skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Influenza mutates in ways quite different from coronaviruses so there's no reason to expect that the current pandemic will proceed like the 1918 "Spanish" flu. A better analogy would probably be the 1889 pandemic which is now suspected to have been caused by another coronavirus HCoV-OC43. It probably killed millions worldwide and then the survivors had natural immunity which mostly protected them. Today HCoV-OC43 is still endemic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

Fortunately we now have vaccines and other treatments which can significantly reduce the death toll.
Ok, I'll try to come up with a couple ideas tonight or this weekend.
It is pessimistic but it resonates. A similar quality I've seen is people who use excessive "lingo" (like obscure abbreviations), when they know that their audience is not as familiar with the subject matter. I find myself constantly stopping them and asking them "what does X mean?" I know I shouldn't feel stupid but I do.

I get the sense that it is a similar perspective as that Piech character
Since we're on the topic: Which cloud provider do you recommend for backup of personal files?
What if i'm not a US citizen? don't have a SSN...
Not all proponents of Jim Crow laws were hate filled but enough were that one can ascribe to the legislators of the Deep South that supported those laws as being hate filled. What you are being told are the intended consequences of the people writing the proposals and are now asking about the totality of the beliefs of the stakeholders. You are welcome to believe whatever you want about the motivations of the people writing the proposals as I am. But please don’t confuse their intentions with the intentions of all stakeholders. No one is doing this.
> HN comments can still be downvoted (if you have enough karma) so arguably you can still get signal quality from the sum of votes.

Downvotes on HN comments aren't a pure quality signal. HN's culture is that downvoting something just because you disagree with it is perfectly cromulent behaviour, as established by PG himself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of that decision, but I didn't start this site.
> With poetry and docker, packaging Python apps for easy consumption is a non-issue.

This is why you shouldn't write CLI tools in Python, you need frigging docker to package them
Even if it can't be both, a few geniuses could very well outweigh the benefits of a slightly more well-educated populace. Einstein arguably gave us GPS and space flight. I'm not sure any amount of average-person level mathematics could make some advances like that.
Here is a keystroke-by-keystroke HOWTO that we wrote last year:

https://rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html

and although the example is S3 <-> rsync.net, it is not necessarily rsync.net-specific.

You could use this HOWTO/workflow for any two targets.
Not exactly related but: a couple of weeks ago I suddenly had my account 'restricted' on eBay and told I could no longer sell or receive payment for anything I'd sold until I uploaded a load of personal ID documents [passport / driving licence, etc] to confirm my identity. This, after I'd been buying and selling on eBay for 19+ years.

Browsing their 'community' forum, it became clear that eBay have done this to loads of people recently, including many who had been members even longer than me. What disgusted me even more than this obnoxious privacy invasion was the number of people on the forum who'd actually sent eBay all the required documentation instead of telling them to go fuck themselves.

Luckily I had no uncleared payments in my account. So I've just stopped using eBay. It's just a pity there's no viable alternative. Nothing like a bit of healthy competition to help rein in the jaw-dropping arrogance of these mega-corporations
AOC is an obvious puppet?
What’s the joke?
He reviewed my first Go PR a few years back when I posted something new for rclone. He's super nice, indeed. Kudos Nick!
Watching any type of Minecraft tutorial on YouTube is impossible without dislikes. There's an insane amount of clickbait, including for contraptions that literally do not exist. It's crazy.
I remember when I was in High School and used the school's Internet access (between 1993-1997), and search engines still were not big yet. AltaVista came around toward the end. Yahoo was "meh." I purchased a print directory of the Internet in Price Club. The directory listed Gopher, Veronica, Archie and Web sites that one could visit - mostly educational at the time.

Both in size and content it was a "yellow pages of the Internet." I wish I had the foresight to save that book.
Dan Harmon (who is a pretty good storyteller) made a really good (and IMO fun to read) overview of how this plays out in "practice":

https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Supe...
The absolute number of people tells you nothing about the state of the labor market. Every additional person demands services, which creates jobs to fufill the demand, and then the employees of that job use their income to pay for goods and services they like, and the economy grows... that's the entire basis of capitalism and economics in general. The economy isn't a zero-sum game.

For example, when Orlando had a sudden influx of people move there from PR after Hurricane Maria: "we find that employment in Orlando increased, especially in construction and retail, and find positive aggregate labor market effects for non-Hispanic and less-educated workers. While we find that earnings for these workers decreased slightly in construction, this was balanced by earnings growth in retail and hospitality. These results are consistent with small negative impacts on earnings in sectors exposed to a labor supply shock, offset by positive effects in sectors impacted by an associated positive consumer demand shock."

https://www.nber.org/papers/w27718

Instead what you have is a sudden negative supply shock, due to the pandemic, while simultaneously having a demand shock for goods because of stimulus. Of course prices for the labor demanders will increase.
Depends on the amount you have.
It's because some of the text is rendered from a text tag within svg, and some of the text is drawn.
Amsterdam fights overtourism: Go see rest of the Netherlands (2019)
Why would heads roll?

Congress has blocked inquiries into their split loyalty as far as them having multiple citizenship in other countries. If you were McDonald's board of directors would you allow someone to be on both the McDonald's board and Wendy's?

Congress isn't personally harmed by a surveillance state unless you consider they may all be being blackmailed but that is another conversation. In fact mass surveillance widens the barrier to new entries into politics as they can use whatever dirty they find and give it to federally funded media mouthpieces.

This week we saw articles of sexual crimes against children being swept under the rug to "protect our country" do we really think that congress would actively pursuit this line of inquiry?
Every time i see her, i see Anya Taylor-Joy in the Queen Gambit ...
Maybe the archangel of cynicism can come back in a future episode. I'd like to know what they are up to.
I was referring to epilepsy.

I will not get into further arguments with you re: the "crackpot", insult. Have a nice day.
most things are.
I cancelled my premium, unsubscribed from all my channels, and have stopped browsing YouTube (which I did daily for years).

Basically, I've stopped using YouTube as a source for finding new content. If I get linked to a video from a trusted source (here, reddit, etc), then I'll watch the video, but they lost me as a member of the community.
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." —Herbert Stein, economist, 1986
Seems like an apple Lego set
Ask HN: Do you use domain hack?
Most of the domain hacks are used as URL shorteners (eg. itun.es), I was wondering if any of you use it for a product/project/personal purpose.
Hi,

Is this role globally remote?
I code .NET/.NET Core and have worked with Salesforce. Plus AWS
Disabled comments is a very strong signal in its own right. Ratings can also be disabled and usually are as well. Either way, it is still very easy to discern whether the video you are about to watch is controversial.
> You may simply never know really why apple dropped ZFS.

We know because one of the Sun ZFS co-creators (Bonwick) gave the reason on the zfs-discuss list at the time:

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-o...

[But I take your general point.]
What about the EU working on mandating a backdoor though? EU law supersedes local law..

I remember another German email provider raising this last week: https://mailbox.org/en/post/chat-control-the-latest-eu-plans...

And https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...

Other posts here mentioned it as exaggerated but it sounds pretty detailed there. It worries me a bit because it would instantly move the EU from one of the best on privacy protections to one of the worst in the western world.
Thank you. That gives clear and concise words to my qualms about 'cancel culture'.
How energy powers the light bulb in your house
Yet another example of the Carlsen special - drag a game to a long not-obviously-drawn endgame, and grind a win from that. Carlsen seems to have this match well in hand.
I'm referring to move 133, right after Ian moved his queen from H6 to H7, attacking the rook. Magnus ignores this and moves his E5 pawn to E6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWkBeTwbfj4&t=29890s
Well, i do have complains about Blender's new interface: the new one feels "off" compared to 2.7x (something i never felt with the 2.4x -> 2.5x transition).

But it is minor... and i can still use 2.79 anyway :-P
Only in America do cops allow basically The Hunger Games to occur, while they stand by and do nothing
Genuinely enjoyable and timely game. Out of prep early, machine evaluations useless throughout, plenty to play for and Magnus's quality and stamina showed.

I'm of the opinion that there's nothing to gain from fans having engines open during a game, despite working in sports analytics and ostensibly being on the side of the machines. Obviously engines have a lot to say about the modern game, and the match so far had clearly been dominated by excellent prep by both teams. But the excellent commentary on Levitov Chess World by the peerless Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik and Evgenij Miroshnichenko was firmly of the opinion that we had a game on our hands throughout. They were correct.

I looked into some stats from the most recent TCEC superfinal just to get a feel for the error bars in engine evaluations. I think it's clear that even up to about +1.5, a draw is still on the cards between the superhuman engines, let alone humans. About a quarter of the superfinal games were decisive, despite us treating them as oracles. They're far more accurate in their draw predictions - in games that reached a 0.0 evaluation, only 3 ended with a win.

But in this game, even when we hit the tablebase results, where the result is a foregone conclusion for the machines, they still don't reflect the outcome of a human game, especially when the time controls start to get more stressful.

Anyway, what a wonderful, reassuring game. The players will be exhausted and it sets up a fascinating weekend of play. I couldn't be happier.
Everyone has dirty laundry they would prefer not be aired, and if they don't then their friends, family, or partners do. I don't think we want to live in a world where absolute moral purity (as determined by the most vocal, biased critics of a given person) is required to hold public office.
Mining coin?
There is only one provider that has rclone built into the platform:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone sync s3remote:bucket path/path/dir

So you can transfer directly between endpoints without using your own bandwidth.

In fact, you don't even need to install rclone yourself - just run it, over SSH, at rsync.net.

Here is a broad overview of using rclone with your rsync.net account:

https://www.rsync.net/products/rclone.html
I'm all for sorting the problem out, but isn't the reality a little more complex given other countries? Doesn't cutting your intelligence / signals budgets give your "enemies" an advantage? By "enemies" I'm referring predominantly to foreign nation states.
> Don't run your own Kubernetes cluster

If we ran our cluster in the cloud we'd be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional costs due to the high throughput of our service. There are always exceptions to any list of rules.
<insert dank meme about teenagers with dank memes going toe to toe with professional propagandists>

The ability to make sufficient for mass market consumption quality combinations of visual, audio and textual content has gone from being purview of real professionals who do this as their day jobs to something literally anyone with a smartphone, an option and 5min of free time can do.

That is a change to human communication as revolutionary as the telegraph or the telephone. There is definitely some value there. Lord knows who'll capture that value.
Cool idea, here's some feedback.

It looks nice on my phone (although it's really slow to load, and laggy when scrolling). However, on my 1440p 32" monitor it's really bad. First of all everything is HUGE, and it seems like it just scales up/down with the size of my browser window. The content is not reorganized as I change the size of my browser window. If I scale my browser window up and down, everything just get larger or smaller, to the point where it's unreadable. Also, for some reason the page is just blank until I open DevTools, and if I "snap" the browser window in Windows 10, the page content doesn't scale to the right size.
I mean, yeah.

Money effectively == agency in our society.

Have piles of food, will eat.

Don’t have piles of food, will starve.

So long as unnecessary industrial development to validate the “us v them” meme is the status quo, politically corrupt industrial development is what you’ll get.

Enjoy.
Yeah, like (secret) detente with Fidel Castro [1].

[1] - https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB103/index.htm
I have used Blender running headless to generate automated slideshow service for a custom gifting song startup I was a part of. After some initial hiccups getting it packaged (running a 2.78 version while cycles was being rewritten). I can't not speak highly enough about the tools and ecosystem that the community has assembled. There is no other tool that was suitable for the type of dynamic video editing via script control that is also open source. Congratulations on the new release team!
Turn a Google Sheet into a JSON Endpoint
>as it has bigger reach for their markets.

TikTok has a horrible conversion rate though.
Since this often matters when implementing protocols, there is research about session types and verification. Here is a Rust library for session types: https://github.com/Munksgaard/session-types

I believe both have some overlap.
One of the best comments I've read on HN. Thanks for the perspective.
I created this package because I needed to turn on and off some features on my personal projects. I mainly use it in GeoSearch.dev, where I can control the flow of matching engine at runtime. I don't think anyone needs to explain how feature flags work.

I already use the package in production, but there is still room for improvement. I hope you will like it.
What's "equity", btw? I mean, how is it defined by the administration of colleges these days?
SendGird sends 20B emails during Black Friday/Cyber Monday
Show HN: Instant search for the Google Ads API types
I would like Figma themselves to have a go at something like this. Their auto-layout system is close enough to being flexbox that you can actually make decent responsive layout with it. I think a way to export that could be quite useful if done well. Especially for prototypes.
I got it today as well. No idea what's up yet, something to do with one of the orders I cancelled recently? I spoke with the seller and we resolved the issue completely without issues. I use unique password for ebay.
Copying what I said in another reply: I'm referring to move 133, right after Ian moved his queen from H6 to H7, attacking the rook. Magnus ignores this and moves his E5 pawn to E6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWkBeTwbfj4&t=29890s
I had my brand new account banned today as well. How does one sell an iPhone on Ebay without being suspicious?
Thanks for the feedback!

My initial implementation actually did exactly what you suggested where you could drag the mouse to draw. I ultimately moved away from that approach, mostly because it made it way too easy to "spam" the canvas by quickly drawing random pixels all over the screen. Requiring users to draw pixel-by-pixel forces drawings to be a bit more intentional. The UX also gets more complex when a drag can either mean "draw" or "pan", so having a drag always pan the canvas simplifies things.

As for an "export area" feature, I also considered that, but figured people would rather just use their device's screenshot functionality. It's still something on the backlog that I'll prioritize if I hear similar feedback though.
Isn't it possible to stick a label off of a used "pod" into the receptacle, making it think it's brewing "Keurig(tm)(r) Colombian Experience" instead of "Kirkland Signature Breakfast Blend" pods?

I don't use these machines since it's usually easier to just percolate a carafe of coffee since everyone at the office drinks the same coffee anyways.
This is super-narrowly scoped, but perhaps some folks find it useful. My team at work is a heavy user of the Google Ads API, and I found the official docs slow-ish and cumbersome to navigate when you approximately know what you are looking for. So I made this small tool to quickly search the types of the API, linking to the right place in the official docs and to the query builder.

Happy to answer any questions.
It doesn’t provide either except on your own posts, right? Or is that some super karma unlock feature.
Gifted programs are largely not a thing in Californian math. When we're talking about children who opt to take Algebra in middle school, or children who opt to take Calculus in high school, we aren't talking about gifted programs. We're talking about alternative pathways in math.

A central pillar of Equitable Math is that all children of any given grade ought to be in the same math class, and that there ought not be any standard specification for, say, taking Algebra "early" in middle school. The explicitly stated reasoning by the program authors is that this disparity sustains White Supremacy in math.

A child who is ready for Algebra would be best served by opting into a classroom where a teacher has been polishing a year-long discourse on Algebra, as opposed to creating an ad-hoc gifted program. A return to gifted programs would be a return to administrative opacity.
I'll admit, I didn't want to like this at first. Building entire websites out of SVG sounds like a nightmare.
But I checked it out. On first load I got a blank page. Waited and waited, looked at the devTools,and just had nothing. I refreshed the page and it loaded properly. Ok, I get it, this is not ready for prime-time, so let's see what we've got.

So, now I'm looking at this and thinking....what new amazing capability has this provided that we couldn't do before. I was expecting amazing 3D svg animations or something. But this is just a very average template style website. Why would I want this to be made as an SVG. The "illustrator to website" doesn't appeal to me personally, and I'm not sure I know why this would be valuable.
> But that's not the life path for perhaps 90%+ of the population. I don't think we can justify burning tax dollars to exclusively and solely support a tiny minority of kids at the expense of nearly all the other kids.

Sure, but that's not what they're objecting to. They're objecting specifically to cutting off avenues to those advanced paths, and in ways that harm underprivileged students more. Quote:

> the bottom line is that rather than trying to elevate under-served students, such “reforms” reduce access and options for all students. In particular, the CMF encourages schools to stop offering Algebra I in middle school, while placing obstacles (such as doubling-up, compressed courses, or outside-of-school private courses) in the way of those who want to take advanced math in higher grades. When similar reforms were implemented in San Francisco, they resulted in an “inequitable patchwork scheme” of workarounds that affluent students could access but that their less privileged counterparts could not.
Just today the German online IT magazine heise.de published an article [0] claiming that the interior ministers (home secretaries?) will expect from social platforms like WhatsApp to implement backdoors so that the government can access a copy of the data. This is a wish they've been having for ages.

So, there's clearly an opposition.

[0] https://www.heise.de/news/Innenminister-Angriff-auf-Verschlu...
Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398303 (5 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22791036 (2 years ago)
See if you can access food science papers through your library.
For the last 10+ years my Debian-install routine for devices is:

- `dd` the latest Debian netinst onto some old, small on-desk USB-stick,

- Insert USB-stick into target device, power on, get to boot-selection screen.

- Hook up my phone via USB to target, set it to USB-tethering mode (To bypass initial (wifi-)firmware issue(s))

- NOW press ENTER in the boot-device selection screen.

- Select Expert mode in the Installer Menu, this enables:

- Selection of "non-free" package source

- Enable backported software

- Select minimal install (get the rest after Ethernet/Wifi Firmware is installed)

- Reboot, still using USB-tethering

- Install needed firmwares: `apt-get install firmware-<TAB><TAB>` (choose correct one, or install many/all)

- (optional, but recommended on devices younger than 2 years: Install backports kernel (currently 5.14): `apt-get install linux-image-amd64/bullseye-backports`

- (Optional, but needed when batadv-meshing with Openwrt master on 5.10: install kernel from debian testing (5.15.x) , with command similar to above ^bullseye^testing (after adding testing source)

- run tasksel, select "Default Desktop", or whatever you were planning to install anyway

That is a "detour" of less than 10 minutes.
The same thing is happening to me right now. Maybe something is wrong in Youtube! My comments are about Youtube and it's under a video that the person is angry that their views are going down (JayzTwoCents). But I can see it being deleted! I have seen multiple content creators also mentioning something like "if you leave a comment and it gets deleted it's not me, youtube is doing it and I don't know why" in the past week.
My main complaint about Blender that doesn't have to do with subjective things like the UI or whatever (which i mentioned elsewhere) is how the script APIs break all the time. I used to write scripts for it at the past but pretty much everything i wrote is now long broken and after the second time that happened i just gave up. Now if i want anything i just export to one of the formats that come bundled with Blender (most often OBJ) since these are the most likely to remain around across breakages (3rd party exporter plugins also break often) and use adhoc tools to do the processing. It does limit what i can do though.

It'd be nice if they made some sort of "stable" API that plugins can rely on in the long term, even if they had another one that is "better" (whatever their current definition of "better" might be).
Rapid would be great and even blitz. Both game types offer a good intersection of being ease to follow and short enough to watch entirely for a large audience.