skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if we open up with no restrictions a lot of people will get very sick very quickly. This will overwhelm hospitals. I mean we are almost at a complete ICU collapse right now already. And a lot of people will die, not just of covid but of other treatable diseases. Not to mention we will run out of PPE and medical supplies. Care will be rationed even more than it is now. More doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists will get sick and die. There will be a lot of death. So basically death, death and more death. This will disproportionally impact the poor and poor essential workers.

And then everything will shutdown anyway because nobody will go out. We might get 1-2 months maybe 3 months.
This feels like some kind of satire. Is Sasha Baron Cohen doing a new project?
I know a guy who airbnb out one of his apartments he rented so he live in a larger nicer apartment. Feels bad that people did that.

I think Airbnb when it first came out was great. Like all things tech (a bit broad of a statement) once it got out into the world in a real way it lost its allure. Facebook was great when it started, reddit, instagram, google, etc. Once people figure out how to co-opt the technology for their own uses (or maybe just the drive for ad revenue kills off all the fun or novelty wears off) it loses its lustre quite a bit. Sorry to be downbeat - technology doesn't feel as fun as it was even like 3-4 years ago let alone back in the 00s or the 90s. Or maybe I'm just aging out.
That’s because the general consensus is that higher levels of vitamin D are associated with rapid recovery or avoidance of Covid. Rational people would say that’s a good thing and support it.
Collections are primary. [Sequences], {:key value} pairs called maps, and other collections are the fundamental building blocks. Makes a huge difference when you start with sensible datatypes what sort of power you have.
Under your assumptions, countries like the US would be entirely white and Protestant, and asylum seekers would never be allowed to enter.

Neither would be a great thing.
A little off topic, but something I've been pondering a lot lately is the relationship between eusociality (the colony structure you find in bees, ants, terminates, and 2 known mammal species) and intelligence. We can clearly see a difference between an ant or an ant colony and a human being, so the eusocial behavior cannot really be defined as intelligent. And in insects, the behavior is biological, not learned. And the interesting behavior is exhibited by the entire colony, not the individuals themselves, yet the idea that the colony has a mind is really not supported by our understanding of what a mind is. Yet outward traits of eusocial colonies and intelligent creatures are eerily similar in many ways. What gives?
I would not be surprised if his lawyer told him to shut up and not comment on this thread ;)
Ive used AirBnB in multiple countries. The disconnect between guest and host exists in many places, but it's especially true in the US. However, several of my trips to Japan have produced meaningful long term relationships with hosts. It really is dependent on the country and what you're looking for.
You can just go to national weather service site which uses NOAA data and it's quite human friendly[1]. Also I don't understand how you can call the raw data not very useful, when it's literally the backbone of weather forecasting in this country. Every weather forecasting app uses the raw NOAA data, its there for you to use as well[2]. The hardest part of using the raw data is the learning curve related to meteorological programing, not getting access to the data.

[1]: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.76031000000...

[2]: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-forecast-system/access...
I went through this very scary experience recently as well (although in our case it was $17K, not $72K). One of our devs accidentally caused an infinite loop with one of the Google Maps paid APIs on our dev account and within hours both our prod and dev accounts were suspended (pro tip: don't link your prod account to the billing account of your dev account). The worst part was that after removing the suspension, our cloud functions were broken and had to be investigated and fixed by Google engineers themselves resulting in our prod app being down for 24 hours... be very careful.

Luckily we were able to get $11K refunded on our card and received $6K credits after spending all night with Google support.
I've been watching these closely for any updates:

https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind2012&L=SCIENT...

https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind2012&L=SCIENT...

Plenty of chatter in
https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind2012&L=SCIENT...
And to the average person who probably would just use the native app store, nothing would change. But people who are more comfortable with less polished apps that do utilities that they want to play with (or experiment with), they're missing out because of Apples restrictive policies.
Savings rate is a function of income. What if your income is zero because you've lost your job due to a pandemic?
This reaction is pretty unusual for me, coming from Europe.

Glaring sins is basically how we can tell our historical figures apart in history class (you know the king that was extra ugly due to inbreeding, the one that liked to have a bajillion lovers, the one that was a religious nut, etc).

I can't think of a single historical figure that is treated with reverent respect to the point that such a jab would cause even a blink, _including religious figures._
> Except apps GP uses will leave the official App Store in favor of the jenky "type in your credit card to each individual app" app store.

This is an assumption. A weird assumption, at that. Apps wouldn't tarnish their brands by being distributed on badly implemented stores, in the same way you don't see apps worth using being advertised on porn sites or 4chan.
Is there any sound basis to the “general consensus”?
It's actually a measure of complexity since bits and qbits are apples and oranges. The volume measurement also includes error rates, connectivity and crosstalk.

So, it identifies the largest square circuit, but doesn't define it.

Tricky wording.
What gives is the extra status we automatically pad to the idea of human intelligence to make ourselves feel special. Anthropomorphic padding.
I didn’t go far back enough other than parent. So apologies if this is out of context.

But I don’t think the goal should be to attack 230, but a desired goal would be stop platforms like Twitter and Facebook and YouTube to stop acting like a publisher. They are simply abusing 230 privileges while still acting like a publisher with editorial muscle.
> 6 days work weeks for over a year

So not true!

Greets from Poland!
Did you read Part 2, linked from the bottom? It has plenty of technical details.
If everyone suddenly has great need of them while demand for British bankers collapses, then yes.
It's a weird situation because from a competition point of view I don't think Facebook doing this makes either Facebook or Oculus particularly more dominant. It's actually a negative for the VR offering. At best one can say, would another social network have a chance to compete with Facebook on Oculus when the user is already linked via their Facebook account? Probably its harder but quantitatively very hard to prove.

In reality the competition concerns are secondary to what is really a consumer rights issue: people are buying a good that can be rendered functionality inoperable at any time in the future by completely unrelated actions pertaining to their Facebook account. This doesn't just apply to the headset but possibly hundreds of dollars of apps they have bought.

I don't know how this gets resolved at the moment when the only regulatory mechanism to enforce it is competition law where the concerns are minor (at least for now).
>> Most of the above are absolutely more feudalist

I'm not seeing it, either that most of the above are feudalist, or that the US is more feudalist than Europe.

Food deserts? Feudalism was an agricultural society. Peasants worked on farms. "There's no grocery store poor people can get to easily without a car" wasn't really a thing back then.

At-will firing? That's capitalism, not feudalism. In feudalism peasants were attached the land. "Go peasant for a competing lord" wasn't a thing either. More like at least the US idea of Europe being someplace where it is impossible to fire an employee once they get hired. That sounds like feudalism.

Days of vacation? "While we may be accustomed to images of medieval peasants toiling away from dawn until dusk and be convinced from this that we have it better than they ever did — a 13th-century laborer could have up to 25 weeks off per year". Working all the time is capitalism, not feudalism. Europe is way more feudalist on this measure too.

Payday loans are feudalist? You think serfs got payday loans? Or car loans? Someone told a peasant back then, "Oh sure, here's a house, it's yours, pay me back over the next 30 years"?

Right to work? What does that have to do with feudalism? If you were attached the the land, you had to work it for the benefit of the lord, it wasn't whether you paid dues to the Peasants Local 1347 or not.

Criticize capitalism all you want, but it is not feudalism.
PLEASE, please, please, please, pretty-please force them to sell Oculus too. F*ck facebook for ruining a product like this by gating it with Facebook membership.
Individual EU countries might be better off. But the EU overall is worse off.

Also, having a worse off UK even if it’s outside the EU is not a good thing for EU countries.

Contrary to what many believe, the global economy is not a zero sum game. For the most part, the UK doing better means the countries it has trade relations with will also do better.
To what extent do you think it is a clojure problem vs a people problem? Further up in the comment thread there was a post discussing how some orgs had problems because people would be writing java in clojure (or python or ruby, etc.). I can see there being problems with people no writing idiomatic clojure code in part because clojure is nwe and their experience is in OO/procedural languagees.
I think a lot of the evidence is marginal. Low vitamin D levels are an indicator of frailty, so all the observational evidence may be showing something other than a causal relationship between vitamin D levels and COVID outcomes.

IV vitamin D seemed to be beneficial in early COVID-19 patients in one randomized trial, which is the best evidence of a causal relationship we have between vitamin D and prevention of severe COVID. Attempts at giving oral vitamin D after diagnosis showed no benefit, but wouldn't really be expected to, either.

There's probably some protective effect, but it's also probably much smaller than most are estimating. That said, taking a small to moderate dose of vitamin D is likely to do more good than harm to people for other reasons, and may provide a small margin of protection against severe COVID. Further, it's cheap and easy to do.

Since March, I've been taking a multivitamin that includes a moderate amount of D.
Never in my comments have I displayed anger, irrationality, or a desire to dictate that others have to use certain language. It must be easy just to think I'm some fringe element going nutso like some Trump supporter living in Florida. I'm far from that. Go ahead, treat all arguments with anyone you disagree with that way. You may feel right, but it's not right, and the more you dismiss someone based on that the worse you will get surprised.

All I said was that we don't have to speak like we don't know that someone is a man or woman with a high degree of certainty, based on a name. Bending over backwards to neuter someone's pronoun on a 1% chance is silly.

I guess that makes me a grammatical nitpicker if you can only oversimplify it. And sure, attribute it however you like, but I don't speak in vagaries when something is specific and known. And it counters an accurate use of the English language, for some political purpose.

I'm against the dumbing down of discourse at the hands of people who are riding the latest bandwagon, and on other people's behalf no less.

Finally, about your example of obscuring during someone's hiring candidacy by calling him/her "they". That is ridiculous to the extreme. I guess that's what happens when you buy into the idea that your world is dominated by evil bias, and everyone around you is repeating that mantra.
did they just steal the idea from snapchat and make it their own?
No, Google has your entire life story associated with your verified name, server side and only under your control insofar as GDPR/CCPA deletion requests.

Not to say I personally have a problem with that (I looove my Google Maps history) but it's a very different model.
Sure thing https://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers-in-north-america
Well,

> locked out by landlords

so

> should have lots of real estate

or not, it doesn't, at least not there.
BeWelcome is a volunteer-run, open-source hospitality exchange network like CouchSurfing.

I'm very interested in getting the BeWelcome community involved in helping out with food, as well as shelter.

How can we reach the people who need it most?
I like it more for 2d work.

I haven’t gotten into the groove with it for 3d workflows. I probably need to do some more tutorials for it on that front.
Meh! You assume that a "Software Engineer" doesn't already solve domain specific problem in whatever domain or organization they're in.

bE a "prOdUcT eNgiNeEr" bEcAUsE a "sOfTwaRe EngInEeR" iS aN iDiOT coDe mOnkEy, aMiRitE?
this is pretty weird for me to hear, as a developer on a project with 3000+ monthly average users where DynamoDB is my only database and the costs are in the hundreds per month.

I'm sure that any database can be "too expensive" if your access patterns are out-of-this-world intense, but it's very difficult to compare apples to apples when we have no idea how beefy the PostreSQL instance to support your cache would have been.
But one big benefit of cloud providers is that you can spin up those servers for testing and when it doesn't work out as expected, you can just magically make them go away. If you're putting out the capital to buy servers in a rack, you have to use them all the time for the cost benefit to work out. A regular test environment that is used all the time? Yes, that could possibly be cheaper if you purchase the hardware but you also need to amortize the cost of purchasing new servers every 3 to 5 years to get the equivalent of the equipment provided by the cloud provider.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly.

You're free not to buy an iPhone. Most people don't.
The article says that the government came up with $14/h. It also says that Lyft can measure this by what people are willing to pay for an earlier ride, and that works out to $19/h. Then it claims that that's in conflict. But people who use Lyft likely want to go somewhere else, so it's not an unbiased sample. For that reason, isn't it unsurprising that Lyft gets a somewhat higher figure?
> On iOS, certain API restrictions are enforced by the app review process.

Notarization for apps on macOS already checks for private API usage[1] even if the apps aren't distributed on the Mac App Store.

[1] https://www.waynedixon.com/2019/05/16/new-notarization-requi...
A common beginner mistake I see on finance forums is when people calculate some notional hourly wage for their time, usually from their salary divided by working hours in a year, and then use that to justify any time saving purchase they want to make.

This misleads people into thinking that they're actually saving money by hiring house cleaners or dining out to save time.

The mistake is that this only holds true in very narrow situations. If you're an hourly freelancer with more work in your queue than hours in the day, it can make sense to order DoorDash so you can continue working billable hours. The alternative is to stop working, prepare food, and lose out on that marginal income.

Meanwhile, most salaried people or hourly workers on fixed schedules aren't actually saving any money this way because they were never giving up billable hours in the first place.

A more accurate way to read this story is "How much are people willing to pay to save time?"
If incomes were going down, you’d expect decrease, not increase in savings rate.
AFAIK, late payments can also be subject to interest and late fees as well. So, while some might not be evicted during the pandemic, they might build up so much debt and interest without income during this time that when things are over, they'll be filing bankruptcy and be out in the streets at a different, future time. I guess it's better than being homeless during the pandemic?

Pretty sad state of affairs we have in the "developed" world.
Ideally we'd compare it with other promising interventions we hadn't heard of, to avoid availability bias. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, though.
Be young, be single, live with your parents or have a high-enough paying job that you don't have to cook every meal.

Easy!
Ahh AppTapp Installer, those were the days. I had a tweak[0] up on your store way back when :)

Thank you for being one of the pioneers of the Jailbreak community!

[0] http://iphone.nudge.id.au/Cello/
> linked JSON documents

Isn't that REST?

A REST API must not define fixed resource names or hierarchies (an obvious coupling of client and server). Servers must have the freedom to control their own namespace. Instead, allow servers to instruct clients on how to construct appropriate URIs, such as is done in HTML forms and URI templates, by defining those instructions within media types and link relations.
https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...

The article mentions rate limiting by connections:

> limit users to 60 connections per minute

You can make multiple requests over a single connection.
> Airbnb enabled a great range of people to see places they might have never afforded to see before. It managed to commoditize travelling in a similar way low-cost airlines did.

By running illegal hotels. It's easy to be cheaper when you're breaking the law. The whole thing is a criminal enterprise: without the crime, none of the rest of it works.

> Sure, the company made a good profit while there was a profit to make, but their service benefited consumers as well and I think it did leave a positive impact not only on the travellers but also on some of the communities that understood how to balance its pros and cons.

It benefited their clients at the expense of the surrounding communities. Even if you think the laws those communities set weren't in their interests, they were the legitimate laws of those places. The price of living in a society is respecting the law even when you don't agree with it, and AirBnB et al have been tearing that apart for the sake of their profits.
Possibly. Some big corps tend to be pretty dumb when decision makers are too far away.

Supermarkets are pretty easy to spot bad management in in particular.
Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem
Did you mean "more good than harm?"
Affordable dedicated servers, the best alternative to cloud
> Couldn't Apple offer a reasonable compromise that they only allow competing App Stores on their phones if those App Stores don't allow exclusive apps?

This would not be a reasonable compromise, as one of the primary reasons for wanting competing app stores is because of Apple's insane overreach in trying to control what you are and aren't allowed to run on your own phone.

When I last had an iPhone, I wanted to install a heavy computing application that I had previously used on Android. I found out from the developers of that application that they had been rejected from the App Store because their app used too much CPU power. Apparently you're meant to just use the phone for decoration?

Google has some similarly nonsense policies (good luck finding a good adblocker on the Play Store), but at least it takes all of five seconds to circumvent that. Apple allowing competing app stores while still having complete control over the content available on them does very little to solve the problems that their monopoly causes.
I guess the appeal of clojure in that case is that the language is a lot simpler than other languages.
Edit: I Googled it and it was Michael Siebel that helped them get into YC.

You can debate what "walked in" means but I think it's safe to say the story of Airbnb getting into YC is one of Winning Friends and Influencing People rather than any brilliant ideas or work they did on their actual startup, which is precisely what the blog post is saying.

Edit2: just saw on Twitter that @paulg posted the email that got Airbnb an interview. It's hard to imagine a stronger attempt at walking them in than they received. They got very special treatment from friends with connections.

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1337011619268882432
You can't install GPL software, or software with LGPL dependencies, on iOS devices because of the App Store's policy. Apple will even remove apps from their store if they think that they contain GPL or LGPL code.

That's harm, too.
Tech companies are no longer underdogs, and entrepreneurs are no longer plucky heroes. Our actions have consequences -- outsized ones, at this point -- and things feel different because they are different.
To be clear, the FDA has not approved the vaccine yet, but an FDA advisory panel has endorsed it [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pfizer...
The irony is always lost in these threads criticizing scientific studies by providing vague anonymous opinions.
Does Nvidia even have the proper licenses to do that? Seems like one thing to stream the games vs. upload the standalone apps to the store (implying they are available in full-featured form).

> It’s also a baffling from the user’s point of view. What happens a single game is available on multiple platforms? I search for “Destiny 2” on the App Store and there’s 3 different listings for it on Stadia, GeForce Now and Xbox GPU.

this is gross...
You might enjoy Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid[0], which discusses this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
I didn't realize that was a link; seriously why does every website have to make links look different.
I don't hide the fact that mine is a single person B2B SaaS. The scrutiny comes no matter what you put on the about-us page. Enterprise customers will schedule a call and dig from there. You'd have to be incompetent not to!

I'm currently testing the "made by <my_name>" banner in the bottom-right corner:

https://HostedMetrics.com
Yah, I edited and fixed on re-read. Pretty stupid for me to be saying the opposite of what I mean. :D

Really eager downvotes on my comment, too, today.
Black market? Cydia pioneered the "App Store" model on iPhone, made it successful, and provided features that Apple stole and put into their own App Store. This is like Sam Walton looking at a mom-and-pop shop, deciding that selling things looks like a good idea, then starting Walmart and getting the local government to ban the idea of any other store. And then you're coming here to call the original thing a "black market"?
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