skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The virus is indeed pretty benign compared to many other disasters

I agree with you here - it's not like it kills a third of people who get infected. Also, the virus is not very contagious - all it really takes is wearing masks and distancing for the spread to diminish.

But most everyone has rationally judged that a 1% chance of death is too high, never mind the larger chance of life long complications. So anyone who can reduce their own exposure finds it prudent to do so.

Meanwhile, and this ties into "something else at work", we've got corrupt leaders and corrupt mass media that have done little to address the public health crisis, and everything possible to inflame and politicize the issue.

And so our society is still stuck at essentially the same position we began at in March. Either we're going to have to buckle down and actually work together to control this thing, or we're going to be stuck with this virus (and therefore a broken economy) until a vaccine is created.
remember that the database to SO is released under CC.

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/10/how-to-download-th...
Thank you for that post last year! It inspired my friend and I to spend a day having fun modding a few we picked up. Still no water intrusion after over a year of near-daily wear...
Alpine Linux supports it.
It's also important to remember that most of the current and former inmates in Guantanamo are not terrorists. The majority are regular joes who were captured and tortured and generally destroyed because they looked too Islamic. Most have since been released without trial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#...
If you ever visit America, I highly encourage you to stop by a gun range and try a few out.
Most OCaml developers might be actually using Linux though.
I'm not keen on going back to the experts exchange days. The only thing that matters to me is that I can either find an answer immediately or eventually get an answer. Today, that still works meaning the community is still working. I'm not able to get my answers from standard docs because my questions tend to be for edge cases in tech or languages that I don't use as often.
There's a worldwide pandemic going on, no one currently has access to "most of the world". Not sure the point of spinning this as a U.S. citizen specific issue...I guess Canadian journalists just can't resist
Africa and Asia are not countries. As I understand it, American tourists in Egypt are treated like shit, but Italians are welcomed with open arms. Source: a friend who holds both passports (born in US to Italian citizens) whose family vacations in Egypt.
Thanks, I asked you as I was writing something (in Notes) and would like to make it somehow into a formatted HTML like yours.
GPT-3 is not capable of what you are describing.
At least a while ago I thought the flow of Chinese tourists was largely controlled by China... not outside restrictions.

As I understood it China was fairly restrictive on who / how many of their own people could leave China for where as a tourist.

Is that not the case anymore.
Surely 2.3 M households is at least 1% and perhaps close to 2% of the US population. If that is the case and if it were evenly distributed pretty much everyone would know someone who had received such a notice.

How can this be happening in a developed country?

So I suppose that it is very unevenly distributed so that most people are blissfully unaware that it is happening.
> they're not exactly on the top of most tourists' list

Turkey is the #6 most visited country in the world, and Vietnam is also a popular tourist destination (#27 on the first list I found).
At this valuation an acquisition is less likely. I would have rather expected an acquisition by Microsoft than a series E, but I guess it's too late now.

That would leave an eventual IPO as the only way out, but they'd need to break even first (or at least have a very compelling vision to break even soon). I don't see that happening with their current Teams product, which is an uncompelling entry in a crowded market.

Also, whether Teams eventually succeeds is largely unrelated to SO's unique value: the community. Teams is not valuable because of the community, it's just a spin-off from their public platform. They really need to find a better path to success, because wasting $85M on the status quo is not going to get them there. Their Careers product was more interesting in this respect, but it seems they failed to achieve sufficient scale there.
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If you tend to collect books (like I do), I can recommend the Library of America editions of his books. I think they have all his novels and most, if not all, his short stories in them. Those are the copies that disappeared in my last move.
I am pretty clueless when it comes to NFC, does adding such a chip mean i could copy my Mifare Classic card onto the watch? That would be neat!
This clickbait of a title is missing "amidst Coronavirus pandemic"
> We could just do the same with poor people and only help those that are abnormally poor. But we don't, because reasons.

I have to disagree. If at all, the people who make the decisions whom to help and whom not to help are Prioritarians (due to the popularity of Rawl's famous book), which is exactly the position you describe. I have inadvertantly slipped into Prioritarian language when I used "abnormally."

What I had in mind and you criticize is Luck Egalitarianism. That's a fringe position that I've never heard from any politician or decision maker. Larry Temkin defends it, for instance, in case you're interested in the actual reasons rather merely dismissing them with a phrase like "because reasons." There are good reasons for it, and I personally find luck egalitarianism more compelling than Prioritarianism.
I'm probably OK with it as long as ALL OF the following apply:

(1) Only used within private property. No cameras pointing out into the streets.

(2) Used for security purposes only, not marketing or tracking the customers and selling a profile of them to other organizations.

(3) Adequate IT practices so that access is restricted to only employees who need it and so it isn't hacked into and used for whatever nefarious purposes.

(4) Deployed based on objective criteria based on real data, like loss (theft) rates of stores. Not some regional manager looking at a map and deciding that these stores get it and these others don't based on their subjective idea of what qualifies as a good neighborhood and a bad neighborhood.

(5) Technology can be shown not to treat one group of people worse than another. You don't want scenarios like a system that, when dealing with people of one race, is bad at differentiating individuals, so that a legit ban on a person of that race results in a higher false positive rate for others of that race.

For #2 and #3, it would probably help to just not record (or have very limited retention) of the data.

For #4 and #5, some of this might already be legally required already in the US because of existing civil rights laws that prohibit denying customers access based on race, etc.
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It sounds grandiose because it is, and super inaccurate.

"the US doesn't command the same Kissinger grade soft power it used to". I don't see any evidence showing that to be the case.

You should go into journalism, you're very good at writing baseless/misleading hyperbole.
There are fairly good reasons for the media being sceptical of him, including, but not limited to his creation of a campaign to limit freedom of the press using legal pretexts. He's like a walking example of how capitalism erodes a free society. If I were in the media, I would never write a word about Peter Thiel, no one should put their livelihood in danger like that.
I'm not going to argue with most of that list but Vietnam is absolutely a growing tourist destination, with over 18 million international visitors in 2019[1] and nearly beating India in 2018[2].

It is particularly popular with Chinese visitors lately but also historically with the "Gap Year" backpackers from Europe who travel around Asia.

Incidentally it is a beautiful and incredibly friendly country and I highly recommend it.

[1] http7 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Vietnam#Tourism_statistics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings
The SS Eastland disaster in 1915 which killed 844 passengers was partly caused by the requirement for additional lifeboats imposed after the Titanic sinking. The extra weight of lifeboats made the Eastland unstable and it capsized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland#The_Eastland_disas...
I'd question a kid who couldn't stand to learn to ride a department store bike.
Also, as the OP believes, Robinhood's flow is being induced, i.e., manufactured by Silicon-Valley-style maximization of user engagement. User engagement is the raw material necessary for creating as much order flow as possible for sale to Wall Street firms. Order flow from engaged users is the product.
Mostly because they're not trapped in their on country. US passports grant access most places still... maybe not as many as before, but much of the world is / will still be open to them.
Very cool - I think democratizing VC will help spurn a lot more innovation. But do you think letting retail investors enter VC will produce the same irrationality as what we see in Robinhood and the Stock Market?
Use an adblocker _and_ visits sites that are more likely to show you a full selection of flight info and the actual lowest fares?
Here in the UK, tourists from China are or are becoming more important than American tourist now.
iPhone 5c uses technology from 2012; it was already terrible to use as it approached its end-of-life in 2017. Old phones just don’t really have the lifespan that computers do. (In contrast, my iPhone SE–which is using 5-year-old technology as well–is still an excellent phone.)
Do not take a post on HN for granted that only cites a Medium post, a YouTube video, and Chinese state media as evidence AGAINST wrongdoing by the Chinese govt.

Actual journalistic sources, based on interviews with former detainees, etc, validate the claim that China is undertaking a campaign of demographic genocide against predominantly Muslim minorities: https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c
Agreed, and this was in the service of US drug policy. it worked in the interests of the US government and was permissible. To contrast, nationalizing a US citizens foreign property and ousting them from the country was impermissible. Much of Latin America was brought to heel under overwhelming sustained violence in the service of maintaining the US Citizens unspoken right to operate with impunity in any nation they saw fit. In short, the US can and has starved and destroyed entire nations for offending the interests of their citizens.
Americans are well known for tipping astronomical amounts in relation to most European countries. No doubt due to their crazy social construct of paying for a service and paying the person providing a service separately, which is pretty foreign in most European nations.
You are mostly looking into sys admin or cloude guru role.
What does it even mean to be "trapped" in America? It's the third largest country in the world by landmass. It takes three to five days to drive across the country. How can you be trapped in a country that is so large, a single human can barely comprehend it?
Upvote to send Henry Kissinger to the Hague!
Stock Harleys aren't loud either. The loud ones are all aftermarket mods than any bike can have.
Mine popped up in the notification area thingy at the top, like any other app notification. Clicking on it took me to a web page detailing the changes.

I've been running Nightly and Regular side-by-side for a while. I still use Regular the most, mainly because I find the new UI quite horrible to use. Nightly is clearly much smoother to use though.
I would not take that training video as factual evidence.

In a real scenario the officer would be pressing much more force on the suspects neck than what is presented in the video. The placement of the knee is another important factor. Because we see in the video that the training partner is lying completely still and not giving up much of a fight. Why aren't they demonstrating a scenario where the suspect is trying to break the restraint?

The upload date and content is also a direct response to the killing of George Floyd. It was uploaded not too long after his death. They even make a passing mention of it in the video too. This is clearly a video meant to push a narrative of policing techniques that don't actually work.
> Please do provide evidence of this.

Here you go: https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-tourist-hot-spots-suffe...

I submitted this article to HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763588
Vietnam and Turkey are not worthwhile? And then goes the cliché about Americans...
Running Manjaro Gnome on a 4K display; it works perfectly without any of the problems you describe. You might want to give Linux a chance again.
Overly optimistic about the past gone by, overly pessimistic about the present and future. This does seem to reflect a big part of the American psyche as it stands today.

It was likely neither that good nor this bad. Moving away from such a mindset is the best way to get out of the vicious cycle.
Billion dollar spreadsheet is a little late. Build real code around the 100k level
A couple of details ...

the return of shared memory

> At the start of 2018, Shared Memory and high-resolution timers were effectively disabled in light of Spectre. In 2020, a new, more secure approach has been standardized to re-enable shared memory.

mondo details here https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-mem...

more secure target=_blank links

> To prevent the DOM property window.opener from being abused by untrusted third-party sites, Firefox 79 now automatically sets rel=noopener for all links that contain target=_blank.
> We can add to that list "The object of unrelenting invasive surveillance is unrelenting invasive surveillance."

yes, and/or that unrelenting invasive surveillance is an enabler and an aspect of persecution, torture, and power.
These types of organizations tend to be _very_ resilient and stable [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
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I don't think it is the case anywhere currently, but earlier on in the pandemic there was at least one place that put up checkpoints and turned away visitors.

Example: https://www.obxtoday.com/coronavirus/updated-dare-county-res...
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If you receive money out of the blue, then you credit your "Received Money Out of the Blue" account and debit your "Cash" account.

An account doesn't have to be money that you actually owe someone and have to pay back, but regardless of whether you have to pay the money back or not, you still want to track where the money came from and where you put it.

The amounts have to balance because you can't create or destroy money unless you are the Federal Reserve.
https://bicyclewarehouse.com/collections/road-bikes?sort_by=...

New road bikes start around $700. Im shocked you can find new bikes for 100 euros!
The shock absorber isn't a great analogy for a filter cap but, a capacitor has inductance and resistance, even though it is primarily a capacitor and we usually ignore the L and R for simplicity's sake.
If you look up thread, the post that kicked it is, paraphrasing, "Possibilities for social interactions at the workplace are diminishing due to the extreme partisan divide", let's call this "side A". And all the rebuttals for this were, again paraphrasing, "I dunno man, I can freely interact and if you cannot - something is wrong with you personally", let's call this "side B"

So far we have two opposite opinions. Neither is objective and both reflect the poster's experience if we assumed good faith, as we should.

Next step, the side A brings in evidence: allegedly you cannot openly support conservative views in many coastal firms. It's not some strong, factual evidence but hearsay. Nevertheless it is an argument. So what does the side B do in response? It proclaims that conservative views are inherently, objectively bad and thus cannot be possibly supported at workplaces.

If you drop "objectively" from it then it's not an argument at all. It would actually mean that side B agreed with the side A: yes, you cannot show your views because we don't like them, deal with it! It also fortifies the original argument about the partisan divide.

But no, the side B does not agree. The side B makes an argument that supporting one of the two major parties and/or a president of the USA is inherently bad so this is not a partisan issue at all. It's just a fact of life: water is wet, sky is blue, Trump is evil and so are you.

So you want to discuss why you think Trump is evil? I, honestly, don't care. Neither I want to explain why I think he is not. I can, however, discuss, why neither party is objectively good or evil.
The Machine Ethics Podcast
Curious to see their E2E Security package. Their depenabot is pretty nice, but would love to see this compete with something like Veracode.
In a typical Bash script calling `echo` makes absolutely no difference with regards to running time.
Thanks for clarifying! However, when I was looking at the startups participating in Demo Day, say this one for example (https://xx.team/stark.therapeutics), there wasn't much of a financial history - which does make sense, given that they're an early-stage startup. So I guess my question is - what are the metrics that are reported during the DD phase in order for these startups to be approved for crowdfunding?
Startups are risky so people should not be investing with their savings account, especially during times like these!

Actually we've had our strongest months ever - not sure why given the times. I think people want to support businesses and missions they care about.
they're not _independently_ reaching similar conclusions months apart, they're strengthening (and writing about) the same conclusion from the same and more data.
Perhaps Vietnam?
Multimap was quite good. I remember integrating it in to a few sites in the very early 2000s. It wasn't quite as dynamic as Google Maps but it definitely worked pretty well. It was eventually bought by Microsoft and became Bing Maps.
Not that I know of, except by trying to find mistakes like this:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=47635

> Google translates the Japanese word "migaku 磨く" (to polish, to brush) to the French word "polonais" (Polish, as in "of Poland").

Meaning Japanese to French must go through English and get confused by Polish/polish.
Pakistan was Condé Nast Traveller's best holiday destination for 2020.

Source: https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/best-holiday-destination...
This is an awesome idea. If I invest, does Wefunder represent me? How's this different from other platforms?
There are travel restrictions all over the world currently due to the COVID-19 situation. People are not allowed to travel from one city to another in the same country without proper documents. Lots of countries are not even allowing international flights at this point. To tie this in just with US passport is simply politically motivated.
German studies reveals heart complications in Covid-19 patients
It's so weird for me personally because while I have absolutely zero interest in boarding a plane to go anywhere at the moment, there is a weird small feeling of being trapped so to speak. like losing the option (that i wasn't going to use anyway) to pick up and go anywhere i could theoretically want to.

not complaining, just observing a feeling because there are more pressing things for this country and myself at the moment and as the article points out we're now experiencing what it's like for a fairly sizable portion of the world. I guess we are in the middle of reaping what we've sown.
Is advertising in the 50s more or less successful than now? I do not know the answer but I am curious. Does the more in your face advertising actually make a difference or is the bar simply raised?
A high pension is one thing. A pension that's higher than the salary of most of the population is quite another.

I'm not arguing that teacher shouldn't be paid well, I'm saying that the state is paying it's officials very well. Not because of the jobs they do, but because of who employs them. Teachers in Germany that are not employed by the state get significantly less.
WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal
Hey team, looks really cool. What was the inspiration behind the policy language you built?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23977256
Consider the parent post:

>it's easy for everyone here to estimate the actual amount of malfeasance by taken the number of times they've seen police behave inappropriately (dozens) and divide it by the number of complaints they've made (zero).

Followed by my reply:

>In two decades I’ve had a handful interactions and witnessed quite a few more in Seattle - zero malfeasance observed. Most people who are happy with the police will never be loud about it, but they do vote.

The implication here is that there is a significant group of people who had (seen) virtually zero bad behavior and yet will never speak up thus never contributing to any such computation, thus making the "estimate the actual amount of malfeasance" entirely unsound.

Everything else you read into this is entirely the product of your imagination.
This is a gross overstatement of the current situation. I have family who work at international airports and a large portion of travel is still to destinations outside the country. Besides, most Americans don't want to travel right now. Passenger aircraft are running at a fraction of their normal capacity - even after adjusting for the pandemic. There are few reasons to travel right now when it comes to business or vacation.
> Another thing I’ve noticed is that some countries now actually are beginning to realize that their economies are down, but can survive without the hordes of dirty foreigners coming to their country.

Are you sure? Travel and tourism account for 13% of the economy in Italy and 9% in France and Europe as a whole [1]. So maybe the pain will be tolerated only for a short while before these economies are compelled to open doors to Americans (and Chinese too).

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-tourist-hot-spots-suffe...
Awww, you mean parts of the monolith would have to compete on merit with all the other companies that are having to compete on merit?

What a terrible shame...
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Android isn't even on the official list of OS supported, recently I fixed the build system for Android, OCaml is just not a mobile language(yet)
I also work for a large financial company. It's scary how the product/program managers think security or technical upgrades are not their responsibility. Even after explaining the potential impact, they just don't care because it won't help their metrics. Imagine accepting external files from vendors while the system is vulnerable to SQL injection including the ability to drop tables etc - insane.
Yeah, but that's a pretty big gulf.
Stock market offers liquid financial products, while angel investing is definitely illiquid. Irrationality in VCs will always be involved because we are human-beings but for sure less than in the stock market.
It's not just git. I have yet to see a platform which does PR code reviews in a way I like.

If it's small PR or PR's from trusted sources it's not an problem but once it's bigger and from a third party reviewing it can easily become much more annoying then it should.

Besides UX aspects on major offender IMHO is the text based diff algorithm. I had to often changes where you could have created a easily readable diff but non content aware git diffs just produced total garbage.