skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It had actually been identified that our pandemic preparedness was overly focused on influenza. Still, I have no idea whether we'd have fared better in a flu pandemic - maybe the assumption was that we'd be able to get a vaccine quicker in that case?

In any case, it's still somewhat unclear why the UK has done so badly with Covid. There are some obvious things the government should have done better - and unless Brexit turns out to be a "titanic success", I can't see how Boris Johnson will remain PM until the next election. But even compared to countries that have implemented weaker measures, slower than we have, or have had their healthcare systems overwhelmed, or struggled with testing - we've suffered much worse. And the reason why is, at this point, unknown.

One argument is we have a less healthy population, either due to lifestyle factors or due to having relatively mild previous flu seasons. Another is our dense, poor housing and service economy. Another is travel and weather. Will be interesting to see what falls out over the analyses over the next few years, and if anything is done to act on the problems (I doubt..).

The factor that these preparedness plans can't account for who is in charge at the time the disaster hits. We might have technically had the best plans, best scientists, best civil service, best procedures - and then the person in charge refused to listen to them. Like Trump and the CDC. Maybe people will vote for competence over bluster next time around? (I doubt..)
In some future decade, when Banks start trying to migrate their "Enterprise Java" systems, anyone that can make sense of that bizarre and rather absurd model of computation is going to get well compensated.
'Immunisation cards' will be part of Covid-19 vaccine deployment in Wales
> but there really is no "deeper truth" here.

I disagree, I do think there's a deeper truth.
It seems to me that you have already internalized and understood it very well; that is the goal.

would you at least agree that there's beauty here? and this notation does make it more apparent; or as you say "could have some meaning pedagogically"
Ecology is good for your SEO
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Ask HN: What does your ideal interview experience at a company look like?
My company’s going to be hiring in the next few months. If not real-time Leetcode problems or a take home coding assignment, what does your ideal interview experience look like for Junior and Senior level roles?
Various websites not available in europe are saying stuff like

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market.

and have done so for years.

Facebook's "currently" may be worth as much as the "engaged" and "committed" of those sites.
Yes but it works way better than forwarding and cc’ing. It’s like how they should have been.
I guess you don't like bubbles either?

Short selling is our best defense against bubbles.
I split time between a major world city and a small (10k population) town. Both have many independent businesses. Where do you live that this is not the case?
They can solve complex open-ended tasks, and formulate long term plans that take into account information from multiple sources.

I understand that this is not a very high bar to set in comparison to other working professionals, but nearly everyone in the tech industry, and most other people who have a desk in a company's head office, are working at a level above the average person. Many of the posters on HN are biased by their personal and professional contacts and have an incorrect impression of what an IQ of 100 looks like, or how smart the average person is.

Going back to what I said originally, being smart is not the same as being infallible. Smart people can get themselves into all sorts of trouble that everyone else would have the humility and common sense to avoid.
Seems like a great way of creating plausible deniability by those caught doing nefarious things (assuming the case was already weak enough).
I'm encouraged that you have picked up on this.

As a US citizen, I hate that politics is constantly pitting people against each other. I hope others see through it, too.
Then just use markdown.
SaaS: How to code the subscriptions business model. Elementary level
> lending money just so you can profit from its failure is caused by the affiliations between commercial and investment banks

Not really. Most lenders into this mess never made a dime on the shorting. And most of the shorts’ beneficiaries never loaned a penny. Short selling pre-dates Glass-Steagall. Credit default swaps predate Gramm-Leach-Bliley.
Strong IDE support is a feature of a vendor language? Not surprised. The web has a few good IDEs too, but as you're free to use your own compilers, linker, dependency management, etc., it's a little tougher to do this with.
> the kind of exponentiation you are referring to is related to the intuitive concept of "do this N times", which only makes sense for positive integers.

But it works when "this" is an action that does not have a sensible notion of being applied a fractional number of times, or an infinite number of times, which is a very large and important set of actions indeed.

> When you are talking about real numbers, the notion of "repeated multiplication" and "exponentiation" diverge

Yes of course, but mere continuity of the inputs doesn't pick out exp from any other base you might choose besides e. You do not have to relate it to the exp function.

> Since the OP was about a notation propos...

My specific objection was to your suggestion that a^b is syntactic sugar, which suggests notational convenience that does not reflect what's going on "under the hood".
> Data anonymized with Amnesia are statistically guaranteed that they cannot be linked to the original data.

It looks like (from other text on their site) they use variants on k-anonymity. This can prevent re-linking attacks back to the original data, but we've also known for a decade that this isn't especially strong. For example, two independent k-anonymous releases can unique identify everyone in the dataset[0].

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1401890.1401926
Fair warning: anonymization is a hard problem. It is never easy, and you'd be surprised how many bits can leak out of what you thought was properly anonymized data.

If you are using data for test purposes please use generated data, not anonymized data. This has the additional advantage that there is no potential path for live data to end up on a developers machine.

added in edit: And also realize that just using a service such as this or similar actually increases the chances that you are leaking sensitive data, in fact uploading somewhere it is the very best way in which you could ensure that at some point there is a breach. Don't take the 'made easy' line for granted if possible ask the company for their audit reports and what measures they have in place to ensure that your data doesn't end up elsewhere, a company providing such a service or a chunk of software that does this is - of course - a massive target. The only way you would stay away from that extra risk is by running this on your premises on a machine that is not connected directly or indirectly to the outside world.
Ask HN: Monetizing/attaching a monetary reward to good HN comments?
I see many insightful and high-reputation commenter s on HN, but they only post occasionally. What if there was a "tip" link that allowed the transfer of small amounts of money to incentivize commenting?

For people of normal economic class, they can withdraw the money.

For people rich enough to not care about money, the tips could be auto-contributed to a charity of their choice. (Feed XX children.)
This only proves the plausibility of the vector, not that it's being used. It seems that it was done in the interests of usability, maybe, but if I worked for Amazon I would have pushed back on this feature: joining a wifi access point without permission is a bad practice, and this would have been very confusing for most users, as well as a security nightmare.
This is just speculation on my part, but if facebook implemented these API calls in a privacy-respecting way for the EU market, then it would be very easy for the US government to suggest that the already-existing privacy-respecting version should be used in their jurisdiction too. Maybe that's what facebook wants to avoid?
Also most of the time, CDS are entirely separate from the underlying company. It's one hedge fund (or bank) making a bet with another hedge fund.
Show HN: React library for showing speedometer like gauge using D3.js
The fundamental concepts and techniques for working with Observable notebooks
I feel like I have seen a movie like Inception—-well coordinated plan of attack is executed. Those attacks and defenses are occurring in our bodies. Why have we evolved to be unconscious of this battle? If we were conscious of our bodies being attacked, we could deliver more intelligent strategies.
Any lawyer who looks at taking this to court will notice that the manufacture has much bigger pocketbooks and so will do everything he can to sue the manufacture if it all possible. Getting a minimal judgement against your average "living paycheck to paycheck" person on the street isn't worth your time in court. However it is "easy" to update that to a class action lawsuit against a manufacture where the average man on the street gets $5 and you take home big money.
Respect for publishing the results of something that didn't work. Now somebody will be able to either look for another type of solution or try to improve this one without wasting time on reimplementing the same thing again.

Good job.

If I'm not mistaken, science publishing doesn't work like this. Only good results are published - successful failures aren't.
Capital allocation and price discovery are quite useful.

If you want an example of something in finance that's an unalloyed Good, have a look at Vanguard's rise.
Resouces from Mars will most likely be sent to orbiting shipyards to build ships for conquering The Belt rather than to Earth.
All Phosh distributions I’ve come across have Xwayland.
Postgres is also trivially integrated with firebase auth. There's a method in the client SDK which gives you a token you can send with API requests. And a method in the admin SDK that you can use to validate the token and resolve it to a user id.
If it can't be successfully back tested against the hundreds of examples of proven conspiracies like iran-contra, then it's effectively ineffective. This seems like a solution looking for a problem, with a bad fit. So it can detect conspiratorial discussions? So what? There's a slippery slope where tools like this could identify people talking about real conspiracies and then shut down those discussions while leaving the garbage alone in a limited hangout.
the artist is Pascal Jousselin
http://pjousselin.free.fr/

it's called 'Imbattable' or Mister Invincible
I don’t see FB shutting down a service like Watsapp in Europe in the next decade at least, first of all because countless European politicians use it, to say nothing of the hundreds of millions of Europeans who use it regularly. There’s nothing else comparable that can take its place.
Oracle vulnerability that executes malicious code is under active attack
While I personally think Flutter is a mess, shouldn't it be easy to port it to the web?

Dart was created as a JS replacement and for a time the Dart to JS compiler emitted code that was more performant than vanilla JS.
Diem (Formerly Libra) and Move @ Open Blockchains
> pixel perfect replica

How do you know your users have pixels and not, for example, screen readers?
The very best case for Amnesia: veneer of GDPR compliance, maybe survive an audit.

Clients are buying plausible deniability, hedging their liability.

"Yes, we regrettably leaked sensitive data. But we followed all the rules. What more could we possibly do?"
Quantum Computing Continues to Gain Fans in Finance
I can't be the only person that's accidentally crashed gcc. This isn't a surprising idea.

EDIT: Oh nevermind, it sounds like they're pointing out that you can just upload malware.
It's bare metal. I wonder if you run virtual box on it and have a VM in your VM
There is no algorithm for truth. It is my strong opinion that what we have here is a programmatic version of Clever Hans, picking up the subtle cues the authors put in their test data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
We went into the police station for a mission but my inner child called out to me. She says it's the day she realised she wanted to marry me.
I swear that half of HN articles can be best described as "Get rich quick" schemes.

Ok, maybe with a few extra steps :-)

Such a clickbait title.
Serverless Node.js that you can run anywhere
There is no reason why you could not run any of the (self hosted) solutions you've mentioned in fifty years. Your data is still yours and it's easy enough to transform the database with simple tools in any format you like, if you choose to do so. For me the build in capabilities of these tools can not be beaten by text files. Especially when it comes to searching/filtering and linking your data. In the end the database and business logic are still just files on your hard drive
I'm just so happy seeing the gp comment downvoted. It gives me hope that that mentality is slowly dying. Maybe in 30 years we rid ourselves of the C/C++ shackles for something like Rust
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At least on PC, the common expectation is that your mouse controls the crosshair/cursor position. If you move left, it moves left, if you move up, it moves up. In first person games your crosshair/cursor is also your POV.
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If it's too expensive for you, you are probably not the target audience ;-)

Edit: This is downvoted, but it's the truth.

Do they really think that a company known for long term support of its cloud services (AWS) contacted and worked with what is a competitor in many fields (Apple) to build a service in which they invested a ton of money, if they didn't think there was a market for it? There is, enterprise build, test and deployment services for companies using AWS.

So I have to repeat, if you think that's expensive, you're not the target audience.
Also no atmosphere = micrometeoroids striking directly the surface (and possibly you). On Mars the atmosphere takes care of burning up any meteoroids and Mars Climate Orbiters before they can hit you.
Check the output from curl. HTTPS is working but is merely redirecting to a page saying HTTPS is not working.

$ curl -v https://www.bom.gov.au/
* Trying 104.78.177.116...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to www.bom.gov.au (104.78.177.116) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
* subject: C=AU; ST=VIC; L=Docklands; O=Bureau of Meteorology; CN=*.bom.gov.au
* start date: Jun 10 00:00:00 2020 GMT
* expire date: Sep 9 12:00:00 2021 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "www.bom.gov.au" matched cert's "*.bom.gov.au"
* issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=GeoTrust RSA CA 2018
* SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.bom.gov.au
> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
< Server: AkamaiGHost
< Content-Length: 0
< Location: http://www.bom.gov.au/akamai/https-redirect.html
< Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:03:03 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Server-Timing: cdn-cache; desc=HIT
< Server-Timing: edge; dur=1
<
* Connection #0 to host www.bom.gov.au left intact
This seems misleading. If you needed to use anywhere close to 24 hours of cpu computation per day, wouldn’t you not use a cloud provider? And most tenants will only use a fraction of that per day, so 77 days of CPU usage could take years to use.
To be honest, I don't think I've seen anyone claim that TV X connects to unsecured hotspots. The claims I see are that it is possible. It's a matter of time before this is the norm.
I've gotten into mountain biking into 2020, specifically XCO Racing, which has a mass start. I've found myself watching quite a bit of bike races I never used to. What I love about on screen graphics is that it makes the race consumable for viewers that aren't hard core fans, or like me, new to the sport.

Looking at sports popularity in the USA, I don't think it's a coincidence that viewership coincides with on screen graphics. NFL goes above and beyond what 'football' does, as an example.

A commentator will be hard to replace completely. They are scripted and fed a myriad of information, providing context to the game, the history of the player, and the significance of a move in a race or play in a game. This lowers the bar of entry for casual viewers.
Reproducible Builds with Bazel
No i don't like vultures
But that side project was an app, I presume? The web is not an application platform per se. Web content should be rendered as transparently and accessibly as possible. Just imagine a world where you can't use browser extensions, screen readers, even text selection...
To note, you can use flutter/dart and just have a web output (which works still fairly bad tho, last I checked).
At these scales, and being able to use the hull's weight against itself, that chain is plenty "sharp" just by itself, I guess (sharpness being the ability to concentrate force on a comparatively small surface area). Adding teeth to the chain would probably not be worth it and/or they would just dull or break soon anyway.
Kudos for the insightful comment and good links.

Tangent: I first stumbled upon the Tau manifesto several years ago, and though it made sense to me, I couldn't tell whether anyone took it seriously. Still wondering.
That reminds me of the many local and regional newspapers in the US that are owned by Tribune Publishing, and whose websites have been inaccessible in Europe since the GDPR went into effect. You'll be met with the following disclaimer:

"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."

Ok, I'm sure it'll be any day now…
Telegram, I think Signal, too. There are alternatives, they're just not as popular now.
I thought the point is with the new announcement/EULA terms that a day was the minimum amount of time you could rent from Amazon for. I could have misunderstood of course.
> Apple doesn’t upstream of their changes already, hence why you have a specific Apple column

It looks to me like it’s the exact opposite, based solely on your link that is. Based on your link, they lag _behind_ upstream (vs being _ahead_ of upstream as you indicated) and don’t offer the same features, without a delay anyway, in “Apple Clang” that are in “Clang”.
Yes, but as far as I'm aware the question of whether the UK will be a "third country" for purposes of data transfer outside the EU after January 1 is still undecided?

(Where is Facebook's data center anyway, is it Ireland?)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Leave Silicon Valley for Texas
Yes, which means you can actually see the windows for things running in the background which can be nice when your eg reading something from firefox while writing an email.
All the phone stuff is handled by chatty and calls, notifications are handled by libnotify, alert sounds are handled by feedbackd etc.
In that regard, the Moon may be a much better spot - lower delta-v to orbit, simple availability of highly specialized, long supply-chain components (from Earth), abundant solar (4+x Mars). It gets hotter than Mars, which is an issue, but I'd assume most delicate things would live underground, in lava tubes or similar places (which probably have abundant water ice easily extractable).
Does it tiring being so depressing?
A Couple’s Quest to Cure Cancer Led to the West’s First Covid-19 Vaccine
Federal Student Loan Portfolio
As if switching to other programing languages would magically prevent all security flaws.
> My specific objection was to your suggestion that a^b is syntactic sugar

Yes, I agree that 'syntactic sugar' is not the word we are looking for here, I have no objections to your comment.