skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine being almost any other religion in the Middle East and learning that Israelis on a day to day basis are lobbying to carve your countries apart by imperialist wars via their American proxies, bulldozing the homes of your coethnics in Palestine, raping their children, forcibly hijacking their TVs and exposing their kids to pornographic broadcasts, organizing a famine in Syria by their Kurdish proxies, and occupying their homelands. It was only in 2006 that Shiites and the SSNP finally kicked them out of South Lebanon, where they regularly committed war atrocities. Add to this the historical genocides that the nation of Israel completed and rejoice in within their scriptures -- the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Jebusites, the Canaanites (the assault on which happened the day after the Israelites convinced them to get circumcized, then went door to door killing them while their dicks hurt) are all tribes that were completely physically wiped out by the Israelites.

This argument should apply to Israel, which is the biggest per capita committer of genocide, land theft, rape, and fraud in the entire world. The entire history of Israel is one of genocide, from the ancient world to today. We need BDS now and a just society would absolutely shun your nation until they respect human rights.
We had to generate values in firmware then populate a LUT. IIRC we just used a simple pseudo-random number generator from the C library. Non-crypto so it didn't matter too much.
The government could rent our spare compute as a cloud provider, of course, to recapture expense. Then we can ask how dare the government spy on private citizen web traffic like that.
Growth correlates best with productivity and productivity is a factor of capital effiency and manpower, and manpower increases with population.
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Are you referring to the 1976 or 1977 influenza? There is evidence of a lab leak or other human origin for the 1977 strain but the original source was never definitively identified.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542197/

https://mbio.asm.org/content/6/4/e01013-15.full
"if you can't turn the wheel by yourself you have no business in driving" /s

It's just lane keeping. It helps immensely with focus on long trips.
Well this seems pretty timely.
> I've gone back to consuming a limited amount (~1.5 cups) only between 10am and 6pm. I used to have none on weekends feeling a bit off to reset but eventually even this seemed pointless, so 10am-6pm every day has been working well.

That! I lived on zero coffee for many years, however, it is much more difficult to do so once I became a father. I am consuming a maximum of 2 cups of coffee: first one around 10am, the second one in the afternoon but strictly before 5pm. I do that Monday-Friday and I either consume less or no coffee at all on weekend.

I also use decaf if I want to a coffee (as a drink, not as a boosting drug) and if I already consumed my daily 2 cups.
I'm not targeting printers and I don't want to depend on them. If a user wants to print on demand his notebook, there will be that option (if possible).

Also, I'm not targeting consumers. Since the engine is already opensource, I don't have a problem making the whole app open.

"I would personally pay for is the ability to have my custom designed notebook printed and shipped to me" -> I think the core feature is how easily you can design your custom notebook. There are already p-o-d services and you can just use Photoshop or Word for editing. But they are too complex.

What I was trying to say is that, maybe, some companies would pay for custom widgets that hook to a db and display nice graphs & tables to quickly create business reports. But I don't think those companies care about p-o-d because they already have their own providers.

So far, the business model is: free everything except for the cloud storage (if any) and premium widgets & layouts. I would not add a premium over the p-o-d price since I have no control over the quality and I would offer it as a 'bonus', like an option to link the app to a 3rd party printer of your choice.

Anyway, thanks for the input, it really helped me! If you want to keep in touch, let me know.
You know it's sad when I feel no anxiety over a major redesign. It's so awful right now that the idea of them throwing it all in the trash and starting over is very appealing.
I did qualify my statement with "most", but what builder do you use that produces good, semantic, and lean code?
Just in time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644056

And any frivolity aside, well done to github, both for this and also with their developer defense fund against take downs. Whether you like them or not, these are very positive outcomes for devs.
That’s huge! Thank you, GitHub!
AFAIK he just continues to chill in the UK under house arrest until he succumbs (ostensibly during a decade).
> Yes, those who test positive should have greater options for self-isolation than they currently do.

Nothing along these lines even remotely happened. The boogey man of 'forcing people to quarantine' can be avoided while still creating incentives and expectations that individuals should opt-into a plan that concentrates risk and concentrates isolation requirements around known risks.

A positive test in the West comes with vague advice to quarantine at home. It should've instead come with a pre-paid package providing hotel+food+income-supplement that continued for the quarantine period so long as you don't violate the isolation expectations ... Incentives, not punitive measures, would've sufficed to make it possible, easy, and expected for people to _avoid_ spreading to their co-dwellers/neighbors or anyone they come into contact with by necessity for basic survival needs.
> These days to clear tech interviews you have to "study to the test".

It might help, but it's not necessary from my experience. I've gotten into a FAANG company (an SRE position) without 'studying the test', just studying practically applicable materials. And I know plenty of other people who did the same.
Are REMOTE positions only for North Americans or also for those in Europe?
I'm in the Windows 10 beta program. I don't even think much about the 2 times a month I'm asked to restart my machine.
Github obviously did not do enough due diligence here. IANAL but am familiar with Sanctions considerations and IMHO, this does not rise to the level of the action taken.
If there's anything to the timing, I think it's on the OFAC side, not the GitHub side. I doubt the OFAC would fast track this just because of a Twitter controversy, though, so it's probably just a coincidence.
> the library requires extremely high/rare expertise and several man-years of development to implement

> the library requires computer science that has no description in literature

Can you mention examples of such cases?
GitHub still allows public repo access even in sanctioned locations like Syria and Crimea.
Drop some heavy objects and some light objects you have lying around. You will see that the heavier ones tend to fall faster than the light objects. If all you care about is predicting which object will fall faster, you could simply say gravity pulls the heavier one faster and call it a day.

But if you were to forego predictive power and seek understanding, you'd eventually see that objects fundamentally fall at the same rate, and a confounding factor of air resistance was the reason for the observed discrepency. With this deeper understanding, you can make models of gravity and fluid dynamics which are not just more accurate for the specific cases you measured, but also extensible to other cases like the orbits of planets.
My guess would be that they probably got it a little while back and kind of forgot about it, but this brought it back on everyone's radar and was an easy win.
Usage quota for the service they pay for, presumably.
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Thank you for this. Very few people can explain complicated ideas with easy to follow language. You have a gift for explaining.
Later I discovered that there is an entire different Bluetooth managing app on Windows.

Oh, see, I thought this was going to end differently. Like how you typed in "Bluetooth settings" and Windows decided to bring up a web page with instructions on how to change the Bluetooth settings on Windows 10, instead of showing the g-ddamned applet.

Because that's how it seems to work on my machine most of the time.
You really can't take this kind of thing at face value. Do you think the party of "climate change is a hoax", "covid is a hoax", "the earth is 5000 years old", and "we should cut all regulations and taxes" just suddenly cares about scientific integrity? Or is it more likely that they found a new way to gut the rules that force business to pay for the negative externalities they create?
What is an HLS?
The very nature of "gone viral" is based on the concept that the content was created and then spread by a minority of users. Context matters. If your town population is 5K and a video of it's town administrator accepting a bribe gets 80K views that's viral, relative to the townspeople.

I think we're in agreement here; stop lazy journalism.
There is no doubt about US companies having to follow US law. But this is an internationally operating company, which means it has to also follow whatever law might apply to whatever market they operate on.

GitHub, as any other US company, has a choice/freedom to stop offering services to customers outside the US market, if the particulars of providing those services causes them to violate laws in at least one of the jurisdictions.

Of course, US companies should be rightfully pissed, if the US government puts them in a situation where they can not (legally) operate abroad. But that's something they should take up with US lawmakers.

At the end of they day, they are still (most likely) operating illegally on a foreign market, even if they are unlikely ever to be substantially punished for that. The thing is, the US has a rather questionable track record of coming to the rescue, whenever a US companies get into trouble for (illegally) doing business abroad. Ironically, whenever another country does that (e.g. China) the US immediately have a long list of choice words an allegations at the ready. Long story short: pure hypocrisy.
> But the data isn't so clear. Countries in South America locked down hard and early but it had no effect on the pandemic spread.

This is false. The hard lockdown period in most SA countries lasted 3-6 weeks at most; after that there was almost no enforcement by the police, no fines handed out, no public shaming. It was essentially left up to individuals with ample latitude in how they chose to exercise self-imposed freedom.

Poor people in SA did not generally have the option to stay at home with a robust safety net such as in Europe. Wealthier business owners have to deal with an inefficient legal system that burdens anyone who does things by the book.

The first few weeks with a real lockdown were remarkably effective, as shown by the mobility and disease transmission stats. As soon as the countries stopped using their monopoly of force to limit mobility, the disease shot up, in an entirely predictable manner.

It's truly unfortunate that this misinformation keeps cropping up.
Well, there goes my garden. Messing with the hours of sunlight screws the plant's growth all up... :-\
That sounds great, but it's a very fragile state of things.

While it certainly makes lives of Iranian developers easier, it does not make it a good idea to put their code there: laws change, and quickly sometimes.
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Hi, I'm Toby and I'm trying to build a platform that allows people to build SaaS without having to write code.

I started a couple years ago before I'd ever heard of the #nocode fad. I simply believed (and still believe) that the next popular social network will be built by someone who doesn't know how to code. I've become a bit obsessed with trying to figure what a platform might look like that makes that possible.

For the curious, here's a rough demo of what I'd built in April. https://youtu.be/MV7Eo_18KqA Normally I have a demo server online but it runs on a laptop in my living room and my power went out this morning.

I can only take this project so far on my own. I'm decent at writing code but decidedly terrible at product and design. Having someone to hash ideas out with would be incredible.

I'd love to spitball ideas if you're up for a chat. General feedback is also always welcome. toby@koala.codes
I don't think anyone would have expected this today, but good job GitHub.

I honestly think that they're trying their hardest to keep it open for everyone - they can't ignore U.S. law as an organization of their scale, regardless of their views on issues like this and DMCA.

Nat also stays constantly in the public eye and really makes it seem like he cares - which is what a modern CEO should do, in my opinion.
The idea is most people will assess the value of their house at a premium, and tax rates are commensurately lowered. If the best way a rich person could mess with me is to buy my house for twice what it's worth, I would personally laugh all the way to the bank.

There is a bit of regressiveness to this though, as it will be worth it for people with a lot of property to pay someone to regularly update their assessed value to keep pace with the market, while those with less property will probably just set a large premium and update infrequently. This is a problem with pretty much any tax though; the more you are being taxed, the more you can afford to pay to figure out how not to be taxed.

I posted potential problems in my sibling comment earlier, but as far as this goes, the ugliest thing would be e.g. an 80 year old who forgot to update their assessed value in a hot market being kicked out by someone who bought their property to flip it for 2x the assessed value.

In theory, they are a tax-cheat who got what they deserved...

I suppose the free-market solution would be services that assess your home for a fee; they could provide insurance against undervaluation as well to incentivize them to do the right thing. This monetarily works out to be roughly equivalent to the government paying private companies to fairly assess people's home-values, but with financial incentives for doing it properly.
This book will at best get you an L5 gig at FAANG; for Staff eng positions (L6+) you need significantly more depth and rigor.
At least some of the case law is over 100 years old, e.g. a state making a smallpox vaccine mandatory being considered allowable. And I'd point out that SCOTUS, a bit later, also upheld voluntary sterilization of people with diminished mental capacity. So I'm not sure what all today's SCOTUS would uphold with respect to state action.
No, again from experience—updating WordPress to the version required for Gutenberg would break the sites. It's not just a matter of preferring a plugin. It's a matter of the plugin being essential, or quite literally wound into the architecture of the site.

You have to realize that a lot of sites relying on WordPress have been in production for close to 20 years. I've worked close to such sites. Any major version changes would break them. And the kinds of organizations that tend to rely on WordPress for their editorial don't always have capital to expend on the top-bottom rebuild that would be required to separate them from their legacy architectures including those incompatible plugins.

I've had the task of importing legacy data (over 15 years worth) into new WP sites, and it is not trivial when the site has used plugins to do any kind of transforms on the data, custom field re-mappings, tag/category mappings, and any other content munging. Especially when one plugin goes out of date and a new one is pulled to replace it. Then you're left with multiple versions of each of those situations, while other plugins become the base for any other number of plugins.

I'm starting to digress, but point being that in many cases it's not simply a choice of one editor over another, but a practical inability (technologically, financially, or otherwise) to adopt the new editor because of the nature of legacy WP and plugin architecture.
Which is why I disable web search on the group policy panel.
That sounds amazing, best of luck. I’ve always wondered why “a billion search results” is considered valuable when nobody looks past the first page of google.
This had a profound effect on house prices in Arizona back in 2009-2010. The Phoenix market, in particular, was flooded with borrowers who walked away when they had negative equity.
How come you had no closing costs? How much really they were?
How to kill social mobility 101.
I remember reading that the early versions of MS Word did the same thing, for performance reasons.
Yes, this is what I always tell people. I know people who swig mountain dew or dr pepper all day because they need them to concentrate or stay awake. Skip all the excess garbage that is in coffee and soda. Get a caffeine supplement that comes with l-theanine, it is thought to smooth out the effects of caffeine and help avoid the "crash" when it wears off.
And I care about dying from being hit by lightning and airplane crashes. It's statistically so unlikely that it's ridiculous to worry about it.

If you die from a car crash it doesn't matter if it was from a drunk driver or an ai glitch. What matters is which is more likely- and humans are assholes. It will be orders of magnitude more likely to die by a human's hand than a random glitch.

> "But I don't"

I'm glad. Crashes still happen even when 1 party practices defensive driving techniques. Driving sucks.
That was one example of how the author proposes an extremely inadequate analogy. The fact that you can propose an improvement so easily demonstrates this.

It's also very clearly a problem that it ignores player skill, time control and all sorts of other factors that would be basic to any kind of model claiming to have power in predicting chess outcomes.
Nice finds, good diligence.

Will you leave it as only a comment or try to fix it by contacting them or a news service?
I'm just guessing, but probably a VPN.
Vehicular homicide is already rarely punished. I don't know if it would make that much practical difference.
The great thing ("great") was we did the lower end laser printer niche for HP. We were able to make ASICs cheaper than HP could make them for themselves. So we had the (cough) less impressive hardware (scan sensors, laser engines, motors) to work with. So image quality was so-so at even the best of times.

We were able to bury a lot of bodies under the sensor noise and engine output. But we made a super reliable, super cheap laser printer -- VW Bug of Laser Printers, if I may brag a bit. Twelve years later, the M1005 is still selling like hotcakes I hear.
Hi HN! We are a small team of ML engineers exploring the e-commerce world and building a service that could be used by online stores to improve search results, provide better suggestions and so on. For example, in this demo we have indexed a dataset with suits to find matching combinations of ties and blazors.

We would really appreciate thoughts from the HN community on this demo and on the state of things in e-commerce in general.
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They are probably trying to put out the fire started by that tweet. So not really in time.

Edit: apparently this was a coincidence
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They do: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/authe...
> I haven't even mentioned how Tesla is the only company that doesn't sponsor at least one (I think they all sponsor multiple) traditionally powered racing teams, whose development goes into premium powered, traditional gas powered automobiles.

Not exclusively. Formula 1 and Le Mans use hybrid engines. Formula E and Extreme E are battery electric racing series.

Why doesn't Tesla have a Formula E team?
> maybe, some companies would pay for custom widgets that hook to a db and display nice graphs & tables to quickly create business reports.

That's an interesting angle. I have no sense whatsoever about the demand for it, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a sizeable market for that idea.

> If you want to keep in touch, let me know.

I'd love to be kept in the loop for any updates. If the email list on your site isn't the best list, please add me. My email is my HN username @ google's email platform.
Sci hub benefits from having journals enforce standards, have editors, reviewers, and a ton of value added that they didn't pay for. I like Sci Hub, but it didn't create a lot of the value it provides - it does that on the $ of a lot of other actors.

Even arxiv was getting flooded with crap and had to do some gatekeeping. Sci hub gets a huge benefit from the publishing industry at keeping out a flood of crap and pseudo science nonsense that floods most places that don't have such a process.
> Crimea

Why would Crimea be sanctioned? It was annexed.

That's like sanctioning the citizens of Iraq for the 2003 US invasion and occupation...
> I don't suppose many of their EU registrants realise they'd have to forfeit their domains if they ever decided to emigrate.

That's false. EU citizens can own .eu domain names, regardless of where they live.
That is how it appeared to me. Like Vultures fighting over bare bones. It would have been better if they had a agreed a 10 year moratorium on fishing in EU and UK water to let fish stocks recover.
Your point still stands, but a better comparison I think is cash on hand, since valuation doesn’t mean much in terms of paying fines. You can’t pay the government in stock.

LYV had $2.6b on hand last quarter.
If anyone is curious, here is the mall in question: https://goo.gl/maps/pdJPjXz1zbrNmXSn8

I grew up down the road from this place.
In 1990 a whopper cost $0.99.

In 2000 it still cost $0.99.

In 2018 it cost $4.29.

So that's a 4.3x change, not a 28x change as claimed, and represents an "inflation" of about 7.5%/yr over the past two decades (or 5.5%/yr since 1990).

https://www.insider.com/fast-food-burgers-cost-every-year-20...
I think Amazon and covid (semi and full lockdowns, local shops closing etc) have exposed an idea that you touch on, decoupling the last mile shipping from amazon/doordash/etc; a market/depots/etc for peered-powered distributed shipping/delivery. I would guess the bulk cost of shipping is the fist and last few miles.
Depends on how it is used. Hardware buffers can be shared across processes.
> That's assuming that we have already seen the worst-case outcome for a rushed vaccine

Why don't you think the swine flu vaccine, which was much more rushed than the current COVID vaccine, was reasonably close to a worst case outcome? Or at least close enough to serve as an upper bound estimate for side effects from the COVID vaccine?

> based on a retrospective view of bounded outcomes, you are trying to argue about unbounded future events

That's just as true of our actual response to COVID--none of the so-called "experts" ever really considered where we are now as a possibility back when doing so would have mattered.

> a medical disaster which is unpredictably and massively worse

You mean like what actually happened with COVID?

> Modern medical red tape exists precisely because of the risk of such disasters.

No, it doesn't. Modern medical red tape exists because our approach to risk is extremely one-sided; we punish regulators only when something bad happens that we think they could have prevented, not when something good fails to happen that they could have enabled. For example, the FDA took ten years longer than European regulators to approve beta blockers for people at risk for heart attacks. A rough estimate is that 100,000 heart attacks were suffered by Americans during those ten years that could have been prevented. But no regulator got punished for allowing those 100,000 deaths to happen.