skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 9 times out of 10, the "correct" advice to give your friend on their startup/product is to deliver a completely filter-free structured rant about all the ways their startup/product is complete and utter dogshit.

But see it's more complicated than that.

I would say it's way more likely that the best advice you could give someone working on a new startup or product is to to convince them to stop being so negative and stop thinking everything they're doing is dogshit and to summon the self-confidence and charisma that comes from really believing in what you're doing, since that tends to have self-fulfilling effects.

Unless, of course, the person has delusional self-regard already, and are more likely to make the opposite mistake.

One reason why giving advice is so challenging is that it's always extremely context-driven.
So, similar to Popcorn Time then WRT providing vs using? The RIAA lawyers are bringing cases that are disingenuous, because they already know they're covered by fair use?

So to pick a worst case scenario, a pirate uploaded _Spiderman_ to Youtube with the intent of letting people get _Spiderman_ for free using this software. In that case, it's the uploader that's legally liable? Does the RIAA have a case?
I understand your point, I guess I'm not one to feel that 'realistic' in the sense you described is a very important metric when critiquing media. For example, would anyone say that the musical Hamilton is 'realistic'? Probably not, but that hasn't decreased its massive popularity.

As a tournament player myself (of course, a rather shoddy amateur) I felt the series got the details of tournament play right. The fact that the prodigy was a teenage girl was besides the point.
Maybe their purpose was Widevine. The youtube-dl takedown was a way to distract the attention. I don't think we should rejoice until Widevine is back.
lol github folks will need to start sanitizing the titles since now its trending on HN.
Is Redpanda compatible with Faust (Python stream processing from Robinhood)? I really don't want to use Kafka, but when I must, Faust makes it straightforward. In fact, I wonder if opinionated client libraries/modules are in your interest to develop as well; they could lower the "time to implement" story for your offering.

https://faust.readthedocs.io
Web App I Made Tracking Covid-19
I made this web application that tracks deaths from COVID-19, and the various other illnesses that the datasets happened to contain, for each state in the United States. Co-morbidities associated with the COVID-19 deaths in each state are also tracked. The sources that I use for each graph are linked to right next to each graph and there is a page on my site that goes through talking further about the datasets – all of which are sourced directly from CDC resources.

In times such as these, information is critically important. The goal with this application is to provide as granular of data as possible from reputable sources. It has been a ton of work to get this site going (I am also a full-time college student), but I think it is finally ready to be shared.
..is that supposed to be make it any better? An OS update shouldn't kill my laptop, regardless of how old my laptop is. At most just don't let the update roll to laptops that are too old.
Getting More Out of Gmail
The way I read it, the test cases weren't really the problem. The RIAA was alleging that the purpose of youtube-dl is to circumvent DRM and they try to back this statement up by pointing out that copyrighted works are being downloaded in the test cases.

Here is a bit of a discussion about it by seemingly knowledgeable people:

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/57421/is-youtube-dl-...

> > the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and/or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:
> > Icona Pop – I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) [Official Video], owned by Warner Music Group Justin Timberlake – Tunnel Vision (Explicit), owned by Sony Music Group Taylor Swift – Shake it Off, owned/exclusively licensed by Universal Music Group

> Complainants are "confused" about actual infringement (which is prohibited by copyright law), and creating a method for infringing copyright. Under DMCA and US copyright law, copying is infringing, programming is not infringing. The complaint does not clearly allege unauthorized copying of another person's intellectual property, and their complaint is based on the theory that certain programming actions constitute copyright infringement. I don't actually think they are confused, I think they are testing the boundaries.
> Looks like they've removed the tests for RIAA member videos as the only change

And even that was more likely to allow certain somewhat too loud organizations to save face, not out of legal necessity.
I would be interested in knowing how much compute happens away from Linux. My impression is that almost nobody uses windows for theses tasks, but anecdotes are not data. There are of course workstation type acceleration tasks like simulation that are very windows heavy(e.g. ANSYS), but I am not privy to the breakdown of compute demand per segment.

> What AMD needs to do to "win" an HPC GPU launch is to have an event which is 95% "How we fixed ROCm, and here is our full software roadmap and support guarantee for the next 5 years" and the remaining 5% "oh btw here is our new silicon, it's really fast and shiny".

This is a great point. NVDA has worked on CUDA for years and has a great ecosystem of material and questions on places like stackexchange. AMD will have to work very purposefully to close the gap, but it seems like they are aware and headed in the right direction.
Subtitles are a perfect example of data that any normal browser downloads if you click CC, and can even be ^F'd if you click ‘Show Transcript’ on YouTube, but just happen to be orders of magnitude more useful if you control where they download to. I think you’re proving globular-toast’s point.
I didn’t get many marketing vibes from this. Sounded like a young writer experiencing something new
Wuhan's lockdown was extreme however; literally locking people inside their homes. Most western societies will not stand for that.

New Zealand had the advantage of having a huge amount of experience with protecting their biodiversity. I'm willing to bet a lot of that experience was transferrable to this situation.
> I can't understand why so many people in developed countries care so little about their weight.

It's not about caring - almost nobody wants to be obese.

Most such people are in pain or depressed - usually both.

Also being overworked and thus sleep deprived is a major factor.

Food helps them cope.
Want to see something even crazier? Check out slack.com on Internet Explorer 5. It doesn't even load!
Everyone upvoting this, please read the (now) top rated comment and take a step back to think about how this line of thinking is destroying our society right now. If something fits your world view (Apple is evil) you stop looking for more evidence and join your tribe. Feels good, but only helps to spread misinformation.
I think I'd know better than you. Huge bowls of pasta I made myself, for myself, are undoubtedly the problem, as is my delusion that a large pizza is a personal sized pizza. Would you have me blame Barilla for making perfectly ordinary pasta, which I choose to over-consume? If barilla didn't make it, I'd make it for myself. An egg and 100 grams of flour, or in my case, more like 4 eggs and 400 grams of flour.

You might think you're doing me a favor by trying to offer me scape goats, but you're not. If there is any chance of me ever losing the weight, it will be through my acknowledgement of my behavior, not blaming others for my personal problems.
That paints kind of a weird perspective on open source and open formats. Companies develop and release lots of OSS specifically because it benefits them to write and maintain it. Twitter made twemproxy for their own scaling issues but then released it to the world. I don't see a difference with Google here.

"We made this thing because it solves a problem we have, and we're giving it away so it might solve the same problem for you" doesn't seem nefarious.
Well, given that 90/15000 = 0.6% in the control group developed the disease, you can consider the vaccine group as a Bernouili trial of n = 15000 with probability p = 0.6%. Then the probability of observing 5 or fewer cases is 3.4*10^-32, from the tail probability of the binomial distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_trial

Of course, that's assuming that five guys from the vaccine group didn't get infected at the same after-ski party, or any funny business that violates statistical independence ...
You know these trials explicitly select for diversity in all those aspects right?
Prolly be fine unless for some reason a famous person used it to post a link that got millions of hits in a short time. Then, I would assume pretty quickly if GitHub tracks API use per key. Or maybe it’d just be throttled.
Steal the Soul of a Computer
> I get a disquiet feeling when I'm in old southern towns like Savanah

I love Savannah and Augusta. Those cities are a lot of fun. I spent time living in both in my early 20s. The segregation both is and isn't there. It's very strange. I think that the feeling you're describing is due to the ghost of slavery. It was always very hard for me to separate the history of the antebellum south from those two cities specifically.

To be fair, though, the most segregated place I've ever lived was easily East Los Angeles. It doesn't have that same feeling that you describe, of course, which makes it ... different but in a slightly better way.
I have installed a Tado smart thermostat and it's nothing short of phenomenal.

I've done a setup once and now it just runs automatically. Can't remember the last time I've even touched the thermostat.

It shuts down when I leave home, it heats up when I'm on my way home. When it's a sunny day it let's the sun heat up the house in stead of using the heating.

It's almost recouped it's costs in the first year by just gas savings (as opposed to my time based thermostat).
Let's apply that thought process to climate change, condoms, and surgical PPE too! Don't you dare impose reality on me!
How? I'm still using a Late 2008 MacBook Pro with Catalina and it runs absolutely fine for browsing and programming, and your 2015 model is running slow?

Also, that sounds like a bug not forced obsolescence, apple just doesn't allow new MacOSes to be installed on hardware old enough unless you hack around it.
Show HN: Covid-19 Time Series Workbench (OWID Data)
> that don't end in a sale.

i would bet 99%+ of all calls to restaurants from grubhub end in a sale, thus making this law meaningless.

edit: why did i get downvoted for this? it adds to the discussion and it doesn't break any of HN's rule. are people just not happy about it or something? wtf.
I have yet to meet someone who is obese and his calorie intake is primary from fruits.

I see people drinking smoothies thinking they are the healthy choice not realising a smoothie has more sugar in than a Coke. They are not even a good post-surf recovery drink for the surfers who invented them and gave them the infantile name!
Somehow, this has become a controversial opinion. Trump had a hands-off policy to foreign affairs except where America was directly involved (tariffs, etc). I couldn’t believe that his policies were voted down this month.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden/Harris lands us in another Vietnam for some other moral mandate. We went to Vietnam under the pretense of stopping Communism. Just replace Communism with slavery, climate change, sexism, and it becomes plausible based on his rhetoric.
This was fun. A lot of those setups reminded me of computers in my youth :)
It is not entirely the fault of each overweight individual, as genetics and gut microbiome play a role too.

Anecdote: My eating habits are significantly worse than those of an overweight friend of mine and I'm of slim/average built.
I think there are a huge number of infections which were not caught by testing, due to being before the pandemic officially started (#earlycovid [0]), or because they were asymptomatic (ex: large percent of the pregnant women who showed up at the hospital to give birth in NYC in March 2020). I think I caught the 'rona in December 2019 or January 2020, headache for a day or two then I was fine...

Virulent coronaviruses usually burn themselves out without help. This one is more potent than the earlier ones, but if people are healthy they'll be fine.

[0] https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1328218514419662849
So any underscore at all makes it a symbolic variable? (Or trailing/leading underscores only?) And the name of the variable on the right-hand side of the substitution is that name with the (or all?) underscore removed? It seems very clunky, so I think I'm missing something.
Gaming may not be as bad as you think
Funny you should mention the phenomenon of nerd bullying. Can't help but be reminded of Trump, a bully, who hosted a poker tournament in his failed casino. True to form, when asked if he was good at poker, he said he would be, if he had the time to commit to it. Later, an actual poker pro explained why his style in business and life indicates he would be a very terrible poker player, and might get lucky a few times, but then be defeated. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/12/what-donal... Funny how his career is now mimicking his nonexistent yet bragged about hypothetical poker career. Stories like these give me hope that maybe there is a game with transferable lessons and skills. But I am still searching for such a game. One other point on our failed leader: he also is fond of verbally abusing people who are actual masters of their craft (scientists). Probably not a coincidence.
My Mid2014 MBP doesn't show these symptoms. So, forced obsolescence is unlikely. Apple obsoletes devices by not providing software updates to them.

However, I was able to buy new batteries from apple for my non-unibody mac even after its update cycle is ended.

I can still buy aftermarket batteries for it and it works well. I might install something else on it in the future but, it's far from useless and dead.
Yeah as much as an alcoholic or other addict. There are definitely genetic predispositions to overeating as well.
learn from the best.
Obama is the issue with our Democracy
Check your kernel_task in Activity Monitor... if it's hogging all the processing % it most likely means the processor is being throttled.

The throttling sometimes happens because of a bad temp sensor / connection. Sometimes it's the charging port as well
What would that accomplish though for either side?

Have the signatures been validated? You don't need the private key to do so.

Assuming the keys are valid; either the emails are real, or
the keys were stolen and the emails forged.

I suppose if keys are released it gives plausible deniability for any leaked emails that occur AFTER the key release. So I can see why people sending incriminating emails would support this.
I disagree with this and tend to agree with OP. Yes, food companies make crap food, but you don’t have to eat it. You don’t need to eat the volume of it most people do. We’ve known it’s crap food for years now. However, you can have 1 cupcake or 1 pizza every now and then and be a healthy weight. You can’t have 10 cupcakes a day and be a healthy weight.

Let’s not discount exercise as well - a bad diet can partly be overcome with an active lifestyle.
Holy shit... do you have a link handy to that file manager bug? I run XFCE and have for a while, but I've been seeing that issue lately and thought it was my (older) ssd going out. Hadn't thought it could be related to the DE.

Perhaps it's time to give MATE a try.
Surely this is missing the "gluttonous" in front of "masses", too.
Seems obvious that a company could sue them for fraud by misrepresenting a phone number. I really don’t understand how or why this could be legal.
Before the pandemic, I played 1 season of chess in my local chess league, and I loved it.

It's a great excuse to spend a couple of evenings a month going out, meeting new people, and considering interesting positions in interesting games. We normally played 80+20 time control (each player has 80 minutes for the game, with an additional 20 seconds added to their clock after each move), which gives way more time for in-depth analysis of the positions that you can get with the default time controls on lichess.

Chess becomes a negative experience if you put too much importance on winning, which I have done a couple of times. If you can make winning important enough that you try hard, but not so important that losing is crushing, then I think it's a great hobby.
SoftBank exits stake in 24 companies, exits AMZN, GOOG, TSLA
> I'd rather cut this problem off at the head

I don't understand what you mean by this! I know it's an expression or a way of saying something, but I don't understand what you mean
Thank you so much for writing this comment!

I've been in several situations where this would have been incredibly handy, but never realized it was possible.
The thing is, it's more likely to be skewed in the wrong direction, the direction that it is safer than you think. So actually its important to understand how bad it is for those who get it. We have consistently had >1k deaths per day in the US and then many others with longterm issues.
Or during long re-indexing sessions which happen after OS updates generally.
> How will a virus that hurts <1% of people devastate economies, lockdowns or not?

Imagine 1% (or 0.5% or 0.2% or whatever) of planes crashed. How well do you think the airlines would fare? How many people would still fly?

1% is an insanely high number of deaths.
Could be dust buildup inside causing overheating and cpu throttling
Pretty sure Google is ensuring employees to give money to EFF.
This is an interesting opinion, considering that iptables has been able to do this for decades, and nftables can, too. It is trivial to filter outgoing traffic and there are even convenient GUIs to do so.
Subtitles are not video, so no. And I'd like to see you visit a thousand video pages with an RIAA approved browser and ^F on each of them. Nice joke!
I think the 99%+ metric is reassuring. However the 1% will have a massive cost to our healthcare system, we are in extremistan as Nassim Taleb likes to say. For example, in normal times 10% of the US population represent 64-66% of the health care costs (https://youtu.be/2qhrPa7paAU).
My dad’s an electrician. I worked for him once upon a time and later I did low voltage electrical construction. He says that the standards change too often, and it’s different enough to be considered a totally different field.

When I went to do low voltage later I realized what he meant. Stereo and security installations just isn’t something you want your electrician, whose knowledge mostly revolves around huge, 1000+ amp panels, to be doing. There’s way more money in commercial installs, so most electricians only do residential work to tide them over.

My dad doesn’t even want to terminate anything more complicated than 4 conductor phone wire, and would pull me into a job just for that reason.
I personally know many people who are suffering from severe pandemic-related anxiety and depression who have not contracted the disease.

The current discourse and societal response to the disease seems likely to have as big or larger of a mental health effect than the immediate consequences of the disease itself.
Are you sure about that? AFAIK both Moderna and Pfitzer vaccines are novel mRNA vaccines, of which (according to Wikipedia) none have been yet approved for human use.
> A million dollars is a million dollars.

Not if you are a company worth $1.6 trillion dollars.

But that $1 million dollars probably bought them a lot more in free press.

To put it into perspective, it would be like someone worth $1.6 million giving a homeless person $1, filming it, putting it on youtube and profiting off of it.

> Thanks Microsoft/Github.

Is this real?

Edit: Of course the downvotes. Not sure if employees of microsoft or people working in microsoft shops or the quality of people HN has attracted as declined.

For people saying nonsense like "A million dollars is a million dollars even if the company is worth 100 trillion dollars."...

Do you think forcing someone who makes $100 million to pay $1 million in taxes is the same as forcing someone who makes $2 million to pay $1 million in taxes? $1 million is still $1 million right? I guess the concept of proportionality is foreign to many here?

The "love" for microsoft recently is interesting. Facebook should look into buying that kind of love.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I feel like you’re slightly wilfully misunderstanding what he’s saying there.

He’s not saying that it will make people less inclined towards believing conspiracies, he’s saying that people will be less likely to believe that this thing specifically is a conspiracy
Yes, Biontech appears to be more of a long shot project aiming for a future where you can manipulate your immune system into fighting your cancer with a personalized vaccine. That's why they were in the unique position of having the skills for putting together an mRNA vaccine targeting the SARS-COV2 spike on very short notice without having established organizational knowledge of running those approval trials.
Sincere question: What kind of punitive counter-measures could they implement here?
You should submit this bug as an issue in the repository.

Oh, wait.
Put the company you work for in your threat model, and this becomes relevant to you.

The corporate world is mired in zero-sum competition, and some of your colleagues are willing to do things that will shock and appall you if it increases their chance of "winning".

Try working in defense, finance, or security as a closet anarchist. Have a few Chomsky books in your Amazon purchase history? Good luck climbing the Amazon corporate ladder.
It's surprising to me how difficult it is to have a discussion in the (cyberspace) open holding what I consider the internet-minority-viewpoint on covid. Even on HN (among other platforms), which is one of the places where I often go to find good balanced viewpoints, when sharing anything remotely different from toeing the covid line (i.e. vaccines will save the day, everyone must get vaccinated, we must force people to wear masks, schools should be closed, the virus is causing the economic disaster, etc.) I see people get downvoted, censored, etc. to oblivion. It's nice to see that there are other folks out there that don't exhibit the wild levels of fear and concern for what I consider to be much ado about nothing.
In times of crisis, the arts are weapons for the soul
I didn't say personal responsibility didn't play any part, just that it's not the only part. Obesity is not a simple moral failing, we could hold our own society to better standards and everybody would be healthier. Half the population didn't get fat just because they're all lazy.
If you are trying to lose it, getting past the leptin response is the hardest part, but it can also be a turning point.
When hospitals are overwhelmed by the so called “nothing but a cold”, and you have a heart attack or some other emergency and waiting outside the hospital, you will then understand when it’s too late.

Take a look at what’s currently happening at El Paso Texas. There’s no hospital to go to.
Why is Yelp not being charged with fraud?
Are Christians Mere Monotheists in Their Prayer?
How much is 'different people' and how much is different actions? Is eating salt a 1:1 direct cause of high sodium or is it relative to hydration, exercise, and other factors?
Running a 2012 MacBook Pro, also still works just fine for development. The screen suffers burn-in very easily now but it’s not a big enough distraction to upgrade :P
Have you done a full internal cleaning and reapplying the thermal paste?