skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if there aren't enough natural resources left for a population to meet its basic needs then that population isn't going to be able to accrue wealth under any circumstance.
Whole Foods disciplines workers wearing BLM face masks: lawsuit
Investors' job does not stop with giving the money. Very often, on the contrary, they are the people who will help you with connections to next round investors, will help with IPO, etc. They will not do any of this if you don't do what they want :)
We are sleepwalking toward economic catastrophe
The jist of my comment is why nobody else has tried the "liberal free tier" model for a CDN, as it seems to be working for CF.
this is the first I have learned about its price, and I will say- that seems about right given the resources.
Many DNS providers have the ability to do AXFR "zone transfers", so you can sync your records to a secondary provider and you would add a secondary set of nameservers for redundancy. Unfortunately Cloudflare doesn't offer this unless you pay for their Enterprise plan (they started offering it earlier this year).

I do love using CloudFlare for DNS, lots of great features and generally works well, but I wish they would support AXFR for the lower tiers. I've been working on a solution for this using the CloudFlare API, but we'll see how well it works out.
It’s totally feasible, but cover generator is a lot of complexity to add: you want to be able to move the text, resize it, change the color, add some other text, etc.

Many websites are doing it a lot better than I can (in a weekend), but it’s definitely something that I would do in the future.
This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you think).

"10 minutes" is an ad milestone for videos on youtube. I systematically click away and hide videos that are between 10:00 and 10:20 minutes long: They'll almost certainly have been artificially slowed down to match the ad requirements.

It's infuriating, and once you know about it, you see it everywhere. Anyway, in this instance it matters a lot less as the audio is completely unimportant…
Logic assumes process of deriving new knowledge from previous knowledge. Spontaneous insights is more akin to something that can't be derived.
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That's unrealistically optimistic. The best case scenarios I've heard have it being deployed to healthcare workers late this year, and then hopefully be made available across the globe to approach the herd immunity threshold by the end of 2021, at least in some countries/communities. End of 2021 is an optimistic timeline to be talking about "major relief", and that's assuming no one messes with vaccine availability... Until then, we all need to take this extremely seriously and do everything we can to prevent spread.
That conclusion is reaching and in my opinion can become anti-democratic as well.

You don't get informed citizens through content control, you get them through education and being critical. It isn't a huge leap to suggest information should be distrusted by default.

The problem with authority on truth is almost obvious. So there is just the alternative to educate your fellow citizens in the hope that they don't fall for populism.

Otherwise you don't just have people trying to manipulate the public against you and instead those that like freedom of opinion and information. Both are hard requirements for democracy.

Also anti-democratic can be to conjure at threat that can only be defeated through x, in this case stricter content control.
You're only looking at the death rate. Take a look at the hospitalization rate (~20% for all age groups) and the amount of resources it takes to just keep one person alive. ICUs and hospital staffs are stretched to the brink. People indeed are surviving, but at great expense, and the hospitals have said they can't keep this up much longer. In Houston, TX there was a doctor who had worked 117 days straight and had to be relieved by Army Medical personnel (https://abc13.com/health/85-soldiers-arriving-to-help-treat-...). There's just not enough ICU beds and medical staff to go around. Once we run out of hospital resources, the death rate will jump 5-10x. If that happens, you're talking 20+ million deaths in the U.S., on pace with the 1918 pandemic if not worse. If you think the economy is bad now, wait til 20+ million people suddenly aren't shopping anymore.

Lastly, consider all of the people who have "recovered" but haven't really recovered, this includes the young 20-30 yr old crowds. There's hundreds of support groups now focused on post-corona-syndrome where people are 100+ days into the recovery but still have symptoms, including brain damage, neurological issues, strokes, kidney failures, shortness of breath, etc. It seems as if the older people are dying, and the younger patients are surviving, but with long-term damage.
> I know they don’t want you to serve video.

They do cache small video files, even for free, but I think they don't want you to run a streaming business on top of them (without using their dedicated service).
My first reaction reading this headline: “What could possibly be classified about eBay’s ads business?”
Beautiful trolling Ireland, bravo!
Mozilla recommends[0] WebM (VP8 and Opus) and MP4 (h264 and AAC) for good compatibility. That's why I suggested suggested having a VP8 version of the video for cases like this.

I guess OGV could be used for even better support, but it doesn't compress as well.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/V...
It's complicated. I doubt that the right to bare firearms is effective deterrent against the abuse of power by the US federal government. It does enable use of force. I don't know any other country with the right to bare firearms protected by its constitution. Switzerland does have regulation in this regard.
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Sure, but all 3 cloud providers have free tiers for this stuff, don't they?
India to Launch ‘Air Bubble’ Flights to U.S., UAE, France, Germany
I've also noticed that. It's very annoying to press space to pause the video, have a giant pop up cover the whole thing, and then having focus switched so that now space deals with the suggestion instead of resuming the video.
No: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897807
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YouTube just changed the ad milestone to 8 minutes, and this was posted after this change.
Definitely the product of an over-excited grad student who’s fallen in love with these ideas for the first time. Thanks for reading, I hope you were able to get something from it (if not what to avoid)!
They’re aluminium.
Handbrake CLI is great and much more user friendly than ffmpeg
If all you're doing is hosting and CDNing static content, the US cloud providers can do this very, very cheaply.
Indeed. With a US presidential election in November, any vaccine delivered in October and touted by the current administration will be met with extreme skepticism, even by those who routinely take vaccines.

Remember hydrochloroquine?
> Privileged people unwilling to make sacrifices sneer at others who might actually might be doing a better job overall.

Yes, I agree though its a bit of a straw-man.

The world would be a better place if we look inwards for things to improve, instead of outwards for confirmations how everyone else sucks.

Also:

>Getting an apartment instead of a house IS easy in most places
If you have 2 kids and you work from home, then a 2 bedroom apt will hardly be 'easy', both logistically and mentally.
Not for just flying, for "thinking that the existence of life on Earth is the paramount moral good" and flying.
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yeah i get that, that sounds more like a "partnership", though. I was mostly talking about the "boss" verbiage.

An investor is only a boss if they have more equity or voting rights, correct?
Hit 96 users on our waitlist quickly
Jemsplash.com hit a milestone over the weekend. Considering that I started putting this together 1 month ago, I am super proud of the fact that we have reached 96 users on our waitlist. Aiming to hit 100 users.

Jemsplash is a marketplace that allows content creators to sell their digital products such as the following:

Ebooks
Courses (Audio & Video)
Films
Software
Themes
Guides/PDFs
Comics
& more
We are an alternative to Gumroad and Payhip. We allow our sellers to not worry about high transaction fees in comparison to our competitors.

Craigslist
I posted an ad on Craigslist discussing the website and encourage authors, creators, entrepreneurs to join the waitlist if they are looking for an additional revenue stream by selling on the marketplace and explaining that they can sell on their own website too.
Cost: $7

Facebook Groups
I posted in two Content Creators Facebook groups 4 times in total about Jemsplash and it's benefits.
Cost: $0

Promoting on my Twitter.
I always engage with #blacktechtwitter seeing that I am a black woman in tech, I have received a great amount of support :) I have received support from allies, and friends as well that are interested in selling their digital products.
Cost: $0

Post on Reddit.
I actually suck at this and am working on a better strategy but, I believe I received 1 user from Reddit so woohoo!
Cost: $0

Instagram
I have created an Instagram for Jemsplash and have also promoted the waitlist through my Instagram. I don't have a bunch of Content Creators following me however, I have received a lot of donations for Jemsplash so... that helped too!
Cost: $0

IndieHackers
Can't forget about one of my favorite platforms! I have received almost half of my waitlist from THIS great platform and want to thank you all who have joined our waitlist from this here platform.
Cost: $0

So in total it has costed me $7 buckaroos to get 96 users to join.
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Essentially. At least enough not to accrue debt. In the event of complete failure of the startup, you'd still likely come out worse financially than if you'd taken a more traditional job (especially in tech). So there is, of course, still substantial opportunity cost — but the upside of success can be huge.
At a billion doses per year it’s still 8 years to manufacture the vaccine for everyone. That’s assuming no supply chain issues. Moderna needs 2 doses which means only 500M protected per year which pages it to 16 years. I think the Oxford vaccine needs only 1 doses but because it uses a weakened virus there’s a chance a person develops covid-19.

Then you need to administer something like 300 doses per second globally, if you have 1B doses.

This is also assuming the virus doesn’t mutate during that time (it mutates very slowly but it could still happen).

The vaccine really needs to give multi-year protection otherwise it won’t be viable in the long run.
That looks high. I wonder how it compares with other countries.
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> IIRC, Netflix OSS published some tools quite some time ago to support multiple DNS providers but I don't know/remember if they tackled the availability problem.

The classic way of doing this is AXFR (your own DNS server is a "hidden master" and the DNS providers are the slaves).

The problem is you won't be able to have redundancy at the registrar level, but that has historically at least been less of an issue.
Can you give me a single example of deepfakes being used to stage a real news event?

Meanwhile, most of the population isn't even trained to recognize when videos are trimmed to start and stop at a conspicuously convenient moments, which is the most commonly used technique for creating fake narratives.

Actual media literacy is at near zero, especially among the people who arrogantly consider themselves "informed".
There are none. Full stop.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is just delusional.
Don't worry about early downvotes too much. It doesn't show grey based on percentage of downvotes, it shows grey when it goes below 1 point. So if one guy votes it down soon after it's commented, it goes grey. Others usually come along to correct it.
I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests.

My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useless for what I was searching before and what I'm searching now.
In 9/10 cases you don't see the difference anyway unless you are actually on a very large screen and you don't mind wasting the extra computing power.
Alternative to Gumroad?
A banker who escaped working 15 hours in a cubicle to travel the world
ScaleFactor raised $100m for AI based accounting that turned out to be humans
In context, the exfiltrated info (last for of real card, billing address, email) was used as verification to get the victim's me.com account under the hacker's control, which was the back up for the victim's primary gmail used for everything else.
> Time and time again I've found cited sources that don't say what was claimed.

I have similar experiences with Wikipedia; if I want to know about something I generally go to Wikipedia first and just loads a bunch of the references. They usually pan out, but not infrequently the reference simply doesn't contain whatever the Wikipedia article claimed.
It's partnership when things go as intended, it's "boss" when there are problems. Just make sure there are no problems ;)
I think that the point being made was that there's nothing in Mastodon to counteract the natural tendency of people to concentrate in a relatively small number of individual online spaces.

A quick eyeball of the English-language instances listed on instances.social, sorted by # of users, would suggest that this is true. There are a couple very large general-purpose instances, but after that it's largely much smaller topical communities.

My hypothesis would be that, if one tracked these numbers over time, it would turn out that the larger ones aren't just bigger, they also grow at a faster rate. So, if Mastodon were to grow to the scale of one of the major social networks, we'd also find that the users were mostly all clumped into a single instance that's roughly the size (and level of nastiness) of one of the major social networks.

At which point, from a social impact perspective, the fact that Mastodon is, from a technical standpoint, open and federated, would be beside the point.
It's 60% owned by Schibsted, one of the largest media conglomerates hailing from the Nordics. They recently spun out their non-Nordic classifieds into a subsidiary and listed it onto the Oslo Stock Exchange.

https://schibsted.com/about/who-we-are/adevinta-a-schibsted-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schibsted
>It's not luck if you make consistent returns over 4 years.

Sure, if your sampling was unbiased. But here, it's not - so that user might well have been lucky. How many people have failed to make those returns, or any kind of return?

There's very obvious evidence that somebody can outperform the market, even to a massive degree. From what I know, there's very little evidence that a particular person can deliberately outperform the market - and daytraders, especially, cannot do so consistently.
Is a billion doses a year an arbitrary number?
Would you mind linking? I'd love to read that article. I've anecdotally begin to notice more and more B2B startups from Utah make it onto the map that fit just that profile.
Not everyone that (allegedly) gets the vaccine develops antibodies because there are other components of the immune system that destroy the infection prior to the need of developing antibodies.

Even in those that do develop antibodies, they are finding those antibodies are undetectable after some short time period.
Did this re-framing “framework” come from a book, class, etc.? It sounds well formulated, I’d like to learn more.
I see no mention of a CakePHP audit here https://cure53.de/#publications ... am I looking in the wrong place?
Please feel free to provide the evidence you are referring to, thank you
How much did we see in the last 150 years? Not that much to be honest. It's not linear, but the predictions call for 0.5C - 1C rise over the next 50 years, which is about what we've already experienced. It's not really going to bother us that much, unless you live in very specific vulnerable areas like low-lying flood plains or very low islands.

Hundreds of years from now it could snowball into something that causes mass extinction and global famine. Not to mention it would force us to migrate away from all the coastlines where many of our cities are - that's a lot more serious, but we'll all be dead.

Unfortunately I think this is a big reason why it's so hard to get governments to take action on climate change.
This is a very dangerous approach and would just add fuel to the antivax fire. Even if drugs/vaccines are effective that does not mean that they do not come with severe side effects. Imagine injecting the whole population with Thalidomide...
This might be a case where we do in fact have to override the idiots and force it upon people. Endangering yourself with your own gullibility and stupidity is fine, but endangering myself or my loved ones? Nope.
All those functions all lead back to how difficult of a problem you are solving for them. A difficult problem means there are less competitors and more market share for you, with a high chance that the competition's solution doesn't even deliver on its promises.

Less competition naturally leads to a higher premium you can charge. Businesses typically set aside a static budget for software that solves a "low-hanging fruit problem" (e.g. invoicing software). Because a business doesn't have a set budget for problems that they themselves aren't used to having solved, this also feeds back into being able to charge a higher premium. It's also much easier to get traction when solving a hard problem, which is another function of getting paid. Of course, this is all dependent on actually solving the hard problem :)
It's a bit more complicated than that. HIV does generate antibodies. Your body does fight HIV and remove it from your system. (The rapid test for HIV tests for those antibodies. If you test positive, you still need a viral load test).

The trouble with HIV is during the infection process, it has an reverse transcriptase enzyme and an integrase enzyme, the two of which allow it to build DNA sequences and alter the host DNA. It permanently alters the host, allowing the virus to continue reproducing.

There are some people for which this modification does nothing (long term non-progressives), but the for the majority of human beings, their immune system collapses within a few months or years (without treatment).
>> Were there 100 different Twitter-like companies

>... they would all be bankrupt.

Huh? There's over 2,000 Mastodon servers doing just fine
The article posted actually talks about EasyDNS's implementation of exactly this.

> At easyDNS we experienced so much pain from this reality that we created a system to automate flipping DNS providers at the first sign of trouble.

> We call it Proactive Nameservers, and we’re the only company in the world doing it for some reason. Maybe this is because in order to provide a service like nameserver failover, it means a company has to admit to its customers the reality that their own nameservers may at some point, fail.
I understand that. I am not a doctor either. Let me rephrase my question more concretely and hopefully someone can answer it.

I am curious to know whether the immunity to covid-19 will become stronger or weaker if those people who've already recovered from covid-19 get a vaccine.
> people who've already recovered from covid-19 wouldn't need/get a vaccine,

It is not known how long immunity from having covid-19 lasts, and there have already been a few cases of apparent re-infection.

So yes, they would likely benefit from a vaccine.

https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twic...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-doctor-diagnosed-with-...
Lovely.
Since I started working with Django more than 10 years ago, anything I want to start is with Django. It's the most beautiful framework I've ever seen and worked with after many years of ASP.Net c# asp php java Ruby etc.

Thank you for for such a treasure you all give to the world.
Why isn’t the L in uppercase for the URL acronym?
My filter is politeness.

If someone is polite to me while "tricking" me into wasting my time providing sources, I do have to wonder who, if anyone, was actually tricked.

On the other hand, life is too short to waste talking to people who start sentences with "you do realize...," no matter how earnest.
How well would this work with a hybrid DOM/WebGL application?
> killed by scale

What does it mean?

Also, can you tell us more about Flair? Very curious.
This is how Apple's design team approached designing the iPadOS pointer
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My understanding is that with the flu shot scientists and epidemiologists essentially make an educated guess as to which strains are going to be prevalent in a particular year.

Why is COVID-19 different where the expectation is that one vaccine will prove a panacea. The virus has already shown that it can mutate similar to the flu vaccine.
Re: Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
> That begs the question of why was asset Epstein left out to dry.

Perhaps he threatened someone that he'd talk. Perhaps some scapegoat was needed to take some pressure off. Perhaps it just wasn't worth protecting him because of mounting evidence. Or perhaps someone just hated his guts.

If it's possible to have someone 'whacked' in jail with little repercussion (which seems to me a somewhat plausible assumption), I can think of all sorts of reasons why things happened the way they did.
Our use case is far different than a home NAS (hundreds of TB of disk), I replied to that simply because it was also talking about potential downsides to ZFS.

For our use, bit rot is pretty low risk. We have tooling to catch corrupted files (and it happens surprisingly rarely). We don't care about any of the raid like features (if a drive dies, we tell clients to get their video elsewhere).

For our use case, ZFS would be attractive mainly because of the ability to keep metadata in the L2 ARC. One of our bigger sources of P99 latency is uncached metadata reads from mechanical drives. Our FS guys are currently solving that problem in other ways.
Okay.

Censoring some views because people can’t control themselves in response to those views calmly stated is a classic example of ideology censorship.

I just wish @dang would be honest that HN engages in discrimination based on ideology.
> “Belief can be a powerful virus, but so can doubt.”

WOW!

> “Money is the best product. Money does what you want.”
extremely recently, like a week ago or so, and this video was from 3 days ago; for the next few weeks I'm still going to look at the 10 min timestamp as more telling than an 8 min one (though I'm sure youtubers will "migrate").

Looking at the channel, 3 of its videos are between 10:04 and 10:09 long. Of course, that's nothing compared to a lot of other long-form youtubers I've seen with like 80% of their videos around that timestamp.