skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no conspiracy, just stupidity on a massive scale.

Governments have managed to pressure each other into needing detailed case counts which means mass testing. This is hardly done before. It's seen as obvious and required by any civilised country (although it's not).

If you do widespread testing for a virus that isn't really very deadly, you'll immediately get a hugely ambiguous dataset in which people are labelled as having been infected at the moment of death, but in which it's totally unclear if the virus really caused the death or not. In many cases you can't even really say why someone died without an autopsy which isn't gonna happen for so many basically routine deaths.

It's an inevitable consequence of demanding data, but having political, scientific and media leadership that are unable or unwilling to interpret it honestly, lest they be attacked for downplaying the risk and potentially not saving a life, somewhere, somehow.

what do you think the mortality rate of the virus is? Experts at this point pin it at somewhere ....

I don't know. Nobody does, except it's obviously very low, as the numbers even of "infected at time of death" are already quite low, and if you select only cases with no co-morbidities it's really incredibly low.

Health "experts" have the same problem all experts have: they can offer any answer at all and not be held to account, except if they give the most honest answer: we don't know. That answer is one they cannot offer without undermining the justification for their own job and social status. It's why non-experts are so often more correct than "experts" - they can correctly weigh up uncertainty without risking their livelihoods.
They already have Facebook Pay on messenger, and WhatsApp is mostly unheard of. Maybe it doesn't make sense to launch it in the USA.

WhatsApp is however overwhelmingly used in Brazil, and highly lacking good Venmo-like apps. I did not like the Brazilian Fed getting in the way with regulations before it even launched. Sends the wrong message to foreign investors considering Brazil.
I see. Then you need to escape Google with a GNU/Linux phone like Librem 5 or Pinephone.
What's the quality of the downloads? Wondering if these are high-quality restored movies or some random YT downloads.
The point of the razor is to not assume malice. If you can prove malice, that's a whole different story -- but then it can no longer be adequately explained by stupidity.
Will these news publishers also get "demonetized" when they report on something Google doesn't like? I'm not sure I like Google having this much power over (smaller) news organizations.
How to get your first 100 users as a SaaS startup founder?
Yeah, I eventually just created "proper" gmail accounts for the rest of my family that is on a free gsuite.
It reminds me of how tuning can depend on the era. Sometimes even on the composer. When you're used to hearing something in a particular way, the slightest change can be jarring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQaSFgnVI8
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In Firefox it doesn't. When you click, a modal panel appears reminding you of the shortcuts.
Detecting If a User Is Online/Offline with JavaScript
> Safari seems to mostly prevent that now.

[citation needed]

The IP address & user-agent combination alone is enough to track a home user (whose IP doesn't change that often) with a high degree of accuracy, and even more so if you happen to be logged into a Google account in another tab/browser which will allow them to attribute any new IPs to you.
> should I wait

When somebody asks the question like that I always answer: wait.

If somebody even asks something like this, it means to me that he/she doesn't need that at the moment. Otherwise he/she wouldn't even doubt, the need would be completely obvious.

So it's straightforward: once you need it, you'll know it and will not even have to ask.
Is it also fine that tracking apps read all your passwords in the clipboard?
Yeah, I was also disappointed in this story. Shallow and bad explanation and after reading it I am still none the wiser as to in what way those textbooks would be in need of rewriting.
In support of your argument: Obama has said in his 'fatherhood speech': "We know the statistics - that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves."

Almost 65% of black children are raised without a father (white: 24%). Together these numbers imho give a much better explanation towards black crime and disadvantages than inherent bias.
It's a fraud. It's got an explicit whitelist of domains to allow, and those include both Google and Facebook.
I am in the same boat. I think its time to finally make the switch to Windows and/or Linux. Lots of folks on HN recommend Thinkpads.
Having a harmonic at twice the frequency is not arbitrary. Lots of things that vibrate will have a fundamental frequency and harmonics at integer ratios. The name "octave" implying 8 is a bit more complicated, but if you just treat it as a name for a moment, the "octave" is the ratio 2:1. Another common ratio is 3:2, and again, if you ignore the meaning of the name, it's called the "fifth".

So why 8 notes per octave? Well, it's really 12 notes per octave. Maybe think of it as the white and black keys on a piano. 8 white keys gets you back to where you were, but you skipped some black keys along the way. So why 12 notes per octave? Well, that's because (3/2)^12 (1.5 to the 12th power) is almost a power of 2. So if you step up by fifths 12 times, you very nearly land 7 octaves up. Each of the notes you stepped on along the way becomes one of the 12.

Heh, there are also "fourths" at a ratio of 4:3. So music has a "fourth" plus a "fifth" equals an "octave"! It's kind of silly :-)

Anyways, that's the quick version. If you go further down this road, there are "wolf fifths", various tunings with subtle (but perceptible) differences, and you can even find 19 and 31 tone scales. It kind of goes on and on.
The article says that this bill applies to operating systems just as well. It's doesn't matter what's typical or reasonable, the hostile actors pushing this and the EARN IT act don't care.

Let's skip the denial stage. This is not a technical problem, it's a political problem and needs political solutions. Whatever technical solution you come up with will simply be made illegal if anyone but the nerdy 0.0001% will end up using it.

We are rushing full speed towards a police state. We have to stop.
The original title is: "We need to DO SOMETHING about Google's anti repair shop advertiser discrimination." but that was two characters too long.
To elaborate, intervals in the harmonic series are not arbitrary because the frequencies of the two notes forms a ratio:

2:1 octave [1]
3:2 perfect fifth [2]
4:3 perfect fourth [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fifth

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fourth
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Our family gets along too, I don't know why you're trying to imply we don't? We're all far flung and have an annual cousins party at the lake. My 13 nieces and nephews aren't on facebook because it's for "the olds." Some of them have instagrams but they have multiple accounts and different "finstas" - candid fake accounts they only share with certain friends etc and delete and remake new accounts with friends etc constantly. They're also on TikTok lately but generally will text the funny ones not through the ap. We have a family group text and send photos. I send them snail mail bday cards with cash in them, sometimes they write back and sometimes they'll call and say thank you or text etc.

Group text is free too in case any of your family members have ethical reasons why they don't want to be on facebook or want to get off it to improve their mental health.

I'm sorry about your loneliness and isolation. I agree that Facebook is convenient and free but imo not worth the time sink. Cheers.
WhatsApp works so well because it is tied into the same contacts that you already have on your phone. Without access to your phone’s contacts you would need to set up and manage an entirely separate set of contacts. Right now, Grandma could download WhatsApp and instantly start chatting with her granddaughter without having to remember what her phone number is because it’s already there. That’s a major selling point of WhatsApp.
My first ever submission on HN :)

I'm part of Pioneer.app, a startup accelerator, and many founders ask about this. They have their first MVP but literally 0 visitors to their website.

Hope this can help! I'd really love it if other founders could suggest additional actions that early founders can take to get them over the 100 user mark! I'll add them to the article (with your permission).
Another less well-known free software for remote access:

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

Developped by Intel for AMT/vPro management but works also as a remote desktop in the browser.
Contextualise, a (personal and collaborative) knowledge management system: https://contextualise.dev/

It's open source: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
Of course they don't put their customer above all else. They are a business: They put money above all else. "We put customers above all else" is just another way to put money above all else.
It's very simple. The powers that be just want to break encryption, but only for law enforcement use.

Simple.

Uggg.
My guess is that they have to compartmentalize the operation. Essentially, it'll have to be like region-locking in video games, where you make different changes to the product for each region.
Keep in mind Apple will most certainly sell Intel based Macs for at least two years. The transition to ARM will take time. It’s really not a different decision then it was last week - buy one if you need one.
Pedantic and what always happens when someone posts code on the internet, but, I'd extract the onClick function and provide a default value for the onclick parameter for readability, and use cleverness to show off:

export const Counter = ({label, counterType, onClick}) => {
const [counter, setCounter] = useState(0);
onClick = onClick || () => {};
const handleClick = () => {
const modifier = counterType === "Increment" ? 1 : -1;
setCounter(counter + modifier);
onClick();
}
return (
<button onClick={handleClick}>
{label}: {counter}
</button>
);
}

There's another commenter that uses Typescript, but I believe PropTypes (https://www.npmjs.com/package/prop-types) are still viable as well - although it moves the checking from compile-time to runtime. I do believe VS Code and co can interpret PropTypes to provide in-editor hints though. And JSDoc as well.
Annoyingly, I can't find the original report by J.D. Power. Ars Technica has a more detailed summary.[1] Apparently the study favors cars with fewer features, as that means fewer things can go wrong. The results contradict brand stereotypes. Honda and Toyota are below the industry average. Volvo is one of the worst, along with luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Land Rover. The best rated are Dodge, Kia, and Chevrolet. Also this survey reflects initial impressions, not long term reliability.

Seriously though: I would pay money for a news organization that always linked to primary sources. Bonus points for archiving them at the time of publication. I don't need a journalist to play Chinese whispers with me.[2] I'm an adult and I can interpret the information for myself.

1. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/06/teslas-are-the-most-unr...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
I would buy the latest Intel Macbook Pro and wait for ARM later. After two years they would have upgraded the ARM processor to something better by that time.

Just don't buy the first version of any Apple product. It is the first to be obsolete like back in 2014, the first version of the Apple Watch for example, ran 32 bit and now 64 bit watches are here.
Music already "is" something different! not all music is western. One of the most strikingly different kinds of music (besides synthesized stuff) is gamelan music, which is performed on a set of non-harmonic bells, which sound consonantly at non-integer intervals.
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Database dump and shared on internet.
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not literally LEGOs, but many industries are based on repeated application of basic building blocks. The simplest and most ancient example are ... bricks: you build walls by composing objects of a few standardized sizes. This sounds obvious but it's not how things were always made; if you build a wall with stones, you have to invest more time into fitting them together neatly (and often you have to use a hammer to break larger stones apart). Construction has other examples of composition of prefabricated modules.

Another example, a lot of electronics was (and still is) implemented by combining discrete components with well known behaviours (things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400-series_integrated_circuit...). At many levels in electronics you have abstractions upon abstractions (transistors -> logical gates -> multiplexers -> ALUs -> CPUs; communication busses, etc etc)
Don't Call JsonSerialize() Explicitly
And now the poor guy has an arrest record. Which wouldn't be a problem in reasonable legislations, where it's nobody's business whether you've been arrested or not, as long as you've not been convicted.

But in the US, I've heard that it can make it harder to get a job.

I believe I'm starting to get a feel for how the school to prison pipeline may work.
I switched and I love it. I highly recommend it.
Show HN: I made a light&free menubar app for taking Notes (Mac)
> Then, playing two sounds an octave apart will match exactly all these frequencies and it will sound nice.

I don't think this level of consonance is necessarily something one has to consider as sounding "nice". It could just as well be thought of as sounding "hollow" or "uninteresting" or "weak", compared to more dissonant harmonies.
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WhatsApp is indeed a sticky one, but I manage to replace it with Signal.
Tree-Shuffle and Time-Series RDD
I got a 2015 Air with 8 gigs of ram. I'm wondering whether to pull the trigger on the 16" or endure more pain for the next several months to see what else comes out.

Has anyone upgraded from an older Air to a 16"? Is the increase in performance more like a "OMG" or "Not bad"?
Beware that battery life on linux thinkpads is atrocious, especially if you go for a comparable screen to a macbook.
Based on what he is wearing, he is a chimney sweeper.
In the same spirit, gentleman11's point is that if you attend a gathering with people you don't know, and that gathering turns out to be heavily represented by looters and rioters, you are going to be labelled with it.

> You're furiously defending an argument that you've made

More like trying to show to DanBC that their line of thinking is illogical. Regardless, I do not see anything furious about it.
No, it is absolutely right.

The fact that people and companies don't understand this is a separate, though obviously important matter.

So you obviously need to be aware of the (imho crazy) environment we are in, but also need to distinguish "might" from "right".
No bias required; you can eye-ball a Tesla and immediately see the panel fitting and paint defect tolerances are much higher than say a Jaguar/BMW (for the panels) or a Toyota (the paint).

These are the defects that consumers seem to be complaining about.
Honestly reading all this, I'd treat Amazon like AliExpress - use it to buy cheap low quality shit you don't really need, go to the shops for everything else. Shops have actual quality control in place, and shops can be held liable if their products are defective or counterfeit.
That section is pretty pointless, considering it's supposed to be the GDR (see flag). You would have to do research on what movie actually belongs there and which do not.
You're exactly right and I think it's important to consider that the LA Times' position as a sort of authority figure when it comes to speech (being a major news source/ media entity) may be an underlying interest in how the arguments made in this article are put forward. I imagine a whole lot of editors of the last few newspapers that are independently owned had some very interesting thoughts when the workers at New York Times pushed out some of it's leadership over an article Tom Cotton could have just as easily put on his website.

I agree that it's about cultural norms but I think the cultural norms are the cost and limiting factors of free expression being greatly reduced. I imagine an entity like the LA Times has an interest in defining how free speech works in the news room and subsequently the readers of that news source. I also imagine that idea of free speech would protect leadership in the newsroom from subordinates if everything published has to go through said leadership.
Being in the EU, I really wonder how this is going to play out if this bill comes to pass.

It's pretty clear this bill is incompatible with the GDPR, which specifically mandates using state of the art encryption when appropriate (and a backdoored encryption is certainly NOT state of the art).

The 2 laws would be fundamentally incompatible, which means we would probably see different services based on geolocation from the big companies (GDPR applies to EU residents, not citizens, so there is no overlap), but this means small players will have to choose between EU and US or take a legal risk.

From a risk perspective, the US have an exception for under 1 million users, while the EU has nothing of the sort. Which means it would, in theory, be less risky to start in the EU, expand in the US, and when you reach the 1 million users bar, separate EU from US operations (which has obviously a lot of issues, how do you handle a user moving from one place to the other, or users interacting accross boundaries?).

Let's hope this won't be the trigger to have several continental/national "internet" instances, but this is definitely going to contribute to a split.
Can you 3D print Damascus steel? Pretty much, yeah
> giving us(1) the democracy and freedom we enjoy today

I think the point is that not everybody benefitted equally. I don’t think that’s very contentious, we can just look at the civil rights movement or even women’s suffrage, both of which are relatively new things. It would seem that the benefits are very slowly evening out though - every couple of decades there is a noticeable improvement. It’s not as fast as would be ideal, but at light speed compared to most of human history (which has been pretty brutal over all)
I´m in the same position right now. But I think I will get the last Intel version. I´m not so confident about the 1st gen of the ARM version. Even the 2nd gen of the "butterfly" keyboard was a fail. On the other hand, Apple could do a lot better with their own silicon and have much better performance than the last Intel version.

TL;DR
=> Now to be safe and have a working Mac for the next 5+ years
=> Later to have the newest "thing" but maybe with 1st gen problems
>The reason I'm also mentioning this is because I'm curious if anyone did both and can attest to whether one does get better at estimation questions like the one I outlined.

You can get better at them over time.

Questions like these spawn a handful of new questions, and those questions might recurse into more questions.

You can find multiple paths forward given what kinds of information you can collect and what kinds of metrics can be used. You can estimate what the accuracy will be from each hypothetical path and you can estimate how much work it will be to collect such information.

It isn't always necessary to solve these kinds of questions this second. Sometimes an interviewer might want a really rough estimate solved then instead of being presented with different paths of research, but imho it's always best to talk about paths forward first, and it is best to hash out and clarify exactly what they want and mean. Only then once it is clear they do not want high accuracy and a simple estimate, then you can do just that.

In the real world you almost never want a low accuracy instant estimate, so I imagine you would look good by showing you can build a path to figuring it out at a higher degree of accuracy than just some basic estimate.
Hi Guys !

My name is Théo and I made a little app to resolve a little pain.

Plume is a free Light menubar app for taking Notes.

I've been looking for a long time for a simple popup app in the menubar to get a little notepad.

I found different solutions like Tyke for example which is really nice, but a little too simple for the job and it has a too small writing area. I also found other nice solutions but the apps were always no free and too complex for the need. I couldn't find anything I liked, so I took advantage of the confinement to make this app!

Plume is a Free, Fast and Light app for taking notes,
I made some basic features from now long :
- Activate minimalist interface for full focus on text edition
- Activate magic mode to allow smart text completion
- Manage Popover dimension (small, regular, large, xlarge)

It's a simple version for the moment, but if people like it I could work on a more complex version with :
- Advanced Backup
- Several notes
- Checkboxes
- Management of bold, italic, ..

And if people really like this application, they can find a link in the settings to financially support the project!

I would love to get some feedback on my little lockdown project :) Best. Théo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
How is manipulating clipboard not a problem? What if something replaces your fingerprint or bitcoin address?
And because I want to be constructive, here's how the DoubleClick redirect works.

If the site has advertising features enabled, a task in analytics.js named "displayFeaturesTask" fires after the /collect hit to Google Analytics has been sent.

This task compiles a small payload of information and ships it to https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/.

This payload includes, among other things, the UA ID of the Google Analytics property, and the Client ID of the user (same UA ID and Client ID that's sent with the GA hits).

When you go into Analytics 360 and build those audiences, you are essentially building a dataset of Client IDs that should be included in the audience. When that data set is passed to DoubleClick, DC can then link those Client IDs to the third-party cookie written on doubleclick.net and assigned to the same Client IDs. That's how it can leverage both your GA data and its cross-site tracking network to target the audiences.

As I wrote, any possible 3P cookies written on google-analytics.com are not used in this process. The request to google-analytics.com only leverages the GET/POST payload sent with the request itself.
Wow, that looks great. An COSS alternative is exactly what this space needs. I wish you great success.
Not brave enough
I have decided to get a second-hand Macbook Air. Hopefully it will last for 2-3 years, and by that time I can probably replace it with an ARM-powered Macbook of some kind.
> The top-rated brands were Dodge and Kia

Is it possible that owners of certain brands are less likely to notice certain classes of car problems? For example, are people who purchase Kias less likely to care about a squeaking seatbelt?

If I buy a car that costs $70k, I'm going to complain about every minor defect.