skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I (a mere dabbler in web stuff) for one liked <style scoped>, but saying it was killed because Google alone refused to implement it is disingenuous. Just look at https://caniuse.com/#feat=style-scoped
And here, style scoped experiment in Chromium in 2012: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2012/03/A-New-Expe...
Best news of 2020. Literally.
We spend more on Social Security and Medicare+Medicaid. Not that we want to use the money from either over Defense, but the notion that we spend more on the military is a myth.
Thank god this could never happen in the US. https://www.newsweek.com/hhs-coronavirus-whistleblower-claim...

People are people, and have been shooting the messenger for millennia.
Theranos never had a working product and actively did harm, so I don’t know how having patents would have ever helped them scale that business model.

Beyond that, these are extraordinary circumstances. There will be plenty of bailouts and stimulus for you to scale your business model when the dust settles; let’s focus on scaling our response and systems to meet this crisis first shall we?
We also use them as an indicator to realise there is something to scroll, in the first place?
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When China started the lockdown of Wuhan on Jan 23, they may only have had 830 confirmed cases - but the number of confirmed cases was basically limited by the rate at which they could test people turning up at hospitals with severe symptoms and continued to be so for quite a while, from what I can tell. There's a more interesting figure buried in the WHO's final report from their joint mission to China: at some point, someone went and retested old samples taken from people in Wuhan with flu-like symptoms, 20 per week. They found no positives before January, 1 in the first week of January, and 3 in the second week. Those are not pretty numbers.
For the sake of argument, I'm contemplating the idea of counterfeiting Mona Lisa, as you say. I can't see anything wrong with it if it's for my own personal pleasure and I'm not hurting anyone.

Don't forget copyright is a human construct and is far from being perfect. Also the amount of years after which art becomes public is human made and totally arbitrary. Why not 2 years? Why not 500 years?
Ethics are not in the game here, I'm afraid.
I'd like you to reply but please, restrain yourself from insults this time.
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> surely even a rudimentary ventilator is better than no ventilator

This is not a given. Ventilators damage alveoli, which (I am not a doctor, so not 100% sure) I think is not recoverable. Thus increasing air flow with a basic ventilator might do more harm than good, so whether it is worthwhile depends on the patient.

That said, building good ventilators should be very easy as well with the modern industrial base.
I'm guessing invest in stocks that pay dividends.
"It doesn't make sense?" A "much better health care system"?

I encorange you to think what,would happen in a scenario where airborne ebola is burning through the world at the same time as most of our antibiotics start to fail due to resistance.

It's so horrendous to think about. I can't belive you think it's not worth preparing for. You reckon the USA should scrap its military until an invading force turns up on the west coast?
> I wish people like you understood economy.

What I understand is that we have decided that one particular measurement, GDP, has been taken to be more valuable than all other measurements. Such as, but not limited to, human welfare.

It's been this way since for decades, and we are now laying in the bed that was made.
> Maybe right now the focus should be on not making people homeless

I think this is the primary motivator for providing money to all Americans. Many people on HN who are salaried and able to work from home might not be worried about making rent but many people who work hourly jobs aren't getting a paycheck this week.
CPAPs are great machines.. they literally can be lifesavers.. But you should never share a CPAP!!! A CPAP is setup for YOU! You can blow out a lung using it on a loved one.. also you can bust your stomach/gut depending on a loved one if they have something as simple as GERD. They seem simple.. but they are not.. they are setup for YOU.
Boeing, Which Repurchased over $100B in Stock, Downgraded to BBB, Seeks Bailout
Mainly pwsh and nushell
AMP is a federated web alternative to closed apps and ecosystems like Apple News and FB Instant Articles. It's a specification built using existing web standards that allows anybody to build FB IA or Apple News without integrating directly with publishers.
What "thing"?

You can currently buy or rent whatever you want and watch it. I haven't found anything on a streaming service that isn't also for sale/rent somewhere and have found things for sale that are not available on streaming services.

If you want access to "_everything_", and are willing to pay a premium over existing services, buying/renting what you want is available today. Problem Solved, no?
Periodic reminder that most of Europe has unlimited, uncapped cellular data plans for absolute peanuts. Mine is £15 per month and £10 for another unlimited SIM in my iPad. Americans should be angry at their service providers about this.
Nonetheless, its still mildly concerning that smaller players in the browser space are finding it difficult to keep pace with all the new APIs being introduced to the web these days. Even Microsoft sort of gave up and killed their browser engine in favor of a Chromium fork.

It's a tricky situation with no obvious solutions. The Pale Moon dev's plea to slow down isn't going to work; devs want these new features and they're not going to stop using them just because a smaller browser developer with no significant market share can't keep up.

There is, perhaps, the beginnings of a solution with the Extensible Web Manifesto[1], which aims to shift the focus of browsers from implementation of many high-level features to instead focus on smaller, simpler low-level features which high-level features can then be built on top of. (Though ironically, web components are a part of this movement.) CSS Houdini[2] is one such feature which seems like it might be relevant in this specific situation (though whether it's helpful I have no idea; in the short term I suspect it might just translate to a lot more work).

[1]: https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Houdini
From the video, it looks to me like they're pressing the stylus fairly hard on the tablet, I wonder what's up with that.

Also, I wish they were able to use an e-paper with a faster refresh rate, like ClearInk claims to be (see e.g. https://youtu.be/kE_byDwLjxk?t=34).

That said, it seems to look quite attractive as is already.
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Only the claims matter. That's not the claim section... has anyone read it?
Amazon warehouse employment is at will. There is no "abusive contract" that "desperate people" are being forced to "sign".

I've noticed that the stories on the dark satanic mills of Amazon's warehouses never bother to show us how wonderful the conditions are in Barnes & Noble warehouses by comparison.

Why is that?
Honestly, both of you need to provide sources to support your point of view.
Yeah. Someone made a good point: all those Chinese scientists and their supervisors and local government and local police and numerous agencies were actually acting to protect the US. Xi obviously has lost control of the Chinese government to secret US agents. Lol.
This is the times were you see who really is a global power and who is just posing
Can you fully blame the Chinese government? The WHO could have sounded the alarm in January and stopped global travel. Trump could have had a fearful knee jerk reaction and done the same. Everything we are doing now should have been done mid January. State governments, county health departments, they all could have reacted louder, faster.
The original report from Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
If we’re looking at a situation like the Great Depression, we might have deflation. In that case your dollars will buy more and more as prices fall.
Some context that could possibly make the reasoning behind this more clear.

Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox. The purpose of the fork was to retain support for various legacy technologies that mainline Firefox was abandoning, such as NPAPI plugins, XUL/XPCOM, and old-style themes.

If keeping up support for those old technologies and keeping up with the latest improvements in Firefox sounds like a lot of work for a small team to tackle, that's because it is. As a result, Pale Moon doesn't include all the performance improvements that shipped with Firefox Quantum, along with various other "modern Firefox" improvements like not running all tabs in a single process. (Pale Moon last rebased itself on mainline Firefox circa Firefox 52, which shipped three years ago.)

My suspicion is that, when Pale Moon asks you not to use Web Components, they're doing so because their engine is old, it doesn't have the necessary muscle to deal with things like shadow DOM in a performant fashion, and they don't have the resources necessary to give it that muscle. They could rebase onto a newer version of Firefox that did have that muscle, but they'd lose support for all the legacy technologies they forked away to keep in the first place; and re-implementing all those APIs on their own would be just as prohibitively large a project as tuning up their engine on their own would be. So, in the absence of some huge population of skilled developers volunteering to pitch in for free, their project is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I can assure you, Theranos made no meaningful innovation in anything besides fraud. All of their researchers were either being fed bullshit data, so their conclusions are worthless, or were generating bullshit data, in which case they were a scam.
Because if half a million people died, they'd ask for his head on a plate for treason...
Holding patents should get exponentially more expensive..
Browsers are now about as complicated as operating systems were in the 1980s. It’s not impossible to create a new one, but it’s certainly not low hanging fruit anymore.
No, the government should be doing this. God willing, not every hospital will need every ventilator at once, but at some point they may, and that's why it needs to be a shared, transferable resource. They are going to need a way to deploy a hundred ventilators to a stadium or conference center, and that just makes sense to come from a government, instead of scrounging from various hospitals.
A fish rots from the head down after all.
Absolutely. And if an invention is actually useful, the government can give a grant to the inventor after the fact.

Solves both problems.
I think Chrome 81 has WebNFC too https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/web-nfc/
I think there's some validity to that view. The Internet was actually 30 years old when it went public.

I find it hard to believe though that VCs are playing that long a game. That's way too long a time horizon for any conventional VC investment.
>The only incentive for innovation on this planet is monetary

The irony of posting this sentence on a website displaying royalty free HTML, on a network that was first built to allow royalty free sharing of information between the military and scientists, with the servers running on royalty free GNU/Linux in a web browser based on royalty free Mosaic and discussing the issue with a whole bunch of unpaid people who like to discuss things for the sheer fun of it, is staggering.
Ah yes, we can see this with the famously privately funded Manhattan project.
I took it as having an implied "...on an electronic device."
And what products would that be? Their "essentials" line of articles that are not literally essentials?
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How does such a broad idea even get a patent?
Please, it's not "Google Web Components", just "Web Components". Web components has pretty decent support in Safari and Firefox. But of course, the real problem is that that is just about the full list isn't it, not considering other Chromium-based ones, and nobody really wants to reinvent the wheel.
Imagine if people were willing to pay for journalism that prioritized accuracy over sensationalism.
Sweet; glad you like it. I'd love to hear more. (Disclaimer: Tilt CEO here)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a patent holder doesn't defend their patent isn't it possible for them to lose it?
All of those abandoned anchor stores you see in shopping centers could become hospitals.
> No one shall be deprived of his possessions except in the public interest

As I mentioned, taxes for public goods makes sense. If they are just going directly to someone else's pocket then it's not exactly for the "public" at that point.

The ECHR is missing the freedom of speech, so I wouldn't look to that as a leader in individual rights.
there's no way to protect yourself from it. You either Risk up and get into equities or have everything taken from you via inflation and low interest rates: that's the whole point. this is a wealth transfer from savers to non-savers.
This has been so widely reported, not sure where to start. Operating rooms at many Italian hospitals have been closed and turned into ICUs to handle the demand, which means that surgeries in many places are no longer possible.

You can read about this in any of hundreds of media outlets. Here's one:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8095835/Overwhelmed...
It's no worse than everyone over here proclaiming it was coming out of a Chinese bio-weapons lab. They're no more responsible for the virus than the US/Mexico was responsible for swine flu.
the only thing i want is a device i can write on that has a refresh rate (or whatever) that's near realtime (so that I don't get the cognitive dissonance from the lag in the line appearing). does such a device exist? i've tried surface and ipad and etc. all of them still have quite noticeable lag when writing.
How does a disease that's close to 3x more contagious than the flu stop at 80k people in the densely populated cities of China?

The current numbers are the ones that don't add up. Even John Hopkins estimates up to 500k cases in the US at the moment.
These type of E Ink devices takes seconds to update
> The patent office also grants its fair share of questionable patents.

I truly wonder how many patents issued in the past twenty-thirty years, would stand up to _any_ amount of actual scrutiny.

I'd say there's a LOT of justified hate for the way the USPTO is operating.
It's a reimagining of original sin. And it can get lost. Evil way of thinking
Hourly employees in the United States are paid at a rate of 150% their base rate for every hour after 40.
China literally sent a team of medics to Italy to help with the virus: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/13/world/europe/13re...
I am very aware! And it's not that popular, reason why it's hard to find.
We know how to make ventilators. What we need to do is make them at scale.
And that the very simplest examples have to download 12MB of code before they can do anything. (OK, so it’s probably more like a 4.5MB download. Still waaay bigger than you should require for most purposes.)

And you don’t seem to be able to enter astral plane characters at all (though that’s just an implementation bug that they haven’t dealt with yet, and shouldn’t be a fundamental problem of the approach).

And controls are all wonky and non-native in look or feel. And keyboard control slips badly in many places so that you lose your place within the window easily.

Recompiling desktop apps to the web (and specifically Qt, but also excluding games, which live somewhat in a space of their own) is very niche.
Interesting to see Rust praised for its ergonomics, possibly not the first word that springs to mind (to an interested observer, not yet a user). Could you say a bit more about that?
That is exactly what I'm asserting. That places not having a surge in severe cases are different than the places that have had a surge. That is literally my hypothesis.

The week behind curve on Italy is one to watch. My assertion is that we have had infections hitting here for at least a month. Probably longer. If we don't get the same severe case spike in a week, will everyone just keep upping their models? Because that is what it looks like people are doing.
Either put the capital to use in the real economy, or moths and rust will destroy your hoard.

That's fair.
Nothing to do with amazon. We've had supermarket delivery in the UK for nearly 2 decades (Ocado started in April 2000), and all supermarkets deliver to almost the entire country.
Because the USPTO is broken. EOF.
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This might well be a very naive question, but, provided the peak rate of infection differs between nations, could a part of this be solved by borrowing from abroad?
if you’re thinking about profit motive at a time like this you are part of the problem. Full stop

People will remember. A decade or two ago, during a flu outbreak that had pandemic potential (I think it was 2006), the government of Indonesia refused to share early samples. The reason? In the past, vaccine manufacturers had refused to sell flu vaccine during pandemics at a discount to the developing country.

From a game-theoretic viewpoint it makes sense - Indonesia isn't worse off if it refuses to cooperate, Indonesian citizens will die anyway. Israel calls this stance "Samson Option".
Lumping airlines and restaurants in the same category might make sense for the efficient market section of an economics textbook, but food trucks aren't "stepping in" for "front-line" businesses. For the past century being "alright eventually" has always demanded government support. Though businesses have never actually corrected any economic crisis in history, maybe this time they will? I guess blind faith has its benefits, but it's not a particularly strong strategy.
Everybody knows the real number of cases is greater than the confirmed number of cases, everywhere, regardless of what country is reporting the numbers.
As you've already been told, Limited Liability Corporations are part of the foundation of modern prosperity. That is a completely and totally separate issue from illegal activity, and your conflation of the two is incorrect.

Illegal activity is already punishable, and the fact that it generally isn't punished is not at all related to limited liability, but to political will[0][1].

It does nobody any good to lash out without understanding the issues.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/books/review/the-chickens...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/07/30/535799735/corporate-bungling-...
With the immense amount of deficit the gov is currently under and will be under in the future, and the monetary policy of printing money, I'd say high inflation is much more likely. Even in the last several years, we've been having near 2%, or even over 2% inflation.
Well, if I as developer would realize that i pose my users under certain risk and i am unable to do anything about it, then the only logical and morally correct option would be, to tell that my users and cease operation.

Everything else is selfish and delusional!
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Does it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should, IMO. That includes making any vaccines or treatments widely available at or near cost, possibly with government subsidies. Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line.

Edit: I don’t know exactly where the line of IP as a public good lies, but with this many lives at stake, we’re certainly well into that kind of territory.
> The idea of protecting investment in innovation and allowing for public disclosure through a patent is a good thing.

That's theory and an outdated dream.

Practice is that patents are nowadays just their to defend monopolies.

They are there to be sure to atomise the concurrence which is too weak to afford an army of lawyers.

Patents are the legal version of the nuclear bomb. Nothing good get out of it, it costs to everybody a shit tons of money and you never use it for anything serious or MAD is guarantee
The use case is to quickly handle ad hoc scenarios.

If you need to quickly extract something from a csv, you could break out python, or import it into a database, but using cut and grep (or csv-tools) will take 5 seconds.

The point is if you need to do a specific task many times, do it in a programming language. But if you have an ad hoc task, you're saving a lot of time by being proficient in the shell.
And Insulin
While you joke, I actually used that method on a modified clipboard to hold mine in a zip up folio. I'm super happy with the way it is positioned now because I have it held in place with a clipboard.
https://imgur.com/a/thrkIww
Please Americans, take preemptive measures. Ramp up masks, respirators, gloves, alcohol, bleach production. Work from home if you can, protect workers from logistic chains. Don't wait until you have the numbers on top of you.

It's not only the virus, is the deep economical effects it is having. Massive layoffs now in Spain, the economy is basically at full stop.

If you don't do it, it's not only you who will suffer. Everyone will.

Please, please, be responsible. Not only for your elders but for everything else. Don't wait until it becomes personal, you get relatives infected or you lose your job or your business. Every time you don't act is way more people infected, way more people dead, way more people with problems.

Make homemade masks if you need to. Wear them no matter what other think.

Learn from others mistakes. Don't undervaluate the situation. You should understand this situation as a war-like one, but in your own soil.

I saw it coming, didn't have to go through the denial phase, but it makes me nervous nonetheless. It's different to know about something than going through it. If you are calmed now, take advantage of that emotional state to plan ahead, you will perform better.
A City with Zero New Case of COVID-19
I don't know where you live, but here in France I haven't seen a paper price tag for years. Every chain store has been using e-ink tags for a long time.
If I'm a person who doesn't actually need this to pay my rent, then I'm just going to use the rent voucher and take the cash I was going to use to pay my rent and stash that instead.
Obviously there is no room for a constructive discussion on this. Edited to remove my post.
cementing their status as the #1 flyover state