skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, this is not some random app, but something that has been featured in Wired: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/turn-handful-phones-speaker-sy...

This is their webpage: https://ampme.com/. It says ©2019 Amp Me Inc. which could mean it was not updated since then. This is also when the app started charging money. Could it be that the authors sold the app and the developer account to scammers?

Also, not sure how to treat the accusation about easy to subscribe and hard to cancel. It seems the subscription can be canceled in iOS like all other subscriptions?

The app is also in Google store.
Good luck positioning parallel planes to form the sides of a pyramid. ;D
* It should be the responsibility of "svgo" to make sure it's direct dependencies are alright.
We know omicron spends less time in the lungs, which is excellent news
It is NOT a cultural practice in either of these states to simply "dump the body" in the Ganges. The tradition is to scatter the ashes in the river. Wood burnig open air cremations along the river bank is the norm, which takes several hours to reduce a body to ashes & bone fragments. Under usual conditions, a family member would remain with the pyre till the end, and would collect the bone fragments, mostly the next day. A lot of the leftover material is wood ash, which would be deposited in the river directly by the crematorium workers. Historically when resources have been tight & crematoriums overwhelmed by epidemics in the past, a family member would not be present, and unscrupulous crematorium workers would overturn partly cremated bodies in the river to ensure fast turnover, which is what seems to have happened in 2020. Desperate families might also inter the bodies directly in the river.
Isn't Deno doing this with its own standard library?
I agree with all these points. Wearing masks is now normalized so the likelihood of getting flu is also greatly reduced. Also, the disgusting handshaking habit is gone as well. Many wins.
> The only viable response is to accept it's going to happen and have meaningful discussions elsewhere.

That is precisely why I said Hackernews is doing itself a disservice:

This makes people leave the site, like you just proved by suggesting it.
Why would you think your three kids are somehow definitive or representative?

These kinds of comments baffle me. It's almost as if people can't imagine that other people might have very different experiences, and that those experiences are equally valid.

Pandemics are statistical events. Individual stories are irrelevant because the true picture is always a collective summary of cause and effect.

No one can generalise from personal experience - except possibly those working on the front lines, who have to deal personally with the consequences of poor decisions.

The reality is that when you have a rapidly mutating pathogen, the pandemic is done when it stops mutating and becomes mild enough for health services to return to something resembling normality.

This may or may not happen after Omicron. It might, but it just as easily might not.

Personal opinion is absolutely not a factor in this.
>I will continue to remain on the Signal board, committed to helping manifest Signal’s mission from that role, and I will be transitioning out as CEO over the next month in order to focus on the candidate search. Brian Acton, who is also on the Signal Foundation board, has volunteered to serve as interim CEO during the search period. I have every confidence in his commitment to the mission and ability to facilitate the team for this time.
> Invasive species thrive in ecosystems that we create...Anyone thinking about cutting down your pear tree. Read "Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration" [0]

The problem is they also thrive in (i.e. invade) ecosystems that we didn't create, and destroy or disrupt them.

If these species didn't invade wild ecosystems and stayed put in our backyards, then they wouldn't be invasive.
What are the subsidies up to now, $12,500 per car? I haven't spent that on bikes all my life, and it's been my primary transport. Paid retail for all of it, too, of course.
To the people who are "vaxxed and done", the pandemic-halting benefits seem to be real enough.

Many of us aren't done (and many others were done long before the vaccine came out), but we're not the subjects of this article.
Sure, I often believe that mature products should be put into maintenance only because the features that matter have all been completed.

Still, this post is about minimum viable ____ "MV_," so presumably, the product is as far from that point as possible.
Kubernetes Is Moving on from Dockershim
“A blinking cursor can have a significant effect on battery life, as such we decided to change the default to non-blinking.”

Sublime Text 4 Update FAQ, May 2021

https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/sublime-text-4-update-faq/58...
I agree being able to deploy a vaccine in record time is very impressive.

I think an interesting thought experiment would be: take the modern COVID strain and go back to the 1900~'s UK/America? (That's where most the site is from as far as I know)

Just the massive lack of co-morbidities (Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, cancer) and demographic differences (Average age was far lower, population density) could make it an almost a non issue.
Sorry - you brought these things up in regards to a slippery slope being denied treatment. I responded to you in good faith to say that half of those do have some sort of denial of treatment, specifically citing what is denied. I do not agree that stabilization of a patient is treating any underlying disease or cause.

We're splitting hairs - I'm out.
yes, that's true, we have eliminated smallpox. I don't think that's in any way some sort of evidence that vaccines are generally successful at eliminating diseases.

I think what we've seen is that there is likely no chance that even 100% vaccination would have permanently eliminated the disease, and total lockdowns aren't super-effective either, given their heavy societal costs.
Carriers generally don't care about payloads, they can monetize you from the metadata. What kind of websites you frequent and when. They don't need to know which color of maternity clothes you're shopping for to know you're pregnant.
I don't know in this case but in general a GPL fork must stay GPL and, AFAIUI, importing a GPL package in your code it's similar to linking to it, so if the code that uses your GPL package is published (on GH for example) that could be considered redistribution. Not sure about the legalities but it could create enough friction to keep companies not willing to contribute away.
Are people really this misinformed? Get a reality check and stop believing the clickbait. There is zero chance that 100% of ICUs are at 100% capacity.
It's not "asymptomatic hypochondriacs". "Hospitalized with no symptoms" mean they're in the hospital for other reasons and just happened to test positive.

Although, even vaccinated people hospitalized "for covid" at the moment are mostly there for things like dehydration, similar to the flu.
It’s certainly worth evaluating, but if you read the study it says that the risk is 10-20x lower in getting the vaccine vs in getting COVID itself. Assuming you live in a world where COVID is rampant (we do), it sounds like the vaccines are a good call.
>Rates for persons aged 10–34 were higher in 2020 than in 2019, whereas rates for persons aged 35 and over were lower.

I highlighted the important part.
I find it slightly weird that a product that's characterized by its attention to resolution and crispiness has no images/video or obvious links to such in their README.
I wasn't aware that the under 5 trial had failed, we are currently deciding if we will give it to our 6 year old. From a biologial/science perspective can someone here explain why might the vaccine work in a 5 year old and not in a 3/4 year old?
Fair enough.

I guess I’ve just seen too many people to then use those feelings to encourage people getting fired from the jobs because they are only putting themselves at risk and not getting vaccinated.

I’d encourage you to move on though. I can’t see the good in worrying about it. To each their own I guess.
Disability comes in many forms. Many disabled people cannot legally drive but can cycle. Others cannot walk easily but can use a specialised bike. And yes, some can drive but not walk or cycle. But this idea that pro-bike = anti-disabled does not hold up.

More generally, if we want to make life easier for those who can only drive, we should get the able-bodied out of their cars to ease congestion.
okay, should it? because we can make that happen if enough of us agree
Seems arguable -- but if that's the case, they are one of the lesser offenders in the market right now.

The lifespan of much of Apple's hardware is considerably longer than most competitors' products. This is especially true with phones. I'm using an iPhone 7 right now, which was first released in Sept 2016. So, five full years and counting, and it's still running the latest iOS version. Not just "still gets security updates" on an old OS, but actually runs the latest release.

For hardware in 2022, that's not bad.

Personally, I think it's kind of a low bar, and we really ought to be able to do better. (I think a 5-year lifespan for a phone or a laptop, and 10 for a desktop, should be a starting point.)
I agree with you that they probably wouldn't be allowed to buy a major US carrier. But they aren't a monopolist or the global market leader in cell phone sales. Even in the US where they are indeed the market leader, their percentage of sales hovers around half, well below monopoly levels.
Fair enough, but a sensible thing would be to do both.
So you need to fallback to centralized government to sue for copyright? How bourgoise.
It's less that it's illegal/impossible and more that it's not in the interests of the company in the long run. Say you do that, then what? If you screw over the seed investors, they are probably are going to tell the series A (and B, C, etc) investors that you screwed them over, and its going to be a lot harder to impossible to raise the next rounds. Plus who would want to invest in a company when the founder already screwed over the last investors. The only way that it could work is if you are able to grow the company indefinitely without raising more money (See Toptal).

Basically, you are exchanging all the goodwill and ability to raise in the future for a small percentage of equity. Not a great trade, if you ask me.
Oh, there is nuance.

Still, legally speaking, who is exactly enforcing it? Opensea? MPAA? I get that is going to be a fun question to answer since you can technically sue for anything ( but its not a guarantee that a judge will throw it out if he/she sees something sufficiently in the 'wasting my time' category ).
> It's also easy for you to bring up teachers and nurses' unions not being mafia controlled -- jobs predominantly staffed with women. The American mafia literally cannot have women members per its own rules, so of course they couldn't influence those unions.

How about the Aerospace Engineer's union, then: https://www.speea.org/
Pretty sure it's predominately male.

> If you do your research though, you'll see that the Russian mafia is heavily skimming from medical services through control of the nurses' union in Germany. There is no reason they couldn't replicate that here.

Organized crime could get entrenched in any industry given enough incentives and lack of rule of law, and just as much: lack of protection by the law for regular people. I could just as easily say the mafia could start heavily skimming the bagel business.

If you have any evidence that teachers and nurses unions are any more likely to fall into that, or that current manufacturing or professional unions are beholden to organized crime, present it. Otherwise it's just an attempt to smear all industries' organized labor with the past of a very specific sector.
No? What provision do you think are they violating?
The vaccine trials normally last that long because it's usually much harder to get so many deaths in the control group. It's not done with the intent to show safety.
They are using ODoH in the private relay.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...
Yes. This used to be one of those things that made a significant difference but probably doesn't matter any more. I say "probably" because I haven't seen any code like this that wasn't spat out from a generator in a long time
That's an important part of getting step 3 to happen.

You need proof of regret, and $800 million seems to have been enough. Cheap money if you can make step 4 happen such that it nets more than 0.8 billion.
This does not seem to be the case. Elsewhere in the comments, neurobashing said their private relay works fine for an MVNO on T-Mobile.
Working with physical sources = being able to spread ten books out on a table and easily flip between sections in a tactile way (physical pages). That’s really what I mean. For some reason physical objects are much simpler to work with (for me) and opening ten windows (even on a giant screen) just doesn’t work for me the same way.

The minimum useful version for me would be something that recognizes all media types AND allows commenting/notes in a standard format that links between them and is easily manageable.

In particular that would mean for me:

- read/highlight/notate/manage/organize functionality for epubs, PDFs.

- import physical books via ISBN and allow me to attach my notes there (ideally with a companion phone app that lets me scan/photograph relevant sections.

- photo library (ideally containing the aforementioned book pics while leaving them linked to the notes).

- multiple routes for surfacing old stuff.

But in all honesty: the reason I think it’s a pipe dream is because I’m fairly certain the limiting factor is being human, not the technology. Like I’m kind of hoping for a new paradigm for digesting media, but I also recognize that’s a pretty steep ask.

Relatedly I’ve been trying to build what I’m talking about out of emacs since COVID started, and I get some of the way there by org roam + org noter, but the difficulty of connecting emacs with various work cloud services and such has proved quite daunting.

But I’m still at it, because most tools of this nature are dev centric, whereas I’m prose centric, so much of my frustration comes from having tools that are CLOSE but fall apart in the last mile workflow (for my purposes).

Honorable mention to hookapp for mac, which I’m still wrapping my head around but may end up solving some of my nicher problem areas.
> Such blind hiring trials are quickly shuttered and swept under the rug to avoid rattling the PC orthodoxy.

France tried it and it backfired spectacularly.

It's kinda sad because it creates two categories of devs when looking at internal hiring: people you know are there on merit and people who maybe got a little bit of help from "the quota".

I've heard it (in engineering only meetings) "you know this guy is solid, he went to X and he's asian so you know he's there for the right reasons".

Something I have to wonder is are women and minorities... ok with this?
Interesting timing given the recent global launch of MobileCoin in Signal to allow for private payments.

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...

Hopefully this is a positive for the future of that integration - imo privacy in payments is as important as privacy in messaging.

I do have some sympathy for the argument that payments should be in a different app, however leveraging Signal's userbase to shift people from Paypal/CCs/etc to a private currency seems worth the risk.
Totally different trees. Callery pears are used because it is a 'fastigiate' tree. Is narrow and tall, but not much tall. Perfect for sidewalks. And is a tree for four seasons with splendid flowering and fall color.

Many fastigiate trees split in this way all the time because the branching happens in very acute angles and this creates a weak point.

Asimina and mulberry aren't good for sidewalks. Asimina is too short, parse and wide and spreads from the root. Mulberry is a tall tree, too big and too wide. Both made the soil slippery and a mess by fruits and leaves.

A possible replacement could be young american hornbeam that can be pruned narrow for a long time before it opens wide. there is not a lot of candidates for a narrow sidewalk. Landscapers deal with this problems and try to fix it all the time.
In VR, there are no rules, so parents are making up their own
Yeah people always look at me like I'm crazy when I do that, but it really does work
Yeah I agree, we should try hard to avoid giving novel viruses of concern to them without priming their immune system to them if at all possibel
What’s new is that the neurons can trigger back the same inflammation that got imprinted on them.
Why Canada loves climate change
It's not only the range that matters though. These batteries have a lot of cobalt, and Tesla is moving away from that. Moreover, we don't know how fast they charge, how many cycles they can be used, if they can be used in cold climates, how fire-prone they are, and maybe 10 other things that Tesla needs to consider for their production batteries.

But yes, if all those other things are decent enough, Tesla obviously has the money to acquire this startup.
You might like the [1] "overrides" field in npm v8.3 although I would recommend using it with caution, changing your dependencies dependencies has unknown consequences... even a patch release can break everything...

[1] https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/configuring-npm/package-json#o...
There are practical reasons for the US to work with Danish intelligence (and others) that would have nothing to do with circumventing the law.
I'm guessing Spanish doesn't have this because it doesn't do noun declination as much, but Latin does have the concept of a "common" grammatical gender that is distinct from the neuter, for words that apply to people or animals but that aren't specifically masculine or feminine.
If you haven't already, research the term "safetyism."
I'd recommend reading "On Living In The Atomic Age" by C. S. Lewis.
If the teacher is moderately technical then they can gain a lot of flexibility by using OBS (https://obsproject.com/) and its 'virtual camera' feature as your 'webcam' feeding into Zoom.

Then anything you do in OBS is feed into Zoom as a direct video feed and saves Zoom screen scraping and re-encoding the video. You can use OBS's screen capture or better yet pre-download the files and just play them back.
IIRC it redirects DNS queries system-wide as well which definitely would hinder general interest tracking.
Random Mosaic-Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans and colored rice
Why is the 4 day week always talked about but never the 9 day fortnight? I feel like that would be far easier to pull off
> I can't quite make peace with just letting the un-vax'd kill one another off.

Why?
> Right now, that is all technically possible, so they'd be defrauding their shareholders if they didn't try.

This sounds like a clumsy restatement of the urban legend that companies have an obligation to maximize shareholder value. There is in fact no such rule, for the obvious reason that nobody can accurately predict the future and calculate the optimal value.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

In this case, a company like Apple could say that they are choosing to forgo short-term profits from selling out their users’ privacy because they feel that the long-term loyalty will be greater, and anyone arguing otherwise would still have to admit that this approach has been phenomenally profitable.
I remember in the early days of the Internet, people were saying how the Internet would encourage critical discussions and open fruitful debates.

Now I think the Internet actually enforces groupthink and eradicates opposing narratives. Platforms like Twitter allows people to dox those with unorthodox ideas and behaviors and cancel them, which is basically a modern day version of "burnt at the stake". It seems that the Internet also ended up give an even more effective podium for authoritarian regimes to push their narrative, best example of this being the Chinese government.

At the root of all this is human nature. Perhaps technology won't help humanity transcend, but it will only reinforce what's already there.

I have to give Hacker News a thumbs up here. I think Hacker News is much better than a place like Reddit for open-minded discussions. Reddit has become a place where subreddit are often times moderated by a group of mods who act like a single-party state.
One issue with long covid investigation is that it's often poorly defined. A person with anxiety three months after a covid case might be said to have long covid. It's worth figuring out what portion of the population has anxiety, covid infection or not.
If it is not a job then why people are getting burned out, why people nag about not getting compensated?
This is indeed a huge game changer especially for founders who are already within industry and are earning a lot more than a new grad’s salary. It also affords startups much stronger talent early on and iterate on ideas with higher capital requirements. Looking forward to what’s coming through the YC pipeline!
That's what they are saying, and that's what's been said during this entire pandemic. I remember in 2020 when a Texas Lt. Gov official mentioned letting old folks die for the sake of the US economy[1]. The whole "let them die and shrug shoulders" theme throughout this pandemic leads into some concerning overtones, but not surprising =(

[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/24/covid-...
Seems like YouTube has a few showcases. Honestly I can't tell a big difference between Crispy Doom and, say, GZDoom.

https://youtu.be/5e9jBlDYfW0
Maybe it's more duck and cover in the face of lava like in South Park.

It seems active / non-retired people will have a hard time avoiding it but after all the current wave will stop like the others so maybe I'm wrong.
T-Mobile is pretty up-front about the various video quality options with their plans, and also has ways to temporarily boost your video quality for a few dollars.

For many people, a cheaper plan with slightly lower quality video is a great tradeoff.
libtorrent was the first project I used Github Sponsor on. Arvid Nordberg is an absolute machine.
Not to challenge the overall idea too hard, but have you thought about what that really means, to say that? If you extend the IFR of, let's say, 1% to the entire population of (let's pick, for example, the US), would it be acceptable to just let 4,000,000 people die and take no mitigating procedures against that happening?

4 million, my mistake, squeezed an extra zero in there.
Quite the opposite. Marriage is a legal contract that, among other things, bestows certain rights and obligations. There is a reason 'adultery' is something that counts as marital misconduct.
Ask HN: What fraction of YC Startups succeed, given each successful fundraise?
Does anyone have any data on what fraction of YC startups go on to ultimately succeed/fail, at each successive fundraise? And I guess *how* well or badly they succeed/fail? I'm partly just curious, partly interested to try to get some kind of "expected value" of any options offered as part of remuneration. Any relevant dataset would be interesting to me - thanks!