skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Blog posts tended to be a good source of info, so now everything is a blog post because all Google sees is blog post = good.

Ah, this explains why looking for reviews or comparisons for any type of product returns page after page of fake, single-purpose blogs now. You'd think Google would have wised up to this obvious, annoying SEO strategy by now.
A podcast I listen to just did an episode about this, specifically GrubHub. It's an automated system that analyzes the call, and it seemed to charge for any call over 45 seconds where food was discussed. As far as the amount goes, they used the average of the last X orders placed through the GrubHub app for that restaurant and charged some percentage of that. Then the owner is able to log in to their GrubHub account and see a list of all the calls they were charged for, listen to each one, and dispute any that didn't actually result in an order. The system is garbage.
The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich
lactose malabsorption come on did you even watch the video

Edit: Sorry I guess a /s was needed
Depending on the amount of technical debt, it could very well be a number of hard coded lists in a number of projects that may be under multiple teams and which may or may not include first party code. It’s not that fixes like this should be hard, it’s that sometimes they are hard despite themselves, for organizational reasons.

Edit: just for clarity, I’d love to fix this bug myself. I also have a million other easy fixes that I’d like to do and I have a manager to help me prioritize them.
Without reading through the article and its sources, are we surprised that patients who were experiencing severe enough symptoms to warrant a ventilator were also teetering on the brink of death?
Where did you grow up? I've been in Sitka since 2002.
[Commenting before reading]

I was just reading about hilbert's problems, and his disappointment after Godel's and alan turing's papers. I am not sure if this blog is about that, but it is a very interesting topic.

Let's read it now :)
Does this include the cheap Vitamin-D3 that's commonly sold at Walgreens and supermarkets?

One of the tiny round capsules claims to have 2,000 IUs, which seems like a lot.
This is from June 2019.

Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232
They could set up a forwarding phone number as a way of proving effectiveness of advertising if they only publish the phone number there. A consensual arrangement is basically the only way it could work for all circumstances pick up or delivery through the number.
The overarching goal has never been herd immunity. Sweden has always, and is continuing to pursue, sustainable social distancing and curve flattening. They have never significantly changed that course.
The kind of people swayed by "national messaging" (e.g. "Your government assures you this fast-tracked vaccine is safe enough for you") are probably not the problem here.

It's the people that have heard enough "national messaging" in their lifetime to regard everything skeptically (see [0]-[5] for some context).

More "national messaging" isn't what fixes healthy skepticism of the same.

[0] https://reason.com/2016/01/21/the-man-who-caused-benghazi-ex...
[1] https://archive.vn/gaxG6
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/s1220-gardasil-vacci...
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
[4] https://www.vox.com/2020/5/29/21273625/coronavirus-masks-req...
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/apr/10/world-health-or...
No, I think you must estimate p only using the cohort where people were not treated, otherwise you will underestimate the population fraction. In order to test if the null hypothesis is true, we can't assume that's its true when constructing the test.
US Military is buying user location data harvested from Muslim prayer app
To re-summarize my point; arguably even common carriers aren’t actually forced by the government to be content neutral. Rather they’re given certain benefits (such as the right to sell to the public without contract) in exchange for meeting certain standards of behavior, including content neutrality and regulations on rates and liability. Companies are free to reject those restrictions, but they lose access to the benefits as well.
I think an even nicer solution would be a custom tier generator that allows you to drag a slider with the planned quantity
Then just a fixed over usage surcharge
>they live in a polar region

People have been living in the polar regions for at least 10,000 years and they never took supplements and never had vitamin deficiency.
> In your example, dropping calls from an area code, that's a relatively coarse filter.

Where I grew up, when I was in grade school, the (mostly white) 810 area code split off from the (remaining mostly black) 313 area code.

Afterward, the first three digits on the caller ID were a decent coarse proxy for the caller's race.
ElectricityMap's data is accurate, and (in the case of France) sourced from https://opendata.reseaux-energies.fr [1] (I am a volunteer contributor to the platform).

[1] https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste...
I wouldn't mind a 40% expenditure on fundraisers - heck, normal public companies spend 25-45% on marketing alone right?

The issue comes when many of these places have spent close to 60-70% of the budget, sometimes more, on fundraisers. Not to mention, the younger moneyed crowd these days (the 35-50s demographic) has in no way been enticed to donate by these museums, unless they were part of pre-built networks.
There are good technical reasons for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petzval_field_curvature
All sounds a bit left-field until you hear Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the (UK) Royal Society, describe randomised controlled trials of masks as “methodological fetishism”.

I await the result of Thomas Benfield's (Copenhagen) study on the same with interest.
You have a lot of downvotes but no responses. Seems like the government actually supported this vaccine effort pretty well, I don't understand the problem.
Haha indeed
> I hope everyplace offering vaccinations will have something in place to prevent anyone who comes in who is already infected but asymptomatic from infecting others there.

In the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...

I remember getting the vaccine and it was offered outdoors, with a line in a parking lot and a nurse having a tent or a table or something. So that was good (although we weren't wearing masks -- the level of concern and associated precautions with H1N1 felt high at the time but now seems pretty trivial compared to COVID-19).

I recently went to my doctor's office for a seasonal flu shot and the office had separated spaces in the waiting room, lots of air filters going, and all patients and workers wearing face masks. And I think they wouldn't allow more than 4 or 5 patients in the office at a time. So those same precautions would feel pretty decent to me for COVID vaccination.

Edit: I guess I'm reflexively thinking of San Francisco in imagining this -- the outdoor line-up seems perfectly fine here, but it might be pretty unpleasant in January in New York or St. Petersburg or Edmonton...
Colour me pleasantly surprised.

I've followed this story since it broke. My own (lay) analysis of the RIAA's claims hit HN a few weeks ago:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/808cf690f8e801381778002590d8e... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24888234)

The EFF's letter makes strongly similar arguments, admittedly with better legal citations buttressing.

I'd hinted in that post, and commented at HN, as to steps Microsoft could take to establish its credibility before the Free Software community:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25007097

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876199

Specifically:

Microsoft is a member of the RIAA. It could and should resign.

Microsoft can lobby for further exceptions to §1201 anti-circumvention.

Microsoft can issue a statement formally protesting RIAA's action.

Microsoft could offer an Amicus brief or other statements in favour of youtube-dl developers.

As an old-school Linux user and advocate, I'm used to considering Microsoft the opposition, and my praise is grudging, but given where due. By my reckoning, Microsoft are at least 3 for 4 in meeting my suggestions.

Of the fourth, I suspect its upcoming RIAA renewal discussion will be interesting.

Google, on the other hand, have been conspicuously silent. Chris DiBona, are you listening?
For dying, yes, for long term effects, it's not so clear.
And I would also count "I infected my parents and they died" as long term effects.
Google analytics shows traffic as mostly direct and from Google; the next largest fraction coming from Reddit (I shared it a few times), and many from GitHub. I have never paid for advertisements.

The first time I shared it on HN it went to the front page :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992

ps - it's not essential, but I think many people use it for porn ;)
Are digital license plates the future?
India has a zombie party.

Apparently corruption is so bad you bribe a government official get someone declared dead.

There is no recourse for coming back to life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of...

On a more local front, a friends social security card lists him as female.
After a months effort he finally gave up on correcting it.

Heck my owns wife’s birthday is wrong. By a few days. We inquired about it and
were told to just go with it. Multiple years of effort would be required to fix it.
This is FALSE. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report[1] "estimates that since 2009 the average construction time for reactors worldwide was just under 10 years, well above the estimate given by industry body the World Nuclear Association (WNA) of between 5 and 8.5 years."

The most promising SMR project is already hitting the same delays and cost overruns that plague the nuclear industry. Citation: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/several-us-utilities...

Quote: "announced that completion of the project would be delayed by 3 years to 2030. It also estimates the cost would climb from $4.2 billion to $6.1 billion."

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSK...
The immune system isn't that simple unfortunately.
It's probably as relevant to the decisions driving Yelp's frankly criminal activity, as a handbook handed out to ants is to the anthill itself.
There is no evidence for long-term effects, only anecdotes.
91-DIVOC has useful charts: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri...

Sweden's daily mortality rate is .2 vs the US at .3 and EU at .6. All of them have a daily case rate of around 40.
I just subscribed to your podcast! I too love me some stack breakdowns!
Even assuming the estimate of risk given there is correct, and even ignoring the evidence for persistent damage not infrequently arising from non-lethal cases, it’s really odd to me how cavalier people are about that 0.5% risk of death. That’s 1 in 200, so it’s not huge, sure- but if you gave me the choice between running that risk or taking a shot, I know which I would go for. It would even be too high a price for a night out with my friends.

Like, a 1-in-200 chance of losing all the hopes you had for your life and instead dying an agonizing death in some overcrowded ICU, doesn’t sound like it should be treated lightly.
Another example is targeting job ads to particular demographics. You can put out an ad that only white men between the ages of 22 and 30 who come from an upper class background will see. And women, minorities and people from poor backgrounds, not only won't see them, they won't know they exist.
It is a matter of time Apple will block it. They are thirsty for your personal data and they need to know everything you do on their computer. They also need to control what you can or cannot open. You are just not smart enough in Apple eyes to use a computer on your own.
On a side note, if I was an Apple customer I'd start making GDPR complaints. Surely just because a OS is not a web app it doesn't mean it can violate privacy in such brazen way.
Our DMCA takedown policy is public and documents our workflow: https://docs.github.com/github/site-policy/dmca-takedown-pol...

It’s also open source: https://github.com/github/site-policy/blob/main/Policies/dmc...
Yes, similar to Android, many manufacturers customize their Windows installs, and that increasingly means random ads in your system UI. Switching from Mac to Windows - especially manufacturer installs of Windows - over privacy or stability issues is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
> as though setting up or using Reason is trivial or well documented

It's both trivial and well documented. There is an installation page and a tutorial on the Reason website. The installation in itself is one npm command.

> For another example, you altogether dodged the issues associated with multiple "standard" libraries.

There is only one standard library. It's the one shipped with the compiler. It is also significantly more battery included now than it used to be.

> It would be great if the OCaml community were as committed to making their language useful for production applications as they were on convincing everyone else that it already was.

The OCaml community as a whole is one of the least vocal on the internet. It does very little outreach. I never see any of the people I consider relevant to the community on HN for example.

No one cares about convincing you that OCaml is ready for production use. It doesn't need to be argued, it can just be shown. OCaml is not an up and coming language, it's a 25 years old one. It powers a lot of Jane Street infrastructure. It is used to develop Coq and Frama-C. It is transpiled to javascript at Facebook and Bloomberg. Heck, Rust which you apparently hold dear was originally written in it.
Calm down :)

From the the hackernews guidelines;

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Get a ThinkPad t14 and never look back.
I searched when I saw the video was 7 minutes long and found more results about why Italians don't drink a cappuccino after lunch (or noon). The explanation is they believe milk after meals impedes digestion. (I guess the video had a different but related explanation.)
I've kinda been keeping an eye on Hello since I first heard about it, seeing as I share a lot of opinions on how personal computing should be with probonopd. I wasn't expecting the choice of FreeBSD as a base, though I guess FreeBSD's coherent base system and solid documentation does make it a good fit even if it lacks hardware and application support compared to Linux.
Funny you mention Dropbox because they did exactly what you say not to do, provide a video demo that doesn't actually work, it just looks like it's working [0]. Their Show HN thread has more details [1].

In general though, you definitely should work on figuring out if customers want your product without building it if at all possible, and most times it is possible. I run a SaaS that's a project management tool (todo list + calendar, basically, at https://getartemis.app) and the main page is simply a video demo that I made with Figma and an animation tool called Principle. People signed up and it works great for showing users what they'd be getting in the future.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
This is correct.

I was trying to separate the individuals from my anecdote on the upstream point. Also, not draw in daemons for these keywords.
Can a Windows update brick a PC? I’m pretty sure it can’t, because it does not update the firmware of the main system controller. You might end up with an unbootable copy of Windows if you’re unlucky, but it’s fairly easy to fix it with install media or a recovery partition, and you might be able to recover any data your backups don’t cover (you make backups, right?). If you don’t have any install/live media for Windows or Linux, it’s trivial to make those with any working computer (Linux, Windows, macOS), including a friend’s. But if a macOS update nukes your T2 chip’s firmware, you need access to another Mac and the appropriate cables.
That's both fair and my bad.
You make a valid point however, since GitHub's name squatting policy allows for the claiming of inactive GitHub usernames, my intention was to simply show people who aren't currently satisfied with their username as to what might be out there up for grabs.

I do not speak for other social media sites as most of them have clear terms for disallowing this sort of action.
> "Even if it was a completely BS takedown, you're left with proving malice rather than error."

True, but making the same "errors" over and over and over again without regard for the consequences starts to smell fishy after a while, almost like intimidation or a protection racket.
It was a joke about the video...
The reference to legacy glass isn't to Sony legacy glass, but to the likes of Mamiya, Hasselblad, Pentax, Pentacon and others. A tremendous variety of adapters are available to adapt almost every removable mount lens format to the Sony E mount for their APS-c and full frame sensors.

A curved image plane is more associated with box cameras like the Ansco Pioneer or with pinhole cameras, to either reduce curvature of field or vignetting. Most likely the curved sensor will reduce the complexity of the lens since it removes the necessity of creating a flat field.

It's certainly possible that Sony won't make their own camera, but will instead sell sensors to other manufacturers just as they do with APS-c sensors.
80000 IU seems a lot, that’s about 100 times the RDA! Not saying it’s bad just interesting...
You gave a example of a 'need' to do X that is specifically not legitimate. I'm not sure (and decline to speculate) whether you're confused or malicious or some other problem entirely, but you are wrong.
The new Edge's installer does not uninstall the old Edge, it just hides it. On versions of Windows before 20H2 (build 19042), you can bring back the old Edge icons by following these instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-s...

In short:

1. Run this command as an administrator: reg add hklm\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate /v Allowsxs /t REG_DWORD /d 1

2. Download and reinstall the new Edge.

Note that Microsoft has said that old Edge will stop getting security updates soon, though I don't know what this actually amounts to as the old Edge's engine remains in Windows for application compatibility even when old Edge is nominally removed.

I'd also suggest that you send feedback to Microsoft about any problems you have with new Edge, using the built-in "Send feedback" tool or Windows' Feedback Hub.
What I'm surprised at is they are still healthy enough to be talking, yet fit the criteria for ventilation, given what we now know. I'm no doctor. But everything I read in mainstream sources indicates it's well accepted that ventilators were overused earlier in the pandemic.
Maybe, if you're unlucky. In all likelihood, you'll be asymptomatic and spreading it to a bunch of other people without realizing it (which is most of the reason we're in this mess). Then those people do the same, get sick, and/or die.
I don’t really agree with a lot of what’s being said here.

If you have something that solves real problems, you should be able to fight for users. Yeah sure, just because you built a great thing doesn’t mean people will flock to it, you need to do SOME marketing.

It might take two years to get ten users, because turns out it’s very hard to run every aspect of a business by yourself. But it’s progress, and if you maintain a high bar of connection with your user base and product quality, as long as you continue to market and improve it will grow.

There are no “get rich quick” schemes here, I don’t believe in that nonsense. There is hard work and there is giving up, that’s it.
I think you've gone from one extreme to the other. Yes, building a product with no distribution sucks. So does doing distribution without having anything to show for it.

Take this from a guy who spent 2 years studying distribution channels [1]. There's nothing wrong about spending a week or two developing a MVP before focusing on distribution.

I think the key is to start with 1) The minimum thing you can do and call a 'product' 2) Try to promote/distribute it to see the response. So far you've done:

a) A web page explaining what your product is about

Some steps to (progressively) get to a "better" MVP may be:

b) Make a video showcasing your product (which can be a simple Figma design with static screens that show once you click on them)

c) Build a feature that's high on the ICE Scoring model [2], and distribute that

d) Build a meaningfully different feature than c) and promote it as a SEPARATE product. Let your features be like split tests you promote on the same/different distribution channels and see how they perform.

[1] https://firstpayingusers.com

[2] https://university.hygger.io/en/articles/2288376-ice-scoring
I just don't get your point. No matter how you put it, it's not a government's job to distribute a cheap, universally available subscription-free substance that might benefit their citizen's health. Why does the government not distribute fruits to all citizens? Should they distribute dental floss?

Maybe yes, but only to people in real need who cannot afford any of this or need help (e.g. elderly who are afraid to leave the house due to Covid).

In my opinion, the government's job is not to act like a nanny. There shouldn't be any need for it. They can and should expect a minimum of citizen participation and autonomy.

Is that such a bizarre idea to you?
Cost of Relevance

The Mac was a novelty, a niche prpduct a decade or two ago to serve just a handful of use cases until it was thrust into relevance because of Windows' failings in the cloud development and transition era.

Now that it's everywhere, and the complexity of deployments and permutations of Mac's usage ever increasing they're stumbling just as badly as Microsoft did - perhaps worse, because Windows has to deal with orders of magnitude more different hardware and software.
Go to your 'Profile' page, then 'Chess Insights' and
you end up at a URL like:

https://lichess.org/insights/atabotix/acpl/variant
^^^^^^^^
user name
Nobody talked about censorship and authoritarian measures. It’s about:

1. Don’t even entertain their distorted reality

2. Put a stop on the spread of misinformation

Stopping your anti-vaccine post from going viral on social media is in no way any different than a scientific magazine refusing to publish the same.
really?

My fear that is that not enough folks will take the vaccine. I've been hearing a lot about anti-vaxxers lately. interesting bunch.
One new guy trying to tell the world that there is a process to start a successful business, there is not. Sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed.

Some succeed more than others, but they never always succeed.

I wish you good luck for your project but changing your approach is not going to ensure you not to fail.