skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, you have perfect hindsight knowledge of the situation. Understanding that N95 masks were in short supply, knowing the virus wasn't particularly widespread, but more widespread than people realized and health care providers are on the front lines and dealing with it already. And the science on masks isn't fully understood either in terms of spread or protection.

What would you have done, what would you have said? What would have not been dishonest?

Also, what are you going to say so you aren't accused of: fear-mongering, overreacting, or being wishy-washy and providing useless guidance?
A simpler explanation is profit motive; it doesn't 'pay' to promote free/low cost alternatives. Most of western medicine is geared this way, imo.
1) Yes.

2) Well, I can't, but the capability exists.

3) Dig.
I agree that we'd always have some anti-maskers. But the level of it (seemingly mainstream) has been quite problematic (although the tide does seem to be slowly turning).
Likely with locked bootloaders as well!

There needs to be a law that states that once a company stops supporting s device they must release the keys to allow users to modify their devices themselves.
> there is no spotify or netflix for websites. Those services kinda prove that people are willing to pay

The overwhelming majority of Spotify accounts are Free Accounts, supported by... you guessed it... Ads.

People don't torrent music because Spotify is easier. Spotify earns money through advertisers paying them to advertise on their platform. Spotify pays part of that to artists who put music on their platform. Everyone is getting paid, and it costs the user nothing. That's why Spotify is so popular.

> There were cool websites on the internet before ads and we will have websites in the future

What is it your are arguing for? Charging $0.35 per every single page view? Or people running websites should just foot the bill out of the goodness of their hearts? Someone has to pay the hosting bill...

Some of the tech-elites on HN will pay this out of principle, but the overwhelming majority of people will not. Be realistic.

A world where you must pay for every page view is effectively antithetical to everything the web stood for. The _free_ distributions of knowledge to everyone simply would cease to exist.

It's actually amazingly clever. We've tricked 3rd party advertisers into footing the bill for literally _everything_ on the internet. You are free to consume content without paying a single penny - someone else is paying it for you. The trade? You gotta look at some ads once in a while. Oh the humanity!

If someone is this principled - they should run an Ad Blocker. Most people simply don't care. You can make a case that they should care, but then you'll need to come with with a robust system to pay content creators to ensure they aren't buried in expenses of running a website for a bunch of freeloaders.
Could you share a source for this quote?
Math check -- I think Google's SpaceX ownership stake would be closer to 0.13% of Google's value, not 1.3%. Is that what you meant?
Are you asking me how profitable lawn care or cleaning businesses are? It will depend on your market, but locally the good lawn care businesses (ie they have proper insurance, good customer service, and do a good job) charge roughly $60/hour. They never charge by the hour, I'm not sure why, but it's $60/hour. Cleaning businesses in my area, which I haven't done as much research on, but the good ones charge somewhere in the $35-45/hour range. There are different kinds of cleaning, you have residential, commercial, and new construction (maybe other types too, I'm not sure), and each of those are different.

So, "profitable" depends on what your market will pay minus your overhead. Lawn care has a much higher overhead (though still relatively low overheard) than cleaning, but in my market at least (and I imagine pretty much all markets) lawn care can charge more.
It's only 4D. I believe they called it 5D chess because they didn't want people to interpret this as 3D chess + time. If I recall correctly, the tutorial mentions at some point that the 5th dimension is "unused".
Tell me more. I kinda tried to research this years ago and didn't get very far, but also didn't try very hard. Can you point me to any resources outlining typical ROIs?
And a Starlink network would mean an instant global Martian internet.
South Korea did an amazing job, as outlined in this NYT article [1]. The thing I liked the most is my Korean map app had a new tab, showing me all the official mask distribution locations, and their real time quantities on hand.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opinion/covid-face-mask-s...
The Fall of Deutsche Bank
GIS is something I have limited experience with (I'm a hobbyist pilot), but find very interesting. How did you enter the industry?
Together with Teal, LuaJIT can become a very safe platform. Vela (fork with many improvements to LuaJIT) has optional, native recursive immutability built into the JIT for Lua-land objects and also compiles next() to dig pairs out of the nyi hole.

Also Moon+ (even more expression version of MoonScript) is considering implementing the teal checker natively: https://github.com/pigpigyyy/MoonPlus/issues/15
Stop Creating Bad Forms
The fact that I'm a bad person doesn't change the same argument even you are making - it's a murky world out there.
I don't know. In Facebooks case it might as well be hurting them with younger demographics. When everyones mom is there the younger people just might want to go someplace else.

You don't necessarily care that everyone is at some place, just the group you are interested in keeping up with.
As someone with this need, what would you pay for a product that does this for you?
I suppose that's fine, because you'd owe me $0.35 if you want to continue reading my content. ;)
I bought this game a few weeks ago with a friend and we jumped in without any prior knowledge about the game or how it worked. After about 3 hours we were finally starting to understand the basic principles and I have to say wow, it's an absolute blast to play. Many hours in now we've finally begun developing our own strategies and it's absolutely insane. I have to say that 5D Chess is one of the most creative and innovative games that I've played in recent memory and I highly recommend it.
Ethical Usage of Natural Language Tools
Thanks! Yes, professional 360° product shots are way too hard to produce right now and we're aiming make them much more accessible, particularly for smaller vendors
I hope that even if this situation doesn't eradicate other diseases, it at least pushes us to take more care with infectious disease in general.

Since I've been exposed over the last few months to roughly a million people claiming that COVID19 is no worse than the flu, it prompted me to look up just how many people die or are hospitalized from the flu every year.

US avg annual deaths (prev 9 years): 37,000

US avg annual hospitalizations (prev 9 years): 446,000

Clearly COVID19 is worse than this already (160k deaths, 317k hospitalizations, and more every day).

But put aside the COVID19 comparison, and that is still a lot of people who suffer or die from something that we have tools to prevent. How much of that could be avoided with better flu vaccine uptake, policies that support staying at home when you're sick, and the normalization of wearing masks in public?

Why weren't we already doing all of those things? I only did one of those things, and that feels kind of dumb now.
Speaking as someone who absolutely loathes Trump, a number of serious mistakes have been made by people including Dr. Fauci and Governor Cuomo that they are largely getting a pass on because they are being graded on a curve so to speak against Trump's complete failure.
The article is purely speculation based on the anecdotal evidence of one IBM acquisition "victim", someone who has been an IBM insider from what seems like pre-acquisition.

The rest are smears on the direction of Fedora for changing their default filesystem on their workstation variant, for developing (not replacing anything with) Silverblue - an "immutable OS".

The claim that the Btrfs push came from Facebook is ridiculous. I know Fedora some community infra engineers and leaders personally. The Facebook developers were there in their capacity as Btrfs contributors to speak about its stability. They did use their @fb.com email unlike what the article suggests. Not that that matters.

Here's the whole mailing list archive for that discussion: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...

Disclaimer: I work at Redhat as a Software Engineer, and what I write here represents only my perceptions.
So are they keeping a stock of laptops from the 90's?
Basically no modern laptops have PS2 ports.
It's possible to get it going even better than strong. I have an old 60GB iPod that I swapped an SD card adapter into in lieu of the hard drive and then used the extra space to put in a bigger battery. The parts are super easy to find on ebay and now I have a 256GB iPod that can play music for 50+ hours straight.
Let’s ship features! To heck with what users may need or want!
The new infection rate in the Central Valley counties is about 4x the rate of Bay Area counties according to the first link.
That's probably a sound analysis. Trying to tweet the link gets "We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful."

I'm reasonably ashamed I got as far as tweeting it. I'm going to rethink my life.
In the United States, the majority of research funding is from the Federal Government, and it has been increasing since before the Second World War. If there is a problem, it is likely in the government grant process.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-govern...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_science#United_Stat...
This is an oversimplification considering that there were also drives to donate surgical masks and even homemade cloth masks to hospitals for use by professionals.
> Why is the government throwing people in jail for leaking trade secrets?
> Trade secrets aren't supposed to have government protection, that's the entire point

Is it your theory that the US government is illegally imprisoning Levandowkski? That's an explosive claim, what do you have to back it up?
Sure, and I'd love to read good research on the topic. But I think there's a reasonable assumption that our verifiably increased understanding of the human body has led to some net benefit, no?

I'll probably look at some reviews on modern medicine statistics, it's an interesting question. While I have no doubt we've made net progress, I wonder if some specific areas of medicine haven't.
Does anyone else see this more likely to be “mere” reductions in staff due to a presumed decline in business due to the global pandemic, rather than some nefarious plot to gut Red Hat?
Is the police in America racist against black people and ethnic minorities?
Disclosure: I worked at Red Hat from 1998 until 2004

I never experienced a "Silicon Valley" culture at Red Hat, not pre-IPO as a scrappy startup, or post-IPO as a growing company. Red Hat these days is an enterprise software company, and I think it retains a unique culture that I'm (mostly) proud to have been a part of cultivating in the early days even as a division of IBM today.
ECC for RAM is the other big one. A single-bit error will trigger warnings, so that you can replace the faulty DIMM before it progresses into uncorrectable errors.
The security patch from Google is from October 2018 it looks like.

So Twitter is to blame for not coding a mitigation for vulnerable devices? Or is it the phone manufacturer's fault for not releasing security patches for their phones?
So checkmate in any one timeline counts? You couldn’t do all timelines.
> Transparent face shields might actually be nicer to wear than masks, if that's all you needed, because you can still see each other.

Alone, face shields do little to nothing to protect people from the wearer.
>> This guy had such a sweet deal at Google originally, it staggers me that he'd go to these lengths to steal even more.

Not sure about this instance but in general, people dont get to some promontory then lose it all doing something illegal/unethical. They often rise up the ranks -- doing illegal/unethical things the entire way up. You just see the time they got caught (the last time) and it seems they could have stopped at step n-1.
The solution to removing an element from a linked list is so simple I Googled it because I thought I was missing something. Anyone who cannot remove an element from a linked list simply does not understand what a linked list is.

And that's OK, but in order for companies to make progress, they use questions like these to make sure they are hiring people that are knowledgeable and capable of solving certain kinds of problems. The other thing is, people that can answer these simpler kinds of programming problems correct are more likely to write clean code, make better decisions, and be an asset to a team. It is just an easy way to weed out bad candidates. That doesn't mean all candidates who can't answer the question are bad, but likely that all bad candidates cannot answer the question; there's a big distinction there.

Unfortunately a lot of people with good experience get left behind. But the other problem is just because somebody has good experience doesn't mean they are the right fit for the position. And that's just life.
I ran into a great "where's the code" on a "lightweight API" ruby project once. Opened up the codebase to fix an issue, and there were no .rb files at all. After opening every file in the repo, it turned out the developer of the code base had the entire service in the Rakefile.
I must say that I too have come to absolutely hate the chat popups.
They're almost always bots and have some pre programmed rubbish responses. They are not "AI" and dont come close to helping me with anything.
In fact, I've come to hate it so much that I have a chome extension that makes sure I never see another one!
May I add that since that moment, I've had as much help on websites and I dont feel irate with one less thing popping up as I navigate!
I hangout on hackernews and think I remember "reading" all 3 of GPT-3 articles. I used a screen reader, it makes it fast for me to "read" while I do other things. I generally enjoy the content hackernews links to and often read it before I evaluate the source, because really I'm just looking for something to listen to while I make my tea or something. I noted that they didn't seem to reference anything and decided I would try not to heed the advice they contained.

I did think it was a human. I just thought it was low quality selfhelp stuff that you see out there. The "...too productive" one was more convincing because it felt like more of a personal story that didn't need to have references.
A z test relies on the normal approximation, no? I don't think that is appropriate with proportions so close to 0.
The 5th dimension is just so tightly curled up that, after discretization, just looks like it's not present.
I don't think this is fair; in real time you have to either go with what you think you know, or do nothing at all. If they'd done nothing at all, I think they would still be getting at least as much criticism now.
The reason I learned Vim in 2019 is b/c I wanted a lightweight, powerful, ubiquitous tool. I was willing to overcome the learning curve, but it took time. The most helpful advice I got was from this article https://medium.com/actualize-network/how-to-learn-vim-a-four...:

Week 1: Complete vimtutor once a day, every day
Week 2: Use Vim with minimal config, no plugins
Week 3: Use Vim with minimal plugins
Week 4: Compose Vim commands with verbs and nouns
Anti-China feeling masks the west's own Covid-19 failures
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But the scale of the anti-China reaction is disproportionate to the reality of the courageous contributions made by Chinese scientists to our global understanding of this pandemic.
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You both overwrite and avoid overwrite by using more specific rules.
> The default option should be "show options"

I fully understand why you think that should be the case, but please understand that most people are not like you. Putting barriers between first start of an app before the user can actually do something with the app is the way to annoy your users.

Sane defaults are nearly always the right choice. You personally may not believe their default is sane, but you're in the minority, clearly.

(It's telling that you call it "Mozilla Ads"; such hyperbole only serves to weaken your point.)
so here you are dismissing the views of the people in a whole country because their government isn't 'democratic'. This isn't the most ludicrous thing I've heard but It has obviously gone too far. You are essentially denying the rights of anyone who is a Chinese citizen to speak their mind, on the ground it's influenced by the government. And for some reason, a citizen of the US would fear not for speaking anything, which is simply not true. I'm pretty sure there are plenty people who don't speak their true views for the fear of repurcussion even though they hold that view, regardless how unwelcoming it maybe. To suggest we are somehow free of those outside non-debatable coercion would be a dilusion.
The reason I don't like the H1B program is because it makes it so hard for people like you to stay here. It's designed, by law, to kick you out after 3 to 6 years.
It is very difficult to explain to someone who has not used Django/Rails just how productive they are, especially Node.js devs. I started off with Django, so when I moved to Express for a project, I was immediately slapped with the reality that I needed to write my own forms and admin site. These are some of the things that you simply do not have to worry about with the aforementioned batteries included approach of Django/Rails.
> The Carolinas seem as far as you can get from Silicon Valley, culturally

Why do you think that?
No, that's not the conclusion. That's the portion that is explicitly speculation. There are tells in the language:

> The navigation link led to a 62% increase in live chat conversations...This felt like a win— I like live chat but I hate chat bubbles...In any case, don't expect to see a chat bubble on Atlist ever again.

That's the conclusion: "For this page, losing the bubble is okay. We're going to lose the bubble."

> And if I hate them, maybe users hate them too? Maybe users have developed a chat bubble blindness— just like banner ad blindness.

That's the speculation. You can tell because of the 'maybe's in there.

This is actually quite well-written. The conclusions are written in clear language indicating fact. There is a potential "future work" description that speculates on possibilities while expressing the uncertainty.

IMHO very well expressed, good text. But what you've said has made me think about why people sometimes read scientific papers the way they do. They'll say "They claim that this will make fusion power possible" or something like that when those parts are in the "Future Work" section and are therefore unsubstantiated and intended to be a "here are some distributaries of this river of fact".

Interesting. I think the cues are adequate, but clearly they are not for many. I still think they should write the way they do and just accept that some in the audience aren't going to make it there.
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Ask HN: What's the name of an AWS UI alternative?
I remember seeing on HN a long time ago, an alternative UI for AWS but it was in early access. I've forgotten the name, and would like to see its status. I'm hoping someone can remember its name :-) I think it started with a V
> In my view, we are just workers--our only leverage is our willingness to walk away, which is usually fine with the company. They have a long line of candidates out the door.

You have more leverage than that; not all workers are equal. That's why interviews exist in the first place. Maybe you have prior industry experience, or experience with some paradigm/framework they want to adopt. Feeling like that probably hinders you in negotiations; if you're arguing that workers are largely interchangeable, it begs the question why they would hire anyone other than the cheapest possible person.

On your decision tree, you're missing a step where you explain why you're asking for more pay. The most compelling argument there is frequently a competing offer from another company for more money (which is evidence that what they consider "market value" for you is too low). Other than that, you can argue that they're misjudging your value to their company. Your industry experience should add value, or your ability to be a leader among ICs, etc. You'll have to justify why you should be paid more.

You've also entirely left out negotiating. If you're not happy with response 3a or 3b, propose an alternative. There are several compensation alternatives to salary.

In terms of pure cash, you can ask for a sign on bonus. Those are typically paid out of a different pool than salaries, and can be easier to negotiate than a salary increase. It's also CAPEX instead of OPEX, which I believe is preferable to a business (just based on what companies have told me, I don't know the entire reason why other than that it's a 1 time cost). If you have an idea of how long you'll be at the company, you can amortize the sign on bonus as part of your salary.

There's also a large array of non-cash compensations you can get. You can negotiate to work from home X days a week. You can negotiate for more vacation days per year. You can negotiate reduced hours for what they're paying. You can negotiate to have them send you to conferences, or to more than the standard number of conferences. You could probably have them give you hardware that's being decommissioned if that's your thing. Another atypical idea would be to have them pay for/subsidize/use their discount on an AWS/GCP homelab for you (that seems less likely to be possible because of issues with accounting, but can't hurt to ask). The limit is only your imagination.

I think aggressive is a misnomer here. I would call it assertive. You don't have to bang your fists, just know what you're worth to the company and maintain that you won't accept a lower value. If they say they'll pay X, you respond that it's below what you would expect for someone with your skills/experience/whatever and that the offer would be more compelling if it was $Y higher. What many people do is the opposite; they wait for the company to decide what they're worth and then they decide whether that valuation is acceptable to them.
Love the business idea. In theory, all the book scraping is automated through Twitter api and then compiled through Amazon API. The page basically self-assembles using Nextjs template and API data call. You get paid via referral purchases. It's genius.

Curious: where do you get high-resolution book images. I wanted to add those to my own book list (https://kirillzubovsky.com/bookshelf) and haven't found a source with high res.
There was a virus directed at DoD machines going around via USB devices. PITA to get rid of too...
wonder if one day a forum like hackernews appears where gpt-x bots are posting comments on cool articles and blogs created by the very same bots. very deep complicated topics are discussed no human ever understand. If our progression in these fields will not come to a halt then this must happen one day.
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Wouldn't somebody doing professional video rather use a green screen instead, though?
This is true, but at least in the US, its more and more devalued everyday.
How did ancient humans invent a concept as abstract as financial interest?