skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be contrary to the whole spirit of Federalism. It would be like every EU country having a separate department of internal affairs which reports directly to Brussels, except, perhaps, even more politically inflammatory. I'm not saying I necessarily disagree with you, just noting that there's a big wall in the path of implementing the concept.
After buying our house, we kept getting important official mail from some governemental org, concerning not the previous owner, but some completely different guy, we dont even know who. We always sent it back noting wrong address, and they kept sending it right back to us. We started to get 4 or 5 of these letters each week. One day I got sick of it and wrote 'Has been swallowed alive by crocodile' on one of these. Someone took notice, presumably, as the mail stopped.
Should McDonalds add vitamin D to bigmacs?
Agreed. I assumed they buffered the whole work day such that following an incident, the investigating officers (and not the officer under investigation) would initiate the persistence of a particular incident.
Got it. Thanks for taking the time to fill me in. If I ever do 2d stuff I'll take a look at skia
Wow so the George Soros stuff is real. They’re importing blue voters.
pg is surprisingly prescient in his predictions about the potential size of the opportunity. This might just be survivorship bias though, but still, one takeaway I got from the email exchanges is that pg really evaluated founders on both the idea/market opportunity and the qualities of the founders themselves:

I'd recommend having the debate after meeting them instead of before. We had big doubts about this idea, but they vanished on meeting the guys.

To be fair, pg probably has more signal on the founders as individuals and VCs may not get as much signal based on a pitch meeting, but you could also argue that one of YC's edge was their focus on identifying stronger founders moreso than great ideas, whereas VCs, given their general strategy of investing more in large priced post-seed rounds care more about traction and market opportunity and less on the "intangible" traits of the founders.

It's interesting that pg also believed in the eventuality of AirBnB competing with and taking a lot of market share away from hotels. Fred and the "older" guys at their firm didn't believe this.
Because that would work actually work? We don’t actually want to have recordings, just say that we have them.

But seriously, I would imagine the storage costs aren’t that terrible relative to the costs it would save in lawsuits for the police departments ?
I've worked as a barista in the US and I've never heard of using different milk for cappuccinos vs. lattes -- instead, I've always just imbued more air into my cappuccino froth than when I make latte froth. Is it especially common for Italian coffee shops to use different milk for each, or am I just misunderstanding your comment?

On the (admittedly off topic) note of you getting downvotes: I suspect some of it probably has to do with your English writing skills, unfortunately. I would suggest giving a service like Grammarly a shot to try to make your writing a little more professional, because a lot of folks will dismiss comments outright that look poorly written without even considering the underlying thoughts being expressed. It definitely sucks when you're trying to communicate in a language other than your primary language.
As far as i know it's more or less handled by police forces themselves with predictable results.
It would be great if banks and other financial institutions had to follow libel laws. Why isn't a bank stating that you're dead when you're clearly not a clear case of libel?
In a similar manner, most cases of what is called "identity theft" are really just bank libel: a bank mistaking you for someone else and making false statements about your credit worthiness or reassigning your assets.
Are you saying that implementing shady bypassing of VPNs to transfer who knows what data out of "your" machine without your knowledge is okay because it is not as bad as Microsoft, Facebook or Google? Is it really what we have come to? I think this is worse than Microsoft, because in Windows I can actually disable that and it doesn't try to bypass my firewall or VPN.
It's so weird to read these kinds of things. I work for a software company in Dallas, Texas, where almost all 200 or so employees uses Macs. It's very, very common around here, although by no means universal.
You seem to misunderstand the point I was trying to make. That same argument can be brought up against potential problems of a vaccine which is based on a novel technology and has not been tested for 1,2,5,10,15,20 years.
Bookings and Expedia are way, way, way lower than that. Expedia has been complaining a lot in recent years how Google has been taking away a lot of their search traffic with in-results-page hotel listings.

At one point in the past I heard Booking was the largest spender, worldwide, on Adwords.
Hell yeah! Glad to see a small research community forming around improving programming language design using the HCI toolset.
I don't think they expired quite yet but they let some very early employees sell as part of the IPO which may address those people
PR as much as anything. Also probably breadth of knowledge (the depth is nice, of course).

And for Mudge, for why it might be worth taking on relatively 'simple' problems - money. Money is nice.
Not to mention that any comparison should be done April 2020 to March 2021 not Jan to Dec.
My guess is that, at some point, a manager at Acorn asked which disk controller would the engineers recommend and they, obviously joking, said "8271".

When they realized what they had done, it was too late.
Instead of lockdown, why don't Governments issue free Vitamin D to all households and at all pharamcies, all winter? The cost would be a few million - against tens of billions for lockdown.
Cordova, not too far from there (for Alaska.) I moved out of AK in 98.
I expected far-worse numbers but they seem to be doing okay considering the pandemic.

Revenue:

2020* 2.5billions

2019 4.9billions

2018 3.7billions

*until September.
That power doesn't just disappear though. It'll be taken by a mob / gang / warlord, take your pick. Good luck demanding bodycams then!
Yes, and most of them shouldn't even be at the hospital. That's the point I'm trying to make. By making everyone hysterical they run to hospitals like flock, hindering the ability to nurse other patients with serious problems. Just stay home if you have covid, in the majority of cases hospitals can't help you either way.
Chicago has one of the highest murder rates in the U.S.[0], and is rising rapidly[1]; but, invariably the criticism is focused solely on the police. By the weight of coverage and outrage, one would think that Chicago faces no issues other than bad police. Yes they should have their body cams on. Why so little attention to the reality in Chicago that the police are facing?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
[1] https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-murders-2020-crime-fbi/64317...
Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”
CodeWeavers apparently has WINE running through Rosetta 2, which is wild from a technical standpoint and gives me hope for my older PC games. https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2020/11/10/its-great...

The real question is… how long does Rosetta 2 stick around? Rosetta 1 only lasted OSX 10.4 - 10.6.
Not really, but I see what you were going for. Thanks!
I think people are overlooking this. It can even be worse in other countries. Some of those things (among numerous other things) can lead to death in a few countries.
And to be clear, there is a lot of gambling on backgammon. Add in the doubling cube and it is similar to poker.
Still much better than the rest of Europe where it's creeping above 1, or almost reached 2 (Belgium, Czech Republic)
corn syrup is glucose. high fructose corn syrup is 40-90% fructose.
Ten Laws of the Modern World (2005)
The mushrooms produce vitamin D2 though, not D3.
You are probably right that Hacker News isn't the best forum for policing discussion. In fact, the "off-topic" region of the guidelines would indicate this as well imo. But people have upvoted it to the front page, so there must be some interest at least. Best bet is probably to flag and move on.
When Covid hit and they had to cut advertising expenses from 2019 they didn't see as large of a drop in traffic as they expected based on ad spend.

So they are definitely getting a tremendous amount of organic traffic because "Airbnb" became a verb like Google or Uber.

Especially around the fast growing millennial sector which is very focused around experiences and travel.
GraphQL – Diving Deep
Can anyone estimate what an investors in 2009 in Air BNB will get for an ROI post- IPO? I just looked and S&P 500 returned 426.134% with dividends reinvested through September 2020.
Just re-upload it and change the readme to define "youtube-dl" and "Youtube Digital Library"
In which a cat narrates feline history in the age of european conquest
Thanks a ton. I have added sections for all of them.

Up/down errors:
https://github.com/tomcam/postgres#scrolling-through-the-com...

\timing:
https://github.com/tomcam/postgres#timing

\tWatch
https://github.com/tomcam/postgres#watch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25117362
However fishy this study may be, eating some herring is definitely not bad. It's delicious! So: good idea, thank you, I'll get some for the week end.
> If Biden is looking to score some points this would be a good way.

If only a significant % of america didn't refuse to acknowledge police abuse of power was a big deal (or even happening)
Actually, I don't care for censorship. I'd rather let the idea be presented and let the intolerance for it drown it out by way of copious rebuttals, not removal. I won't know if I'm on the side of the angels, but I'll know I'm in good company and I'll have heard both sides at levels roughly proportionate to the size of the population interested in defending each side.

In hindsight, I see how citing codes of conduct implies support for censorship, when my actual intent was simply to demonstrate another example of "intolerance" having noble goals.
It's not something you can just throw together on news of a vaccine. It's maybe possible they had it ready for this eventuality, but given they need to synchronize this with investment banks, the SEC, etc, I don't see them able to hold that credibly until news breaks.
GP said internal affairs could report to state governors.
I've seen this when using vmware fusion.
Think of it as the difference between a computer algebra system and LaTeX. Sure, they're rudimentarily both about mathematics. But the former is about building software that can do interesting computations with algebraic expressions. The latter is about building graphical representations expressly for humans.

That's the difference between sheet music and MIDI. MIDI is extremely powerful, but it's not really about setting not just instructions but guidelines for human performers who will ultimately use their judgment on how to interpret it and perform it -- often in large groups. Compared to that, MIDI is not just way more low level, but simply for a difference purpose.
oh is that what happened? that's a pretty amazing "natural" experiment they ran.

Definitely helps that Airbnb has become a verb - can't beat that.
I see, so you should be free to go out spewing virus on people for whatever reason you like. Because you want to get a beer in a bar or eat out.

Meanwhile I should have to potentially quit my job, or not get groceries, live apart from parents, or wife, so I can avoid coming into contact with your selfish choices, indirectly.

allrighty then.
Wow, today I learned. I remember Back Orifice back in the day was all the rage.
You can turn off the internet and freely use your Mac. The network dependent features are smart enough to know you are offline and not impede you.

Their problems come when you have bad connections or Apples servers are down/overwhelmed. They don’t fail gracefully then.

As a mobile developer I know there are always at least two or more failure modes with any network request, failures because of network/server failures, or failures because internet is off. My clients constantly think Airplane mode is the bad network test case,and I constantly remind them that no, it’s only one possible error cause.
Even if police has less power, they still can lie to you or give you misleading advice and then turn it against you and you will have no way to prove malice. I witnessed this couple of times and I was shocked that something like this is possible. I think to build the trust of the public, governments should invest in creating technology allowing recording all incidents in full. If there is no accountability all bad apples get free reign and you will have no recourse.
The problem isn't any one individual who is/isn't involved, it's the consensus mechanism. If you bring in a great sous chef and ask them to make you an omelet, they will make a great omelet. If you bring in a committee of people -- some sell omelet pans, some run hotel chains where free omelets are part of the package, some want you to adopt their vegan egg substitute -- you are not going to get a great omelet spec. Adding one omelet expert to the committee doesn't add anything over just asking an omelet expert to make some eggs.
Big discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25117362
> Woz's masterpiece, which was discrete logic

It had the downside of requiring precise timing. This is an issue if you wanted a faster (or even a slightly improved) 6502 in the machine.

Oh well...
You alone yes. However if everyone reading this works at the problem...
Your IJME link does not support in any way your assertion about the "danger" of the HPV vaccine. From the link, 30,000 were vaccinated. Three girls died for reasons that are never stated. The article provides that "there is no conclusive evidence of a causal link between the vaccine and the deaths."
I feel the same. I'm confused as to why this was downvoted by HN. Could someone clue us in?
Just to let you know that Chris came back to the game recently, he streams on twitch as iamchris_age2
Airbnb also stopped performance marketing during COVID, so it is all unpaid for the past 8 months. But yes, Booking and Expedia rely much more on performance marketing, but Airbnb historically has paid a lot more for traffic. Experiences historically has been a very small # and $ amount so its not material. No need for them to break it out separately.
I'd certainly hope it's more than 4x. Otherwise what exactly are we all doing?
Even if so, that doesn't mean that these are not good changes.
> the start of an era of "mechanical honesty"

I'd like to mention the under-appreciated development of the cash register in the 1880s. Prior to the cash register, the owner had to trust cashiers not to pocket money. Cash registers became enormously popular and revolutionized sales since they kept everyone honest, as well as letting business owners know what was going on.

(The book "Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, & Remington Rand & the Industry They Created" goes into a lot of detail on this.)
Is there a difference between disallowing an action and denying it? I think so, and that word choice matters. I see this pattern everywhere. Do you disallow someone on FB, or do you block them? Does iptables use disallow as a keyword? I do see BLOCK and DROP though.

Normalized use of the passive voice is no different than being uncomfortable with making eye contact during a regular conversation. Perhaps the writer accounted for that considering the user base.
here is an overview of swedens cases - hospitalizations - deaths https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6...

while they have an uptick in cases, deaths are steady.

Edit: What this chart makes pretty clear, who dies from covid 19. Sweden has < 100 people who were not older than 50 who died, while elderly got completely wrecked.
You can buy dash cams now with a 24 hour circular buffer and an onboard battery that lasts just as long. It would not be hard to just record everything for an entire shift, then copy the video to a server while the body camera is recharging.
3,000-10,000x return approximately.

Depends on later stage dilution and what the pre-money is, but still a ridiculous markup. No comparison to S&P.
“A quasi-experimental study” - love the honesty
But we already have functioning and effective police forces in the western world without having to give up our rights to privacy.

Why would we want to give up more?
I don't know what is this strong focus on Sweden, they are just 10 million people with a small population density spread all over the Scandinavian peninsula. There were some herd immunity fans discussing on the Turkish TV about Sweden and how their model can be applied to Istanbul but they forget that Sweden has only 2/3 of the total population of just one city of Turkey. Apples with oranges. Like in programming, some people don't get the scaling right.
Maybe if everyone from reddit to domain registras thinks you are out of your mind and dangerous, you should either consider some self reflection, or spend your own money to distribute your message.
I wonder about their long term business model. Sure they have opened up the industry, but I'd think its quite easy to copy them. Sure there are a bunch of people that will keep AirBnB their favorite but when I'm looking at places I'll religiously check every site I can. There will be nothing unique about them.
I was on a jury a number of years ago on a suspected DUI case where the police officer for the case failed to complete the proper paperwork and record of events at the time of arrest.

As a jury we ended up deciding that the defendant was Not Guilty because without that filed paperwork, it was just two people's recollection of the events and we didn't feel the officer was more trustworthy.

I wouldn't have thought much about it after the fact, except that the prosecution was visibly upset at the decision which made me realize that that was likely not what normally would have happened.
I have not seen a single mention of DKIM w.r.t to Hunter Biden. Did you? Was any evidence presented? I couldn’t find any.

I fail to see how admissibility or lack of it, in a court of law or of public opinion, has anything to do with DKIM+Hunter Biden. Can you elaborate?
> Death per capita levels are similar to US levels

Not "similar", it was the highest per capita death rate in the world alongside the UK for 2 months.
It's my understanding that the FBI is meant to handle matters of state or local government corruption, which I would think includes police departments that circle their wagons and protecting criminal cops. Probably they need to be doing a better job of it, but I believe they're meant to be (among other things) the organization you describe above.

I'm not really familiar with the details, but it's my understanding the Seattle PD are under some sort of probation system with the DOJ, which I'm guessing the FBI was involved with. So I think this sort of thing does happen, though I guess not enough.
Is no one surprised that the EFF mentions the door at Moria? (page 2, second half)

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...
I think Apple wants you to know if you try to launch malware, even if you are on a VPN. I wouldn’t doubt that many of their engineers are using them.
MacBook Pro battery drains while charging?
Hello HN!

My MacBook Pro's 15 2018 battery was draining while charging. I'm not talking about the Catalina battery health management system. Under heavy loads, I was able to work 5-6 hours before my battery died, and it was with Apple's original 87W charger.

I sent my laptop to the service 2 times, but it didn't help. In the end, Apple said that it's OK when your battery drains to 0% while charging...

So, it pissed me off, and I checked the system info and figured out that my 87W USB-C Adapter was delivering only 60W. It means Apple sold me a fake 87W charger with my laptop.

Yesterday, I bought a 94W adapter from Apple, and it resolved the issue.

Buy an adaptor with more wattage if you have the same issue, but the question is, will it damage my battery?
How could that possibly be accurate?
\pset linestyle unicode

(Full disclosure: I added this. But I think it makes the output more readable. Just retry your examples and compare them.)
> I just asked Valve support if I could bequeath my account to someone when I die and their response was no[0].

Nice have fun, i try to not buy anything from steam/iTunes/spotify/google/apple/microsoft-store/adobe..etc in the mean time.
They lost $600 mil in _2019_? And $700 mil so far this year? Woah.
Not quite: when you pass "-I" curl makes a HEAD request instead of a GET request:

$ curl -sS -v -I \
https://www.jefftk.com 2>&1 | grep '^>'
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.jefftk.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
> Accept: */*

$ curl -sS -v -D- -o/dev/null \
https://www.jefftk.com 2>&1 | grep '^>'
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.jefftk.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
> Accept: */*
>

It turns out that, often enough to be worth worrying about, servers do not return the same headers in response to a HEAD request as a GET request, so I always send a GET request when debugging strange behavior.
Some people here are claiming that it's just not worth for big companies to invest in such "niche" bugs for "small markets".

But I think it's more than that.

I think many US-based companies seriously underestimate difficult issues such as localisation or fail to understand phenomena such as multilingualism. I think this creates a lot of problems for international markets, but somehow these problems are probably not very visible.

For example, why is it that I can't see reviews in multiple languages on the Play Store? This would be valuable information both for customers as well as for developers who speak multiple languages.
Airbnb in the less urban areas where I live was incredibly popular during the summer / fall. Covid-19 encouraged people in the city I live in to travel in the province instead of go to other countries.
IMO, event this is ever supported, you still should migrate using a Dump, or proper synchronization service
And I prefer not to give my telephone number. I guess it is better to set up a display for the ready order numbers and/or an announcement.
Do real-world maps work with DE? I had fun making a map of Taiwan, with actual locations of gold, stone, fish, wild animals, etc.

https://github.com/peterolson/AOE2-Real-Map-Creator
> Why not buffer 5 hours by default?

Because then you end up with recordings of things that you shouldn't have, like the officer using the restroom or a victim who has asked not to be recorded. Also, several minutes of buffer fits nicely in RAM. 5 hours would require a lot more RAM (making devices more expensive and thus harder to get deployed) or would require it to be written to flash disk which introduces new technical and legal issues.

Additionally, recording 5 hours for each incident has one significant problem: every video that gets recorded has to be stored on device during the shift (not a big problem), but it also has to be offloaded and stored somewhere for archival. Do the math sometime on what kind of bandwidth and storage capacity a large agency like NYPD, LAPD, Chicago PD, etc. would need to upload several hours worth of officer-recorded video each day. I've done that math and the numbers are staggering.