skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think authoritarian measures are an appropriate way for a government to operate, but in the context of whether something is "against HN rules" I think making it known that an idea is harmful is a good thing.

It all comes down to whether or not the community in question is one in which members can readily leave without cost. I don't agree with making anti-vaxxers change their ways by government force, but I'm into being intolerant of them in other ways to the point that they'll come around and obviate any need for governmental force in the first place.
I've invested in a few smallish ($200M to $2B) biotechs over the past decade or so. While I eventually got out with a small profit, I have sworn off ever investing in one again.

Too much time and too many grey hairs from following the hope-and-disappointment cycle as you read the tea leaves from ambiguous trial results and FDA announcements.
Or it could be:

"Hey Ivanhoe, your buddy from government here. That thing that we discussed, no problem I arranged everything, T says it's cool, just wire us the money and the project is yours."

In my view, if someone is going to blackmail me for some sensitive topic like being HIV positive or dox me in revenge, solution is not that I have to go public and lie that it's not real (and risk to be counter-proven it is) - but to have police put their blackmailing asses in the jail. That's the type of protection of my freedom and privacy that I hope for.

And in the end, who has ever believed people doing public denials? Once the word gets out, by the time you publish the rebuttal majority of folks will already have an opinion on it and that will stick with you for long time no matter what you say later.
The action to take down Youtube-dl seemed to be a directed time based action meant to coincide with the election. Most on-line youtube downloading sites were also deplatformed a day or two before the election.

I think that Youtube didn't want users to have the ability to locally save videos that they have seen during the week of the election.

It seems to be a greater attempt to suppress information sharing than anything specific to the copyright.

Youtube just wanted immediate action to prevent people from using the code to get around the online download sites that were also taken down.
Am an admirer of Mudge & co. from back in the day, though my initial reaction was doesn't he seem a bit over powered for Twitter? Their recent security issues with that hack were devops management and governance problems, no new science involved, they just dropped the ball on some solved problems.

Speculating on what kind of problems Twitter would need that calibre of person for, maybe detecting inevitable AI driven botnets and deepfakes?

Could also see how they need leadership with that tangible cred as a decider function, e.g. the personality cult around Jack might make delegation and scaling their management team a challenge if everyone is trying to find a way to compete for his attention, so they need someone with enough weight that he can legitimately defer to on security issues.

Congrats to all involved. Interesting times.
Anyone know when the IPO listing date is?
No idea what the process for getting this information released is... but it feels unlikely to be a coincidence that on the day a 2nd extremely effective vaccine is announced to the world... Airbnb files their public S1.

A lot of that document talks about COVID-19 and how it's effected their business (no surprise there) but also several mentions of vaccines. Mostly in the following phrase (repeated 3 times in the document, I think):

> The extent and duration of the adverse impact of COVID-19 on the Company over the longer term remain uncertain and dependent on future developments that cannot be accurately predicted at this time, such as the severity and transmission rate of COVID-19, the extent and effectiveness of containment actions taken, including mobility restrictions, the timing, availability, and effectiveness of vaccines, and the impact of these and other factors on travel behavior in general and on the Company’s business.
What we need is for them to have to carry personally paid malpractice insurance that is tied to their access to qualified immunity.

And if their camera is off they lose their insurance policy. Then no more access to qualified immunity.

Being police is a luxury not a right.
coworking space...
You could change the event ordering by forcing some events to take a longer path through space?

For a real world example, we can predict supernovas because we've already seen them from another trajectory of light: https://youtu.be/ljoeOLuX6Z4 so we can both see the remote event before and after local events
Great! Hotels don't like this.
> Right now China is engaged in what looks to be genocide against their Muslim population, the Uighurs

Enlighten me, please.
My partner and I very badly wanted to move to Santa Fe. I'm a tech worker and she is not - we both really love the types of housing that's available (and the pricing), but my biggest concern was what happens in 2-3 years when (hopefully) COVID vaccines are common and it's less of a concern. If the jobs all move back to in-person, I doubt I'd be able to find suitable employment in Santa Fe. I'm no super fancy engineer with a big resume, so finding fulltime remote employment when it's less popular and more competitive isn't a guarantee. Ultimately we opted to not move because of it.
Hi, I need to decide in the near future on a scalable messaging solution with at-least-once or better guarantees for our own SaaS platform. I'm looking for something that can be deployed on-prem, that's not targeted only for the public cloud. Do you have any documentation on how best to deploy redpanda with Docker and/or Ansible? What are the best practices on rolling out the cluster in-house? I've seen some docs on tuning that referred to AWS types of instances, is there something that you could refer me to that is more generic and not tied to a specific cloud vendor?

I'm asking partly because we must be able to offer closed on-prem installations as well as SaaS on a cloud. I'm looking for a low-ops component that will not fail me (as often as alternatives would) :)
Who knows. Almost all therapeutic rnas have unnatural RNA bases or base linkages that are, for example, resistant to internal phosphatases/autohydrolysis to improve half life; half life can also depend on secondary structure, and of course as a sibling comment mentioned, it can depend on the stability of the lipid nanoparticles.
I think we should be more measured in our conclusions. See https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-and-covid
Not only that, but the device could have ten minutes rolling before that in a circular buffer.

But the problem here isn't one that we can solve with tech alone. It's cultural to the institution of policing.
You'll find lots of alternative sugars in keto/diabetes recipes.
They need the cash? If they survive through covid they are back to winner takes all.
Replace windows with any Linux distribution and I am in the same boat.

Paying thousands of dollars for a gimped developer experience plus the recent decisions around ‘security’ have been dubious to say the least (Apple granting themselves exceptions around filtering mechanisms in new network extensions APIs)
Correct. Frege (and then following him Bertrand Russell in Principia Mathematica) used a definition when a natural number n was the set of all sets with n elements. More info and contrast with the (later chronologically) Von Neumann definition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_definition_of_...
The biggest factor is almost certainly laws in many countries including the US which shield anyone and everyone involved in the making and distribution of a vaccine for COVID (or other pandemics) from any liability whatsoever for any and all consequences of the vaccine. Even if, to take it to the extreme, it kills people and they knew it would kill people and still sold it, they still can't be found liable in any way.

Other comments are correctly pointing out some corollaries of this, such as trials proceeding very quickly and trial phases being run almost in parallel; but the root cause all of this can happen is the legal immunity for the consequences.
> since they have some of the most experienced lawyers there are when it comes to defending fair-use/free-as-in-freedom

And why would one assume that Github or MS do not have such experts? They undoubtedly have the technical know-how, and the primary findings in the letter are of a technical nature, or even obvious to technically savvy people. And the court decisions referred to are not about fair use or free-as-in-freedom.
You might be correct, Frege defined it (roughly) in a similar way, you can read his original publication here:

https://ia800207.us.archive.org/22/items/diegrundlagende00fr...

It starts on book page 87, or PDF page 125.

Basically, what he seems to be doing is to define 0 as the number of "everything that is not equal to itself" ("die Anzahl, welche dem Begriffe 'sich selbst ungleich' zukommt"), and 1 to be the number of "everything that is equal to 0" ("die Anzahl, welche dem Begriffe 'gleich 0' zukommt"), etc.
It is useful to look at death rates by age group. Sweden initially made the same mistake as Cuomo in New York by putting known infected people in nursing homes that housed compromised older people. That caused it to spread into and kill a known vulnerable age group.
Yeah, agreed that the raw requests were/are somewhat clunky/not well documented (they were added at one point as an escape hatch for when things didn't work as expected/the service did unexpected things for some requests). I would love to hear about what weird input parameters you are seeing in the azure-storage-blob package, however.

And +100 on not having to manage quotas/storage accounts/figure out how many accounts I need to distribute disks across in order to avoid throttling. There are many things I'd rather do :).
Usually within 4-6 weeks of the S-1 becoming public.
Can we stop the pseudoscience? If people stay home there are no accidents, no murders, no party drugs etc. Comparing oranges to apples. Unless the article wants to say that covid is actually good for you. Just stop it, it's bad for everyone.
For a country-wide strategy I think you need to do a bit better than digging discussions out of a guy's email. If herd immunity was the plan, then when was Tegnell going to let us co-conspirators in on it?
> Seems the newest version determined that my quad core Xeon processors didn't support SSE 4.2 or later. A LOT of people were fuming online that in order to run the latest version, they would have to get a new PC or laptop with a new processor that was now required for the newest version.

I was with you until I looked up when SSE 4.2 was introduced.

SSE 4.2 was introduced in the Nehalem architecture...twelve years ago for desktop processors, ten for xeons. I really don't see anything wrong with Adobe requiring a processor newer than ten years old for software used by and large by creative professionals, people who make money with it.

If you're a creative professional working off a twelve year old computer, you're wasting money just from lost productivity waiting on that system - as well as flushing money down the drain on all the wasted energy running the system, unless you live somewhere electricity is insanely cheap.

A new computer would literally pay for itself in reduced power consumption alone, both idle and loaded wattage. A Ryzen 3600 uses less than half the power of a lot of xeon chips, has a single-core performance 50%+ higher than the very fastest second-gen quad core nehalem, and has two more cores.

Same goes for a modern GPU - everything is GPU accelerated these days, and you can get a several year old Nvidia card that is so power efficient the fans aren't even spinning most of the time.

Then there's the huge performance boost of NVMe.

The list goes on. Dude(tte). Buy a new computer. Or one at least made in the last 5-6 years?
This whole setup seems smarmy and illegal. Hopefully some class action is rallied against this deceptive practice.
it's a common sort of outcome for most attempts at police reform in the USA - buying the police bodycams are one of many "obvious" fixes that somehow don't work

This is educational if you are interested in leveling up your thinking on it https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ead8f9692ebee25b72f...
Down $600m in 2019 and another $600m in 2020? With $2b in debt? Ouch.

I'm reading this right, correct? I see the cash positions below are a bit different, but that's likely from... the loans?

2018 looked so hopeful. They only lose $20m total! 2019 should have been a profitable year, IMO, but they went with the aggressive strategy.
Excited to learn more about the specifics. Really hoping people don't flood this thread with their anecdotal bad Airbnb experiences ("I paid below market rate this one time 6 years ago and got a crappy host, therefore this company is going to fail!"), which seems to happen every-time someone mentions their name.
Creativity Is a Habit
I'm not clear what you are arguing for? Do you not want a functioning, effective police force now, in case they become evil in the future (or already are evil, depending on your point of view)?

If a government turns full evil, they don't need evidence against you, they can just lock you up without charge.
I don’t know why we accept this. It would be easy to make it so if an officer failed to turn on their body cam, and a complaint was filed (which should buffer an entire shift, or at least an hour or so), the presumption is there was misconduct and the officer should be fired, and possibly tried for criminal charges. If I failed to take appropriate records of my job, or fulfil my duties (esp if my job were safety critical), and a complaint was lodged, I’d be out the door.
> Why?

Well one part is incompetence. And the other is that a fall spike was just a hypothesis. We didn't know for sure.
This is really excellent. Amazing how much clearer the author’s Lisp code makes things (even to a non mathematician and non lisper). It’s rare to find explanations of difficult topics that are this well communicated, but I hope it becomes a trend.
I mean, agreed! But in my mind X windows itself is a major security hole: every application can snoop on keyboard and mouse input of every other application. Beyond simple bug fixes, Wayland is the next step in fixing the more fundamental issues with X.org's architecture.
I blame Bret Victor. He wrote an influential paper that was longish and people read up to the "last value predictor" section, had an a-ha moment, went to implement it, and ignored the rest. He hasn't update the paper since so no one knows what else to do. The marginal improvement was to take the last value, relate it to a bunch of other people whose last value was the same, and show me their next values.
America desperately needs a national internal affairs department with an entirely separate reporting line whose boss answers directly to the president (or at least state governors).

They could purchase, maintain the body cameras, collect and handle the footage and be trusted.

If Biden is looking to score some points this would be a good way.
Seeing unified cloud cost data across Kubernetes and other services
History of Apple iPhones
Why not simply create a youtube-login command that does nothing but launch an electron instance that lets you login into youtube and then returns the cookie?

youtube-dl could then call that command to obtain the cookie.
What part exactly do you think would qualify as fraud?
Viper is pretty defensive and grindy. I think Carlsen is a much better comparison.
What about the issue of testing for safety? Before today, that took 5+ years.
I think the question is a bit more specific in the context of the halting problem

We know by contradiction that we cannot write a program that determines if any program halts, if the program being checked also contains the program that determines if itself halts.

Is this the only class of program that cannot be determined to halt?
They don't need the cash necessarily but the early employee options were expiring so they needed to go public
I did an antibody test a few months later. I couldn't be tested when I had it because I didn't think it was covid. Only after talking to someone who have had covid and developed similar symptoms I realized that I might have been infected too.
I'd second Google Maps, unless you need to get realllllly granular with food category. My primary search for restaurants on Google Maps is "chinese food" or "hamburger" or the like and I always get appropriate results without being limited by business name.
huh

> Most of our guests discover Airbnb organically, with approximately 91% of all traffic to Airbnb coming through direct or unpaid channels during the nine months ended September 30, 2020.

Anyone know what % of traffic to Bookings and Expedia (and others) are paid vs unpaid? 91% unpaid seems really high, and I wonder if it's because Airbnb is so differentiated / people want to "Airbnb" a place (vs. "stay somewhere")

edit:

> Our hosts had 7.4 million available listings of homes and experiences as of September 30, 2020, of which 5.6 million were active listings. We consider a listing of a home or an experience to be an “active listing” if it is viewable on Airbnb and has been previously booked at least once on Airbnb

IMO it's super sneaky to blend homes and experiences together
I don't believe that RIAA's real intention was simply to get rid of youtube-dl. This was probably just a show to push for more DRM on the Web.
Those businesses agreed to Grubhubs marketing services in hopes of expanding business. All Grubhub did was just painting over that businesses' existing signs and marketing, and demanding a fee.
What's your threat model for this concern? Local networks are still going to see the MAC address (randomization means they can't track you specifically across different WiFi networks, but they still know it's an Apple device). VPNs aren't perfect so an attacker is almost certainly going to see enough from DNS queries, HTTP user agents, TLS SNI headers, etc. to detect the OS in the times where the VPN isn't active. Traffic analysis is also likely to be leaky at this level, too — if you see a big download around the time that Mac/iOS updates come out that's pretty indicative even if you can't see the traffic.
That is correct but traditional flour would not be strong enough for such leavening. Easy to digest pizza is a modern innovation.
It is also not definitive that the 532 cases of Guillan-Barré were actually caused by the vaccine. In any large scale vaccination effort people die/get sick just because that is what happens in any large population.
Most likely the first or second week of December
I sat as a juror in a murder trial several years ago. My peers accepted nearly every piece of prosecutorial testimony without question, not just cops. It was really eye-opening. Because even if that hadn't happened, the whole concept of lesser included charges meant the man on trial was almost certain to be guilty of something. If it wasn't Murder 1, it was murder 2, or manslaughter, or wreckless endangerment.

In my case the guy was (as best I could conclude) legitimately guilty of one of the lesser included charges, but there was some dodgy testimony, and I was the only one, in my group, to question it, and suggest that it might have some bearing on which of the many charges that might actually make him guilty of. It took quite some convincing to get anyone else to drop to anything lower than the top charge.

While I realize that this sample size of 1 is statistically insignificant, it really seems like if you wind up in court on criminal charges, odds seem to be you're screwed. "Innocent until proven guilty" felt, to me, like a pipedream.
> Step 1: Have 100,000 followers

I imagine one could swap “Have” for “Pay to work with someone who has”.
Thank you both for highlighting my point.
> It just feels like the baseline expected behavior of a communications system to me that makes no explicit claims otherwise.

Why do you feel like email "makes no explicit claims" about the authenticity of emails? Laypeople are not even aware of the possibility of spoofing the sender field in emails. Technical people can check the "explicit claims" of a protocol like e-mail, SPF, DKIM, etc. to understand what it claims to do. In other words, email makes both implicit claims, and explicit claims about the verifiability of the sender field.
I’d go for XPS 13 with Linux in no time if buying that laptop wasn’t such a lottery even with Windows. See, the laptop has to work well in the first place. As bad as they are, MacBooks are terribly predictable.
I'd guess (and it is a guess) that it wouldn't fall under this because Yelp would only show this "inauthentic" number for businesses that have signed an agreement with Yelp.

Yelp is going to be a mix of businesses that are just listed and have no relationship with Yelp and then things like a restaurant that has signed an agreement for GrubHub to handle some ordering for them. That agreement could include something like, "you agree that orders received via GrubHub will have this fee structure that you have to pay us and orders that come in via phone from our website are also considered an order generated by us and will have this fee structure".

At that point, the business is "agreeing" to that phone number. I put "agreeing" in quotes because restaurants might feel like they're compelled to agree or lose out on significant business given Yelp's market position.

I think it's harder to allege impersonation or fraud if the business has agreed to it. I think it's easier to allege that the business didn't really have a choice in the matter given the company's dominance in the market.
1. It’s been well known for a long time that vaccine results will start showing up this month.

2. Every single company in the world had to list COVID as a potential source of adverse effect to their business. It turned around whole economy and further impact is still unknown. And by every I literally mean every. Even companies like Zoom, that are super hot as a result of COVID - for them getting control of COVID will mean potentially big slides down.
It's kind of amazing that AirBnB requires that much money to operate but I guess I need to read the s1.
Isn't that one of the roles the FBI has?
Essay: How do you describe TikTok?
I just made up a word: would "folkhälsoomyndigheten" be a pun that Swedes would actually understand? My swedish is admittedly a bit rusty by now.

Take care and all the best!
“Emergency meeting at the White House. legal filing imminent.”
Seems we can agree that it was incompetent to prevent healthy people from seroconverting last summer.
Don't waste the opportunity on Express 11.11 products at reasonable prices
Nobody benefits from fear and lockdowns, that's why the conspiracy theories around them are so fucking stupid.

We did not encourage healthy people to seroconvert during the summer because achieving the necessary numbers of infected would have caused millions of deaths. This was the UK's original plan and they backed off when they actually ran the numbers and saw how many fatalities it would require.
Total conjecture and even if its true, who cares?
> Unless they went out of their way

I would expect a company that goes out of their way to claim they care about user privacy to at least make some trivial configuration changes on how their web servers log requests by their users.
Does anyone know what happened with the stock options for early airbnb employees which were expiring this month (Nov 2020)? Did they find some legal way to extend the options, or did employees end up having to find the money to exercise them or else lose out on them?

For context: http://archive.is/xdv1u (NYT Article)