skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hip hop legendsymphony for using Instagram bots to increase his numbers online
If those follow a standard bell curve, wouldn't it make sense for half the country to be below the average on those aspects?
Can't comment on the merits of the product itself.

That in the first five minutes of this post being online, several users more or less claim that this has changed their lives in their first-ever comment on HN strikes me as a little odd however.

(Yes I'm aware that this is also my first-ever comment on HN.)
"YMMV though, maybe I need to step up my searching game to obtain better results using DDG. That's definitely something I should work on."

Yeah, I had the same exact feeling a couple of month ago and created this [0].

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com
While it wasn't a game, so the bar was pretty low, a fun project (it was a sporting goods company I think) I did was converting a ton of Flash widgets into the HTML5 equivalent - this was probably 8 years ago, when the options were pretty much limited to jQuery plugins. (short of rewriting in vanilla JS, which was tougher then than now, given that older version of IE were still somewhat in use)
Deliberate Practice for Knowledge Work
One wonders why there isn't something like it, but that you can use with any language instead of just Pascal or BASIC or QML+Cpp or whatever the crap Qt uses these days.
The amount of leeway given to one side of the political spectrum is what causes this whole heated political climate.

Whenever some known person from the "right side of history" says something clearly bad, there are always comments like yours "but but but", whereas when the source is on the "wrong side of history" it is taken as final and irrefutable proof of their evilness and no amount of perspective or depth is allowed.

Things will get better when we can give a level headed non-partisan response to statements like

>Today on Meet The Press, we're speaking with Joseph Goebbels about the first 100 days...' - What I hear whenever Kellyanne is on a news show.'
Ask HN: How did you catch Covid-19?
Anyone here caught COVID-19 while taking all advised precautions?

Just trying to measure how precautious we have to be exactly? Is taking all good measures reduces the chances to 1% or 0.01%?
I think we had this on the app store for the first 5 to 8 years before it got eaten by ads and pay-to-win.
Isn't this attributable to needing to focus on driving and the controls being a secondary concern? The astronauts don't seem to have much more to focus on than the screens and controls in front of them.
I've used OBS Studio and Camtasia. They both get the job done, but Camtasia has some nice features that I would miss if I went back to OBS (unless OBS has evolved a lot since 2014).

+1 for Camtasia
> a certain number of days.

to be precise, literally 40 days ("quaranta" means 40 in Italian).
It's clear that the people writing the checks thought they would make more money with the web company. Either they're looking at the green projects and thinking "meh" or they're not seeing them at all.
All of Elon's companies give free publicity to one another. They all somehow manage to keep in the active news cycle.

There was an announcement last week about the Boring Company in Vegas that mentioned Tesla's would be used as people movers.
It's the first manned launch on the Dragon platform. There have been a number of unmanned launches and tests, but no where near as many as on Soyuz.

A quick search through Wikipedia shows 140+ manned Soyuz launches, and around 20 total for the SpaceX Dragon.

Note those numbers are for the spacecraft, not the booster (the Soyuz platform has both the spacecraft and booster named Soyuz, SpaceX has the Dragon spacecraft on the Falcon 9 booster).
Zoomers, zeros and Gen Z
I really like Fastmail
"Results show that the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10% at an impact speed of 16 mph... The average risk of death for a pedestrian reaches 10% at an impact speed of 23 mph" [1]

But, importantly, that's for human drivers, who are probably braking when, or at least after, the collision occurs. An AV that completely fails a detection wouldn't necessarily even try to stop.

[1] https://aaafoundation.org/impact-speed-pedestrians-risk-seve...
We had 2 billion-dollar campaigns operating for a year.

Russia had some paid shit posters and a 100k Facebook ad spend.

Blaming Russia is just a cop-out. No need to hold ourselves accountable, it was those damn Russians!
Anecdotally: flash games got a LOT of plays because of that play style.

I was a kid at the time, and released a few crappy flash games (“Tilt” where you literally just had to balance a plate on your cursor).

Over 5 years it go something like 100million plays... I never quite believed it.
Curious what it's missing that Roam has?
I liked the Roam concept, but didn't use it for long before moving to Obsidian because of the privacy model, so I never really got a good feel for it.
I still feel like I'm not getting the most out of the bi-directional link functionality everyone loves so much because I keep forgetting to create them.
Single machine local apps and apps using direct database connections over a trusted network were the norm - these are much easier to write since they didn't have to deal with client/server separation of logic.

You won't hear me arguing that JavaScript is a great environment to work with - but people argue that JS frameworks are overcomplicating things - when in reality desktop frameworks arrive at the same design decisions.
Absolutely.

It's always surprising to me to see tech folks disparage humanities studies, then seem flabbergasted at how to fight problems like disinformation/misinformation. IMO, studying language, literature, and criticism are critical skills for operating in a culture that is flooded with information.

In terms of what we can do right now... I've been following Mike Caulfield on Twitter (@holden) and he is doing some interesting work on developing mental tools that school kids can use to evaluate the information that comes to them in social feeds.

https://twitter.com/holden
Will Covid-Era Urgency Accelerate AR?
Personal experience: XPS 15 overheats and becomes extremely slow. Maybe it's a user error...

Touchpad hardware is good, but the software and adjustability... it's nowhere comparable to a Macbook.
It feels to me like the balkanization of streaming services was inevitable and Netflix getting into the content game was just a logical response to remain relevant. If the catalog is what garners subscribers then a streaming service without its own catalog is basically fucked in the long term.
I'd really love to hear the perspective from engineers working on this inside of Google.

How do they perceive the work that they're doing?

Do they see the harm it causes, or do they only believe in the promise of the good it gives?
I could see that. It was a little confusing to me too. At first I couldn't figure out why anyone would want into_iter(). Didn't realize it returned owned objects.

Now that I think about it, how does into_iter() work on a Vec? Is it just copying the data out of the Vec anyway? Because the data in a Vec is allocated on the heap, so how can you get an owned object that isn't just a reference (pointer) to the heap memory without copying?

If that's the case, is the only benefit of into_iter() that you don't have to explicitly deref and copy the items?
PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE may be lying to you
Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy
They're focusing on answering questions that has been wondered about since the beginning of human civilization, and the earliest philosophers. "What are the fundamental building blocks of the universe? Why is there something rather than nothing?" Questions like that are more universally interesting than 'how can we build a room temperature super conductor'
Totally agree. Updated to Catalina recently and on top of the huge patch size the update client doesn't seem to have any retry mechanism built in. Connection drops 9.9G into a 10G download? Too bad, start over. Just a simple wget -c would do. Incredible.
I think a lot of it is style more than the specific clothes. If you're wearing a tie that you didn't tie well, and doesn't match your outfit, that's going to look bad on you literally and figuratively. A lot of people "overdress" but still don't dress well. I'm not expecting you to show up in a suit, but if you decide on your own to wear a suit to the interview, it better be a clean suit you look good in.
DDG has basically equivalent results for most things, but I find that I use !g for programming stuff enough that I've gone back to just using the Google site for those searches. It feels like Google has better results for more recent programming topics.
I had a civil engineering coworker send me a flowchart in Excel. I was somewhat impressed.
My point is that sure, there is a valid use case for your service, for people who are looking for an open-source alternative they can host. But if we are talking Firebase - most users want exactly the opposite - they don't want to host their own servers. And when comparing your cloud to Firebase - you won't be able to compete on price. And probably on features and integrations. They've been building that for many years now. All I am saying is it not comparable to Firebase. But lots of people want their own hosted backend they can extend, or will be glad to pay extra for your cloud and for your unique features.
I think I saw this guy in a Metroid game once...
> And having some idiot kid explain to me why Mongo is soo awesome and SQL is obsolete gets tiring fast.

Just an observation. This statement might fail the "Grumpy Old Fart syndrome" test.

The kid's _probably_ not an idiot and it might be a good time to educate the lad with real life experience and references to data to support your experience.
Shh, don't mention the opiate / benzo crisis. We know this disproportionately affects Middle America, and therefore is not something we can bring up as a serious topic of conversation.
This kind of thing was killing me while reading this: "three-in-ten Millennials fell into this category in 2019, compared with 40% of Gen Xers..."
I'm 39: I recently interviewed at a FAANG and almost every engineer who I interviewed with was visibly older than me. I was afraid that I was too young for the job!

Ironically, I've had age discrimination go the other way. In my early 30s I looked like I was in my mid-20s, and I had to push for pay in line with my experience. I still get carded when I buy beer.
The first symptoms aren't necessarily the shortness of breath. In my case I had a week of mild fever before the shortness of breath kicked in. Fever isn't severe. Difficulty to breath is. You can have a policy to be treated when you get the first symptoms, but before these symptoms are severe.
Validate ML models with A/B tests
Yes, I tried the query in the sample, and it works exactly the same for me here. Are you saying you also get a link to the original URL in the popup?
It never works for me either, but there is a workaround. If you click on the 'x comments' link at the bottom of a post, it will open up in reddit is fun.
Ask HN: Could fake web browsing fool web tracking?
I was wondering: so far, most of the efforts to fight tracking on the web focus on blocking: removing scripts, hiding IPs, cleaning cookies. What if the approach was opposite? What if instead of ad blockers and vpns we used fake traffic generators?

For example, to handle Google tracking, use a browser extension that visits different random sites in short, random intervals, 24/7. To handle Facebook and Twitter, use a browser extension that randomly likes, unlikes, shares and unshares stuff.

Create a chaotic pattern of web activity sent to tracking systems. If enough people use it, they could all appear so similar to each other that targeting specific ad groups becomes impossible. Additionally, this could strain the tracking systems and make them more costly to operate, instead of giving them unintentional optimisation with the blocking approach.

Would this work?
What parent is saying is that even if you have the file and can relink to the application .o, you can't submit your own version of an iOS app that's already on the App Store.

There's literally no way to use LGPL Qt on iOS. Thankfully Qt considers iOS a "mobile device" and not an "embedded device" so you can deploy a Qt app through the App Store with a single deployment license and not a per-unit royalty.
CDC: Antibody tests for Covid-19 might be wrong up to half the time
India and Pakistan have now joined that pact as well. As I understand it, the US has the biggest beef with China and Russia.
Looks really cool. For those who are more comfortable taking notes in org-mode rather than md, check out org-roam [1].

[1] https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
We have been in private beta for a few months already, with 5000+ beta testers and a community. We did let them know that we're doing a "Show HN" today.

Hope that explains things!
If the links between node could be directed and annotated, then it'd become much more powerful, though. Similar to how TheBrain works [1]

I see that the public plugin interface is a long term goal at this point [2] but it'd be amazing if plugins could expose ways to mark up graph relationships!

[1] https://www.thebrain.com
[2] https://trello.com/c/Z7qqKVXd/19-public-plugin-interface-v10
They are 33 this year, rapidly approaching old age themselves.

Maybe twenty years ago they introduced a new product line that I thought was clever. The idea is you dye your hair with an inefficient dye, so after one dye job you still have a lot of grey left. You keep applying it over and over until the grey is gone, so you don’t just show up full silver one day and jet black the next. You just age backward for weeks.
I want to like this application, and the little time I was able to spend in it certainly displayed a lot of promise. But it only worked for one day. Since then, it will not display any of the files. I know it is still connected since I can make new files and folders and see them appear in my directories, and before I tried to refresh the vault I could still see my tags. But Obsidian refuses to show anything in the file explorer, and unfortunately, that renders the product useless.
And the Berlin Wall was the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart." Who could be against a wall to protect against incursions of fascism? What are you a fascist yourself?

I'm going to form a group called the "anti-baddies alliance." Who could be for "baddies"? And we are going to combat "baddies" "by any means necessary", including taking over the streets, punching people we decide are real bad baddies, agitating to get baddies de-platformed. Who could be against this? Would we want the inverse? Do we want people to be more bad or more accepting of baddies? (Also, while we say we are just "anti-baddies", we will also unofficially have a set of positive beliefs about how society should be radically restructured that almost all of us share to some degree, and that we continually agitate for. But if we get called out on this, we will deny it and just say, "hey, we're just anti-baddies, who is against being anti-baddie"?
Startups are hard but if we want to escape the cult of Silicon Valley, we need to put in the effort and make progress without them. It's so strange to me as someone living thousands of miles from California and New York, I know more names of people popular in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and NYC than in my own state. How did that come to be, what can be done to fix it? I believe there is relatively low-hanging fruit that can start making a dent in these problems.

I also don't feel bad for tech talent getting fat off ad revenue. There are alternatives that contribute more to society but you have to be willing to sacrifice for them.
Spotify can't cast reliably for ~4 months now
Those articles appear to have a much more measured critique of any problems than what the President has been actively tweeting.
You're not unique in wanting an RCT, but the decisions can't wait.

On currently-available evidence, the balance of risks is to not prescribe this drug for treatment of C19.
Think of it as email:

Peertube = email software

In order to have an email account you don't go to "email.com", you have to go to an email service provider. Peertube works in the same way so they have a list of providers: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

If you can understand email, you can understand peertube.
Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation
I've created around 400+ video tutorials with Camtasia, it works well enough and IMO is one of the best all-in-1 screencast recording and editing tools you'll find if you're on Windows or MacOS.

Lately I've been using OBS for recording because I want to use native Linux and Camtasia does not run on Linux. Using a Windows / Mac VM won't work if you want to record your Linux environment.

Then I use DaVanci Resolve to do the video editing part. It hasn't been smooth sailing though. Lots of issues with exporting mp4s when it comes to having audio artifacts that never appeared with Camtasia. It means having to do extra work to render the audio separately as a wave file and stitch together the video with it as an mp4 with a different tool.

I'd pay almost anything within reason for Camtasia on Linux. I tried asking the developers a few times. Even offered to fund the development myself or crowd source the funding with Kickstarter. They don't seem to have any intentions on ever supporting Linux.

The next best thing for screencast video editing is Davinci Resolve IMO. It works on Windows, MacOS and most distros of Linux so I'm doing everything I can to migrate to that tool. In some ways it's a lot better than Camtasia too. It's just super finicky with hardware.
What do you mean by “”standard””? Is introducing an unknown and solving an equation for that unknown to calculate a percentage a kind of standard?
No what Mr. POTUS said was

> There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent

Translation: 100% certainty that Mail-In Ballots are substantially fraudulent

Where do you get the 2% from?

> Maybe he thinks 2% is “more than substantially”

We don’t know what he thinks - we know what he wrote. And he didn’t write a “maybe 2% chance of fraud”

He specified a 100% certainty of substantial election fraud
Show HN: Devslist – Browse hundreds of remote developer jobs in one place
I had a mid 2013 MacBook Pro at work and I completely agree - the epitome of function, form and longevity. I used it daily for almost 7 years and just recently passed it on to a non-dev coworker who needed a laptop at home, and got a 2019 MBP instead. I replaced it because I needed more than 500 GB of disk space. Otherwise it still works perfectly. I think that's very impressive for a 7 year old laptop these days.
The comments here are so positive, I had to try this out. After reading through all the built-in notes and customizing some shortcuts, I have to say this is some very slick software.

I tried Roam before but didn't get into it, but the similarity between this and VSCode makes the barrier to entry very low. The formatting is very nice, the linking is fantastic. I am going to attempt to make this my daily driver for notes.

Great work Obsidian team!
Congrats, the project looks solid. It's obviously targeted to JS devs who are familiar with firebase or want an easy/similar abstraction for realtime apps. It's great to have several great frameworks tackling the same problem with different flavours (Hasura, Phoenix, Supabase, etc), all with postgres as first class citizen.

I feel like the key is in the choice for the realtime backend (Phoenix/Elixir). I've built real-time firebase apps (JS) in the past and today my choice would probably be Phoenix. It also saves many LoC (80-90%?), and it's a joy to work with. Reduces the JS fatigue and opens up a new paradigm that makes programming fun again.
Abstraction isn't wrong, it's just bad
Is AMP popular in the US only? (I am from the Netherlands)

As far as I know I have never seen an AMP website. I use DDG as search engine but !g a lot, so I assume I should have stumbled upon an AMP site at least once.

But maybe it is also browser related? When I go to amp.cnn.com I get redirected to editions.cnn.com in Firefox.
No problems on my 15" 2017 MBP :) . I'm not much of a power user though
> Crypto AG, a Swiss firm that dominated the global market, turns out to have been jointly owned by the CIA and its German counterpart, the BND. They would sell rigged machines to friends and enemies alike, including several NATO countries.
Cheap Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher and Hetzner
HCQ has been around for 70 years. Remdesivir's issue is that everyone gets to be the guinea pig. Sometimes it's better to go with the devil you know.
Are you going to add some features for more structured data? I'm thinking about tables like in Notion where you can sort by any column. Working with Markdown tables is very clunky.
Could you please reach out on our forum or Discord so we can help you debug?

Link to forum and Discord: https://obsidian.md/community
Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
"Curators, ranging from WarnerMedia editors to celebrities, put together a list of movies and TV shows they’re watching"

ok so how do I know which human's taste is the same as mine. If only there was a recommendation engine for that.
I'm on my second swollen battery in my 2015 15" MBP.

Java dev though so my computer is always near the temperature of the sun's surface which I think has something to do with it. We purchased 5 of these MBPs on the same date and the other Java devs machine is swollen while the testers machines are still fine.
I disagree from a statistical point of view. Of all possible hypothesis we choose to study, for the great majority we will fail to reject the null hypothesis. (For most things we study, we will find the treatment has no discernible effect.)

If some unstudied hypothesis is being promoted at random by vested interests, the chance that it is in fact an effective treatment is low because most treatments we would try are ineffective. And a vested interest will use every rhetorical tool at its disposal to promote what it is selling, including citing studies and scientists. If those do not exist or seem low-quality then skepticism is warranted. We should be wary of all medical claims till they are supported by high quality evidence.
> I really wouldn't worry about it.

You should worry about battery production capacity. VW has been having issues and won't be able to build EV in volume for some time unless they start manufacturing them. Being the world's biggest ICE company does not help with securing battery supplies, especially when your #1 competitor keeps increasing its global lead.

Tesla has far more purchase power than VW for batteries (NB: needing them for cars and stationary storage makes you a better partner too). They have more control over their supply chain, they have big contracts with all cell manufacturers (Pana CATL, LG, Samsung...), they run their own factories, they're integrating cell and car production in all new factories, they develop their own chemistry and will soon reveal a roadmap to achieve 1-2TWh of cell production... per year (source: https://youtu.be/SG-59Os2H5o?t=2279)

Good intro on how Tesla could do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtV9a5MW_X0
Refactored Bypass Paywalls Clean extension/add-on (no google analytics)/add-on with lots of new sites (200+ sites + all (custom domains) Medium), bug-fixes, option to add custom sites and update-notification. https://bitbucket.org/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-cl...
https://bitbucket.org/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-c...
unfortunately, it looks like Roam is a proprietary format rather than plain text
you can talk to hundred people at at time. You just can't forward the same message to more than 5 people at the time. What's the problem with that?