skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was SaaS or even licensed software, absolutely. Multiples on earnings are really low for FBA and similar e-commerce businesses, though. 2-4x earnings (earnings, not revenue) is typical (more: https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2020/12/23/why-now-is-a-g..., https://feinternational.com/blog/how-to-sell-an-amazon-fba-b...).

Unless there's something truly unique - like they're creating and manufacturing products based on their own IP, or have a large share of a market that itself is growing - roughly 3x earnings is typical. In this case, 3x would be about $10 million. A banker might take your call, but that's still too small to really be worth their effort.

Also, the prospective buyers of bigger FBA-style businesses like this one are already interacting with the brokers/marketplaces I mentioned. It's unlikely that someone who has never owned an FBA business is going to just jump in. It's sort of a self-contained community. Some examples: https://www.webretailer.com/b/thrasio/, https://quietlight.com/101-fba-businesses/. Of course, a banker could approach these prospects, but I don't know how they'd increase valuation by more than their fee.
Given that flu vaccine is needed annually, we don’t have nearly the coverage we are trying for with COVID. Hopefully, COVID vaccines (and natural immunity for those who recovered) hold for much longer than flu vaccines, so that we can actually get closer to true herd immunity.

I’m not optimistic we can rid ourselves of COVID completely, but pushing it to the fringes would be great.
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Because NJ Dawood did a Quran translation as well
You're right. I thought you were being a pedant, and I stand corrected. Vertical is a relative orientation, so the usage applies in all of the cases you indicated.
Is it legal for private citizens to rent out vacant housing units in China? If so, that doesn't surprise me very much. Every landlord has more housing units than they can use.
I am guessing they already knew GPRS/UMTS and data plans were the future, hence they invested in iMessage. MMS already had an expiration date. Quite sure they only added it because of the PR disaster it had become.
Don't underestimate the value of political support by having name recognition.

Imagine if instead of Solyndra, the money went to GE or something. The project still failed, the government still lost the money. But it's a lot easier to sell "We gave the money to this well known company, the project failed, it happens" even though the result is exactly the same.
If the version of CapTP we have is ported to other languages, then you could do some of it, but probably not all. Haskell might be better up for some, but Python won't be able to do some of the more interesting parts (like the time-travel support) quite as easily since it's a much more mutation-oriented environment. Still, you could get systems talking to each other over the network if a compatible CapTP was implemented.
maybe they should add a 3rd option where you would pay 5% ....
I think we've now come full circle to the first comment I made, which had examples to get you started.
Exactly. TFA has a bit more detail.
That's pretty weird, but ok!
What exactly do you mean by "actually locked down"? That 100% of the population would be prohibited from leaving their homes? What about food? What about medical emergencies? What about a house burning down or a tree falling on the roof? What if a watermain bursts? There are endless edge cases that keep the virus around so when the lockdown ends, all you've done is delayed host exposure a bit. And this ignores the possibility of animals serving as reservoirs of the virus. It also ignores multi-family housing. What if most of the people on the 3rd floor have COVID the first week and then it spreads to the 4th floor the next week, the 5th floor the next, and so on? Now you have people exiting the lockdown who have just been infected and can spread it all over the place.

The only thing a lockdown can do is slow things down in order to have time to get more prepared. The notion that the virus can be extinguished by lockdowns simply is not workable. It's an idea that is attractive because it's simple but only because it ignores the logistic realities of a planet with nearly eight billion people, or on the national level, 330 million people.
In the news media in the US, I've heard it Bio-en-tech, where en is the way you'd say the name of the letter "N".
Yeah, especially when you consider that prices just 30 minutes away from SF in any direction are anywhere from 20-60% lower than in SF.
This is the same exact issue that used to plague Outlook back in the day with the automatic handling of attachments. You'd think Apple would have learned from others' mistakes.
The Fed doesn't need to unwind its purchase to kill the dollar. All that needs to happen is the people lose trust in the dollar. There is nothing special about the dollar. It is worth just as much as any other national currency. Some people have already realized this. When the masses catch on it is already too late.

What percentage of landlords do you think are qualified for forbearance? It certainly isn't all of them. What percentage of landlords need to default before there is a crisis?

I wouldn't be looking at the Fed to change their practices. They believe they are in the right and can fix the economy with what they are doing.
There's a lot of reasons for zoning, not all of them are bad, even if most are. Preventing building a duplex around single family homes? Probably doesn't have fantastic reasons behind it.

Preventing building a 50 stories skyscraper in the middle though? Obviously not gonna happen, but if it did, can the infrastructure, the sewers, the streets take it? Is it just going to make thousands of people miserable, can the schools take it? Obviously this is a silly extreme case, but there's plenty of borderline situations that aren't super cut and dry.

Having SOME zoning in certain areas makes sense. Of course the ones discussed in this case aren't for these reasons, and they're probably bad. There's still a lot of subtleties to that problem space.
This is most likely an open problem.

If there existed infinitely many 'semi-sturdy' primes, this would imply that several prime 2-tuples match infinitely many primes, but results in that area are limited AFAIK.
Sort of but the other US cities aren’t longing for a worse iteration of the city while simultaneously blaming the last decade or two on a 100-year long pricing trend but acting like its recent
The one thing that made Swype awesome compared to GBoard is the configurability. On GBoard, it appears to be impossible to turn off auto space insertion after a predicted swipe whereas on Swype, one could turn that off: this allowed swiping away at long urls a word at a time.
Yeah, they’re just void pointers.

I think lack of syntactic support for nested data structures comes from its origin as a better bash script.
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Neither do I, considering how politicized the whole COVID situation got.
And the EU is being stupid. Look the disaster of a roll out.
> The trial protocol allows for a participant to leave at any time for any reason.

Exactly. And some would. But most would not. Just like every other randomized control study. It boggles the mind to say "let's tell everyone they got the placebo, because some people might leave". That does not follow logic.

> plot to hide the long-term inefficacy of their vaccines is absurd.

What part of that is absurd?

At the time the control groups were destroyed, there was no evidence that the vaccines were saving lives (https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download — 7 deaths in placebo group; 7 in control group). Now, if you got tens of billions of dollars based on those early results, wouldn't you have *strong* incentives to shut things down, and not wait for the long-term verdict? What would you have to gain if 2 years in, the placebo group continued to have just as few deaths as the vaccine group?

Are you saying that the idea that humans respond to incentives is absurd?
That reminds me of Taleb's idea of comparing certain investment strategies to "picking up pennies in front of a steam roller" (or insuring mortgage backed securities). It's easy money until it isn't. But when it isn't, it is really bad.
Did Hololens go down? :^)
Poetry solves a lot of these problems; though not the test or lint command. For example, no more messing around with virtualenvs, sensibly declare normal and dev dependencies.

The commands are useful, getting support for declaring easy to use test and lint commands in pyproject.toml shouldn't be so hard and something I'd love to see. In the meantime, you can use shell scripts (or a makefile sans the venv stuff) and do e.g. `poetry run ./test`.

Tbh, there's nothing wrong with a makefile, and poetry isn't perfect. I just feel poetry works better than trying to work around the limitation of existing tooling. An so far, I'm happy with pyproject.toml. Putting dev tool configuration in there is a lot nicer than having several different files with different syntax for e.g. isort, pylint, etc
Sure, but do you really think people who won't wear a mask when it's literally against the law not to will wear one voluntarily?
> Because of things like Apex Crypto, it feels like pretty much every stock broker app will now let you buy Bitcoin and they'll do it with lower fees than Coinbase.

Which stock broker app lets you deposit in Bitcoin? Or withdraw your Bitcoin to your own address?
Is anyone aware of a tool that would allow me to manually walk my entire app and any css that doesn't get used can be flagged for deletion?

I find that even with well behaved libraries and tree shaking, my output css still includes a lot of stuff I don't need. (Eg. Yes I use Foo.Button but I don't need all the css for the styles of Foo.Button I never use like circular or large or withIcon)
I don't really disagree with that, it's just that I want to point out that list is entirely based on your personal views and not a law of physics.
Their cryptree [0] design for access control was also pretty stunning. We've adopted and improved it in Peergos.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peergos/peergos/master/pap...
Ironically Azure tweeted a guide on how to protect your DNS against unwanted changes only 3 hours before everything blew up: https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1377697274378260489

You can't make this stuff up.
I'm literally saying it doesn't matter how they came into place. Zoning per se is irrelevant. It's inflexible and out of date zoning that's the problem. You don't have to go full on Houston and eliminate all zoning to solve this particular aspect of the problem.
Something that doesn't rely on round trips for error correction, I guess. AFAIK bandwidth is limited but is overall less of an extreme constraint than the RTT. Seems like a good use for forward error correction / sending parity data, like Reed-Solomon.
> There's nothing stopping a researcher from collecting a payout and then reporting the bug to the vendor.

Wouldn't the payout contract prohibit reporting to anyone else?
If life is so terrible, why don't the vast majority of people kill themselves? Of course there are sucidal people, but given that being suicidal is relatively rare, and is often the result of issue like depression rather than rationally thinking it would be better to be dead, it seems like most people are happy to have been born.

And if it is immortal to have children, doesn't than mean it is completely moral to kill children painlessly, since it would be better for them if they had not been born?

Maybe I don't understand the position fully though.
I don’t think anyone has seriously suggested such a thing would happen.

India, though, has floated such a ban.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-india-cryptocurrency-ban/...

And I don’t think it would be crazy to imagine China doing such a thing.
Sure, but that doesn't prove the claim that was made: that several sites are experiencing a DNS DDoS attack. Occam's razor here, with the proof presented, is that people are misattributing the Azure outage.
Ask HN: How to separate work / personal profiles online, keep privacy, and post?
Generally, I don't care about karma on this site or any other. I tend to make accounts when I need to comment or post, and generally try to avoid it. In the case I am using the site at work, I will have my company name in the profile. This is both to indicate to myself that I'm on company time and this better be material to my work, and to promote the company - I'm using their time to post, at least get a little juice on it, no?

But! Things talked about on this very site! Avoiding distractions, focus. Not feeding other "silos" and being a part of the indieweb / federated web instead of putting content on someone else's site. Privacy, anonymity, good opsec of separating profiles. Etc.

But now I'm hiring, and my post isn't visible on the "Who is hiring" thread because I don't have karma. (I even work at a YC company, but that's beside the point.) I feel like it's not a bad thing that I don't have karma? I'm not a spammer? But I can't do the thing. Maybe that's the way things are supposed to be, but I sense probably not?

Am I doing it wrong? What works?
Yeah, they said they're "endowed by the creator". Well there's no creator other than physics and chemistry. What now?
Yes it's legal but the people I've talked to don't do it. There's a stigma of renting over buying so the rent/home value ratio is way off compared to the US. Renting out the homes wouldn't really net much profit overall and they don't want to deal with being a landlord anyway, so they let the apartments sit empty.
> Microsoft rerouted traffic to our resilient DNS capabilities and are seeing improvement in service availability

At least use well formed English when posting your update...
I started lifting dumbbells and doing press-ups to try to build strength since I'm in my 40s. Unfortunately I developed medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow), possibly because I have narrow wrists.
I had to completely stop anything that flexes my biceps or pectorals, and a year of bored lockdown eating has made me flabby, heavy and frustrated. Recently though, I've been using a combination of trigger point massage and stretches, which seem to be helping so far. I'm hoping to get back to being able to lift weights and hang from my hanging bar. And lift up my toddler without wincing.
Hi, I worked on improving the search rankings for a popular package manager. Imagine your search algorithm is already excellent, you have countless of documents, and customers do countless of unique queries. Now say that you want to improve your search rankings further. How do you do that? What if your improvement helps some queries but hurts others? Things like tf-idf or Elasticsearch won't help here.

That's where NDCG comes in! Basically it gives a score for your search rankings that you can use to compare different search algorithms. The higher the score, the closer your algorithm was to producing the expected search results. This is super useful as you can try lots of experiments and get a good sense of whether the experiment is promising or not.
Your comment is a fine example of the standard rhetoric from the 'move everything to the cloud' marketing people, but perhaps organizations should consider that they don't have to go with one cloud provider as a single point of failure. It's the lazy way of abstracting away responsibility and blame to some other party, and in my experience often does not result in better availability than a properly implemented "belt and suspenders" approach.
> can acheive the same high availability and elasticity

Maybe not, but even just a "flick the switch to go back to a dumb system" option is worth maintaining
Given how easy the Rocinante can be hacked to explode or arbitrary change transponder codes, I'm not sure if it's good advertisement for OpenBSD.
The current medical system ends up in the courts more than literally anything else in all likelihood.

The number 1 reason for personal bankruptcy are medical bills, and medical malpractice suits are extremely common as well.
Great question! We intended the article to be more of an introduction to the evaluation process for search algos and definitely glossed over the example's problem area here and should have talked more about the specific experiment we used as the example. We use TF-IDF in combination with the popularity scores for both algorithms mentioned. There are a few reasons we chose to experiment with the query-specific popularity - mainly, that global popularity wasn't as much of a signal for "helpfulness" for the user's intent as much as it was a signal for the most popular pages overall (i.e. turns out to be overview pages and most popular problems encountered on the platform), so it wasn't having the desired effect on ranking. We wanted to see whether using popularity within the context of the user's topic enhanced the utility of the popularity score. Plus, with Query-Specific ranking, when the user's keywords aren't an exact match with the document's language, we still receive a boost from users who previously scrolled further to find the match to solve their problem
I’d recommend reading Kathy Kolbe’s Conative Connection. She says that this transition is not possible. You could simulate this behavior but it would not be instinctive. So it would be poorly executed, will burn you out, and will not produce the payoff it produces for the people who do these things instinctively.
What part of iCloud is the problem?
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You're disingenuously ignoring that those pushing for mask wearing destroyed their credibility by earlier claiming masks didn't work. It doesn't matter what the goals of their lies were, they were lies and the costs of loss of credibility is at the heart of all of this. Spin it all you want and try to win political points on your ideological enemies all you want, nothing can change the fact that lies were knowingly told and that's the seed that started the skepticism about masks. No amount of gaslighting and screaming that it didn't happen or that it was for everyone's own good will undo that damage. Denying this only harms the credibility of the cause even more.
I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything in this case other than OP's point doesn't make sense.
Well, to be fair, there are many many many terrible examples of writers trying to write, as well. Sturgeon's Law says 95% of everything is crap. If one has the drive to write, they should try it. At worst, they've wasted some time, adding to the infinite pile of forgotten work. And at best, they might add something interesting to the world, with a different perspective than a writer's writer might bring.

Fwiw, this week I've been reading 'All Creatures Great and Small,' an autobiographical classic by a veterinary surgeon, and quite wonderfully written...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot

And let's also remember that JM Coetzee, novel laureate in literature, began his career as a programmer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee

And Ted Chiang was a writer of software documentation, before becoming known for his sci fi stories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang
How does Apple claim they're "secure by design?" [1]

They seem to have the same issues as everyone else.

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/AAW_Platform_Securi...
IMO autocorrect only works well if all of the following are true:

1. You only speak one language, and never find yourself in a situation where you encounter transliterated foreign words or names.

2. You never use any obscure or technical words. No jargon or slang.

3. You also never find yourself in a situation where you have to come up with new terms and abbreviations.

4. You never use the keyboard for any notation other than prose. No code.

5. You agree 100% with the orthographic choices of whoever made your autocorrect.

Personal experience tells me that as a result anyone who has autocorrect on tends to be a boring conversation partner.
There is literally no other detail than the phone model name. For all we know it could be an ancient iPhone with a severely outdated OS and a brand new Pixel phone.

4-digit passcode hasn't been the default passcode option in iOS for a long time.
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Nope - https://emailclientmarketshare.com/
As Mickey Flanagan would say: "Calm down Gordon, it's just a bit of dinner".
I believe it, inflammatory responses causes so many things we are only now starting to see in the past 15 years, lots of autoimmune diseases that had no cause or correlation to anything seem to be a direct byproduct of a modern Western diet--sugar based.

It's crazy but I used to mock the idea of fasting from a biological perspective (an education emphasis on glucose and misc metabolic pathways to create ATP etc...) because it would make me 'hangry' only to realize that a lot of that was just the crashes from a poor sugary American diet.

Now, its my to go thing to do when I'm feeling ill or lethargic as it perks me up and after nearly a diet of daily intermittent fasting (10-18 hours) I now understand why so many ancient cultures have it as a critical part of their religious practices.

Also, it makes food taste really good as you will savour every bite instead of just stuff your face.

Anyhow, it's insane to me that it took this far into the 21st century for modern medicine to see the obvious when it comes to emphasis of the gut biome in the overall health of the body and mind. The next thing will be the emphasis on healthy animal meat and fats in satiation and lower inflammation, as well as the absurdity of drinking other animals milk with all the antibodies, steroids, antibiotics etc... used in conventional Ag.

Raw milk is ok, but honestly I wonder what the amount of leaky gut and IB, and possibly Crohn's disease this single thing into our diet has caused? It's worth noting that most of the Human population loses the ability to metabolize milk (via na enzyme called lactase) by the time they reach 12, very few populations still have it: think Nordics. Even Mongolians who have been milking animals for 1000s of years still lack this gene/enzyme which.
There have been some internal debates about setting up a secondary DNS in case Route53 somehow went down. My reasoning has thusfar been that if Route53 is down, there are probably other AWS services that we depend on that would also be down.

What do you guys think? Is secondary DNS in this case worth it?
Unenforced orders are kind of a worst of all worlds where you get most of the economic harm of a lockdown (because the force of guidance and the potential of enforcement gets enough compliance to slow economic activity significantly), but very little of the public health benefit (because a critical mass of noncompliance keeps disease spreading.
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You take the arguments every time? Or you read them from a configuration file.

But you do not automatically add them to the configuration file unless the user explicitly tells you to do so.
Credibility matters. That's the main lesson public health officials should learn from this but it appears instead they're going to endlessly keep doubling down and further destroy their already damaged credibility. If they care about public health, they'll work on regaining the trust they lost instead of playing even more games trying to trick the public into doing what they want.
You think those issues began in 2021?
so. fucking. tired. of. this.
Move slowly, do your best, and don't overdo yourself.

If they wanted it done yesterday, they should have assigned more staff to the project.

Rushing or panicking isn't going to help you or them.
Because in the latter case the commandline of the executed process (which may be exposed in various places, including a simple process list) is `foobar --secret=hunter2` and in the former case it's just `foobar`.