skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You can often engage people, especially technical people who enjoy things being gameified - by showing them that Qualys gives them a lousy score for what they've done.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

Also this lets you out-source the decisions about what's important versus what really doesn't matter to somebody else, and unless you've got (or can hire someone who has got) hours per week to read and digest work in this area that's likely going to mean better security in practice.
Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier
I'm the person you replied to in that thread, and in support of your point: after that discussion, I spent some time crawling through the proceedings of Very Large Databases (VLDB) and the ACM Digital Library, and I could find no instances of "shard" used to mean the partitioning of a database prior to 2001. (That paper is "Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems" in Transactions on Computer Systems, free-to-read at https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/502912.502915.)

Other the other hand, I found many papers citing the SHARD paper - more than the official count. That's a difficulty with citation counts of old papers: a lot of the papers citing it are also old papers, and we're not consistent at tracking the citations of old papers. Personally, I don't have a conclusion. The SHARD paper is decently cited, and its usage is close to the modern one. On the other hand, I can't find any smoking gun pre-1997 usage of "shard" in the modern meaning.
I would expect it to be faster (use less computing resources) as its handled directly by the browser and not via an JavaScript interpreter.
More or less for my entire life I've had the idea that my social needs were not on par with the rest of the people, and this quarantine seems to have proven just that.

Bear in mind I do enjoy social life; when I was living in Spain in my 30s (and single) I had a very active social life, and had a moderate (~30) amount of friends split in 2 groups with which I continuously interacted.

When I left Spain for my place of origin I had only a handful of friends, and then I moved to where I live now and have only one friend, whom I see sporadically.

Nowadays I mostly interact with my partner and daughter, and the people I work with (I've been working remotely for 13 years) and to be honest, I have no cravings for social life (Except that I miss going for a stroll every once in a while at nights).
I guess he can eat the same food all the time now then
That's just about right. To put it more concisely: Forth only works well when used properly: as a very easy to extend DSL.
The reinsurance industry quite frequently handles claims like wildfire and hurricanes without needing federal government help.
source: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767?fbclid=IwAR1j1S2P...
The python package requires a C extension that fails to compile because it requires some (non-python) dependency C library which it can't find (or use) despite it being installed to the system. Often because it expects version X but the system has installed version Y and I can't or don't want to install the particular version that this python package needs to compile its C code.
This happened again today, with Washington Post publishing an article based on a study that was submitted to Nature on March 22, 2020. They used this old data (2 months ago is old in this case) to claim that the lockdown saved millions upon millions of lives. To be that disingenuous can't be accidental, I am afraid. And I am normally a fan of WaPo
Consider Clausewitz / On War. Planning and executing an engagement is tactics, coordinating engagements to further the objective of the war is strategy. In modern military thought, a domestic rebellion would be one of a series of engagements in a war. Why was this war game executed / considered in such a stripped down context?
Nice catch, wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
He, I remember what a pain in the ass D&D was when it started being a thing.
My only gripe about the ESO method is it locks all non-guild players out of placing things on the auction house, but otherwise you're dead on.
I think it's interesting that Ruskin and Berger were the first two that I thought of too. If we'd both named three painters I think it's much less likely that we'd have picked the same ones, because there are so very many of them to choose from.

I should add (it doesn't make me look great, but does bolster the case I'm agreeing with here) that more precisely my first two names were John Ruskin and John, oh damn it, what's his name, the "Ways of Seeing" guy -- and that I hadn't thought of a third name. (Perhaps with effort I could dredge one more out of my memory, but it wouldn't be Walter Benjamin because I confess I don't recall hearing of him.)

There just are a lot more famous artists than famous art critics. (And, as you say, the same for music.)
That's why I mentioned "crazy religious". I've seen it got that far in real world, which warps TDD to the point where a good technique is thrown away by people disgusted with the pushed purity message.

It doesn't help that often, even otherwise good material about TDD, didn't really talk about cases like exploratory coding - working from messing around in a REPL, formalizing the code into TDD skeletons, is pretty powerful method, but isn't (wasn't?) mentioned often when I learnt the most about TDD (granted, that was 2005-2015)
S&P 500 erases its loss for the year as stocks rally on reopening optimism
I really wish I could just remove the wifi chip. I'm tempted to take the rear panel off just to see if it's reasonably accessible.
Not sure if I can create some excitement for this here, but it doesn't seem completely off-topic. Immediately had to think of Animusic: "Unlike many other music visualizations, the music drives the animation. While other productions may animate figures or characters to the music, the animated models in Animusic are created first, and are then programmed to follow what the music instructs them to do."[0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCTLJDoMGw

This isn't my favorite, but the 'futuristic theme' makes it maybe more obvious why I immediately thought of it. I think I've seen all their stuff, and Tesla Coils creating music would have been right up their alley.

These two are some of the best for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlyCLbt3Thk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41a3DR0sZ-c

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animusic
It seems like a stepping stone. The idea of accepting that sort of full freedom is frightening to people not familiar with it. If a someone trained to evaluate mental health can be standing by saying "yes its worked, they've benefited" then its an easier pill to swallow for people who haven't been educated out of "this is your brain on drugs!"
Never. Absolutely never.
Basically, Amazon's going to push and push until the courts push back. Business is dog-eat-dog coopetition, it's not some sort of place where people play nicely together. The irony here is by directing users to their private label and simply away from SKUs contaminated with fakes they may already be providing a better customer experience. Same goes for directing users away from items with fake reviews.
zhte415 comment covers two cases: lending out no gold and lending out one unit of gold. I don't see it supporting your argument that a bank can loan out more gold than it has borrowed.

The reason I welcome zhte415's comment is that thinking in terms of balance sheets usually clarifies things (as noted in the comment).

For example, the top 5 biggest retail banks in the US hold between 20%-40% more in deposits than they have issued loans individually as well as in aggregate. Don't you think that if retail banks worked in the way you are claiming - i.e. raising $X in deposits but issuing >$X in loans that there would be some example of this happening? For at least one bank in the US? It just doesn't happen.
I occasionally fantasize about making a film with a very unrealistic portrayal of writers.
It's OK!

No matter what possible specialty you pick, there is probably someone better at it than you.

But only you have the exact mix that makes you... you.

Just focus on what brings you joy, and appreciate the skills you do have today. I'm sure you could figure CSS out if you decided it was your main goal.
I would suggest to ignore them. You read it 10 times and you are fine, it's always the same.
Sort of funny that I read this and knew it was intentional, yet couldn't resist the urge to reach out and try to rub the 'smudges' off my screen.
As internet users we are provided with a folder or a file full of "certificates" by some item of software, e.g., an operating system, a web browser, etc. In some cases, we have the choice of removing certain certificates if we do not trust them or adding certificates that we choose to trust. People online like to make assertions and argue about a so-called "chain of trust". What if that "chain of trust" began with the user, not a third party? In other words, the user created her own certificate (the root), then selected and signed the "trusted" ones provided to her that she deemed trustworthy? The software would not be able to bypass the user's trust. Just because an "approved" third party signed a certificate does not in and of itself consitute trustworthiness by the user.
Well - high temperatures, alkaline reagents and fats - this seems like a good way to get tiny amounts of something soap like. But your sauce will be emulsified to perfection.
> I’m just not inclined to agree that civil society can’t continue to run on millions of lines of COBOL for another 60 years. It certainly can.

> Java 8 and Python 2 on the other hand are a far more serious threat. When systems can’t get off end of life technology they miss security updates, performance enhancements, and new features.

This seems contradictory. Is it not also a problem that COBOL hasn't been getting security updates for years (I assume)? Are COBOL systems typically isolated from the outside world in some way?
I think sous vide shines best when you are cooking tougher cuts which don’t do well with short cook times. With better cuts you have a lot more options for how you can make them shine.
Thank you, I haven't been able to articulate this line of thought recently
Reading this, one gets the feeling that Amazon advertise their products on some sort of public place, and that this is perhaps not right.

But in reality they simply own the whole thing and it is perfectly reasonable to do however they want.
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Question:

Has anyone here changed their mind about COVID19 in a major way as the data has become more complete?

Just wondering. I have sensed in myself tribalistic tendencies of not changing my mind when the data changes. I'm trying hard to look at myself and recognize it and experiment with different thoughts.

I find myself bouncing between thinking we have overreacted to then thinking that my perception of an overreaction is paradoxical because we did lock down and have contained the virus' damage to some extent. I'm trying hard to be super open-minded about the data, and recognizing that I'm just a simple primate whose brain doesn't want to expend energy and resorts to bias to conserve it.
> the hoaxers need to have the humility to admit that it is worse than the seasonal flu.

I don't believe any significant number actually thinks that, it's their counter to "everybody will die, the science is settled". They will aim for something on the opposite extreme, that is a pretty common reaction.

Imho: if you don't try to convince them that an asteroid is about to crash into earth, but instead tell them that lots of people are scared to death of an asteroid crashing into earth, they'll have a much easier time saying "okay, sure, I don't want them to be scared, I can wear a mask when I go shopping, I guess".

> Again, I fear people don't realize that this isn't a game. This is disastrously bad and getting worse every. single. day.

Where you live, maybe. Where I live, we haven't had a case in 10 days in the county of 330k people, we've had laughably low deaths to begin with, the curve was pretty much flattened the moment we went into constraints ... and we still have mandatory masks with no end in sight, and our local government still does not go back to normal mode, the trash is still getting picked up on irregular schedules etc.

It's neither disastrous here, and it's not getting worse. But a lot of people are still scared out of their mind. And we need to help them to breathe and calm down, and tell them that it was scary, but that it's okay to go back outside. And at some point we'll have to tell them that they need to go back outside because we can't keep society running around them without them.
No different than when you go to the store and the store's brand products are at eye level and the name brands are lower on the shelf.
I have had a few of my post make the front page and I don't have a lot of karma and don't personally know anyone else who has a user account here.

I've also posted a link that got buried without anyone looking at it, then came back later in the day to see someone else posted the same thing from a different source and it made the front page.

If there are others gaming their posts here to get karma points they can have them. As far as I know there's no place to cash them in so it doesn't cost me anything.

It's nice to see others find what I've submitted interesting and "karma" gives us a measure of that, but the reason I check into HN is to find things that interest me.
If you're not terrified at the Western response to the Coronavirus, you're not paying attention.

The low systemic risk events we are living through now, prove that the Emperor is naked. An event that produces moderate to serious systemic shocks would be our DOOM.
Would be worthwhile to write up your investigation in a longer format. That way other people would be able to find it through Google.
It's kind of cool seeing all these stories of many people coming up with the same ideas at the same time and realizing that the old startup mantra "Ideas are easy - implementation is what matters" continues to be true.
Why is the development of HTML emails so far behind?
Clausewitz / On War: 1832. All military thought until today can not be read without first reading Clausewitz to understand to what the author is responding. It's like LISP, but for the military, and in an alternate reality where if every single PFC knew LISP.
I’m curious about earning potential lowering as you age. When does that kick in? I’m almost 50 and just got a 15% raise to about 150k. Plus I get a 3% cost of living increase every year. From what I can see my salary is just going up.
Isn't that addressed with the proposed exit tax that is part of the measure?

Numerically, "losing" 2 or 3 percent is not insurmountable to most people it affects. We lose as much through core inflation and significantly more so if you include asset price inflation. The idea does feel invasive though but that may as well be conditioning.

In western nations, we accept income taxes as justified to have an egalitarian society, but this wasn't always the case. There are countries without income taxes and the concept is not perceived as justified at all. Governments have to make the case and condition people to support the measure when it is introduced until it is normalized and no one questions it.

A good question is whether production shifts to nations without wealth taxes. I haven't seen this addressed in research. There is evidence that suggests production shifting away from high corporate tax environments but this is also countered by evidence that significant intangible value is created in high tax environments and this keeps that productive capacity from leaving to cheaper environments.
For a company of the size we are talking about, it would definitely by the former. Even at 20 people, it's not possible (financially) to have backups for every function and we have to tolerate downtime for people.
The latter. That's always what "flattening the curve" has meant. The total area under the curve (i.e. total unique infected individuals) stays about the same.
1) search results need to be dynamic over time

2) MSFT has clauses in its contract to address this. If a commenter on HN thinks of this one minute after reading the article, you can be sure that their legal team has thought about it too.
Not to sound alarmist, but recent events have felt like the early warning of a pending collapse of our country. When I saw healthcare workers and officials abandon logic, reason, and evidence to put their weight behind justifying recent mass protests, I really lost a lot of faith. These protests obviously will result in thousands more deaths (much larger in number than unjust police-involved deaths). This is no longer about losing faith in institutions alone, but really about losing faith in fellow citizens who are willfully burying their heads in the sand and willfully acting in bad faith nearly all the time. Of course, there is plenty of blame to hand out for all sides, going back well before recent events and well before COVID-19 itself.

My question for HN: what has happened to past societies when they reach this point, where emotions and tribalism cause all sides to hate each other, to talk past each other, to hold each other to unequal standards, to use every last loophole/technicality to win through bad faith means, etc.? Have any such societies de-escalated from there to a point of stability again?
Very different, because Amazon is mot one market, but THE market online in the Western World.
OK cool. Michael Pollan and friends have me convinced, but where do I get psychedelics? I'm not a cool kid, don't have cool friends, and live in the midwest. I think my neighbors a few houses down sell drugs...
Yeah I go outside 2-3 times a week already. I just want to visit my parents, sit at a proper desk, and have my children play with some friends.
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Working at an agency that mostly did CPG work for P+G, I remember how so much of the design work was about catching someone's eye on shelf: how to stand out in a sea of packaging. Millions (and millions) of dollars were spent trying to crack the code.

But it's no longer a flat canvas where you can see everything all at once. The shelf is not flat, it's deep. You have to move through products one by one. In the article they say that the first spot is 'valuable.' More like 'life or death.'
I just did the “ground coffee” and melatonin searches.

Entire first row was an ad for bulletproof coffee and sugarbearhair vitamins. Second row had the amazon brand on the left with prominent amazon logos on the coffee bag and the pill bottle and a tag that says “featured from our brands” and the first word in he title for both items was Amazon. The next three items were sponsored ads.

I don’t see amazon being deceptive here. They are making it very clear you are buying the “Amazon Brand.”
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If I'm writing something that anyone other than I might need to read I tend to use single-stroke gothic technical lettering. That also has a strict stroke order, but it's very different from what the article describes. EG "O" is two strokes, one starting at the upper-left and curving counter-clockwise towards the lower right, the second starting at the upper-left and curving clockwise towards the lower right. Here[1] is a good reference to the capital letters.

[1] https://designbuildacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/En...
If it is done in JS it is going to be done on the CPU. Probably on the main thread even which could make it choppy.

If it is done with CSS it is much more likely it'll be done by the GPU and will not interrupt the main thread and cause 'jank'.
Mr Robot to you. Some saw that as a success.
I'm pretty sure others have better answers than I do on whether objects we appreciate and describe as beautiful have intrinsic quality or if the entirety of the beauty exists only in the observer. I believe that there is an interplay between observer and object but I don't think I could prove it to you. However, if there was a pill that made me believe that something I previously thought was terrible and ugly was the most beautiful thing I had seen, that would not convince me that objects had no inherent beauty, just that the my brain was easily manipulated.
Oh definitely, if you ignore the whole monopoly aspect.
Going “back” to bartering is a myth. Human interactions were greatly more complex and varied prior to money and debt standardization.
I thought the internet was obsessed with one song and one song only: Darude’s Sandstorm.

I’ll show myself out...
I think you can say that all insurance have at least partial network effect built in. Quality of underwriting comes from a diverse and large risk portfolio, which leads to profits and pricing accuracy.
I wouldn’t say sous vide is wasted on good cuts, but it definitely shines most with tougher cuts.
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Is Palantir buying the data or is the NHS using Palantir to analyze it? There's a big difference there.
I'm curious, how did they get access to location data and Baidu search volumes for just Wuhan?
The majority of results still comes from Bing:

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

Note that their own crawler is only mentioned in the context of Instant Answers so it doesn't seem it's actually used for any regular search results.
I think the thermals on the 16” are the best thermals a MacBook Pro has ever had. Is there a model that had better thermals?
Me: nervously clutches the vast quantities of Kirkland house brand stuff at my place
Yeah, I don't really think this is a hot idea but just playing devil's advocate. You could make versions of the same argument for de Beers and diamonds, but I suppose pension funds don't invest in diamonds.
Also be aware that some smart TV's have been found to just connect to any open wifi, so even if you don't enter one and think your tv isn't spying, you could be wrong.
"Stupidity" (often in institutionalized form where the department accepting the orders and the department trying to deliver the pizza don't talk to each other and everyone sees it as not their problem) is often a perfectly sufficient answer.