skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but science and computer programming are fundamentally different activities. The programmer tries to reproduce the bug because his main fear is that he can’t see its effect. But the scientist’s main fear is that the experimental setup does not robustly test the underlying hypothesis. If you reproduce exactly the conditions (and remember you will always be criticized for missing X), the best you can learn is whether the previous result was not completely fabricated (or statistical noise). It’s much more productive to subject a result to a wide battery of tests.
> using electron app for something available as a web service

lol wut
On a desktop, you can use KeePass and its variants to "auto-type". It'll switch focus to the last app you were in and type your username, a tab, your password, and then enter. No extensions or clipboard required. Just hit CTRL-SHIFT-V after highlighting the entry.
That hidden input element contains the normalized value in cents, if that got filled out he would have only gotten charged $20. Right before it in the DOM is the stylized user-input field which does not get hidden (and populates the hidden field via JS)

<input class="variable-amount-input" type="text" style="width: 27px;">
Many people, my self I clouded, care indirectly about the supply being limited, because they perceive that this will bode well for its value denominated in currencies which are being devalued.

I agree that in a vacuum nobody cares about the supply.
Sounds like you've never been unemployed during a global recession.
The competitors were also pretty trash though. Skype never improved while the rest of the landscape did.
I think 2 changes would really help to improve:

1) Bring in tabbed search result like Cuil search used to have. Easily lets you go to similar/variant topics from UX POV and must be a good way for a search engine to learn what people want more.

2) Add a 'dont show this site' option. So they can easily see when people get annoyed with a result and use that as a ranking signal against search terms. E.g. if people press that for a particular KW but not usually Google knows they got that result wrong and if people press it for almost everything you know its a site people dont want to see. And at a personal level its great to custom remove stuff, like when Pinterest was dominating so much a year or so ago.

Would be a great way to community curate results.
I have not researched this mink idea, so I don't know how likely they are to lead to cross species contamination, but remember the swine flu? We already know pigs are capable of such transmission and we still farm them.

Lots of mammals are capable of this, and we can determine which ones are even if we don't isolate the cause of thie pandemic.
Amazon isn't doing anything that Chinese manufacturers haven't been doing for years except Amazon is now directly grabbing a piece of the IP infringement pie rather than sponsoring it in the third party marketplaces.

If consumers prefer buying a $30 bag over a $150 bag, well, that's unfortunate for Peak Design, but that's what the mass consumer actually wants.

Regardless, no one is forcing anyone to buy anything.

If money-conscious consumers want a cheaper version of a desired product, they can get it. If status-conscious consumers want to buy value-added context for their very Authentic and Fancy product, then they have that option, too. If Amazon (or any other cheap IP poacher) can snipe that much market share, it's not the quality of the product that people are buying.
Tortellini has infinitely better mouthfeel than ravioli though.
Usenet archives ftw!
It is a great payout to its owners. This is a sad end for Discord if history if any indicator. It was very useful, but I doubt it will remain so for much longer. And this does not even take privacy, or lack thereof, into consideration.
I called him a bozo not because we don't share values, but because:

(a) he doesn't seem to have any particularly profound values aside from "avoid the discomfort of working" and "it's nice to travel", and

(b) he devoted large amounts of his post to slag off most of the rest of the world (including his ex-wife - and there's of course even more to read, if you're a masochist) in astonishingly adolescent terms. If you're looking for "unkind and uncharitable" takes, you might try rereading the article.
They also made a change recently so the X button does not close the app so when it goes funny I have to open the task manager to restart the thing. If I wanted to minimize the program I would have hit the - instead.
Not living in an environment where everything can be taken away from you through one bad interaction with say, a policeman helps. Having a stable family with positive role models, preferably one not torn apart by brushes with the justice system helps, too.

These kinds of problems get inherited from generation to generation, even if (a damn big if) the current generation were not directly subjected to any of the original racist cases thereof.
I never left. Freenode is an amazing resource.
No mobile client which makes it pretty useless for a lot of people. I probably use discord on ios more than on pc.
I'm still utterly perplexed about why every major operating system handles the clipboard this way. It's such an obvious privacy issue, and the fix seems really simple: only allow clipboard access when the user explicitly grants access through a system-provided user interface (whether that be a dialogue box, menu item or keyboard shortcut)

Apple's iOS 14 uses the half-solution of notifying the user after an application has read the clipboard. But at that point the end user is already a step behind the attacker, and mitigations may no longer be possible. Nevermind that this solution is dependant on the user noticing and understanding the implications of the clipboard access notification (the novice user is likely oblivious to the security risks)
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The cause of this virus while concerning. Is nothing to the hysteria created from this virus, remember how this virus was branded at the start. Basically brave yourself for death, a interesting study is to look at news articles over time.

Its an example of bait and switch. This virus is not something that should have gained this much attention.

A bayesian inference shows that death when looking at a age stratification chart, who died compared with how many were expected to die in this cohort vs how many where expected to die were it a average flu outbreak in that same population.

I was building a model for local hospitals, with information back in march 2020. I grew disheartened when I realised that this killer virus was hardly more deadly than a bad flu year.

That brings up the excess deaths, why is it so high? Its hard to find good numbers in this, especially when you apply related increase in violent crime in 2020. Murders increases by 40% in NYC for example. More needs to be done to look into these numbers.

The death rate in all countries is died with, nor from. For example the UK lists all deaths who died within 30 days if a positive reading as a covid death. So to get the true numbers you need to apply a bayes model to see what we should have seen in a normal year.

A person over 70 has a 10% change if dying each year.

So if a virus that had no affect but turned your hair green killed 10% of people in an aged care home this would be branded as a deadly virus. Because of collerlation.

Now this virus kills much more than 10%, flu outbreaks have been reported to kill 12-16% of people in aged care homes. Covid is still more however.

I am now rambling, I have not squared the circle just yet. I still don't understand the hysteria, but it reminds me of post 9/11. Where people were acting crazy and full of anger.

I don't know what comes next, but I can tell you it won't be logical.
Try image searching for "happy white women" vs "happy women" vs "happy black women" then compare it to the results in DDG. It is very interesting, not sure if it is political or the algorithm found that when people look for "happy white women" they mean it in this context of the results.
Bats are everywhere.

The specific bats that host the ancestor of COVID-19 are quite a bit far away from those labs. The disease was first noticed near the labs.

Looking at the mechanics of the thing¹, I'd put a lab leak on similar odds of some village near the bats being infected and spreading it from there.

1 - I know nothing of their policy and competence to judge those.
That's paste
Yes, Kenny (Kerr, the developer) has been improving the code as well as the documentation regularly. Also, it's a Microsoft project now.
Where's the anti-trust? Imagine if they owned minecraft, tik tok, and discord as planned. Trying to buy off all the teens?
Apple has very specific instructions on their website as to how to use an air duster to clean the keyboard: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205662

It works. Fixed my 'e' key, fixed my spacebar, fixed all of them. You have to hold it at weird angles but it works.
Well in this case, the landlord can simply allow the tenant to break the lease without such a harsh penalty, rather than playing this game which encourages people to use the law against them.
It's like paying to name a star when there's an almost infinite amount of stars.
That's very likely being worked on, but strategy is also in major parts shaped by often rather vaguely defined political agendas and goals.

Ideally it also has to work in a grander geopolitical context, which is a lot of complexity to account for and simulate, involving a lot of very abstract and subjective calls.

So it's probably a much more complicated problem than it might appear at first glance.
Except... are the filenames encrypted? For many, if not most, filenames are plaintext. Backblaze's default "SSE-B2" encryption leaves the filenames in plaintext. GPG encryption typically leaves the filenames in plaintext. There's still information people consider private and didn't expect to be shared with Facebook.
Do you think this is any different than real art?
Implicitly though you're assuming that landlords have pricing power in this market.

The reason why they have pricing power is likely due to the moratorium.

People aren't being evicted so those units aren't going on the market, so supply of rentable units is being artificially suppressed.

When the moratorium expires then renters will be evicted and those units will go back on the market which should drive costs down for everyone else.
... by the FBI.
Did your modeling take into account impacts on life due to lingering health issues for those that became seriously ill but did not die?
> Most chief executives said they wanted vaccination rates to exceed half the population before they started to encourage staff back to the office - a target which is close to being met in Britain but remains distant in much of Europe.

I know we've collectively decided we're done with reality and annoying things like "facts" but that target is no where near met by Britain.

The UK has decided to aggressively give everyone first doses of vaccines, and it is true that nearly 50% of the population has their first dose, but a fraction of that has received the second dose, precisely because of the aggressive 1st dose strategy.

Sure it's possible that one dose is enough, but my cynical guess is that getting everyone one dose is primary so the UK can show up in statistics like the one quoted above. UK data source for anyone interested [0]

0. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations
If anyone is having issues with a butterfly keyboard, please try this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205662

It fixed many keys for me after I had just about given up.
Asking WHY is a taboo/prohibited in India's Education System/Society due to 2700 years old https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism) based Casteism;
You have ignored and omitted context from each of the statements you linked above.

And so I can only assume you're not posting in good faith. That's sad, as it's something I really like about HN.

I had responded in detail to each of the claims you made and expounded on the fact that age of consent is wildly different in all those countries you mention. Sadly, it was all lost with a <ctrl>-w[1] in Firefox.

In fact, in 20 US states, there is no lower limit on the age of marriage[0], which explicitly allows sexual activity.

I don't expect anything from you. I'm just disappointed in the (I can only assume deliberate) way you omitted and distorted Stallman's statements to suit your point of view. That's sad.

[0] https://www.equalitynow.org/learn_more_child_marriage_us

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1238895
Google search results have been pitiful the last few years.
Microsoft never really seemed to know what to do with Skype and I suspect because of that they never devoted the resources to build it out and make it better. It checked a box for them when selling to enterprise customers, but they failed to imagine what it could become.

And I agree-Microsoft Teams is solid, but could use a faster and better designed user interface. The video chat feature is also sub standard compared to Zoom, but it largely hits the good enough threshold.
The meaning of the song “Just a friend” from KARA KROSS
I don't think it's reasonable to assume that they're lying, but neither is it reasonable to assume that they're telling the truth. When a lot is at stake, we don't usually take people at their word--financial statements are audited, nuclear facilities are visited by international inspectors, and so on. I don't see why this should be different, but the Chinese government has continuously obstructed any such attempt.

And again, RaTG13, the closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2, was sampled by the WIV in 2013 and published only post-pandemic. So it's unquestionable that they had at least one unpublished virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 in their collection; the only question is how many others.

It's likely that the only people who know the answer are under the physical control of the Chinese government. Even if they're sometimes briefly abroad, they likely have loved ones behind. So it doesn't take any voluntary conspiracy to keep them quiet, just a direction from a government that has amply demonstrated e.g. in Xinjiang its willingness and ability to punish anyone who discloses its secrets.

As I mentioned earlier, a proximal animal host would greatly increase my confidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated from natural zoonosis. Is there any evidence short of a direct admission from the WIV that would decrease yours?

Finally, Marc Lipsitch and David Relman are Harvard epidemiology and Stanford microbiology profs respectively. I'd rather people engaged seriously with the evidence than just relied on credentials; but are you saying they're conspiracy theorists too?
This does not resemble truth. Canada bought in to a ton of vaccines. Something like 6 doses per Canadian worth.
I feel like I could get pretty far building this, with that budget.
Anecdotally, I've observed that employers are conservatively opening to full-time remote employees based on needs. If a role can't be filled locally - they'll try in another office or full-time remote. I'd bet that as people move back to the office you'll see a settling towards equilibrium.
Yup. One of the reasons I still tolerate the obtuse GUI of HomeSeer is it's 100% local to me, yet can also still interface with a few proprietary cloud bits I fell for like Nest's thermostats.

Never again. I only have a couple of cloud controlled devices but never again - I'll either have something that can be controlled without any reliance on the cloud whatsoever or I'll just continue to go without that thing being automated. I really can't think of anything that would not be automatable without the cloud
Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site
Hello HN,

I'm looking for some advice. I'll keep it short. There's a site called Skill Capped[1]. They have videos that help you get better at the competitive video game League of Legends. You can pay monthly for access to these videos. I subscribed and quickly found their site to be unusable. They have about 1000 videos which are organized into groups called courses. Their website has no search bar, and uses a single-page design with lazy loading. In practice means that CTRL-F in-browser search doesn't work (because of lazy loading and windowing/virtual lists), so there is absolutely no way to search the site without programming knowledge. The website altogether is very hard to navigate.

In response I created a thin wrapper around their site called Better Skill Capped[2]. It's a React web app with no backend. It has basic search and filter functionality. It also contains deep links to download the videos that Skill Capped offers which allows for me to watch in VLC and on my phone. It's very convenient, so I shared it with other subscribers. I don't monetize or plan to monetize the site in any capacity.

The owner of the site reached out to me and claimed that I'm committing copyright infringement by allowing anyone to click these links and access their videos without paying. All I do is link to the .m3u8 files stored on their server. There's nothing more going on. As far as I know this is completely legal.

While I don't wish for my site to be used to circumvent paying for their content, I also don't believe that I'm doing anything wrong here. I want to provide a better experience for those using the original site, and a download button is a part of that.

So, in summary, is deep linking to a video hosted by another site at all illegal? Is anything that I'm doing here illegal/immoral?

[1] https://www.skill-capped.com/lol/browse

[2] https://better-skill-capped.com/
it could be sustainable if companies publically announce that they intend to defend the authenticity of their NFT. ("we released an NFT that stands for ownership of a pokemon but some dude on a website also released an NFT for that pokemon and that's not okay and we sue")
A private citizen creating an NFT will never work imo, at least not if he won't defend the authenticity part of the certificate. I mean that's the entire idea of any certificate, it has to mean something similar to a university degree certificate or a food safety certificate. Somebody or something has to make sure that its supply is regulated.
Microsoft has bought Linkedin, Skype, Bungie, Bethesda, Github etc. Is this what tech has become? The titans are buying up everything and tech becomes 5 companies in the US and 3 or so in China? Feels better to have a wide breath of companies for healthy competition and innovation.
My dream smart phone is nano 7 dimensions but with an edge to edge screen
Mental health has plunged despite people being freed from forced commute working conditions, not because of. This is easily explained by the pandemic.
In my anecdotal experience, this is also happening with Chrome webview. My mother's Galaxy S8+ had app crash issues that didn't resolve until I both disabled Chrome and pinned Android System Webview to the factory version.
> For example, companies would be more eager to switch from Windows to something more secure

Windows is not inherently insecure. Executing a malicious program would work just as well under Linux. (Presumed) technical superiority does not help when it's basically social engineering all the way. Ephemeral VMs don't help too much, either. So I highly doubt this would reduce windows market share in any significant way.
Yeah, I largely agree that all-onsite will be a thing of the past. Eventually enough talented folks will just work elsewhere and businesses will react. I guess the real question in my mind is that if you work for a place doing a hybrid approach, are you at a disadvantage? Unless senior management folks also do the same, that lack of visibility is devastating to a career.
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It's incredible what one person with EDA + CAD software can do today. Stuff that not long ago would have taken a team.

That said, it's not just the modern tooling and cheap production services. This guy is clearly a tallanted wizard. Bravo sir, amazing.
<<The penalties that the RLTO imposes on landlords are often grossly disproportionate to the infractions, largely because the ordinance allows tenants to recover their reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, even in legal proceedings brought to recover something as nominal as a $100 statutory penalty (and even if the penalized omission was utterly harmless). What’s more, dozens of Chicago lawyers specialize in representing tenants in these types of cases.>>

Anecdotally, landlords are moving/moved to having move-in fees over deposits due to the legal technicalities of handling them properly.

[0] https://www.domu.com/landlord-resources/apartment-lease-form...
I'm sure many of them signed multiyear leases, bought property and made investments in the workplace that they don't want to see go to waste.
I think a lot of westerners want to believe the conspiracy theories in part because it’s hard to admit how much more we could have learned from SARS. Ignoring China, the Taiwanese government doesn’t take orders from them and certainly wouldn’t help with a cover up but because of SARS all it took was Li Wenliang‘s post leaking for them to activate a comprehensive response. The key part was recent memory overriding the “it’ll be awfully inconvenient” reflex which is hard to avoid when you’ve been comfortable for many years.
Slack is not strategically interesting. They are already eating the enterprise communication market with Teams. Acquiring Slack would basically be a talent and tech hire nothing more... not worth $8B.

Discord gives them something gamers know and love and could be paired with Xbox. Gives them a huge competitive edge against Sony, especially if they intend to build a cross-play centric platform between Windows and Xbox.
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It's the same with every TLD. They invent processes, paperwork, registrar meetings, weird EPP extensions, user verification, arbitration procedures, hearings, just to make themselves useful and have a reason for the annual payments.
Common fungus emerges as threat to hospitalized Covid-19 patients
Skype is still great. The only issue with it is spam. Given my popular in Russia name (I'm actually Bulgarian) and that fact that I have there "nikolay" username, I get constantly contacted by Russian scammers or just random folks. Same with Telegram. There's no way to configure my account to allow messages only from friends or block certain countries. Basically, I can't use either service - it's overflowing with spam and there's nothing I can do about. Well, I did actually try to start blocking people as some keep sending me messages on Skype, but guess what - suddenly, my Microsoft account got disabled. I am a paying customers, I have Family Office subscription, premium Outlook mailbox, Skype subscriptions, Xbox, etc. After many days, and multiple escalations, they found the reason! And it was the most stupid one I can ever imagine - my account was blocked and queued up for deletion (it's 20-years-old!), because I was excessively blocking people!!!
> it'd be the correct financial decision (really correct in fact) to buy the property

Is it still the correct decision if I do not have a 20% down payment (or even a 5% down payment)?
This is surprising given Discord had 2 fundraising rounds in 2020 alone. If that wasn't to gain momentum for an IPO, then they must just be losing cash very quickly.

For MS, the obvious integration point is Xbox Game Pass, but Discord has been busy pushing gamers off their platform for the past year in favor of broader communities. It'll be interesting to see if they reverse course here, or if MS will position Discord as a free community version of Teams.

If you're looking for a better alternative, check out Guilded (YCS17) - https://www.guilded.gg

I've heard users say Guilded makes Discord look like Skype, but didn't realize how accurate that would become.

Disclaimer: I work at Guilded, but views are my own, etc
HN actually special cases medium so that this works. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535357 for an example.