I would like to somehow jump start this idea. So, pretty please, talk at me and answer the questions I'm too clueless to know to even ask.

Please and thank you.
So basically he puts the individual podcasts into a playlist and also can play random podcasts and search for podcats? I'm still not getting how this is like wikipedia at all. It's just listening to a playlist. What am I missing? They seem completely orthogonal to me.

> Of course, I use AirPods to listen to podcasts!

Of course, you would mention that!
I believe DDG also uses Bing data.
Indeed, the closest things I've been able to find have been these two studies [0, 1] which investigate a large number of different possible incidental stimuli (from lights all the way to the placement of the assistants during the experiment). Neither of these mention sand as far as I can tell nor were they written by a "Young". There is a paper that does, though, found here [2], which used it in the walls of the maze, but it does not mention a reason for doing this.

For fun, I also found this 1938 paper as I was looking around that I haven't read. It's interesting what random things scientists were doing during this time and what debates were had [3].

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[0] "The effect of incidental stimuli on maze learning with the white rat" https://doi.org/10.1037/h0071189

[1] "Further studies of the effect of incidental stimuli on maze learning with the white rat" https://doi.org/10.1037/h0075810

[2] "Correlations between conditioning and maze learning in the white rat" https://doi.org/10.1037/h0053662

[3] "The effect of a native Mexican diet on learning and reasoning in white rats" https://doi.org/10.1037/h0061906 (The study found that the rats had less body mass, but did not find a statistically significant difference in maze solving ability.)
Reason looks pretty cool but I'm weary given the outcome of flow
I’m not sure if you’re aware but the GitHub API provides dynamic access to the secrets so you can theoretically use it in your application/outside your workflow.
Do password managers really just send a series of keystrokes, as opposed to just detecting elements and populating them directly? This problem actually sounds familiar from the first time I tried using a password manager, over a decade ago. But I've been using 1password for about a year and haven't had any issues, including on multi-screen login forms.
But it's not something to ignore, either.

For better or for worse (I think better) a lot of impulse, habitual consumerism just got wiped out of people's daily routines.

People are also likely to be a bit more careful with their funds in general

This will close a lot of businesses, and remove a lot of jobs, especially edge-jobs.
Certain fields in the ZIP local file header require random access at write time. Although deflate is self-delimiting, for non-compressed items you must either know the size of item upfront, seek after learning the size, or force all readers to fully buffer the ZIP before decompressing any entry, in order to access the size stored in the central directory at the end of the ZIP

The CRC field of the local file header is similar, but its optionality is less painful than the length field

In other words, there isn't a single 'good' ZIP implementation, it all depends on what you're aiming for. AFAIK the built-in Python zipfile module always fully populates the local file header.
Not sure where you got your definition.

The economic definition of a natural monopoly is where firms have increasing returns to scale. That means where firms can produce more product per unit cost as the volume sold of that product gets large. https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-...

A good example is electricity -- it's super duper hard to put up electrical wires all around a country. But once the wires are up, it's not so hard to maintain them or extend them to cover more people over time.

Google and Facebook are perfect examples. The software engineer salaries ain't cheap to build their product, but once built the products can be scaled quickly at relatively low cost. Furthermore, their products' value itself has increasing returns to scale; the more people on a social network or using a search engine, the more valuable to advertise on them.
I'm not recommending "rolling your own". You still use CSV libraries, but with a pipe delimiter instead.
Dark reader by default uses a different approach than that, but it can fallback to inverting colors IIRC
I'm not in charge around here. My opinions about what I have observed over the last decade are just that: My opinions.

Feel free to prove me wrong and talk management into making such a change. But talking at me to convince me I'm wrong is probably not really the way to do that. I have zero decision-making authority in this matter.
But their point is -- and I agree! -- that with unfashionable OO languages there’s nothing hypothetical about it, it’s completely mainstream. All the IDEs have done this for years and it works extremely well.
Why would any of their options be underwater? Going off of those estimates above, the pot split between shareholders after liquidation preference is 250million. Anyone who has shares is able to cash them out I imagine (how much profit dependent on how many shares someone is granted, which varies obviously but is still a positive net) — unless you’re implying the strike price is less than the share value?
> every call to a virtual method-- including calls internal to the class-- goes through a dispatch step

why would you make internal methods virtual though?
> Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.

Oh?

You see, I was not charging the OP with hypocrisy. To the contrary -- I think that the desire makes sense and would be nice to see happen. But I just wonder about how the messy details of that would work. I mean, we have certainly failed to break up other industries because they compromised the antitrust apparatus through regulatory capture. To not engage with the elephant in the room of regulatory capture (when talking about antitrust) is to not talk about antitrust at all.
> Doordash lists every restaurant they deem worthy of delivery in a particular area - the restaurant doesn't have to be part of a contractual agreement with them.

Hm. If they're doing that, and using every restaurant's trademarked content in their ads without an agreement in place, I think that would be a problem legally.

> In this case, it doesn't really sound like the owner of the restaurant was on the Doordash platform. The blog post doesn't seem to clearly indicate that they do.

The post explicitly states that there is a contractual agreement:

"Our only recourse is to immediately terminate our contract with GrubHub and DoorDash, which we are considering doing."
This does basically approximate my take on port knocking. :)
My guess/suspicion is that in isolation the data's depth is pretty tame. The issue is when all the nitty gritty data is then tied with Facebook's.

IMO the bigger issue is that anyone integrating with them basically is telling Facebook about their app's usage stats now, which makes it easy for Facebook to see current and future competition as well as any emerging markets they can sink their fangs into. Adding Giphy is a great way to get your lunch eaten now as a startup in any remotely competitive space to Facebook.

To me it's kind of wild this type of acquisition doesn't violate some law (though not surprising) as this gives immediate historical data insight into dozens of direct competitors even if they stop integrating in the future.
As an analogy, getting into medicine isn’t easy, but exercising to improve your health is.
(I know this doesn’t hold true for everyone. For instance I have some complicating health issues, although hopefully you see my point.)

I think the equivalent here is something like:

stuff = requests.get(“example.com”).json()
print(stuff[“thing”][“I”][“want”])

It’s technically coding, is pretty easy, and potentially beneficial to your life.

Same with Excel macros or whatever.

Maybe that person will have a fire lit in them and pursue a software engineering career. Maybe it’ll just be a script on their desktop that cleans up screenshots.

I don’t find that implication insulting even though I’ve spent (now) the majority of my life honing “coding” as a skill.

It’s a mountain to climb, but the first few miles have some pretty nice vistas.
Is that the zettelkasten method?
Are you saying the URL of that Wikipedia page is “actual information” that patrickthebold failed to share?

I think that page doesn’t exist. patrickthebold wasn’t sarcastically mocking people who were too lazy to look up that page. He was just making the point that as soon as a hypothetical list like that was uploaded to Wikipedia, it should be deleted, since those words would then be words found on Wikipedia.
The short answer is: mostly, a lot of regex. Yes, there’s also a lot more to it. Happy to discuss—reach out at michael@cite.ly :)
Which smoker do you have? Other pro tips for equipment to get?
I believe it was a fixed number, maybe $5 that they matched? It wasn't part of the normal tip UI, it had its own CTA and was added as a line item on your receipt when you actually did it.
Automating Deployment of Android Apps
> Deborah Birx, the head of the US COVID-19 Task Force and a former director of the CDC's Global HIV/AIDS Division, cast doubt on the CDC's COVID-19 mortality and case data by reportedly saying: “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust”. This is an unhelpful statement,

Why is pointing out abject incompetence an "unhelpful statement"? First step to solving any problem is acknowledging you have a problem.

Go to the CDC website yourself and try to understand the total mess they are publishing, full four months after the epidemic started in earnest. They should be the "gold standard" I agree. But they are not.
"Certain fields in the ZIP local file header require random access at write time...The CRC field..."

I covered that in the sentence that described these as things you could fill with a placeholder and seek() back to later.
Why shouldn't you? I have been removing them with water (syringe with plastic tip) for quite a while and haven't seen any negative effects. I also feel more confident that I do not have a bad breath.
I think that's the case. And in a way, I think this echoes my original point -- how fickle it is when the the entire thing that makes your product desirable is a novelty that has no longevity!
As someone who has been on the corporate side of this type of debate, I can assure you that Gilead has several magnitudes of more information about both of these molecules than the author has.

And as others have mentioned, the only data for the alternative molecule is animal data versus remdesivir which already has phase 3 data. Sure, the other drug might be better, but it might not work at all.
The antitrust lawsuit is focused on Google’s dominance of search...

Not principally:

Much of the states’ investigation has focused on Google’s online advertising business. The company owns the dominant tool at every link in the complex chain between online publishers and advertisers. The Justice Department likewise is making Google’s ad technology one of its points of emphasis. But it is also focusing more broadly on concerns that Google uses its dominant search business to stifle competition, people familiar with the matter said.

From TFA.
I'll take a stab at this.

Perhaps it's because the internet (and surrounding technologies) are so much more foundational to society. Without information moving freely and fairly, we'll mostly never learn about any of the other big problems that need addressing (of which, the one you pointed out seems perfectly valid).

Also, I think the average person feels more empowered with regards to shaping the future of the internet, than they do with something so entrenched, opaque, political and corrupt (IMHO) as federal contracting.
I figured; I'm just presenting my counter-point in a place where hopefully management will see it :)
How so? There’d be no penalty for spreading covid. The penalty would come if you spread it by willfully ignoring the current guidelines.
Nintendo had a bunch, like Stretchers and Moving Out and Good Job. I can't speak to how good they are, though.
Deep ‘Solar Minimum’ Feared as 2020 Sees Record-Setting 100-Day Slump
I have created a different approach to accomplish the (somewhat) same goal as port knocking here:

https://github.com/jftuga/gofwd

gofwd is a cross-platform TCP port forwarder with Duo 2FA and Geographic IP integration. Its use case is to help protect services when using a VPN is not possible. Before a connection is forwarded, the remote IP address is geographically checked against city, region (state), and/or country. Distance (in miles) can also be used. If this condition is satisfied, a Duo 2FA request can then be sent to a mobile device. The connection is only forwarded after Duo has verified the user.

Thoughts?
Yes because it’s harder to verify the intentionality or harmoniousness behind the other bots.
I'm getting well when doctors claim that can't be done. In the process, I've avoided an estimated $9.5 million dollars in medical expenses.

I've gotten myself off the street and back into housing without going through some kind of homeless program.

Because I already do remote work to accommodate my medical handicap, lock down during the pandemic only lightly impacted my life. It was mostly business as usual for me, even though I'm a dirt poor writer, not a well-heeled programmer.

I'm reasonably satisfied with the results I'm getting, though I'm currently broke and don't know where my next dollar is coming from and that aspect of my life continues to aggravate the fool out of me.
An interesting article that speaks more about the Catholicism's own imperfections in times of uncertainty without investing a single word on the topic.

The author appears to paint doubt, as in long, sleepless nights spent tossing and turning over the matter of existence, perfection, meaning as a particular suffering for which atheists have no answer. He tells us that we are unable to face the flaws in our perfect visions of liberalism. He posits that the current pandemic has exposed the flaws of our ways and we are now suffering, Job-like, in the desert that is secular liberalism.

This is exactly the type of article I love to see on hackernews - a contrasting opinion from my own announced from the comfort and safety of another person's echo chamber, on a topic I enjoy and without a drop of the venom of defensiveness.

If only I could be as certain of the things I know for fact as this author is about people he appears never to have met.
just because those constants are incompatible with our current understanding does not mean it's not possible, even if only on a theoretical level.
Contextualizing information with a human speaker can make it much easier to understand for me. It's easier to narrow down the meaning behind spoken words when it is sourced from a real person.

There are too many occurrences of reading anonymous text that can interpreted multiple ways without enough context to make it clear what is meant. If you attached a speaker to the same context; with intonation, character and a reliable history of quirks it becomes trivial to see what they meant.

People tend to use simple language when talking to another human so you're not always chasing a rabbit hole of terms that can be summarized for the sake of time in a podcast.
This seems like alarmism. All of these tests are useful, and the antibody tests scale better as they are quicker and cheaper which makes them useful for contact tracing containment. Because most COVID-19 infections that have negative outcomes, that is hospitalization or death, are in people with one or more other major chronic health problems the numbers are complex and identifying a single cause of death is not necessarily correct.

In any case most analysts agree that if you want really good numbers for comparison between countries and over time then the only way to go is with all cause mortality. That number captures all of the most serious impacts and has a strongly identifiable spike.
Yep, you can turn it into modern JS with something like `tsc --module ESNext --target ESNext`.

Part of our pain migrating off Coffeescript was that the compiler converted to ES3, not ES6. Which was fine for the browser, but not great for codebase quality.
Yes it does: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dan-gainor-yes-google-censor...

A study showed that Google News returned links to CNN vastly more often than links to Fox News, even though Fox News has triple the market share of CNN.

See also censoring of YouTube videos: https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-let-google-get-away-with-c...

> How else to explain why Google has restricted more than half of our 15 videos that are pro-Israel—even one by former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper?

Google may or may not be doing this intentionally; it may be some byproduct of the algorithm plus unconscious bias from left-leaning Googlers. But the result definitely pushes liberal objectives. Your typical Googler reviewing YouTube videos living somewhere like San Francisco simply isn’t equipped to figure out what is and isn’t within the mainstream of acceptability.
At least with respect to judges, it's not so much "Republicans might do this" as "Republicans are already doing this". Don't want to get too deep into the weeds here, but take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXl5A9EdLtU&t=2015
The article literally provides you with the answers, from a front-end developer survey:

Lack of delimiters
Overly opinionated syntactic sugar
Lack of community support for the language
Hard to read because of dense syntax
Prone to errors because of syntactic ambiguities

For me personally it was the last one. The actual parsing/interpretation behavior is undocumented beyond a handful of basic principles, and chock-full of edge-case ambiguities. Running into undocumented/unpredictable behavior literally daily in a language for me was a deal-breaker.
I'm waiting for Firefox Relay to become available just to better control who has my email address and the flow of emails, but I'm worried it will make the task more difficult to follow breaches.

Maybe Mozilla could partner with HaveIBeenPwned to help dealing with that?
I've never used DoorDash nor Uber Eats, and the one time I used Grubhub was a disaster. Don't use these services and you can help stop this insanity.
Other comments have good solutions but if you are accessing via mobile try out Octal. Dark theme by default, great UI/UX, complete with search, etc. I’ve been very happy with it and have tried out multiple third party clients and this has been my favorite
PROFITS ! PROFITS ! PROFITS !

. . . and since remdesivir takes 7 complex steps instead of 3, it adds "justifiability" to massive prices to be charged for the drug . . .
100%. When I look at the level of regulatory capture from pharma (which I neglected to mention, sorry!), oil, defense and telecom, as well as the slickness that they engage with optics through PR, all I can say is that the way forward is anything but easy.
On the other hand, those who really want to read have a vast supply of amazing content online in both fiction and non-fiction. Those who have time and are willing to pirate books basically have the keys to the kingdom, they can learn whatever the hell they want with just a computer and an Internet connection.

Think of how much of a difference that makes in low and middle income countries. Maybe in the first world people have always been able to buy books for cheap (relative to their income), but the amount of reading opportunities people in low and middle income countries have with the Internet is, in my opinion, a new and beatiful thing.
I think challenging the consensus is equally needed (and high time in this regard, IMHO). To me, 'open source' lost its meaning a while ago, and I welcome new ideas in this space.
Vaguely reminds me of some of the sillier and more useless features of 90's kid tool Microsoft Creative Writer. Just needs wacky sound effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Writer
The good thing about mass customization startups is that you can get started by just making individual custom items. You won't make money very fast but you'll learn what customers want that isn't available anywhere else.
Well; another problem is that saying that branching happens at all is to miss the point of MWI; which is to avoid collapse. There aren't any discrete "branching" events.
DIY Digital Photo Frame in less than 20 minutes
So Facebook basically just bought inside usage info on a ton of direct competition, even if they stop their integration in the future.

Messaging: Signal, GroupMe, Telegram, Viber

Social Media: Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, Pinterest, Tiktok

Dating: Bumble, Tinder

Video: Skype

Does anyone else kind of feel weirded out that this isn't illegal? Not surprising legally or for a move for Facebook, but this just feels incredibly wrong.
Acquisition seems to make sense then. Facebook can fix search easily with their tech and Giphy already has the reach.
> Kind of a shame someone has to specifically implement a low memory usage library. That implies other implementations went the lazy route.

Streaming and seeking are antithetical, an implementation gets to pick one, and I imagine for most users streaming would be the edge case. It's debatable whether a library that ensures a fully spec-conforming output is generated at the expense of memory or IO is better or worse.

(FWIW this is written from the perspective of someone who for perverse reasons once wrote a streaming ZIP reader. In order to build such a thing, the ZIP writer had to be buffering/seeking. You can't have both without giving up ability to store uncompressed assets without needless overhead (e.g. JPEG-in-deflate))
Still, why the need to be transactional? An eventually consistent delete seems fine here.
Since most people who produce information of any form written, spoken, visual, musical, whatever, produce very little that is novel or interesting, and since I can skim to find the interesting parts or new-to-me parts in written material much easier than I can in any of the others, including podcasts, the bar to me listening to a random person's podcast is much higher than the bar to me reading an article on some random person's blog.

There are some great podcasts out there, but the standards are much higher than for writing and it's way harder to get noticed if you aren't already known for something else[0].

[0]: I mean, you can get noticed for courting controversy or being super political or something, but that is entertainment.
This is a .net killer.