skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The budget is as large as the (perceived) danger. And there was no excuse for being ill informed, after China locked down the whole province.

And there's no better way to help the virus than lying to people about the masks. Even the Chinese government didn't lie about masks, while all the western governments did. If masks became a strategic product, then there are enough laws to regulate them (and France did so).
Not exactly types, but with functors you can parameterize modules on values. As far as I can tell it ends up being very similar.
> I think we need to be careful in recognizing that strenuous exercise does not enable us to make better considered decisions.

What? Is there any evidence to support this statement?

I know I (personally, anecdotally) am a way calmer, more rational and reasonable decision maker after bouts of intense exercise. - Heavy lifting sessions, hard sports training, etc.
https://golang.org/doc/faq#assertions
I'm a founder of a SaaS company and can provide some insight that I am surprised is not really written clearly in this thread yet!

There's three types of innovation..
1. What you think people want
2. What they tell you they want
3. What they actually need

Most startups die because their product strategy is #1, the chances your view of the world is going to be adopted by people with many different circumstances is very low. The few think, lets go talk to people, but then die due to misdirection.. customers aren't PM's, they dont know how to solve problems but they know what their problems are.

so you must figure out what do people actually need..

You have two ways (well technically 3) to validate your idea
1. Quantitative
2. Qualitative
3. Resegment an existing market (questionable if you can skip traditional validation but your chances are better here than 1 or 2 above)

If you have funding, you can do quantitative. Build stuff and get it in front of your audience with paid acquisition/marketing.

#2 is the best if you want to be a scientist about things. Learn Jobs to be Done, start conducting interviews, find the problem folks have.. figure out if its a priority and a pattern.. there's lots of good JTBD literature out there, read it all.

#3 - segment an existing category. Take form building for example, you can build a form builder with limited features for a niche audience.. higher ed? (Qualtrics anyone?)

--

Hopefully this just scratched the tip of the iceberg for you and gives you some direction!

Just to clarify, qualitative research is less costly per dollar but does cost time. Check out the book "Nail it then scale it".
It's not just that the CDC/Fauci and the Government have been a major contributor to the disinformation out there, it's that there is a political force running at full power pushing vaccines as the one and only possible solution to COVID-19. Before Trump left the White House, the Democratic party leadership came out against the vaccine. NOw that they're in power again, every signal and message they send is Pro Vaccine and Anti Everything else, and it seems all of SV is ready to help by any means necessary, including a lot of people on HN calling anyone and everyone who even questions the safety or necessity of these vaccines as Anti-Vaxxers. We're rocketing towards a new civil war if you ask me.
That includes the vendor of my third-party Reddit app (Now for Reddit).

If I tap a Reddit link from a page of search results, the link opens in the app.

It's shocking that the devs of the official app don't even bother to do even this bare minimum.
> The software install is to unlock optional features on the device, and that can be done after the user has authenticated to the host and gone through a security elevation prompt.

That's not true. It may help you to watch the video.

The user was authenticated as a regular logged-in user. It was the driver installation that had elevated rights as SYSTEM, and there was no security elevation prompt.
I guess I'm not understanding how you don't then see the building rent inflate in proportion to the disappearance of the Land rent's contribution to overall profit. It's a trivial case of financial engineering and shell games to implement.
If big pharma isn't supposed to be involved in vaccine development and distribution, who should be?
You can say "Creator of Doom and Quake" and/or "Founder of ID software"
Impossible in safe rust.

But would a sqlite port limit itself to safe rust?

(As a side note wrt integer overflows, rust only makes it easier to detect them during tests and provides neat methods for integer overflow aware code, but just that.)

Anyway I'm surprised that there where more "preventable" bugs then I expected.
What about using aerial cranes to build a zip line depot network instead. You could then have anchor lines for your blimps.
Vaccine refusal has gotten pretty close in Japan. The LDP has been capitalising on this to justify their incredibly poor COVID response and their "nothing could be done and nothing can be done" mentality.
I have a lot of tools that I got so I could service my bike. Now, the industry has moved on with various sizing standards and these tools will be useless when I get a new bike.
Ask HN: Does YouTube store the hashid in the database?
I am wondering whether YouTube is storing the hashid as the primary key in the database or if they are hashing the key to obfuscate it. If they do store it, how do they generate it across so many different machines?

A simple solution would be to create a counter, however I would think that would cause a lot of locking?

I would like to use hashids across multiple machines as PK and not UUID, ULID, etc., but I want to actually store the hashid as the PK, but hashids are normally generated from a regular auto incremented ID.

So how do they do it?
lol another user gave an example of how this is a partisan issue in France
Link for the curious: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

It's a fast read. Well worth it, too.
I think making a comment like yours is exactly how things become politicized or at the very least contributes to it being so. It creates a climate of mutual distrust which in turn can feed paranoia on both sides and create a hostile environment where propagandizing and skepticism fuel a downward spiral in discourse.
It is perfectly acceptable for a device to come with either a printed url where you can get the driver or software.

Also it should be if possible minimally fit for use without extra software even if all features aren't available.

There is no way any of this should ever happen automatically. People installed custom hardware for windows in the year 2000 and it worked fine then.
A later date on a subsequent publication including revisions doesn't extend the copyright term of the original material.
Guess they gave in as I've used it in Windows
There are different chemistries and designs that are more or less prone to fire. These batteries in the Bolt (and Hyundai) have a particular design that makes them higher risk. lithium iron phosphate battery (LiFePO) batteries are know to be quite stable.
Regarding the surgeon general quote, if you understand that he's referring to protective masks (such as N95s) and their capacity -- and it's pretty clear that he is -- the contents of his statement holds up very well, even now. PPE is extra crucial for those working around infected people. Most members of the general public are unlikely to use N95s in such a way they'd be significantly protective (after watching how most people wear any kind of mask including x95s, I don't know anyone could argue differently, and that's before you get into the kind of fit testing that people who count on these things professionally do and speak of as difficult).

What happened subsequently was a shift to cooperative masks whose benefit is primarily reducing transmission from the wearer.

These two things are both discussed under the header of "masks" but they are very different interventions. It's less that the position changed, it's more that what authorities were actually talking about changed.

You can fairly argue that this counts as a messaging failure and I'd agree, but a lot of people seem to be missing what the issue actually was (especially some who set this up as dishonesty or an attack on expertise).
> I am happy the parts company is ditching Amazon, but its so much more important for us consumers to ditch amazon.

Conversely, maybe it's important for both big and small businesses to realize that investing in your online presence and building out a high-quality local delivery network is much more important than the high-rent place on Main Street?

A lot of the reasons I buy on Amazon are that it offers a much more pleasant experience. In fact, if you go to the manufacturers' sites for a lot of the products Amazon sells, they have a slow checkout process, scammy discount codes and email signup incentives, and generally optimize for consumer lock-in rather than getting the product to the consumer quickly. Imagine Google if it had popped up a discount code for "Get 200 searches at 15% off!" every time you searched for something, and think of how successful they would be if they did that.

As for a lot of small-time local shops I know, they seem to place an unduly high value on prime real estate, and their websites are at the level of “My nephew says he knows Dreamweaver”.

In summary, I am not super surprised they are being beaten out by Amazon, and it is unclear to me as to why I should subsidize their bad web design and reluctance to invest in building a consumer-friendly online experience.
Those giant dynamic headers are the worst. If you try to save the page to PDF, those headers will block the content at the top of the page.

I've taken to using the element zapper on Ublock Origin to remove them. Sometimes I worry that it'll break the navigation, but then again I rarely come back to sites like those.
Ok they lost your trust and it’s completely your choice to make that decision however you want, but how was this shady?
Sure, but that's not really my problem. I'm not rolling in dough either, and that's why I don't usually use local bike shops.

If they want my business, they need to match what I can afford somehow.
No, that was the title when I commented too.

I suppose it's just that 'Twitter adds warning label' was the focus (Twitter the subject) that made me remark on that.

Versus, say:

> Freeland tweets video altering O'Toole message

(Twitter warning a minor detail, or subheading perhaps.)

Or even just changing the subject:

> Freeland promotes video mischaracterising O'Toole message, Twitter alleges

I suppose my point is if Twitter's the subject, it seems like a story 'about Twitter', which makes it read like it shouldn't have done what it did, to me at least.

(I said elsewhere but just to reiterate, no agenda or bias here - I'm British, live in the UK, I don't really care much who said what or wins this election. I clicked in to the submission because of the Twitter angle, which as commented just seemed fine and not particularly newsworthy.)
But if you go yourself to recover your property, that’s stalking and harassment and can get you arrested…
I'd just open up the card and unplug the cable to the lights. It's not a bad idea to open up the card to reapply thermal paste/pads anyway if you're hitting the card hard, a lot of manufacturers don't do a great job with heatsink contact, thermal paste quality, or both. On the lower tier cards in their product stack half the time there won't even be thermal pads on the vrm or memory chips. And recently I saw a post where powercolor forgot to remove the tape from the thermal pads at the factory [0]. And no, in most countries they can't void your warranty for opening it up.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/oyu1j6/thanks_powercol...
> On Monday, company employees launched a Twitter account called Apple Workers to gather stories from colleagues about workplace issues such as "persistent patterns of racism, sexism, inequity, discrimination, intimidation, suppression, coercion, abuse, unfair punishment, and unchecked privilege."

It would not surprise me if this kind of behavior was happening at apple given what we've heard about some other large tech companies recently but when you use terms like "inequity" and "unchecked privilege" it taints the argument, imo.

> We've exhausted all internal avenues. We've talked with our leadership. We've gone to the People team. We've escalated through Business Conduct. Nothing has changed," the announcement read. "It's time to Think Different."

Discrimination, intimidation, suppression, coercion, abuse, unfair punishment. All of that is actionable in the US under current labor laws. Why instead of going to regulators are they releasing press statements?
Does it git?

Based on the comments here this website badly needs contributions from people who are eager to reflect the real UX of the modern web.
They forgot to include the thing where you scroll down to fit as much of the article on one screen and then an ad loads in bumping the article off screen and then the ad disappears again if you scroll up.
Show HN: A terrible way to calculate absolute value in Python
I'm pretty sure everyone complaining about the price of the war would be perfectly comfortable substituting the phrase "wasted money" with the phrase "wasted productive capacity and physical resources". I don't really see how this counter-argument is anything but quibbling over phrasing.
I have to admit I still don’t get Filmic. I have a basic grasp of it but I am much more comfortable with shadow and highlight adjustments. I have watched pretty much all tutorials I could find but I am struggling big time. I have no idea how other people feel about it but I am starting to wonder if the scene refereed workflow is more an intellectual exercise and less a practical tool.
It is so awesome that you have to dig into the comments to determine that this uses metofluthrin. :-\
The comment I initially replied to was spreading dangerous, scientifically untrue misinformation: "Vaccinations with current vaccines don't stop infections/spread at all". Snark can be a useful tool to call out BS. I spend a good bit of time here and can observe for myself how things are actually done, thanks (not just what the official rules state).
Think about how badly cotton plantations needed chattel slavery.
Carmack has been sold by SpaceX right from the start.

Musk and Carmack are both rocket nuts. Carmack ran a rocket company: Armadillo Aerospace, mostly as a hobby. From engineer to engineer, Carmack has a lot of respect for Musk, and Musk tried to offer Carmack a job at SpaceX, as in "stop playing with your toys, we have serious rockets here".
I concur and I’m very vocal about the vapor ware that Tesla spews from time to time. SpaceX has delivered and I watched in complete awe when two rockets touched down near simultaneously a year or so ago.

I still think the whole passenger part of spacex might be a pipe dream but who knows.
Please don't start programming language flamewars on HN. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The issue that Google Pay has is that they don't block the bank apps from doing their own payments via the NFC hardware like Apple does. And, as such, the banks here in Australia all opt to do their own tap and pay (https://www.commbank.com.au/digital-banking/tap-and-pay.html) as they want to 'own' the experience.

They fought the good fight against Apple for awhile - not least of which that they didn't want to pay Apple a percentage of each transaction. But, they eventually all caved to Apple Pay as it was the only way to get it on iPhones which have a majority (56%) marketshare here and people were citing it as a reason why they were changing to the (usually smaller) banks that did offer it.

I am kind of glad they did as I really like the Apple Pay experience and trust the to get it right more than the bank's very hit-and-miss mobile app teams...

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/04/28/westpac-australian-bank...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/861532/australia-mobile-...
I think LA is still deeper and more interesting foodwise than SF. NYC is above all by a good margin though
"educated populis in human history"

populous

I was going to say "That's not what I see as I get older" but your post speaks volumes.
For anyone who's able to, I'd love to hear how my awful method compares with other real methods. (i.e. not accounting for some mathematical nuance, performance, etc)
This took an odd turn.

I'm actually in agreement with you that modern feminism is in many ways counter productive or even harmful.

That's still a far cry from what you said. Maybe it was just deeply cynical, but I sure hope you don't support the way the Taliban treats women.
This site helped me to realize I had been tying one of my shoes wrong my entire life.
Probably because this version is doing well enough?
Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
I present to you honey. Honey never goes bad, it has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties and for this reason is why it also helps with wound healing.
Canada's Semiconductor Council - global manufacturer & supplier
The United States spends more on healthcare just for the elderly as it does its entire, famous military budget. The spends 70% more on Medicare & Medicaid combined, than the entire military budget. It spends more than three times as much on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid than on the entire military budget. If you add in PPP, unemployment, and the stimulus checks, you're looking at 4-5x more social spending than entire military budget. Here, look at the numbers from the Congressional Budget Office yourself:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170
> This is a temporary measure that's getting us through a risky period

> until the proof-of-vaccination requirement is lifted next year

I think we have vastly different definitions of what temporary means
GE builds AT-AT before Star Wars release
I'm trying to picture how Reggie Perrin would react to this abomination.
Why does everybody here think defrauding customers with a bait-and-switch (up to even taking deposits for non-existing product) is a good way to start a business?
The problem is that the way autistics are treated by non-autistics often involves an expectation to simply not be autistic. This includes behavioral therapy that in any other context would be described as torture. The stated goal is to reduce perceptible "symptoms", not to address whatever the person themself might find limiting to their wellbeing.

Autistic kids generally don't bang their heads against walls for "a good time". It's a form of stimming and it's intensified by certain situations or interactions. The desirable approach would not be to prevent the kid from stimming (which can cause them massive additional stress and even trauma) but instead offer them a safer alternative that is less likely to cause them injury.

But allistics (non-autistics) tend to be annoyed by autistics stimming at all, so often it comes down to whether autistics are able to "mask" and suppress their more obvious traits (even if it causes persistent stress) or not.
Pioneer – thirty years after Spacewar? Hum…

Edit: Pioneering achievements, yes, certainly, but pioneer as in "game development pioneer"…
Anecdotally, my unvaccinated roommate is Chinese, holds a PhD degree in a very difficult field, and works as a researcher in a FAANG company.

I was very surprised to learn that they were unwilling to get vaccinated. They are actually very worried about infection, and have been very careful with wearing masks, disinfecting things, and avoiding in-person contacts whenever possible. They explained that they were mostly worried about the unknown long-term side-effects of the vaccines. Maybe having a PhD degree is correlated with having this kind of caution.
I know that he wrote but despite this part not proven the main point still stands – we haven't really any cost-benefit calculations at all. Nor estimates that lockdowns are effective.
I think the blurry line for millennials put the oldest of us at something like 34 to 38 years old now? So yeah most people that got into academia after their bachelors and just finished their post-doc should be a millennial.
Sugar is more than that, it's also an addictive drug. Try quitting sugar and see how far you get.
I feel like if your concern is real-time systems, you should probably say you don’t think it’s suitable for real-time systems, instead of talking about performance differences that no one really disagrees but which don’t matter in practice for most applications anyways.
I'm pretty sure if the vaccine really worked well a few lawsuits wouldn't be enough to stop it. I suspect it must be less effective than expected.
Your statement is incomplete, and presents only the framing "abuse was not eliminated", as if eliminating abuse were a boolean Y/N flag and therefore all steps taken to date are a total failure.

The two centralized networks you referenced have eliminated some abuse from their network by taking those steps.

As I said elsethread, I won't try to persuade you that it's right for them to have taken steps, but I'm certain we still both agree that it's impossible to completely eliminate abuse from any system containing user-generated content, and therefore the metric of success you set ("eliminated") is provably unattainable, which does^ invalidate your framing.

^ (unless you think it's possible to fully eliminate abuse, in which case you have a trillion dollar startup idea to pursue, because we all sure need that!)
> Much better to just use a randomly generated ID and then provide a separate timestamp, so that you can provide one without revealing the other.

If you're talking about allocating the same number of bits either way, your way vs their way just expresses a trade between never rolling the random number generator twice for the same entry because you can't generate collisions at different times (theirs) and demanding a uniqueness guarantee for just the random portion on its own and thus re-rolling on collision (yours).

Would subsequently encrypting the time-based IDs before sharing them satisfy your desire to not leak the time information?
Let's be real. There are more physicists than fitting research problems. That's why your average physics PhD graduate is typically employed outside of the field they learned and earns less than an average React programmer.

That said, theoretical physics has the goal of understanding reality from a reductionist point of view. At the scales that goes from the nucleus to the Solar system there are few questions left. We know the Standard Model and GR and they fit the data perfectly. Of course some questions remain for how things interact when there are many of them (e.g. warm superconductivity) but there are few questions about fundamental laws

You can think about it like bootstrapping an open source system (it was in the homepage today). There are still many technical hurdles downstream but we are interested in reducing the binary blob from which all starts to its perfect minimal form. And the only places we still have not figured out well are things at the limit of our instrument capacity. Black holes (GR and relativity, we still cannot figure out that and proving black hole seems experimentally challenging), exotic particles (what are quarks composed of?), dark matter (why far away galaxies seem to rotate so quickly?), dark energy, inflation, that stuff.

I think physics should be smaller, it has too many graduates. But actually these problems should be researched. They are the fundamental questions that remain and there is a reason that the layman considers this stuff to be "real physics" and not origami folding