skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why they _couldn't_ - they specifically say "All of your listings or shops may be promoted".

Even if they don't, it still falls into a similar trap. A few weeks prior (when I was still looking for cheaper alternatives), I mentioned off-hand that I've found one option, and it's on Etsy. Did she Google "[generic term] + Etsy" (I only found one seller, so it's tantamount to searching the seller's name)? I've no idea, but if she did, they're probably taking 12%.
I wasn't arguing for free speech. I was arguing against homophobia, banning criticism of very specific political leaders (they don't ban political discussion), censorship of statues of religious figures and so forth. All of which things that TikTok has done.
Sample size of one, but, everyone at the office today was talking about this, my parents and my wife's parents both called to ask what we thought about it... seems like it's very top of mind for most people I know.
Because the US fundamentally won’t take strong-arm approach is why everyone should be prepared to hunker down in their own homes for a few weeks or even months if there’s a local outbreak.

You can’t trust anyone sick to voluntarily quarantine.
>Don't go to areas where there are usually a lot of tourists

If it is actually serious enough to avoid going near foreigners, why is international travel being allowed at all?
It's not random at all. Moderators are appointed so as to suit a particular narrative. The subs are such echo chambers that it is hard to separate propaganda and truth.
I have used before https://undraw.co/illustrations
> who is already selling at the rate they can produce goods?

This is a pretty good question. If you sell handcrafted hard maple tables that go for $5k, it only takes two orders and you're suddenly coerced into a program.

However, if that program leads to one sale more it only cost $500 - that's a pretty good ROI. The problem will be if Etsy is transparent and can demonstrate the incremental value of this service, and that it's just not cannibalizing existing sales.
I think it's because the death rate is hard to track and while "high" does not seem nearly as bad as the spanish flu. In part, the damage appears to be China's methods of trying to contain the virus that are making it worse...

For instance, the death rates appear to have a distribution mostly impacting the elderly (incidentally those who are also most likely to have a weaker immune system, but also believe in less conventional medicine:

80+ years old 14.8%

70-79 years old 8.0%

60-69 years old 3.6%

50-59 years old 1.3%

40-49 years old 0.4%

30-39 years old 0.2%

20-29 years old 0.2%

10-19 years old 0.2%

0-9 years old no fatalities

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

Not saying this isn't bad, the current stats are showing something around a 0.7% mortality rate[2][3]. The real scare here, is like the spanish flu, there's a chance it can evolve into a more deadly strain (such as SARS) the more people who contract it. If that's the case, we could be seeing 10% fatality rates across the board.

If you're interested in the history of the spanish flu, there's a great series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9WX4qVxEo&list=PLhyKYa0YJ_...

In any case, general point, people American's aren't super worried about it because we have a great healthcare system, and it's spread is limited thus far. I do think a panic will set in as every major city likely now has infected individuals. So it's a good time to pull out of the market.

[2] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-butt...

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-update-79339-c...
I mean, sure, but looking at the last five years they are getting destroyed by clouds. Amazon, Google, and long-time nemesis Microsoft are all dramatically outperforming Oracle. Nobody wants Oracle's cloud products. The companies that are doing worse than Oracle are other dinosaurs like IBM and Dell. Even VMWare is beating them.
The short answer is yes. The virus is communicable during the incubation window period when the patient is still asymptomatic.
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To be fair, these two are hardly comparable. Reddit is very toxic for sure but if you're looking for serious information or thoughts, it's still has some of that left. Whereas TikTok is pure entertainment, you're not gonna find anything "useful" or thoughtful there, but from the handful of clips (a couple dozen maybe) I've seen over the years it's indeed a delightful place to be, and my friends who do use it love it (more than Instagram at least).
Yeah, I was under the impression that ~95% of posters on WSB don't actually day trade and are just there to meme and laugh at the trolling/idiocy. The other 5% are the fools YOLOing their college loans.

The charm of the subreddit is that it's hard to figure out who's who.
> I sure as hell don't know the reason for TikTok's success

I do. Simple service that came up with a massive user base to keep it propped up and focused around funny, cute, or stupid Vine replacement clips, then US kids flocked to it.

Annoyingly; my favorite tiktok and comment about it were found on Reddit

When I went to college to study TV and stuff, nobody, and I mean nobody, had any inkling that this was the future of entertainment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/f3syl1/duck_throws_i...
While you're not wrong on a meta level, complaining about policy changes like this sometimes balloons into massive PR hits, which can in turn lead to reversals. So it's not entirely true that complaining is doing nothing.

> You don't like Etsy policies go elsewhere.

But "if you don't like [company X's] policies go elsewhere" isn't always viable from a business standpoint, right? I don't know how close Etsy gets to monopoly in their niches, but there's probably a measurable advantage to being there -- customers who, when they're thinking of buying some (theoretically) handmade arts and crafts-ish knickknack, go straight to Etsy and browse specific categories and keywords.
No. Admins aren't supermoderators, they're reddit employees, and the only way you can gain control of a subreddit if you're not an admin is by /r/redditrequest, which has very specific criteria. (Moderator has to have been offline from reddit for N days, so forth.) Even admins can't take control of subreddits arbitrarily. If they did, there are a few that would have been gone years ago.
There was also the case where they flagged the accounts of disabled users to partially shadow ban them so they wouldn't be bullied since few people could actually see their posts.
Best source for learning/grasping/getting-a-feel for hooks in your opinion ?
You can make this claim about any group, minority or not. Every single group of people has bad apples and some groups are even 51%+ bad but trying to use anecdotal evidence from twitter as proof is really not great.

Additionally using epithets and dehumanization of any group no matter what they've done is a road to more hate and violence and will never resolve anything. I find it pretty ironic that some on the left are ok with insults and dehumanization as long as it's of the right group of people that they've deemed "undesirable" even if that group of people really should stop what they're doing, using insults and animal comparisons is a road that takes you right back to what they claim to be fighting.

This got kinda long winded and preachy...

tl;dr calling cops "pigs" is a slur like any other and will only cause more problems.
https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/newly-diagnosed-c...

They isolated some patient care personnel as a precaution. However since they suspected the patient had covid19 they took strong protective measures already.
I agree. I especially like the goals about errors.
Lots of other militaries allow their soldiers to maintain groomed beards. The US is actually kind of an outlier in this regard. But, the military being the military, should they enter a theatre that has a significant likelihood of chemical attack I'm sure those grooming standards would change.
For people thinking it is just like SARS, MERS, or Swine Flu, check out these graphs: https://ncov.r6.no/
The market?

Every other marketplace charges 10-15% - Etsy has been a bargain for years. Even eBay will cost a seller more than Etsy, and no one's complaining about that.
ACE2: From vasopeptidase to SARS virus receptor
Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output
JSC stands for JavaScriptCore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#JavaScriptCore
> I lived for years with a desktop with a broken power button.

Why couldn't you replace it?
There’s no reason we can’t make different judgements about different types of speech. I’m fine with HN removing political posts likely to result in flame wars, but I would have a problem with them blanket removing posts about, say, JavaScript. Likewise, I’m fine with TikTok removing harassing content but not pro–LGBT+ content. These are not contradictory positions.
How is your db setup? If you are running your own instance, just make a cron script that dumps the db every so often (more often if its small) and uploads it to s3 or something.

You don't really need server backups/images if you document/script your server setup properly.
This is my big concern too. The bills are going to be massive, people are going to avoid the doctor because they don't have the financial means to pay. Everyone will be at increased risk because we've failed to have the decency to put together even basic universal health care in this country.
Reddit shows what the world is, tik tok shows the world you want to see. if you ignore this you will become the part of the problem.
A shallow dismissal based on numbers coming from a communist country that runs concentrations camps is probably not the stance you want to take. Especially when the virus out-broke in a market 300m across the street from a level 4 virology lab where the leading expert in coronaviruses was working... I would definitely take everything coming out of the CPC with a boulder of salt.

You can't argue that SARS-CoV-2 is not similar to SARS-CoV. We've seen these cytokine storms in SARS. We have less info on the 1918 Flu but there is a large amount of information suggesting it works the same way.

We simply don't have enough information to say how deadly COVID-19 is in comparison, we won't know until more cases occur outside of China.

Also, there's multiple reasons why the 1918 flu struck younger people harder:

1. The only generation with any immunity to the virus were older people who had experienced the 1889 flu pandemic (Russian Flu)

2. Most of the disease spread through the trenches and the hospitals the soldiers were sent back to.

3. It can cause your immune system to kill you via cytokine storms so it can kill healthy adults.
"for the End of Moore’s Law" seems like meaningless clickbait in this context.
> Every kWh of clean energy produced is far more effective at addressing climate change when it replaces a kWh generated by fossil fuel than it is trying to remove the carbon from that fossil fuel after the fact.

True. However, here are two significant, in my opinion, notes.

1) We already have a lot of CO2 in the air. We'd better get it out, and sooner.

2) We're proving every day our limited abilities in organizing focused efforts in fighting climate crisis, particularly by a single specific way. So, if we could reduce organizational problems by choosing a solution which has less of them, we could win in practice.

It's rather obvious that it's better not to get CO2 into the air in the first place. Looks like we can't avoid doing that now. So other options become interesting.
It has no external dependencies but supports compiling typescript, flow, etc. Does this mean compilers for those will be re-reimplemented inside Rome? Not really looking forward to build tool-specific bugs with those languages.
FTA:
>"Japan has changed its strategy in combating the contagion, seeking to slow its spread and minimize the number of deaths."

In my personal opinion living and working here, this society is very slow to change and things that could greatly assist in slowing the spread, such as adopting a Work From Home policy, will only occur once it's too late. Almost no one is allowed to work from home here, even those with office/tech jobs that can completely be done remotely with no issues. In addition, workers are granted an incredibly small amount of days off, and most would rather get onto their very crowded trains and commute into the office even when unwell as opposed to taking one of their limited days off.

All that being said I'm not freaking out about it the way most people here are, but I wish companies would react a bit faster and change their work culture to accommodate the very easy things that could be done so people can limit their interactions with others when something like this is occurring. You can pretty much guarantee that one person with the virus getting onto a sardine can train during their morning commute is going to infect several other people in the process, and no amount of face masks the people here are so fond of will do anything to keep an infection at bay.
It will be very very bad.

There is little to none surge capacity at US hospitals.
There's an odd jump in this narrative. PCA is indeed a great technique, but the essay goes from PCA to neural nets without explaining why. PCA was around for a long time before NNs and there are fast incremental ways to do it. Why bother with a million-weight NN if PCA will do the job?
Edit: I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted. I think this is worth sharing and discussing.

I've been watching this a bit too closely and am probably becoming an alarmist, but I find the smartphone video footage of this outbreak both fascinating and worrying.

I've compiled a list of unverified videos from Reddit, TikTok, and Twitter. They're not journalistic, so take things with a grain of salt, but at the same time I think it's worth synthesizing into your understanding of this virus.

WARNING: these can be graphic or disturbing.

Nurse in Iran reports eight deaths. Deaths of a twenty year old with no prior health issues and two thirty year olds. Deaths are sudden and unexpected:

https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1232779487647031302...

Multiple children (around age 8) being wrapped into the same body bag by doctors wearing masks.

https://youtu.be/sImeSvSS_60

Mobile crematoriums:

https://twitter.com/JoeB14ck/status/1230040837255380993

Reports of elderly infected in Wuhan being stuffed into body bags for cremation while still alive. Please be aware that this is from NTD, a news organization that is the mouthpiece of the Falun Gong, a religious group persecuted by China, which is an absolutely biased source:

https://youtu.be/YpeNO8PSuyY?t=5m39s (at 5:39)

Another NTD report that claims China's death toll is being grossly under reported. An investigator supposedly calls a funeral home employee and enquiries about their daily volume. The employee finally relents (15m20s mark) and reports that their funeral home processed 127 in a single day. There are over 10 such funeral homes in Wuhan running 24/7.

https://youtu.be/-KFxCqV1fPQ?t=15m20s

Forced quarantines:

https://youtu.be/nNeTWX7WgwA

https://youtu.be/CDePjw3w0xg

Welding families inside their homes regardless of the fire risk:

https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1226535217055313921

Those locked in Wuhan screaming at night. (Media says these are "chants of solidarity".)

https://youtu.be/opFCAWZHpzg

I'm personally a little worried as I'm not sure why these measures would be taken over flu or a disease that only impacts the elderly (as macabre as that sounds).

I've seen other videos I can't find the links to right now:

- Chinese police patrolling the street with rifles that look like they're "hunting" for anyone not obeying the quarantine.

- Prisoners(?) tied into a lengthy chain gang and being escorted by masked guards.

- Lots of videos of people suddenly falling over dead in public. Chinese videos mostly, but also videos from Iran.

- Dead bodies lining the streets covered in sheets as the videographer drives by. This one was possibly debunked as homeless people asleep.

- Death rattle videos. These are tragic and horrifying.
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No, he says it exaggerates the ups and downs, so you get higher highs and lower lows. That is not "creating upward momentum" in an ordinary sense.

Also, it takes some guts to defend the idea "this perpetuates an upward movement" by quoting someone explicitly saying it doesn't. A finite upward boost and an infinite upward boost are different things, as explicitly noted in the quote you just pulled and in your comment on it.
Do you spend much time on /r/all?
Not a doctor, but from what I've read, it's mostly transmitted through droplets, from coughing or sneezing. Especially when you use public transport, someone already infected might have sneezed or coughed, and then it's transmitted to you by you rubbing your eyes or mouth. I heard it's very low risk, but other than close contact with someone already infected, it's just another way.
https://twitter.com/foone/status/1066547670477488128
Look at the irony. This discussion is taking place at Hacker News. Most wholesome place all over the internet.
You're not wrong:

https://reclaimthenet.org/reddit-banned-for-upvote-policy/

and

https://old.reddit.com/r/SamandTolki/comments/f9fox2/reddit_...
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> I'm doing 20% more work, and making _less_ money.

That's not how it works. Overall you're making less per hour, but making more overall money. Maybe you were at $20/hr, and now you're at $19.50. This is not a bad trade-off, as otherwise you wouldn't have made that money but you still would have had those hours of productivity available.

Where do these exaggerated 10-15% gross margin numbers come from? These stores do not exist, or do not exist long. And I can't imagine any product at 10-15% that isn't being sold everywhere else because it's mass-produced.

How much of every seller's business comes from free Etsy traffic? Should Etsy charge more for orders they can validate came from them, which the seller otherwise wouldn't see?
Sounds like https://getshogun.com sans Shopify integration. What is up with everyone trying to bring Microsoft Frontpage to the web?
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I assume they all use Nokia 5110s, because what villain would risk a destructible phone?
Yes, but, if you aren’t breaking rules and they claim to be defenders of free speech you could at least expect them to play the part. I’ve seen some real shananagans at Reddit including the CEO stealth editing posts.

Reddit acting as publisher is fine with me, they just still insist they are a neutral platform.
Reading the Washington Post article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/northern-californian-t...

"There are indications that other hospitals could be involved in the case. Kris Concepcion, fire chief and acting public information officer in Vacaville, Calif., said county officials had issued a directive not to transport any new patients to two local hospitals — NorthBay VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville and NorthBay Medical Center in nearby Fairfield. Concepcion declined to say why those orders had been given."

Are these hospitals open now?
True. Shut down all planes for 14 days. Ships too. While it will be quite extreme, if the count gets towards 6-7 digits, it may be well worth it.

At 3000+, we are already inching towards 5 digits with one more city : area going bad.
Having this patient at my place of work does not worry me at all. Not one bit.

Time to use some of my vacation days.

Note: I'm not a medical practitioner, I am a research scientist and can do my work remotely. I admire and applaud the doctors and nurse who are there, and UC Davis has some of the best.
I’m having flashbacks from Plague Inc.
I can't read German, so I can only assume that's a joke... What the heck is going on there?
They have a moderation formula and it works. Any social media platform requires it to succeed. That is the reality of today's internet. lgbt content is controversial in huge parts of the world.
If you're familiar with React then https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-hooks or https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-hooks-migration or https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html are a good place to start
Cloning pets is a thing: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/style/barbra-streisand-cl...

The main issue with cloning humans is that it is controversial and legally frowned upon in most countries. That means that if it's happening, all parties involved have a big incentive to keep it a secret. Also, it likely involves a lot of money as it is risky and there are only so many scientists willing to risk their careers.

Morals aside, the main technical challenge with human cloning is the high failure rate in terms of the numbers of less than perfect clones with defects that would have to be euthanized. But it's not fundamentally harder or different from cloning sheep or pets. Of course high failure rates are also a challenge with IVF births. However, this seems to be far less controversial. Most non viable IVF embryos simply don't make it to the womb (i.e. get discarded before implantation) or fail in a early stage. Some couples try for years before succeeding. I doubt it would be very different with cloning. Finding women willing to carry the child is another challenge. With IVF it's typically (but not necessarily) the 'natural' mother who gets her own eggs implanted back opting into this. With clones this might be less practical as the mothers might be a combination of too old/dead/unwilling so you'd need some woman to carry the child (probably in exchange for cash).

When it comes to animals, we simply care less about all this. Once the technical issues around this are addressed the remaining moral issues will have more to do with religious/philosophical concerns than any practical concerns. The whole boys from Brazil thing is going to keep this controversial for a long time after most technical concerns are addressed no matter what.

Yet, there's no shortage of wealthy hedonistic / narcissistic types that are likely to want this no matter what. So it's more of a case of when than if and you have to wonder how far in the past 'when' is going to be exactly. I guess we'll find out when people start discovering they have genetically identical twins of different ages in gene databases in a few years.
Tik Tok shows the world that the oppressive governments and the 1950s wanted.
The president was impeached, and there was no mention of it on HN. To say there is political content on HN is absurd.