skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Wikipedia, "As of November 2020, Moderna was valued at $35 billion, and while none of its drugs had been approved" since its creation in 2010.

$38bn ain't bad for a company without a single product released for the past 10 years.
> 1. The truthfulness and reliability of the historical record is important. [...]

Everybody agrees here, but how does one gets to decide that Google, a private corporation, is the one to decide that a given email is an accurate historical email? An email provider is a defacto certificate authority?
Are these dkim keys subject to the same standard of care as private keys that CAs manage?

For your regular-person scenario, having a way for a 3rd party private company "certify" an email sent from another private company (example: your online order) may be good enough, but is it good enough in every scenario?
It is well-though-out and illustrative comment, but since it doesn’t follow leftist narrative mob downvotes it.
Yes I spend more and more time on Ubuntu and it's actually great
It has tons of great interactive widgets that you can play around with to gain some intuition around things like time dilation, length contraction, simultaneity etc.
Is this true for self-operated VPNs? I run an openVPN instance on an old laptop in my apartment that also handles a pi hole instance and a minecraft server -- I'd think that any "VPN blocking" could apply to VPNs as a service, but not a VPN that I rolled and hosted myself.
>You stay inside for 3 weeks and it will literally end

Thats why it wouldn't work. You want everyone to stay inside for 3 weeks.
> I thought about learning chess and what it actually involes when i watched the new netflix show.

>i came to the relisation that it actually involes becoming good in a very very big search space by having a lot of experience and being fast in calculating and remembering chess moves.

I wish I was this confident. Remembering chess moves, why didn't I think of that?
Here are the steps to success:

1. Go to http://www.twitter.com.

2. Click Join Twitter today.

3. Type in this Tweet: "I have the perfect product! Email me for quote. #Growth #Product #MVP"
> Distribution before product

I don't like this new startup trend[1][2], nor do I think it actually works.

Literally all of those examples are the opposite of what the blog post is claiming. They did have a product: Hotmail had the service built out, Eventbrite had the service built out, and there was a Dropbox before you could refer your friends to it. There are examples of what the author is claiming, but most are gimmicky Kickstarter-style (and often derivative) products.

I mean, think about Dropbox or Slack or Instagram: how could you possibly sell (or even validate the idea of) those products without actually giving some sort of demo? Without people actually using that thing? It might work for something like the product in the post (people understand what "video chat" is), but I don't really see it working for any kind of particularly novel or value-generating product.

Followup: grabbed a coffee, and this post got a bit of attention. To be clear, I think that an MVP should be just that: a minimum viable product. By definition, you shouldn't be able to go leaner. I also think that sometimes people conflate "fake it 'til you make it" with PG's "do things that don't scale" -- these two are not the same.

[1] https://tommorkes.com/lean-launch-how-to-sell-an-idea-before...

[2] https://hbr.org/2013/12/sell-your-product-before-it-exists
> I've definitely gone from "I'll buy a mac because it's a mac" to "Maybe my next machine will be Windows. It's cheaper, more reliable, and just works"

I got bad news for ya: I just bought a new Yoga a month ago and it is just as bad if not worse.

* Animated ads in the start menu tiles

* I've had to upgraded and restart almost every other day for 4 weeks

* there are ads that keep reapparing in the tiles on update

* there are constant popus reminding me to log in to my windows account (or problems that I can't log in because I HAVEN'T)

* nVidia ads popping up in the lower-right corner

* MSoft ads popping up in the lower-right corner.

* Also, day one: tried installing some LabView software and BSOD (well, the new pretty color blue they use and the high-res warning).

* Starting a new app takes about 15~30 seconds (I believe it is phoning home the way macOS does, not sure).

Win10 now looks and feels like an annoying clickbait website. Once macOS includes ads, it'll be an equally appalling UX.

The only respite I get are logging into AWS compute instances or my Ubuntu and FreeBSD boxes. They can't take away my BASH CLI.

EDIT: I'm getting a lot of "it never happened to me." Yes, I'm sure some of you haven't seen this. I'm jealous.

Meanwhile on my new MacBook PRO 2019:

* Fans randomly turn on with nothing running and `powermetrics` has the fan at 3200 RPM and cpu temp of ... 40C? I literally have to reboot to get them to turn off. I walked into my office one morning and apparently the fans had been running all night with no apps loaded and nothing using considerable power.

* Only some USB-C ports work with my belkin Gigabit adapter. I had to experiment with where-to-plug-what to get it to work. Apparently all USB-C ports on it are NOT the same. Grrr.

* Gigabit adapter never goes to sleep, stays warm when plugged in

* The apple display adpater port + USB-A + power jack periodically drops the screen, and sometimes when I log in I have to open my laptop (I stay docked), wait for the video to mirror, then close my laptop and wait for it to switch to the external monitor.

* Too many Catalina updates this year! But they are faster than my Win10 box.
> "lockdowns may not be necessary to achieve reasonable results."

Even so, Sweden doesn't prove this. They have had lockdowns, e.g. severe limits on social gatherings. You can only say they haven't had lockdowns if you take the pedantic view that "it's not a lockdown if it's not legally enforced, even if everyone follows your rules".

Also, arguably the excess deaths in March/April (comparing to Nordic neighbours especially) and the surging cases now are not "reasonable results".
They are listening in on the phone call.
Why would it be a day or so later? The Wikipedia makes that claim, but the linked source does not: https://archive.org/details/emperorsnewmindc00penr/page/302/...

The two people would perceive the changing of a traffic light on the same street at almost the same time - why would it be different for the Andromedans?
Don't these death stats have a built in lag because of coroners, medical examiners, and stats authorities?
> you're not going to force your beliefs on them

Beliefs? Science, and scientific evidence became “beliefs”

That’s the problem right here.
I'm against Vitamin supplementations altogether but I'll try to share a reason why supplementing Vitamin D in particular is not a good idea.

The only form of Vitamin D that matters is D3. If you are not getting that, you're just ingesting a toxin that is useless at best.

Even if you are taking D3, it is not effective without K2. So, if you're just taking D3, again, it's useless at best.

Let's say you're taking D3+K2 as oral supplementation. How much are you taking? One of the richest natural sources of Vitamin D3 is Salmon. You'd have to eat a kilo (2.2 lbs) of Salmon just to get 8400 IU of D3. If you're taking a lot more (for example, 80,000 IU as used in this study), your liver has to deal with it... and it has not evolved to deal with that amount. The D3 produced in your body because of sun exposure doesn't have to go through the liver.

Nutrition science is hard but nutrition is easy. Just eat what people have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years. Supplements are almost always a bad idea.
Out of principle I trust Google more than Yelp as they're less incentivized to extort small businesses. Also companies that cripple their mobile site (while having a functional desktop site) to force an app download deserve everything bad that happens to them
Depends a lot on what kind of development you do. I do web development and system admin, I use a Chromebook. That's great for me because I only deal with remote servers. Might not work for someone writing code to compile/run/test locally, though. I can actually use an iPad for 90% of what I need.
I think Fisher's exact test [1] is most commonly used in these types of trials. But the P-value roland (parent comment) provided also make sense to me. For the Fisher's test R says...

Covid NoCovid
_____ _______
Vaccine 5 1495
NoVaccine 90 1410

9.0e-22 one tailed
4.5e-22 two tailed

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_exact_test
nice thinking! we should test. i don't see any api incompatibility there.
I’m curious - why is there such a difference between them? What is it specifically about the pfizer one that requires a lower temp? Does anyone know what the other potential vaccines (Oxford in particular) will require?
Hey, your comments today have been breaking the site guidelines super badly. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you because you've posted good comments in the past, but could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, regardless of how wrong others are (or you feel they are), or how frustrating a situation is? We all have to do this because if we don't, the inevitable result is a downward spiral.

It's clear that you've been through a lot and you're of course welcome to share your experiences. But it needs to be done without attacking others, without stoking flamewars, and so on.
Agreed. Ran into an issue this week where the forced upgrade of Edge caused some issues for me[1], but it was impossible to run "legacy" Edge because it was updated via Windows update. Why should we have any choice of the version of the software we're running, right?

[1] I know, I know, why use Edge? Fun fact, Netflix doesn't render at higher than 720p on Firefox/Chrome because of DRM issues.
> When that video was made, github CLI was not an official thing, and I have never even heard of a gitlab CLI.

I used "hub" back in 2013, so it's at least that old. It wasn't official, though I'm not sure why that makes any difference. Searching on google for "gitlab cli clients" shows a bunch, at least some of which have histories dating back to 2013.

> You can mark emails with labels though depending on your Email client. The onus is on you.

But those are local to you and your client. I'm talking about labels that are shared state, that the whole project and the public can see. Those are widely used on github for categorization, triage, communicating the stage of the review, etc. They're undeniably useful to teams. You can put all that information in English text in email bodies, but then everyone has to read a whole thread to understand the state of things, and there's more potential for confusion.

> You can assign a review to someone. You literally just CC them on the email.

Same thing: how do I assign a reviewer so that everyone can quickly and unambiguously see who is assigned to review that PR/patch set? With PR metadata, this is trivial. With mailing lists, it depends on social conventions.

> If that is a lot of friction for you, then you probably either have a horrible email client, or don't know how to use it.

Thank you for insulting my intelligence. I didn't say it's hard, I said that it adds friction.

I'm not claiming that the web-based PR and review UI works for everyone; obvious email works fantastically well for Linux (though I'm not convinced something else couldn't work even better). I do think it works very well for small to medium size projects (which are most projects, after all).

An accurate comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of each model would need to be much more thorough and look at the entire development cycle, for projects of different sizes. I don't agree that that video was anything like that. It seemed like a cheap shot, based on one cherry-picked metric (time to submit an initial patch starting from nothing) that's not particular representative.
Are they still not making money now? They've been around for a long time. I wonder will they IPO soon.
Why not use cadquery?
>What a concise and clear communication. We should all aspire to be more like Dr. Tam.

My timeline was taken from wikipedia and did not make it to october. My intention wasn't to criticize Dr Tam, though I do agree that I did.

The point I was making is that it's very difficult to make decisions; and more importantly make the right decision.
Please if you do comparisons, it should be done against comparable countries like, Denmark and Norway.
If you compare it against Spain and Italy, whose countries have a far worse health system, distrust of authorities and are much more vulnerable against economic downturns.

the fact is Sweden is still doing far worse than Norway and Denmark
Hey Alex, this looks very interesting! From browsing the docs it appears rpk tries to mess with cgroups and some kernel settings... is there compatibility mode for running unprivileged in a container environment such as kubernetes? Thanks!
It's a matter of extrapolating the fatality/damage rates out to everyone on the globe. We take that hit plus a bit of fallout - or we can try to continue dealing with things in the big, long, drawn-out, messy way much of the world has been doing. Sucks both ways. Some people prefer one suck - and others prefer a different suck.
you've been able to do splat for forever!
https://dpaste.org/yU7s
I think the commenter above is mad at you because they interpreted "IT guys" to be a reference to the gender of the people you will be hiring. In other words, they assumed you to be literally saying you will only be considering men for the job, since traditionally "guys" was used to refer to groups of men (but often no longer is).

This may seem absurd, but where you are starting a company it's a good wake up point to familiarize yourself with the latest in politically correct terminology. Right now it's a random person on the internet, but in the future it might be an employee complaining to HR that you are creating a hostile workplace.

Whether you should apologize or just try to move on, well that's a topic of much debate. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25084506

tldr: s/guys/people and you'll be fine.
The CDC puts the average lag at 13 days [1] and the uptick began in early October. That was not reflected in death counts 14 days later. I suggest waiting and seeing, there are other reasons why the number of cases may be skyrocketing, including broader access to testing. More testing will increase the denominator without increasing the numerator.

Keep in mind that giant spike in cases in July led to a reduction in COVID deaths in August and September according to the charts.

Case counts and death counts have been materially diverging for months now, because the early results were marred by adverse selection bias. With few tests available, testing was only done at the point of admission for critically ill patients, who naturally were the most likely to die of COVID. With broader availability of tests, the full picture starts to come into focus.

It's worth paying attention of course, and not hand-waving the spike, but let's not pre-judge yet. We'll have to see what this spike means in the fullness of time.

[1] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0320_article
If a global infrastructure provider can, without downside, offer non-repudiability – why shouldn't they?

Not everyone is tech savvy. Not everyone understands encryption. Not everyone makes rational choices all the time.

Does that mean everybody should suffer the consequences of an arguably unintentional side effect of the technical implementation of DKIM?
And if we blast everyone to the moon, that'd theoretically fix it too. But if we're talking about actual realistic options, you can't lock down hard enough consistently enough for long enough across a wide enough swath of the planet for it to really work. And no, that isn't because some small amount of "selfish" people won't comply with such police-state dystopian policies - It's because there's a practical limit on how effective they can be.
OK, it makes sense as support for the importance of distribution (the claim that "distribution is half the battle"), but there are other claims made, and it wasn't that that was the specific one you were supporting.

Now I know what you meant, this really is just nitpicking.
It's not quite there, but I find my Lenovo trackpad to be quite excellent. Probably within 5% of Apple's, which is good enough for me.
The 20 year period in which Apple has paid out hundreds of millions in dollars in settlements for illegally forcing obsolence of old devices, e.g. this one [1] that was settled in March of this year and this fine from France [2] in February of this year?

History is not on Apple's side here.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/technology/apple-iphone-l...

[2] https://fortune.com/2020/02/07/apple-iphone-slowdown-update-...
I am not doing a value judgment, but just an observation. (i.e. I am not saying that your culture is bad, it is just very different).

My non-swede co-workers had one thing in common theme while living in there: loneliness...

Swedes usually stay in one tight group of friends... and don't branch out as much as other societies do.

I get you have the FIKA culture and all, but it always within your few friends/group. And during winter, most people hole up most of the time due to the weather.

I am neither american, nor a neighbor of yours, and I am just giving you my experience. (lived there for few months).
I assume you mean four-day weeks? Four-hour weeks would indeed make the weekends seem to last forever, but probably not realistic for anybody except self-help-book writers.
As a mountain biker Strava feels just silly. It's a leaderboard for imaginary races that can be trivially cheated, be it via GPS idiosyncracies or by using an electric bike.

I reckon the features oriented towards navigation/discovery are ok, but it's a crowded space with a relatively low barrier to entry.

I wouldn't be surprised if one only can make marginal gains with those 110M, but with a high pressure for ROIng which will inevitably backfire.

A case like Medium comes to mind.
After reading some of the comments, a thought occurred to me:
A significant amount of advice given is really just a form of condescension.
our acks are similar to kafka in that regard. acks=0,1 leader acknowledgement. acks=-1 we go further like denis mentioned above by 'flushing' to disk before responding which is stronger (log completeness guarantee from raft) than available in upstream.
"Mechanical honesty" worked because it was much harder to have automated "if statement" mechanisms with non-electronic machinery. And then electronic computers made it much, much easier.
Don't, instead leave it as an exercise for the reader.
>It is well-though-out and illustrative comment, but since it doesn’t follow leftist narrative mob downvotes it.

Out of interest. You are emperor of Angaria with obviously 20/20 hindsight. What date do you make the decision to lockdown. Pull a Madagascar if you know plague inc.
That's a neat trick and even simpler than what I wrote about.
Maike is a really cool project, and I’m happy to see this development effort going into MakieLayout!

MakieLayout makes some really nice looking layouts. I’m still not really happy with the default aesthetics of Makie’s plots themselves, but I’m not really developed about enough on the topic to really put my finger on what I don’t like or how it can be improved.

These things take time though, and I have a lot of faith this will be my go to plotting solution one day!
I think it is less about user behavior and understanding than it is about the incentives it creates for nefarious actors. Basically, if emails can't be cryptographically verified then stealing a bunch of emails and anonymously dumping them somewhere is pointless since most people would probably not consider them authentic.
I agree that e-mail is horrible, and I would prefer if contracts (like purchase receipts) moved off e-mail to something else, but that's tangential to the point. If Google started to publish and rotate DKIM keys, the world wouldn't suddenly move away from email.
That's again exactly the technical detail fallacy the comment you replied to is arguing against. No, they are not making the "odd claim" you suggest. They suggest that laws make the difference when deciding about infringement. E.g. by explicitly excluding temporary copies created while watching as intended, where it doesn't matter how the OS and the browser handle the memory internally, but a thing that results in a file on disk the user keeps is clearly different. (Similarly to how software being copied into swap-backed memory while you run it is not an illegal copy, whereas copying the file elsewhere might)
getting a 404 now, is there a mirror somewhere or did this guy get "disappeared" by the sri lankan government?
Not _just_ placebo. If you tend to favor very closed positions, or end up placing pawns in ways that make your bishops useless, then the knight might be better sometimes, even though the general idea of bishop > knight is correct.
That just proves that he did send the mails he published. But since he did not put the mails on a block chain, we'll never know whether he was e.g. exchanging steamy e-mails with Grace Hopper or arranging weed deals with E.W. Dijkstra (or vice versa) on the side and decided to omit them from his published correspondence >:-)
I think the idea is you do give a demo, just that you dont go crazy engineering-wise to implement NASCAR login, kubernetes scale-out and all sorts of stuff before you've tested the market for interest. It is basically taking the idea of MVP down a notch to BVP (barely viable product).

I've never done this, but it makes sense. Why spend the engineering effort to go from Demo --> BVP --> MVP when you can just do the first jump and test the idea.

Everything is on a spectrum and -- given the vast graveyard of random ideas engineers build as side projects -- we should figure out a better way to drive better yield.
By 2007, most of the nasty stuff has been sorted out (I met with Linux in 1998, started to use it full time by 2003).

Some things I have experienced (not all hardware related but, notable and crippling):

- Additional SATA controllers had intermittent connectivity issues with Samsung SpinPoint drives
- Same additional SATA controllers' 2 port models were fine but, same chip's 4 port model was not recognized at all.
- Intel Speedstep was wonky.
- CPUFreqd needed hand tuned scaling profiles for good on-demand scaling.
- Fedora 4 mysteriously tried to redirect all my internal X11 comm via my physical Ethernet card. Needed to add an additional card as a primary network interface to solve desktop latency problems.
- One of my systems was unable to boot any OS installed on the non-GRUB drive. GRUB was unable to fire anything on that disk (regardless of OS brand, model and make)
- My latest system's on board Wi-Fi and BT adapter was unusable for 2 years.

I possibly had many more small problems and I either worked around that or a BIOS update came to remedy that to my luck. 18 years is a long time. :)
Ask HN: What tech/products use cryptography to achieve something novel?
1. not looking for any blockchain projects.

2. Can be products that failed or don’t exist anymore, products that exist today, or conceptual products that don’t have an implementation yet

I’m trying to study various novel usages of cryptography in pragmatic applications so please share anything that comes to mind. For example things like DAT protocol/IPFS, ProtonMail, signal, etc all qualify.
How do you figure that? Taking the example of Germany, their numbers of new cases and new deaths from the same source are ~2x less than the US per population. By what metric is Germany doing much worse than the USA right now?
Well that's why I said "type of" but yeah I can't see it either unfortunately, of course, as long as the URL you're trying to shorten isn't too insanely long it might be workable to do some sort of encoding on it.