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.

The problem is that the public has been hearing this for almost 9 months now and with the exception of a hospital or two it hasn't happened. You can only cry wolf so many times.

> I mean we are almost at a complete ICU collapse right now already.

Besides a few one off stories could you please provide HN readers with some links?

> And a lot of people will die, not just of covid but of other treatable diseases.

They already are and do you know why? Because hospitals stopped doing "unessential" procedures for months and continue to do so.

> Not to mention we will run out of PPE and medical supplies.

Could you please share an article or three with HN readers where a single hospital has run out of PPE in the USA?

> More doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists will get sick and die.

If Covid is so powerful then why haven't tens of thousands of nurses and doctors died? They are exposed to do multiple times per day.

Look forward to your reply!
You're a retailer with 0.5% profit margin, how do you rebuild your whole business model and technology philosophy without going bankrupt first due to the costs? Remember that your competitors are using their money to kill you short term throughout the whole time. Of course they refused to invest, they didn't have the money to invest with and the risk was too high to any individual retailer.

edit: Also, e-commerce was only 16% of retail sales pre-covid. And that took 30 years to achieve. So traditional retailers saw it more of a long term problem than something to worry about right now.
France isn’t super pro-integration. The current president is, but the population isn’t excited about more losses of sovereignty. Cf the EU constitution referendum. And people forget the French voted for the creation of the euro with a razor thin margin.
Does anyone know where one can get historic wind data (avg direction and speed per hour for example) for a well known location like LAX? I was looking a few months ago and couldn’t find anything. I thought surely NOAA or NWS would have this?
The "general consensus", that I'm aware of, is the continuous trickle of studies that shows some relation, like those found in this link.
It's the old headquarters of Varco Pruden. They manufactured steel buildings, and there are long, wide manufacturing bays with overhead cranes. You can see much more on my YouTube channel. I've got a few videos of different areas.

This is the first video I made there showing a bit of the size:
https://youtu.be/qdkLzioUiAE
There are a ton of confounders there. Most of those countries have younger populations. The outdoor temperature is higher there. They have different economies and population densities.

Or it could be Vitamin D, at least in part. To know the answer somebody has to actually do the science.
> or a desire to dictate that others have to use certain language.

As far as I can tell, the content of your first comment in this thread was

> The site is the work of a guy, "him", and "his" work. We don't have to guess and say "them" and "their" work.

This, to me, indicates that you want the previous person to say "him" and "his" where they said "them" and "their". Even in this post you're displaying a negative opinion about the use of singular "they", and expressing that you want others to stop using singular "they" this way. Am I wrong?

Like, if you referred to Dominique McLean with "he", and someone said to you "We know that person prefers they/them pronouns, we don't have to guess based on appearances and say 'he'," would you not characterize them as dictating that you have to use certain language?

> I don't speak in vagaries when something is specific and known.

I hope you do. (And I'm pretty sure you do.) Omitting information that is specific, known, and irrelevant is a basic part of communicating well. Not every failure to bring up something that is specific and known constitutes "dumbing down of discourse".
Content Strategy Deliverables That Matter
No. We have representatives whose job it is to serve their campaign donors. Musk is a leech, but someone with that much money has political influence.
There's been a recent (say 15yr, picking up a lot of speed in the last 5) to use these failings as an excuse to ignore everything that these people had to say.

The fact that Jefferson owned slaves doesn't really cast any shade on what he had to say about aborculture.
Stripe errors & lack of support causing us to lose $2000USD+
We recently signed up to stripe as a small business. We put our very first transaction through for a customer of over $2000USD, via the online invoice system. There are multiple areas Stripe should be avoided.

The conversion fee is high, we got slogged 4.9%! and the conversion rate was worse than both our bank and that of transferwise. Worse than Paypal.

Rightfully so, Stripe asked us to verify, not a problem.

Whilst using the webpages, we got a page error after error about the image being blurry, there was NOTHING WRONG with the image, issues with their verification software were obvious as we got asked to change browsers multiple times. So we went to the chat and tried to clear it up, and we supplied the verification materials and instead our account was closed via a random email stating the account would be closed in a few days, with money STILL in the account.

Now, we find that both the call & chat options have been removed, but only from this account, we signed up for a new account, where both options are still there. We now only have email support and no one replies.

Next stripe did an automatic refund to the customer, and BAM Stripe has hit us with a minus account balance, meaning they want us to PAY THEM to refund the client. When we didn't initiate it.

What a JOKE this company is. You should avoid at all costs.

The worst part is, we have already paid for this customers goods, and we're in the hole thousands of dollars. Stripe is holding on to our money none the less, and now wants us to pay for it to be returned to the customer. Better yet Stripe, GIVE US OUR MONEY, and then go the hell away.

You cannot trust this company, nor should you allow a company that acts like a bank to offer 0 support. Never should this be allowed.
They were not lacking for real estate for the majority of that time period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land
Nice, my latest website makes the list, although in the last spot...

https://cuetorials.com

Also, is this a meta-clickbait for developers title?
A Theory for Debugging Unfamiliar Code
How does it position compared with disco.ac ?
Content ID goes much beyond what copyright law requires Google to do. Google could simply have no such system and allow rightsholders to find matches on their own, and go through the DMCA process.

Content ID is Google proactively acting in the interests of rightsholders over YouTube creators, presumably so they can have cosy partnerships for music, TV etc.
It worked like this in Slovakia, during the first wave. Government told people not to buy masks, people started making their own masks from cloth and selling them to neighbors. Cities started closing schools. Supermarkets limited the number of people allowed in the shop at the same time. Only later government made this mandatory across the whole country. People acted rationally, and I think Slovakia had the lowest infection per capita in whole Europe.

And then somehow everything got wrong during summer. Ironically, because almost no one got sick during the first wave, it became popular to believe that the entire pandemic is just made up by evil Western media. People took vacations all across the world, and in September shared the viruses at schools, which were no longer closed because "education is important".

In the beginning of September, the situation was worse than ever during the first wave, and the government did nothing. In October it was 20 times higher, and in the beginning of Novermber the goverment finally woke up and imposed some half-assed measures, which at least keep the infection rate constant (i.e. still 20 times higher than during the first wave).

Not sure what is the lesson here. Perhaps that reverse psychology can work for a while... and then it may revert again. Because if it is cool to be a contrarian and oppose the government, soon this opposition becomes the new normal, and then it becomes cool to oppose what was done yesterday. And also that the better you protect yourself against a disease, the more people will believe the disease was not real.
And don't forget Germany benefits form those countries dragging down the currency too, perhaps more than it does for trade barriers.
BRB, disabling all of my serverless functions.
IMO, the money isn't even the worst problem with the app store. The worst one is that they force you, the app developer, to change your platform, whatever it is, to accommodate ever-changing arbitrary Apple policies. Real-life example: apps getting rejected with the reason that while reviewing, they typed "porn" into the search bar and gasp naked people came up! Your own rules allow it, but Apple won't let you have it. Even if you rate your app 18+. Same goes for all the copyright stuff.

Also funny how Apple keeps trying to spin its insane rules as a universally good thing. Not everyone is a US corporation. Sexuality is a very important part of a person's life. Get over it.
I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but your tone makes it seem like the parent just needs to "read the docs".

Unfortunately for all of us, your solution doesn't work, per the huge disclaimer on the page that says those alerts can be days late. You can rack up an almost unlimited $ bill in hours.
@dang can the title be changed, since this is such an important issue?
I appreciate the sentiment. It’s one of my favorite “I am an immigrant” stories and when I tell it, people usually get a chuckle.
Well, that's the complain isn't it? That the technical skills are being wasted on glorified marketing companies.

If you hire Frank Lloyd Wright to design your bathroom, you can't use the fact that you end up looking at a toilet as proof that he's not great.
That already happened to political groups. Money is life and death these days.
More recently, the pre-election suppression of the Hunter Biden scandals that are now okay to talk about openly for some reason.
All good points, and thank you! I think Findka is a better fit for people who are not already RSS power users (or RSS users at all)--the idea is to use algorithms to handle this kind of source curation automatically.

Ultimately, I'd like to provide the best of both worlds: automatic, algorithm curation by default, with controls that allow you to override things manually.
My fault guys, that was just me ... but I can’t help if if they have the only national radar animation that isn’t infested with ads and other bloat:

https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop.gif
Just wanted to let you know that I use lnav every day extensively for my job and it makes my life 10x easier. Thanks for creating such a useful tool!
SpaceX gets $900M in federal subsidy to deliver broadband to rural USA
Revisionist BS.

"it seemed like he [pg] dismissed the idea itself entirely"

"As they started to pack up to leave, Gebbia pulled out the ce­real boxes; against Blecharczyk’s wishes, he’d sneaked them into his bag. He walked over to Graham, who was by then talking with his partners, and handed him one. Graham thanked him, awkwardly"

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-c...
> Just use apples app store, simple as that. This is a non issue.

And how do you install other App Stores? Just visit epicgames.com/ios, see a popup asking "do you want to install this app store" and click "confirm"? That's no different than the exact thing that caused Windows to be known to need an antivirus (at least, until Windows Defender and smartscreen became good enough for 'common sense' users). Anything more is going to be met with criticism for 'too much of a barrier to install' for competing app stores.
Also there's a huge slice of the population that takes a "screw that, too expensive" approach to Lift/Uber/Taxis. Their transit needs still presumably fall under the scope of the DOT though, so that would drag the government's number down relative to Lyft's.
I (n=1, but still I browse HN a lot) have only seen posts that are against the idea of wearing masks be heavily downvoted. I've seen a few people discussing whether or not they're important to wear outside, but the WHO seems to agree that being outside makes covid less likely to spread[0], so imho that is a fine thing to discuss

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/..., under "What makes activities safer?" they list "They are held in outdoor spaces. Indoor spaces with less ventilation where it might be harder to keep people apart are more risky."
Ha, glad I'm not the only one! Thanks!
If you think HEALS was milquetoast at $1.1T, you must be pretty upset that Pelosi has now agreed to pass a bill at $0.9T... after months of demanding no less than $3.0T.

Gee, I wonder what happened in November for her to change her mind...

I'll stop responding now; it's pretty clear a number of folks on HN think that only one party can play political games and this has gotten trite.
What you're ignoring is that some significant percentage of that "bloat" is what leads to more rides and more money. All those tweaks and a/b tests and features that solve problems for specific segments that most users won't ever see, getting shipped week after week, increasing the new user conversion rate by 0.5% here, reducing the rate of canceled trips by 0.3% there, it all adds up over time. Many of the features obviously fail too and don't improve anything they just add bloat, but you can't ever know for sure which features those will be in advance.

In aggregate, the goal is obviously that it leads to the company making more money than was lost by paying all those engineers to move mountains to get around all the issues they hit up against. In the case of Uber, now a $96 billion public company and worth nearly double their 2016 valuation, it's a little ridiculous to call it a failure.

You read this story and see an unmitigated disaster, but it's mostly just a picture of things working the way the company wants them to. The goal is to grow the company, not to have a nice, conceptually clean, tech-debt free codebase just for the sake of it.
Python structural pattern matching morphs again
They have talked about displaying ads in-page for publishers that opt in. But in that case why would the publisher display ads to Brave users? It doesn't sound like replacement to me.
Ironic that they then lock-up people in nursing homes in the USA during these lockdowns which prevents them from getting any exposure to the sun.
Can we stop posting this until the large randomized controlled trials report back here in another month or so?
You're right. I just posted the same thing:

"Chesky felt Graham was impressed that they knew so much about their market and customers, but it seemed like he dismissed the idea itself entirely."

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-c...

This is an attempt to go back in time and talk about how smart everyone was.
Not quite, I can still buy my games on disc and not through the App store.
I live in an area elsewhere with essentially zero crime, 24x7 security, cameras, and a well-lit parking garage. Someone stole the catalectic converter off my 2008 Prius last week, a part whose street value is only worth ~$100 and that requires equipment and professional-level skill to steal, likely by someone whose day job generates $70-90/hr.

Gotta be pretty damn desperate to risk a felony for a little over an hour's wages, especially when that theft requires actual work.
That was not the point, don't try to change my words.
Alternative perspective: we were thinking to hire an M.Sc. thesis worker to do some work in Prolog and we definitely contemplated how to make the interview harder. The point was not to be monsters. Instead, Prolog is harder than JS and thesis is shorter than a few-year contract and there is less help on SO. If we hire someone who can barely write Prolog or understand what RDFS inteference is, the output will be nearly zero. Also, if the person struggles to complete something in 6 months, they will get anxious too and nobody wins. But obviously not a regular "hard" algorithms interview. Also, a senior engineer was essentially suggesting ways to completely rewrite my Prolog code in PRs for quite a while. So I hope you can appreciate why Clojure and other niche shops are a bit more selective.
I would be sad to see them go, if only because of the exceptional Hudson Bay point blankets [1]. They are iconic and legitimately good. It is hard to find equal quality thick wool blankets. But if I am honest that is probably the only thing I've bought from them in the last decade.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_point_blanket
Why would you pay for Accuweather forecasts? You can use their website for free, they just have a bunch of dumb ads.

Although I agree I like NWS way more than Accuweather or weather.com, etc, and I would be sad if NWS were forced to take it down.
> Even in that situation, a wait-and-see approach is still pretty advisable. The worst case scenario was already known to you - bankruptcy.

You could even go scorched earth, represent yourself, and drag it out as long as possible. "Your honor, I'm a free man on the land and all I was doing was travelling the information super highway. I'm not bound by your laws!" Haha.
Yeah - it's frustrating how bad Canadian retail is still. I had an experience a few years ago with Canadian Tire where I chose in-store pick-up for an online purchase. The people at the store looked at me like I was from Mars. They didn't have the item in stock, and the manager actually told me that

1. he couldn't refund me because it was two separate computer systems (a lawyer would have told him tough sh*t - you're still the same company), and

2. I should do a credit-card charge-back to get my money back!

It's been years since, and I'm trying them again now. I ordered a set of dumbbells yesterday and ... still no email to come pick up my in-stock dumbbells.

BTW - I have wide feet too. If you're looking for running shoes, ASICS is good (this is the brand I always wear), and I've heard New Balance is pretty wide too. I can't wear Nike or Reebok for this reason.
>The white background is not good for the eyes.

There is no evidence dark mode is better. In fact, human eyes don't have good night vision, we see best in daylight.

Light text on a dark background makes the eye work harder and open wider, since it needs to absorb more light. When this happens, the light letters can bleed into the dark background and cause halation. Our eyes focus better when the iris is narrow.

Additionally, most people are born with some form of astigmatism, a misshaped cornea that blurs vision. For people that have the worst forms of astigmatism, light text on dark backgrounds aggravates the condition. When looking at a light display, the iris closes more, decreasing the effect of the deformed cornea. When using a dark display the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the cornea makes halation worse.

On the flip side, dark mode helps with floaters, tiny fibers or spots that appear in a person's vision. These are caused by changes to the fluid in the eye which cause shadows to be cast on the retina. Floaters distort vision in light mode. This condition tends to increase with age.

Also, people with light sensitivity might be better served by a dark background.

I have found that dark mode works best in low light, 100% contrast can be harder to read with more eye strain, reading large amounts of text in dark mode is harder.

It is frustrating when people who work in IT don't take accessibility seriously. Not everybody is young and in perfect health. Both light and dark mode should be offered for accessibility reasons.
Ask HN: How do you accept donations?
I have various pieces of open source software that people have offered to donate or give me some money as a thank you for, but I usually just say the thank you is enough purely because I don't have a convenient way to accept them.

I don't use PayPal due to historic issues with them, so I'm keen to hear what others use to accept donations other than that.
Gotta agree with this. From the outside the American habit of venerating national symbols in a quasi religious manner, be it the "founding fathers", constitution, flag, office of the president, national anthem etc. is really weird and something more often seen in dictatorships than democracies.
Apple is hardly free of malware.
In the US, iOS has 52.4% of the mobile OS market[1], and Android has 47%.

In the US, Apple's App Store is responsible for the majority of mobile app sales[2], and has 3 times the revenue of Google's Play Store.

Apple and Google dominate the mobile OS market, and Apple more so than Google, dominates the mobile app distribution market. Everything else is negligible.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

[2] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/01/in-2019...
The Recall Gavin Newsom Effort Has Hit the Required 10% Threshold [pdf]
Suffering less?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronaviru...
It does? First time I've seen it mentioned here.
But does Google Search have an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp yet?
First is the overall pricing strategy: Plans..

Why it has to be plans? Neither AWS nor GCP, nor Azure have plans for any of their products.
I understand that plans make sense for SaaS, platforms and user based products. But this is a DB where costs are mostly related to storage+cpu usage.

Second the plans have fancy names, but they are actually just $ based volume commitment.

So the $25 Plan gives you $25 worth of usage, the $150 gives you $150 worth of usage.. This is not a plan is a monthly commitment. AWS Saving Plans is far smarter on this case, after you have a monthly commitment you'll receive a discount for your loyalty.

Third:
Some features are only unlocked after a certain plan. I'm interested in `premium regions` but this is only unlocked at $500/month. So in order to test this i need to commit to the `business plan`. With AWS, Azure, GCP you can pretty much use any feature at any scale, so you can test complex features with just a few users or even for just a few days, but you'll only pay what you use.

Lastly:
The real, clear, pricing is already there! At the bottom of the page: Billing unit rates. This is a simple, clean table that I can easy reason about and evaluate costs my business plan.

P.S
Sorry the headline `Pay only for what you need`? sorry this BS marketing, as stated above I can't use premium regions in the individual plan, so well technically incorrect.

Hope this helps.. Project looks really amazing..