skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Strongly agree with you although what "common" means here is tricky.

Ha, true! I've never seen it done, but someone should really A/B test adding a "Expensing this product for work? Reach out for a custom payment plan that fits your needs!" message if their product is popular with a business crowd.

> is the supplier working out how much they can get and so requires the sort of sales management skills which many tech startups don't have.

So this is sometimes the case, but not always.

Is the standard plan enough for you, but you require us to invoice your AP department for payment? Or you a second login for IT with access to the login/audit logs, but otherwise don't need any "enterprise" features?

You can likely get it close to the listed rate, with a minor premium for the additional effort.

Will you be a high volume user, but capable of being self-sufficient with the self-service tooling? You can get tiered pricing based off of usage, no account manager, and a fixed rate for engineering time if you need any custom support.

Will you be a massive pain - requiring an in-depth security audit, require us to agree to potentially costly-to-comply-with contractual clauses, need an account person to do every little thing for you (plus constantly (re)train your staff/agency's staff), require a generous amount of engineering time baked into the contract, and split out the agreement between a base MSA and incremental SOWs for each actual usage internally? Your pricing is no longer based on the actual product itself, but on the uncertain but potentially massive amount of labor that's going to be required to support your account.

So "Talk to us" is as much the supplier trying to figure out specifically what sort of customer you are and what your needs are (and how much you'll ultimately going to cost them), as it is working out the pricing to go with that. Which is why you don't generally see an actual listed rate with several zeros added, because that is honestly only one of the potential outcomes and "Talk to us" leaves open capturing the other outcomes as well.

I've also had success using the "Talk to us" to get lower than list rates. Sometimes because my needs are such a tiny fraction of the intended usage of the plan with a list rate. Sometimes because I work for a company that does $10bn a year in revenue, and the company is hopeful that my usage of the tool will potentially domino into other users internally seeking it out. You're right in that many tech startups don't have a high level of sales management skills from the get go, but only the very last example above really requires true sales effort. The rest are just very low pressure sales needs that require minimal if any incremental effort to support, but just happen to not fit cleanly in the pre-defined plan templates you have listed.
Also many of those people who didn't die will have anywhere from mild effects to serious impairments for the rest of their lives.

A huge amount of people who survive will deal with increased depression, anxiety, etc.

Even though its easy and callous to write off the lives of millions of (easily preventable) deaths with a hand-wave, there are going to be serious and long-term effects for those who didn't die and for their families, jobs, etc...
Reading your source, it seems the bureaucratic limitation was their #1; then comes politics.

"Pfizer declined the R&D funding in order to "liberate" scientists from bureaucratic limitations as they worked to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, the pharmaceutical company's CEO, Dr. Albert Bourla, said in a September interview with CBS News' Margaret Brennan."
> I only have myself to blame.

I disagree. I think it's safe to say that food producers who make the highly processed addictive crap that passes for food today bear some responsibility. And the people who willingly peddled bad science or 'facts' to try and make things such as sugar look healthy and fat look bad. Personal responsibility only gets you so far when you have limited choices and bad information.
Yelp executives belong in prison for fraud.
And also the owner of Github.
Incidentally we still have "Silk Road" today. In its modern usage it refers particularly to some oil and gas pipelines running from the east to the west.

In the latest news on the Silk Road, Azerbaijan, after its victorious war over Armenia, secured a direct land transport corridor through Armenian territory to its enclave of Nakhchivan and further to Turkey. https://menafn.com/1101103191/Another-important-issue-is-tha...
What would you expect from a crowd of people who routinely test their code in production "because run fast, break things, yada yada". :D

"I've run my unit test 10 times and it always passes! Rock-solid. Deploy to prod! Why do you want to waste our time executing it on staging env?! What are you, some kind of a unit-test denier?! There's a production issue affecting customers, there's no time for that. Anything goes wrong, we're just restore the prod DB from the last good backup."

The way I see it... if the vaccine creates some long lasting complications in 0.1% of people who took it, than it is not going to be much better than the disease itself, given that it shifts the problems from the older population to the younger one. This wouldn't be a problem if the vaccine was rolled out at a normal pace with plenty of controls to figure out any issues and put breaks on it if any unexpected problems were detected.

But it looks like the crowd is already set on mass delivering it ASAP, starting with the kids. So, oh well... YOLO.

BTW. Funny how "big oil" and "big tabaco" "evil, greedy, corrupting science", but "big pharma" ... "real scientists! our noble saviors that can do no wrong, and make no mistakes motivated by financial gain".
Competition in the source-control space is a great thing. I am not entirely convinced that they would have done the right thing without the threat of losing developers en-masse to competitors.
My understanding is that it's takedown was due to fact that youtube-dl "bypasses technical measures that control access or copying of copyrighted works". I don't see how youtube-dl could be considered a "circumvention tool" if the end user of said tool would have access to the content if they used a web browser instead.
>They die much younger than otherwise fit & healthy people

Not really. Life expectancy is only diminished by a few years for obesity. Much less than smoking.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/obesity-cuts-life-span-...

>For example, a 20-year-old white male who, at age 20, weighs 200 pounds (90 kilograms), can expect to live one year less than if he weighed 185 pounds (83 kilograms). At 250 pounds (113 kilograms), his life expectancy falls by three years, and at 300 pounds (135 kilograms) by seven years.

250-pound person is not small by any stretch yet a 3-year reduction of life expectancy is just 3.7% reduction of an 80-year lifespan. I would not consider a 4% reduction to be much.

It only becomes dramatic if we're talking BMIs above 45.

Obesity is a spectrum. Belly fat is obesity but so is being so overweight that you cannot move. We cannot just lump it all together.
this is why it was forked a bit before the takedown, youtube-dlc contains fixes not in main youtube-dl. the guy who forked it tried to help but got banned from posting and helping out.

https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc

as of last youtube-dl version, the main youtube-dl behaves differently if you simply point it to a youtube channel, while youtube-dlc behaves as you'd expect... i keep both around for now.
The National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System
Shown are seasonal trends for four common human coronaviruses, not SARS-CoV2.

Though the seasonality is interesting.
> without every single middle man on the network knowing what you are running

with a different chain of middle men, ftfy.
France and Spain have very similar numbers to the US, and the UK and Italy are fairly close as well.
> The main issue with destructors is that it is impossible to determine by reading the code which destructors in which order at which lines may be called.

huh ? the destructors are just in reverse order than the declaration order
Super cool! Keep sharing awesome stuff like this with the community!
Interesting, I just did http://nlsn.cf/54.

I just found a "bug" that can be abused (in chrome at very least).

URL('http:53') returns https://0.0.0.53 (it casts the int32 number to an ip address, dont' ask why). But window.location.replace behaves differently and treats it as a relative URL.
I don't get your last point. This is one of those situations where it's a win for Google, users, and any site that also adopts the format.

Google and sites that use it use fewer resources delivering traffic and sites get faster and smaller for users. Sure you could rant about all kinds of different web bloat but a completely transparent improvement is always a good thing.
More patents disclosing a Sony medium format camera with curved sensor
That's some nasty shade, he threw, there...
I see no reason why OCSP checks on developer certificates cannot be encrypted. This whole "oh no there could be a loop for a SSL cert check" argument seems like gaslighting. Why can't the client know if it wants to access an OCSP server using HTTP or HTTPS, and default to HTTPS when possible?
amway all the way /s
Build systems à la carte: theory and practice (revised and expanded) [pdf]
A while ago, forbes.com went from being a digital version of their print publication to basically the same blogroll model as the Huffington Post. Thousands of "Forbes contributors" who are not on staff at Forbes get to have their blogs hosted on forbes.com/sites/username. Those articles never make it into Forbes magazine, but the authors get a pittance of revenue from ads and get to claim they write for Forbes.
I don't agree that it would necessarily tax health care systems "beyond what they're capable of handling" (for my definitions of those words). I also disagree that economies would be devastated if we had avoided all lockdown and economy-affecting mitigations. But I understand that reasonable people could disagree with me on both those issues and that is fine.
Wow, how are you pulling that off (the freely seeing friends and family part)?
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/09/584555705/epis...

"The art market is going nuts. People are spending record amounts of money of paintings like Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. But not everyone is rushing home to hang their new artwork up on their walls. A lot of buyers are storing their art in vast warehouses near airports. They're called, "freeports."

Freeports exist between countries, a sort of no man's land, which means you can store your artwork there as long as you want, without having to pay any taxes on it."
GitHub also has a large number of other users like people downloading software and reporting issues, product managers, qa testers...

I get that developers are the main drivers but it struck me as some unnecessary pandering.
Yes, It's not 100% hacking, but I guess I exploited a vulnerability in their API by creating an administrator account to gain access to their dashboard.

Thanks for the comment, I will change the dashboard picture
Snowcrash was kinda crazy in how it predicted where things would go.
Show HN: offchain::ipfs, an IPFS node embedded in the Substrate offchain worker
I am living in California. I am against the Prop. 16. I don't understand whoever support this. Is Prop. 16 equal to race discrimination (race is a factor to anything)?
I would love to hear your opinion on this.
Well, one is legal and one technically is not, so knowing the difference let's you know what, if any, legal options you have should you get super screwed by one.
How to validate ideas? datarockets' CEO published a credible framework
This is so annoying. You never know when they're doing this, so if you're looking at a restaurant in Yelp, you have to switch to maps or the browser to look up the phone number.
Typical Yelp.
My business has been blackmailed multiple times on Yelp - - "pay us $500 by bitcoin and we won't trash you with a false complaint".. Now I have 2 complaints because I refuse to cave in to crooks. Yelp is an accomplice.
It's very much doable: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/01/americas/zach-schwitzky-c...

"Living in Hoboken, New Jersey, the other side of the Hudson river to Manhattan, Schwitzky kayaks across the water in around 20 minutes."
I find it pretty funny that the author wrote this because they are salty that the leaked hunter Biden emails could be verified with DKIM
Support for MAX brand wavers as Boeing jet nears green light
The former USSR dissolved rather peacefully at the end of the cold war.
You might want to validate your emails more than a few months out.

Regardless of if your emails are valid or not, blackmail is still a crime. Not being able to have your emails validated doesn't protect you from blackmail. The power of blackmail is often in the social cost of the accusation itself. The thing that protects you from blackmail is not getting involved in things you can be blackmailed for.

This is like saying don't lock your doors so that nobody can break and enter into your house.
Should HN not define their own content moderation rules? My view is that governments should have some general moderation rules, no death threats, no CP, ect. Sites should be able to have stricter moderation rules, no claiming that Obama was born in Kenya.

I personally prefer smaller communities like forums such as this one, slack groups, or other forums, compared to Facebook or twitter.

I am not sure how a W3C standard for tagging a URI comment would work. Aren't a lot of URIs not even opinion/fact based things? Like if my uri is a product on Amazon or a piece of sheet music there wouldn't be any rebuttals right? But idk seems interesting, would like to see if it worked.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...

The estimate for this flu season is 24k to 62k deaths.

246k people have died from Covid so far, despite precautions.

Its a substantial difference.
Your priors should be remarkably different now vs. last February. At the end of February the U.S. had 60 active reported COVID cases. Assume a 10:1 underreporting and that's about 600 total cases, then assume about 100 million cold + flu cases at any given time in the winter and there's about 200,000:1 odds that a given respiratory illness was actually COVID.

Now there are 4.1 million active COVID cases in the U.S. Assume a 5:1 underreporting (we're better at testing, but still seeing close to 50% test positivity rates in the Midwest, worse than NYC at the peak) and that's 20 million active cases. Meanwhile flu cases have dropped by ~90% [1], so if we assume that holds true for colds as well, estimate about 10 million active cases of cold & flu in the U.S. A random respiratory illness with no further differentials then has a 2:1 chance of being COVID.

Obviously things like location, differential diagnosis, etc. will change those odds. A random respiratory illness in the Bay Area (where COVID numbers are low and we just had a bunch of wildfires) is most likely to be allergies or smoke inhalation, while if you had a random respiratory illness in NYC in April there was a decent chance it was COVID. Given the OP's differential diagnosis though (rash and shortness of breath are way more common in COVID than bronchitis or flu), it's not unreasonable to conclude he has COVID.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm
> Are you joking? Electrical motors can go for decades before they need replacing if they're built well. Same with electronics. Contrary to HN bits don't rot, electronics fail though over time depending on robustness.

This is a mighty big "if."

Re: electronics, the electronics are by far the highest-failure item in ICE cars and in the mechanical appliances I own. Indeed, every failure I've had in cars I own and those of my family owns has in the past ~15 years been an electronic problem. That's only usually been the case with appliances and tools.
Thank you for making this. Kid Pix was the beginning of my design journey 30 years—wild. Would love to see a new version for the iPad.
That's just standard IT policy at most companies. Favour tested stability over being on the newest stack.
Glad you liked this. It'll hopefully help you find a place to show off your side projects!
"The RIAA reports that total retail value of recordings sold by their members was $10.4 billion at the end of 2007, a decline from $14.6 billion in 1999"

Not sure where that value's gone in the last 13 years, but it didn't look like exponential growth.

Microsoft's annual profits are about $14b.
When I read articles like this my question is always, if it's open source, why doesn't a competitor simply grab a slice of the source code, integrate it into their own closed source commercial product, without complying with the license? In a scenario like this if you are a small company with little resources it's impossible to find all those who violate the license and pay for all the lawyers to enforce the license.
I´ll confess that I did not expect that and am happily surpsied.
feel free to file an issue and tell them that, but clearly it does work in this case.
Its also extremely disappointing that we don't treat the seasonal flu more seriously. People talk about this, it just took a pandemic for most people to pay attention.

Folks should be wearing masks when they are or even might be sick with ANY transmissible disease. Its actually pretty insane that pre-covid, folks would go into public and work while endangering who knows how many people (I know a lot of people don't have the option, which is a whole other bag of worms).

I find it extremely depressing that people compare this to other easily preventable deaths (I see it often online and from my own family) and say: "See we handle the seasonal flu pretty horribly, why are we trying so hard with COVID-19?"
> Let's face facts, the long-term effects are unknowable - you trade that for the short-term protection.

Sure, lock yourself in your house until the virus goes away. We are fine with that.

Just don't impose those restrictions on everyone.
I get that everyone needs money and all dollars are green even if you have to sell your soul to get them but these sorts of pro-tourism "look how quaint this local boutique industry is" articles really rub me the wrong way.
Except your "backyard shed" is actually an uncountable number of your cells that are "edited" (changed using the reprogramming abilities inherent to mRNA, but god forbid you refer to it as such) into not being "backyard sheds" anymore, but being factories for spike proteins that can't be stopped other than waiting for the fire to burn out. After a few weeks, you don't get your "backyard shed" back, because the craftsman destroyed it.
I maintained a domain database and normalised to ASCII with libidn, sometimes the input data was not from zone files and preferably would've been able to double check the characters used in a potential domain to ensure it's something that's registerable, without any network required. That was my motivation for looking into the topic originally.
The 1st rule of Condescension Club is ...well, it may be too hard for you to understand.
The comment voting sucks. I have made suggestions to mods to change it so that downvotes only count half as much because it it is way easier to get downvoted than upvoted in the comments.
I keep hearing similar arguments. What are the concerns specifically?
He shows some breathing struggle in his last videos and is not still fully orange [1]. I would not say that is recovered yet.

[1] This seems silly but it has a logical explanation. You can't spot symptoms of liver failure (yellow skin) in people while they wear orange make-up. The make-up would mask it. I bet that his physicians forbid him to use yellow dyes for a while so they can check early for changes in the skin color.
Durinng their peak earlier this year, Italian doctors were choosing who lives and who dies in the normal course of triage. That's the definition that matters to public health policy.
the underscore makes it a symbolic variable, not one with value

unbound in the lambda sense
Signal & Threads had great podcast episode with the author.

https://signalsandthreads.com/build-systems/
Build a data pipeline with Rails, Sidekiq, and Postgres
If so many people are confused by this, aren't VPN settings per app not insecure by default?

It looks like a lot of people are under the assumption that enabling VPN means system wide.
CircleCI: Scan code for secrets, credentials and API keys with the Nightfall orb
Use our super computers to allocate resources appropriately? I'm not sure what you are getting at.

Marx's critique of capitalism is since a few rich people owned all the means of production, they can oppress the poor, and neglect to give them what is needed for normal life. The promise of communism is that by taking the means of production out of the hands of a few greedy individuals and somehow running the mechanisms with an objective metric to ensure all people's needs are met we will end up with a society where the poor are not oppressed by the rich, and all can live lives free from things like starvation and lack of shelter or medical care.

Of course, when the communist revolutions took the means of production out of the hands of capitalists, the new hands were no more noble, and continued to oppress with even greater brutality.

One might hope then for a communism run by objective, malice free computers by encoding human needs as a goal function for algorithmic optimizers. Within a materialist paradigm this is at least theoretically possible.
Rising Above a Flood-Tide of Writers: Publishing Models in the Fame Machine
Tart cherries (sometimes called Montmorency cherries) are pretty much miraculous gout treatments. I regularly take varying amounts as a prophylactic (I pour the concentrate into other drinks), but back when I was getting acute attacks I could knock them out in an hour if I drank say half a cup of the concentrate. (again, not straight: it's too tart by itself!) There is a local grocery store that carries this concentrate in the refrigerated section, but even the hot-on-the-shelf jugs at GNC seem to work.
Plastic pollution is everywhere. Study reveals how it travels
I don't know why it would follow from relativity, but the block universe just makes sense. To me, it follows from determinism and Occam's razor.
How is it unrealistic? I've read several articles like [0] that say the chess is quite realistic.

[0] https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/11/queens-gambit-a...
nice discovery!!
How to Reachout to Codersrank.io
Hey guys, please i really do need a help on this. Have been trying to reach out to codersrank.io for something critical to my product(MVP) build. I have sent a mail,tried calling, followed on social platforms still no responds. I need to get in touch with them so i can know how to navigate my product build. Who can help pls?
Looks like forced obsolescence. My former daily driver a 2015 Macbook Pro has somehow become so slow it struggles with the most basic tasks, even after a fresh install. Nothing seems wrong with it other than it's slow to the point that browsing the web is a pain and development work has become impossible. Wasn't like that when I bought it.
That was a nice read. The author writes well
Such "stodgy, old corporate lawyers" are going to become extremely antagonized should they discover that somebody pulled a fast one on them. All you'd have to do is open a web browser and click around to show them that the tests were still accessible.

So what's confusing is the youtube-dl side's strategy. Are they really trying to pull a fast one? That would be incredibly unwise, so I doubt it.