skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one point, we should stop saying that hep-* or HIV are STDs, in several countries the bulk of transmissions are from mother to infant during delivery or other means that sex transmissions. With the way the world is connected, these virus can travel easily.
I'd love to see what U-Haul has to say about such things. Everyone I follow in NYC, talks about how they're ready to leave.
>If they can inoculate against AIDS, then the human race may just survive the next millennium.

Can you elaborate as to how this would improve the prospects of humanity as a whole? If anything, such a development would enable a greater proliferation of other dangerous pathogens.
Worcestershire sauce is another garum analogue.
A lot of the UI scripting on macOS is accomplished via accessibility APIs. If you’re interested, check out Accessibility Inspector[0], which ships with Xcode. You can inspect macOS applications in a similar, albeit much more limited way to a web browser’s interactive inspect element function.

You can also accomplish UI scripting via C/ObjC/Swift using the Application Services framework [1].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ac...
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applicationservice...
I guess B2C has some advantages. If you have 10,000 customers, you have no boss, only an obligation to deliver a good product that most/all of them like. One single customer can't make you go broke, just because you don't implement feature X.
The bacteria migrates throughout the body over time, including into the brain and spine, so it's easier to eliminate when treated promptly.
Do you mean that if people there only had access to more expensive clothing they would be better off?
Depends on how long you wait to sell, and if what happens to the asset price in the mean time. I sell all my shares the day after they vest or the same day. I pay basically zero net taxes on that action.
>>...you’ll end up looking for trickier and trickier puzzles that you can get an A+ on.

>> The real world is the polar opposite. You’ll have some ultra-vague end goal, like “help people in sub-Saharan Africa solve their money problems,” based on which you’ll need to prioritize many different sub-problems. A solution’s performance has many different dimensions (speed, reliability, usability, repeatability, cost, …)—you probably don’t even know what all the dimensions are, let alone which are the most important. The range of plausible outcomes covers orders of magnitude and the ceiling is saving billions of lives. The habits you learn by working on problem sets won’t help you here.

The latter sounds like the very definition of a "Hard Problem". Not a single tricky puzzle, but a labyrinth of pseudo-randomly interdependent sub-problems, each of which looks easy, and the optimization goals map onto multiple independent dimensions (physical, commercial, political...).

So, yes, "hard technical problems", are a really minor subset of the truly hard problems in the world.

Endless fun to be had
Amazon wants to scan your palm.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/02/amazon-credit-palm-biometr...
I think the big advantage with Uber is you don't have to shell out for a Medallion. I know they used to go for upwards of $1M but now I heard they can be had for $150k - 300k, much cheaper than the previous $1M but that's still an overhead you wouldn't have with Uber.
Isn't (one of) the point of federation to limit the scope of surveillance? e.g. My host knows everything about me, but hosts it peers with only know that I'm indigochill@myhost, essentially the same as email.
If you think those two are equivalent you are out of your mind.
I don’t see it so strict. You can put vertical and lateral thinkers together in a team and get the best of both worlds, i.e. solve the puzzles that matter and provide a sane system that actually works.
> Human nature is quite the same no matter where you go.

This shouldn't come as a surprise though - people in developing countries are still people, and although they may have a lower standard of living by some index, that doesn't mean they're desperate or don't care about their appearance.
I'm caught between thinking you'd have to be a loon to make hiring decisions on this basis, and wanting to punish the fewer than 10% of people in my inbox that actually follow this advice for having no critical thinking skills of their own.
Migrating from Node Redis to Ioredis: a slightly bumpy but faster road
Presence 4 years or so later. So, maybe the patient was infected again some time after initial treatment?
Please re-read it - I'm sorry you got downvoted, but you misunderstood what I wrote. Texas as a state is fairly well off (2nd in GDP [0]) and my expectation is more that they would have a fairly robust system set up. There's no phobia here, just that my expectation is Texas has the money to design a better system with backups and redundancies. Even a storage volume level snapshot would have saved them here and I'm a bit shocked they didn't even do that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
Qualcomm unveils its first 5G-capable reference drone
Still gotta try, though. Solar is already a great deal cheaper than it was in 2014 when that article was published; by more than 50%, in fact. And there's a new X-Prize for C02 removal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

There's a number of other pieces of the puzzle that need urgent action. Cleaning up international shipping is a big one which comes to mind... And reducing driving is another big one.

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-cargo-ships-emitting-boatloads...

There's no silver bullet, and we need urgent action on many fronts. But things will be worse if we simply despair and do nothing.
For folks in NYC, ‘upstate’ is used loosely to mean ‘a place in NY state you access via queens or the bronx’.
This is a very misleading way to report those results (likely unintentionally). The JS Framework site includes benchmarks for imba-v1.5.2 and svelte-v3.29.4 and reports that they are equally fast (1.04 and 1.05). It shows both as similarly faster than React.

As described in your second link, that benchmark is timing something a bit different – and we don't know how well Svelte would perform on it (I'm guessing fairly similarly, since the overall approach seems similar. But there's no way to know without measuring.)
I don't understand why people see this as a problem. Energy generation being a local thing feels like a good thing -- sure you'll need a lot of batteries, but every city/state/municipality already has power plants, sewage plants, water treatment plants, etc. If we get to the point where energy is just this easy thing where you buy off-the-shelf batteries and have some solar panels or wind turbines that need replacement every now and then, that sounds way better than investing billions over decades to build a centralized fleet of nuclear reactors.
other issues

Like intermittent EMI causing bit flips and checksum failures, which happened to me once in an IoT application where the Ethernet cable to an outbuilding was buried next to the power line, and the network would die whenever the furnace kicked on.
Abdication of responsibility is not an argument
Nope. This is the reality of contemporary people. Just take take take and never give. Morality is dead. We killed it. Remains dead.
No that wasn’t the point at all. Corporate death penalty was a completely overblown analogy by someone else. What this is about is that a manager / CEO / shareholder can be held personally accountable with punishment that could include jail time. As a deterrent.

Right now only the company is accountable as if it’s some sort of living creature, and the penalty is always money. Which as you aptly put, they have in abundance!
Matchmaking tech is likely cached A*. The rest is duplicated by mapbox and square.
We don't have the time to post the 1,000s of examples over the past 18 months. There has been censorship galore.
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7
Here's the latest Meet the Batch thread for YC's S21 batch. The previous thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156460. For the original description see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280.

There are 5 startups in this thread. The initial order is random:

Monto (YC S21): Salary on Demand for Latam - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209932

Plug (YC S21) - API for multiple payment providers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209933

Abstra (YC S21): Figma-like front end development for web apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209934

Levo (YC S21) - High yield savings account for Mexico - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209929

BoldVoice (YC S21) - Accent coaching app for non-native English speakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209930
Hi, we are Salvador and Max from Levo (https://www.levo.mx) a high yield savings account for Mexico. We aggregate the savings accounts of our users and negotiate significantly better interest rates from other banks on their behalf.

65% of Mexican savers keep their savings in their checking or savings accounts, yet 97% of all bank accounts are non-interest bearing. This is partly due to a highly concentrated banking market, where 7 banks hold 80% of the market.

I (Salvador) walked past the CD-Pricing Desk at Mexico’s biggest bank every morning for 5 years. In 2017 Mexico finished the year with the highest inflation rate in two decades and the Central Bank’s overnight rate was 8.25%. But Mexico’s biggest bank offered clients rates below 3.5%. This is when I realized how broken the system was and set myself to find a solution to this.

Levo is a certificate of deposit marketplace. People who save money in their checking or savings account, can access CDs from multiple banks through our app and get up to 300% better rates. For example, our client Gustavo recently got a 50,000 USD inheritance; his bank offered him 4.5% p.a. for his savings, with Levo he got 6.5% p.a. with one of Levo's banking partners.

We are currently running a private beta, if you are a Mexican resident please reach out to be part of our special group! If anyone has questions or comments we'd love to hear them!
We’re Anada and Ilya, the co-founders of BoldVoice (https://www.boldvoice.com/). BoldVoice is an accent coaching app that helps non-native speakers learn and practice the standard American accent.

As immigrants to the US, we’ve personally experienced that having a foreign accent can affect your confidence and job opportunities (by as much as 20%, according to studies). So we built this app to help non-native English speakers like us.

Users start by watching 3-5 minute video lessons to learn new concepts from Hollywood speech coaches, like Ron Carlos, such as how to pronounce tricky sounds, or how to properly use intonation. They then spend around 10 minutes a day improving their accent skills by going through words, sentences, and conversations, with real-time feedback on their accent from the pronunciation assessment AI model.

The user tells us what their native language is during onboarding, and we serve them content on the typical accent and speech challenges that a person from that linguistic background faces in English. Regarding the feedback part, the user speaks certain words and sentences into the app, we record it, we compare each sound to the "correct" sound according to our library, and we spit out a score and a recommendation for what they should change.

The vast majority of language learning apps focus on grammar and vocabulary, not on speaking. Even when they do speaking, they score it broadly as "right" or "wrong" with no feedback on how you can improve. Learning an accent is all about muscle memory formed in the mouth/lips/teeth, not memorization in the brain—this is what most language learning apps get wrong.

Practicing the physical skills required to acquire an accent is a lot like working out, and with consistent work come results -- usually you can start seeing a difference within 2 weeks. Since launching 8 weeks ago, we’ve had startup founders, globally distributed teams, BPO firms and even middle school Spanish teachers pick up BoldVoice to start working on their accents and feel more confident in English.

We'd love to hear your experiences with accents and your comments about BoldVoice!
The title of the post is "Highlights from Git 2.33" which implies less ownership - perhaps the submission title should be changed to that?
Hi HN, we're Karina and Andres of Monto (https://www.monto.mx/). We give employees of our affiliated companies access to their earned wages 24/7. We're currently operating in Mexico.

With Monto users can pay for basic services (like water, electricity) on time, avoiding penalties. They can stop paying overdraft fees and avoid having to resort to abusive credit alternatives like shark loans, employer loans, payday loans, credit cards, bank loans, department store credit cards, pawn shops. The conditions on these options are abusive and prohibitively expensive for low-income workers and have resulted in serious financial stress for millions of people.

Andres was working in investment banking in New York, but ended up back in Mexico for a while working on the family business and advising some friends with their business. Through these experience he was shocked to find out: 1) The level of indebtedness that low-income workers had in Mexico. 2) Companies were not offering benefits that promoted financial wellness in most cases they were offering problems that exacerbated the problem. 3) The lack of transparent, low cost, easy-to-use financial products in the market. He decided to move back to Mexico after living abroad for 12 years, and start a company that would fix this for people.

Users have immediate access to their earned money with Monto - we deposit the money in 2 minutes into any bank account. Withdrawals are secure and confidential. Users don't need to fill out an application, provide documentation or fulfill a long list of requirements – any employee of our affiliated companies can use it. Users pay a small fixed charge per withdrawal, regardless of the amount. There are no interest payments or hidden fees. In contrast to other alternatives, we don't perform credit checks and usage of Monto cannot affect our users in any way (e.g. credit score).
Hi - we’re Alex, Thiago, and Marcel, founders of Plug (https://www.plugpagamentos.com/). We are live in Brazil, and currently onboarding our first beta customers in the US and LatAm.

Plug is an API to manage multiple payments providers. Through a single integration, businesses can connect to multiple providers and route transactions between them.

It’s hard to know who the right payments provider for your business is. In the early stage you may care most about a fast integration, later you're looking for lower fees and more payment methods, and finally for better acceptance rates and fail-over options. We built Plug so companies could focus on their core business. With our multiple connections, provider-agnostic vault, and routing engine, our users always work with the best provider, on a transaction-by-transaction basis. Working with multiple providers means you can optimize costs and acceptance rates through routing and retries, and that you will be able to avoid lock-ins.

Brazilian merchants in particular change their payment provider frequently. They do this to support multiple local payment methods, to try and improve the worst acceptance rate in Latin America (77% according to Visa), and to reduce their costs, which in some cases can be 10% or more of the transaction.

Alex was at Braintree, Marcel was at Gympass, and Thiago was at Medicinae. We got the idea from seeing our best clients, companies like Uber, AirBnb, and iFood, build their own payment abstraction layers to work with different providers. We've built software that allows any business to do the same: one integration for multiple connections, and the ability to always transact with the best provider without having to write extra code.

Rei do Pitaco has been using Plug to reduce their costs and support multiple payment methods through different providers. CartX has been using Plug to offer multiple providers to their client base without having to integrate each provider. Simplix uses our product to optimize costs by routing to the least expensive provider for each transaction. We're looking forward to hearing your comments!
I'm Bruno, founder of Abstra (https://abstra.app/). Abstra is a no-code tool that allows designers to build web apps. Imagine Figma, but we export a functional web application. Here's a timelapsed demo showing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fObVcHcd_w.

As opposed to most famous no-code tools, we don't do any nested-based editing (e.g. tree structure like Webflow - which is an amazing tool, but is basically a visual HTML editor requiring almost the same skills). Instead, we have free canvas-based editing, so we let designers freely iterate as they do with prototyping tools like Figma/AdobeXD/Sketch/etc.

Our visual interface builder lets you add controls using "springs". This is a kind of constraint layout (like XCode/Android studio does) without Cassowary solver (which means more tolerance to inconsistencies). This idea actually came from a master thesis project with my girlfriend where we created methods to simulate elastic material deformations. Then I realized that those abstractions (elastic springs) are easier to understand than the flexbox/grid/box model for UI layout.

Abstra is great for companies that want to make MVPs in production, learn with real data and move faster. We already have a few companies using Abstra. One of them is Stone (Nasdaq: STNE), which uses us to build internal tools faster than coding by hand. Examples of what people have built so far include a customer support portal, a field sales collaborative notes app, financial controls, timesheets, an employee evaluation tool, and a student enrollment control.
I've noticed a lot of profiles near me are "verified", so I believe the user is real and matches the pictures somewhat.

The biggest problem with tinder, at the moment, seems to be people using the "passport" system. They pretend to be local, but really they're hundreds/thousands of miles away. I wish that was more explicit and obvious.
The secret of the Stradivari violin confirmed
In some sense, yes, but in another, not so much. Crawl is quite difficult and you're always a few steps away from death if you don't react to different situations appropriately. It can take players months to years to get their first win. Some people are never able to beat it before giving up on it. There's still an optimal way to play in most situations, but many couldn't tell you what that optimum is beyond some rules of thumb which aren't always right.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of gold in those hills and I had a lot of fun getting better and getting my first win. But after that I was very frustrated with how hard it was to just stop at a fork in the road and try to answer, which choice is objectively better? I like difficult games that are fair and require skill growth to succeed in, but I want to be able to understand them so I can make informed choices as I get better as well. Too much: because that's what the black box determined. sorry, you died. should have been more cautious.
Also, a state like Texas has no currently available child ICU beds, and is still have legal fights over if anyone can issue a mask mandate at the local level. ICU bed capacity only does so much.
The development is isolated, but the components are still placed somewhere in the dom, so regular hierarchy/specificity rules apply.

Granted, some UI frameworks do add a lot of redundant code to maximise component independence, then offer JS-based or class-based theming to keep development DRY.
I was able to substantiate your comment about the laws being changed in two California bills (2013 AB1278 and 2005 AB592) amending BPC 2234.1 that appears to relax restrictions about treatment of "persistent" Lyme disease.

I do not think it is relevant to the point in this thread that is discussing whether Lyme disease does or does not result in a bullseye rash (Erythema Migrans or EM), and the CDC claiming that in 70-80% of cases the rash is present, which you baselessly disputed and edited your comment to accuse those of downvoting "facts".

As an example of what "evidence" might be, a 2009 paper [1] in Current Problems in Dermatology refers:

> EM is by far the most frequent manifestation of Lyme borreliosis. In the USA, more than 70% of patients registered with Lyme borreliosis had EM [28]. Among 1,471 patients shown to have Lyme borreliosis in an epidemiologic study in southern Sweden, EM was seen in 77% of all cases, and was accompanied by other signs of the disease such as nervous system involvement, arthritis, lymphocytoma and/or carditis in only 6.5% [29]

You can dispute those referred studies if you wish, but I think it would be hard to argue that CDC's statement that Lyme disease is characterized by EM in 70-80% of cases is untrue.

[1] Strle, F., & Stanek, G. (2009). Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis. Lyme Borreliosis, 51–110. doi:10.1159/000213070
The State/County/City balance of authority in Texas is biased far more toward Counties than in any other state. They have 4x more counties than more populous California and over 10x more than larger Alaska.

It reads to me like any "phobia" over this simple fact is inferred by the reader, not implied by the writer.
Isn’t Hysteria the other way round than those other diagnoses on the list? It used to be diagnosed but since doctors don’t believe in it anymore.
Do you have any examples to further elaborate your points? I can't think about how to actually apply those and would like some help visualizing it.
Was the occupant of the impacted vehicle wearing a seatbelt? The article does not say. I am just curious. This question implies no stance or statement.
I can only share my experience. I used Spotify for the first time in 2011. It completely defied what I thought was possible with music streaming.

Songs would play immediately. It was faster than iTunes. I believe Spotify is still faster than Apple Music.

This was at a time when I had no expectation that my smartphone's internet was fast enough to do much of anything. It was so impressive, that I became a paying customer and have been a paying Spotify customer for 10 years.

And Spotify pulls a lot of annoying bullshit. They have a habit of treating their users like shit in various ways - you pay and don't get ads in between songs, but they still spam pop ups and try to direct your behavior in various ways. It feels like their attitude towards you as a user is very much influenced by the "free tier" even if you're a paying customer.

Their various app UIs have suffered greatly over the years (current incarnation is mostly tolerable)

But the base thing they do - play music faster than any other service is what has kept me. I also don't think it is ethical that Apple can offer a competing service, while forcing Spotify to give up a significant cut of its revenue. I think it should be illegal, so I likely would never pay for Apple Music because of that.
Nice to see this.

Median is an odd metric to use. I think I might truly be more interested in the mean; maybe the geometric mean.

I am also very interested in worst-cases with this sort of thing, so the 80th and 95th and 100th percentiles would be helpful.

It would be interesting to see plots of distributions, as well: are boot times really unimodal? They seem like they could easily have multiple modes, which could really mess with all of these measures (but especially the median!).

Because the script is open source (thank you!) I may try this myself.