skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a fun time dealing with advice, try starting a startup. As an early startup focusing a lot on growth [0], we talk to a lot of successful entrepreneurs and mentors about what worked best for them. At best, we get completely different advice from them. At worst, we get completely conflicting advice from them. Have a big spend on advertising, don't do any advertising, go word-of-mouth exclusively, you're too small to go word-of-mouth, etc. Very hard to take all of this in and forge your own way, but there's not much alternative.

0: https://kitemaker.co - an issue tracker for modern agile teams
I have a few friends in their late-20s/early-30s who have gotten this.

Only one has had to spend a night in the hospital for low oxygen, but overall, I know of 5 people who have been made absolutely miserable for 2 weeks because of this virus. Seemingly no permanent side effects, but it was an awful slog to get there.
"punycode" does seem to break a few things in userland, but obviously should exist for the web to be more useable in more languages.

I've delved into the subject a bit and as someone else has mentioned, "homograph attacks" are a thing.

Looking deeper, it seems each TLD has a set of dictionaries and rules for what is an acceptable combination of characters, and what isn't (to avoid homograph attacks)- and as I understand it, the solution is on a per TLD basis, as in different dictionaries and rules per TLD.

For 3rd parties like LinkedIn, I could understand why they may be averse to embracing IDN domains but for a company of their size and reach, they really should be looking after their wider user base.

For working with IDN domains, I've felt the easiest way to store/process them is to store them as their ASCII value and convert for human consumption.

Tried hunting for a C library that deals with the dictionary issues and was left not entirely sure whether libidn supports them.
Study finds ticks choose humans over dogs when temperature rises
Most kafka connectors just use the kafka API. So should "just work" (tm). Hehe. Let me know otherwise
I mean, while it is the nominal purpose of the site, it's not like all of us here actually work in startups.

Personally, I do programming for psych research students & faculty at an undergrad institution.

It's not like working at a startup—or having money as your first, last, and only moral compass—is a prerequisite to post here.
Then the vacuum sellers are getting ripped off just as much as I am.
IMO there is only one case for having guns in the hands of civilians other than hunting - self defense against wild animals when hiking. I mean, Sweden has bears, moose and wild pigs, how are people supposed to defend against these?
Super-fast quantum light detection
Trello is slow or unavailable
I would argue that Magic Leap is not super successful. They have raised tons of money in the private market but much of it seems to have been smoke and mirrors (similar to e.g. Theranos).

Could you point me to a super successful public company with a proven track record, high revenues, rising stock price, etc. that is focused around a bad idea?
What I meant is that they would rather do a self-hosting (Gitea, etc.) instead of using another platform to have ore control.

Moreover, my statement was more of a speculation rather than an advice :-D
It hasn’t gotten a strong enough backlash.

They commented on all the *gates and even the ocsp issue which reached mainstream media.

But this is so low level (normal people don’t know or care about firewalls except it’s running, or understand why it’s bad for Apple to bypass it) that it won’t become big enough to get that kind of press and response.

Once it’s exploited and has a pretty name, maybe.
> If the US government is happy to hand out billions in funding and then pay a high price for the doses, why would a private company not take advantage of this?

The US government paid Moderna $1B to fund the development and $1.5B for 100 million doses. They are paying Pfizer $1.9B for 100 million doses of their vaccine. I don't consider $25/dose (maximum) or $19/dose to be "a high price".

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
T90 to me is such a confusing phenomenon. I've never understood why a low-rated player who (to me) did not have a particularly entertaining personality was the most-subscribed AoE2 player on twitch. Is he actually good now? How high-rated is he compared to Daut and Viper and so on?
Linux with a few blobs is still light-years better for your freedom than osx or windows. Plus, from a platform perspective, software built on windows or osx is categorically not free (in the strictest sense - even if the software is gpl, if it's built for a nonfree os, it's still not very useful in the grandest scheme of things even if it's better than if it were proprietary as well). However, software written for linux can be truly free.

Note when I say "written for" I'm not even really speaking very technically - lots of programs written nowadays won't really have any particular dependency on a library that's only available on a certain OS. But if you're using an application that's written in a platform-agnostic way but the programmer only develops it and uses it on a Mac, it's usually easy to tell. Both in terms of system interop/integration and how bugs are prioritized.

So, even if people do things you don't like on their linux install, it's still far better to have as many people on linux as we can get.
If you want to stop progress for the least technically inclined to accept you will stop all progress for ever.
Why, you can run on a single core and 1G of ram.

We just give you optimal prod settings for saturating boxes.

See rpk container
"Normally this phase takes multiple years"

It still does. That hasn't changed or been "rushed". We are now getting preliminary Phase 3 results and there will continue to be Phase 3 results for a long time to come. The question is, do various health agencies believe these initial results are sufficient for emergency approval?

But to be perfectly crystal clear, absolutely nothing has been "shortened".
Yep. In our cowering space, a fire marshal comes by to make inspections. If we're not up to snuff, we'll get closed down. I can not imagine too many software projects where people will submit to random audits and accept total shutdown if they don't meet specific criteria.
'Everybody' thinks RMS is wrong. He has the worst case of Cassandra's curse I've ever heard of.

But I think it tends to not work like this. Incidentally, the flat earth thing is mostly a myth; literate people have know the earth is round since the ancient Greeks figured it out. Columbus was ridiculed for thinking the Earth was smaller than it really is (his critics were right) and the only reason his trip didn't end badly for him is shear dumb luck in running into another continent in his quest to reach Asia the looooong way around.
gitlab.com, btw, does clearly advertise that they comply with DMCA takedown notices.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/dmca/

Others in this sub-thread have identified that the downloadable releases are actually currently hosted on gitlab.com.

Gitlab has their internal workflow for handling DMCA takedown's public (as with most/all of their internal policies, which is cool!). https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/security/opera... It may be that they go a little bit slower with more chance for the alleged infringer to respond (with a counter-notice or voluntary takedown) than others.

But in the end, any major US company (or company doing business with the US) is probably going to comply with the DMCA, which says that if you get a takedown notice that is formatted correctly, you take down. Then there's a process with user filing a counter-notice, then the original filer having a chance to respond to THAT, etc., that you can see in the gitlab workflow, but most of that is just how DMCA works. "If there was a valid counter-notice and no response has been received from the plaintiff within 10 days of the counter-notice being forwarded" then the content might go back up.
> But now I am curious though, if there are indeed regulations for these kind of works.

Plenty of countries have some level of regulation on this sort of thing.

After all, there's a long history of national cultural treasures being looted. Everything from the British Museum acquiring the Elgin Marbles under very sketchy circumstances to Hobby Lobby having a bunch of Egyptian and Iraqi artefacts seized.

Of course, it's debatable where such protections need to start. Only a defined list of items? Only items 200+ years old and worth $250,000+? More?
If you take two cities and compare their median incomes, the one with a higher income will tend to be more tolerant.

That does not mean, within the city, the wealthy are more tolerant than the poor. It’s a system effect. When tolerant people densify, they become more productive. This might be because they can exist more compactly. Or it might be something about how interactions in a tolerant society work.

The country club analogy was solely an equivalence of cost. If I were in Tulsa, I imagine I would have to pay that much to get access to the restaurants, theatre, arts and clubs that I take for granted in New York.
This may also be because the Pfizer shot needs to be stored at nearly a hundred degrees below zero, while the Moderna one needs to be stored at only a few degrees below zero. This makes Moderna's option much better for distribution.
Fructose is almost always absorbed; fructose malabsorption causes SIBO. Fiber reduces the glycemic index and makes fruit more satiating. Glucose aids the absorption of fructose preventing SIBO.

But in the case of fruit w.r.t. gout, the missing variable here is that while fructose increases the production of uric acid, potassium promotes the excretion of uric acid [1], and fruits are generally an excellent source of potassium while soft drinks contain little to none. The net effect of fruit on gout risk seems to be inconclusive [2] but it's clear that fruits are much less concerning than foods with added fructose. Since a significant fraction of Westerners do not consume enough potassium [3], and potassium is key to preventing hypertension and stroke [4,5], it is bad advice to suggest reducing fruit consumption for most people, unless you're already eating like Steve Jobs.

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S008525381...

2: https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article-abstract/58/7/...

3: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02709...

4: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%252Fs11906-011-019...

5: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/1...
We are just going to have to prevent people who do not take the vaccine from mixing into society until they do or the pandemic is gone. Bars, restaurants, plane flights, etc.

The choice is between having to be quarantined or taking the vaccine.
Thanks for this, I'm going to use the sports analogy in the (near) future the next time I discuss this with anyone.

It's all politics. Estimation is a purely political game by EMs/TPMs/PMs to try and shirk responsibility for engineering outcomes.

Here's another neat tack to try in this conversation. Ask for individual examples of "good estimators," and ask for details about what makes them good estimators. You'll rarely (if ever) hear that someone was so accurate that it materially impacted a project in a positive way. What would that even look like? "I was sooo accurate that the client success people were able to say that our new product would be ready 6 months ago, and now didn't have to send a follow up email to update the timeline!!!" The only answers I've gotten are that people who are good at estimating are the ones where nobody ever really has to look at their schedule and there is no drama because they are always getting things done. This is highly contextual and rarely has to do with that person's individual estimating skill. It has to do with their project, team, EM, PM, experience relative to teammates, etc. Recently I was given an example of a client-side developer who is far more experienced than the back-end guy building his API, so he's always just sitting around waiting for the API to be finished to build his features. He almost always does 3/4 of his tasks ahead of time and then just waits for the API to be done and puts his ticket in as completed at that point. So he's not really estimating at all, and he's not accurate, it's just that the project is bottle-necked on the back-end dev speed regardless, so nobody ever cares about his estimates.

It all just seems so wishy-washy and bullshit. It's just about pushing people to work hard and get more done ("you need to hit your estimates, think of them like commitments!"). Framing this all as somehow single-handedly the engineer's problem is just a sign of someone who doesn't know how to operate a software development team effectively. Estimation is a team effort in scheduling, delegation, planning, and communication.

Why in the world (if not politics) would anyone invent a concept where it punishes someone who over-achieves and chooses to work harder for a short period of time? ("you should try to be more accurate about estimates, even if you have to slow down your work, and over working like this leads straight to burn out, be careful!) It's all just nonsense invented by MBAs who have no actual experience in anything except inane "policy" and "oversight."

Software project estimation is a real thing, but it has nothing to do with one person's ability to predict the future. It's an analytical data methodology far more than an individual, experiential skill.
"The Value of Everything" by Mariana Mazzucato. Great book. Central thesis: there are value creators and value extractors. Value creation is very connected with most people's idea of "progress". But value extraction is parasitic, and dominates more and more of contemporary economies.
Mostly for sparse file system support. We dispatch IO eagerly and out of order.
It’s really simple; I used Jekyll, every URL was a post with a simple template that did the redirection.
No, it's hard to make ridiculously out-of-proportion amounts of money, create artificial concentration, and deliver extended exponential growth of individual enterprises. And of course it's hard to even make a living when all your competitors are allowed "differentiation" and you're not.

Which is what happens when a government sails in and starts granting monopolies.

Copyright is an artificial monopoly. Patents are artificial monopolies. There are a bunch of weird people out there who call themselves "libertarians", but somehow favor the government creating such restrictions on people's liberty. They're confused and should be ignored.

Trade secrets are perhaps slightly less artificial, but they are clearly destructive in an enormous number of ways.

If, as lawgiver, one were to totally eliminate all imaginary property and outlaw commercial secrets, one could arrange a society where a lot of people could make a very nice living. It might be harder to become a tycoon. Which would be all to the good.
Ask HN: What are the best examples of a modern JavaScript SDK?
Looking for your ideas of SDKs that good a great job of being developer friendly and hewing to modern JS best practices.
Developed countries don't have infrastructure for -70C distribution. The US is going to struggle to actually distribute the Pfizer vaccine. It's not like your local CVS has a freezer that goes down to -70C. Dry ice is possible but there's a shortage of that, too. Nobody has ever distributed a vaccine that needs to be stored at -70C.

The Moderna one is much easier, you just need a normal freezer. Which is fine for developed countries, will still be a challenge elsewhere (but one they're used to, it's not the first vaccine that needs to be kept cold)
Writing an embedded display driver in Rust
So again, some vague conjecture about ‘likelyhoods’ and vague handwavy timeframes. While in reality chances are all of these people already got the vaccine months ago; the study started in June.

What is it that makes people lust for delays? Some irrational fear for side effects? The fear isn’t going away, there’s just more people dying every day you wait, both from corona and the measures.
The youtube-dl removal was not a DMCA takedown request, under no situation could you consider the repo to be hosting copyright material.
I didn’t even use Netlify functions, it was all just HTML and a few lines of JavaScript.
> In the analysis, 90 of the patients received the placebo with the remaining five the vaccine.

Why is the trial so small?
Well anyone who voluntarily enters into a work for hire arrangement is making society a better place. The employer wouldn't have done it unless they were benefitting and likewise for the employee. What is important is doing something people want.
Also, giving examples of good ideas without good execution that failed (e.g. your point about cryptocurrency) does not actually show that ideas don't matter, they show that ideas are not sufficient, something I completely agree with.
Have worked in security a long time. Insecure software that processes PII is designed to be deniable. This is why we need hackers like this fellow to verify anything that processes PII.

I see this fairly often, where a manager in an institution wants to do something illegal or deniable with valuable PII and skirt regulations, they make the external commitment that it's "secure," and then push the implementation down to technologists to implement without serious controls.

If it mattered to the owners of the contact tracing app that it were trustworthy and secure, it would have been. If you want to see what it looks like when security matters, check Apple Pay and other payment specs. It didn't matter in this contact tracing app because someone decided it didn't. I'd argue the so called "professional" pretense of goodwill and sincere intent when it comes to the mass collection of PII is gaslighting bullshit.

In 30 years I could see there being a truth commission where now-aging ad-tech and other developers will confess how they created the systems to facilitate a very dark period.
I'm a reasonable man, what's your offer?
Well it would be nice it it were fixed, but aren't people in Denmark wary of using the three special characters æ, ø and å for this reason?

IIRC it's normal to have borsen.dk instead of børsen.dk, Denmark's equivalent of the FT. And probably a few others as well, I'd expect any website connected to Århus to use some other similar spelling.

Also LinkedIn doesn't seem very easy to deal with in general. I've been trying to find a way to categorize my contacts since forever (personal/business/school), but there doesn't seem to be a way. All the boards where people write have some rep pasting in a standard non-answer.
The small difference in efficacy is less important than the difference in required transportation and storage temperatures: the Moderna vaccine can be kept in a fridge (2C) for a month, or a freezer (-20C) for 6. While the Pfizer vaccine requires ultra cold storage (-70C).
Beyond the damage the virus does without killing, there is also a massive pressure on health care. Keeping someone with a severe case of Corona (I think 5% of cases are this?) from dying requires a lot of care. I know that in my country (the Netherlands) this has caused significant delays to other forms of care.

Hence, even if people who get Corona get out without any long-term damage, their en-masse admission to hospitals still has long-term health effects. Just not on them, but on others that were denied care.
Totally agree. It was just the only e-mail I could find and I was pessimistic about having the issue escalated through customer support. I think Vegard tried his best to help me, though. Once I got the problem escalated, I naively thought they were actually going to fix it.
Maybe the point of the comment is to share their own experiences with the medical system and describe how often they get attacked for sharing their experiences? I do not think the proper response to such a comment is to attack them for sharing their experiences and tell them to "screw [themselves]".

If I were to take a minute to share my own feelings I'd say that the responses to that comment have proven its point. I am glad that they were able to openly share their experiences and I do not feel the need to censor them or attempt to censor them with personal attacks. I would say that the people making personal attacks are making it easier to empathize with the parent comment and are making themselves look rather foolish.

Try to take a moment to put yourselves in their shoes. Tell me that if you were blinded by the medical system you would continue to trust it.
Since this affects only tests, they could easily change the relevant scripts to download a list of test videos at runtime. I bet the RIAA github-scrapers would not "see" it. Just serve statically a rot13-encoded list of URLs from pastebin or something, and Bob's your uncle.
My mother and grandmother both had it.

My mother worked out on the Peloton every single day, didn't miss one workout, and said that she was fine. She experienced mild symptoms and loss of smell and fevers, but other than that she was fine.

My grandmother was rushed to the hospital because she is in the prime age range and has just about every single previous condition you could imagine for someone pushing 90. She was diagnosed with Covid and Pneumonia, felt like shit for a while, and was release and is now fine.

I am not saying the virus is not real or isn't serious, but at some point we need to stop only looking at number of confirmed cases, and start digging a little deeper before we start spreading all of this rash fear.
I also switched to Linux after using Windows for 10 years https://medium.com/swlh/why-i-switched-to-linux-after-using-...
The problem is, LinkedIn thinks they don’t have customer support or bug reporting, when really they just delegated it to social media.
Let’s acknowledge the widespread digestive benefits of yogurt247.com
I'm convinced the companies considered as 'evil' now didn't think they would at first either. Something something unintended consequences.

I mean Reddit; bastion of free speech or platform for hate speech? (they cracked down on that over the years)
Dropbox; File synchronization and sharing platform or child porn exchange?
Airbnb; Great way to find an affordable place to stay and / or rent out unused room, or platform for dodgy landlords that scam people with pretty pictures?
Coinbase: Platform for libertarian wet dream crypto exchange, or platform for laundering your ill-gotten gains?

Just to name a few YC examples. Everything can be used for bad things and make the world a worse place, and they don't always do the right thing.
It is, but I like that I can make something burn with half a dozen drops, which means I keep the flavor of the food, without altering it too much.

But it is, I recall it once was the hottest sauce in Hot Ones[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da8-QfGemgo
What are you going on about?

The vaccine doesn't kill you in the cases where it doesn't work.

If you are in the group with 0.5% chance of death without the vaccine, then with a 95% effective vaccine, you would have a 95% chance of being immune (0% chance of dying from the virus) and 5% chance of having the normal 0.5% chance of dying.
I think just saying "this is a simple explanation" goes a long way towards not sounding condescending