skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was responding to the other guy, who seemed to be bragging about being able to avoid Amazon, through the power of using other retailers who also need workers, as if this was some grand accomplishment.
Definitely upper half. Considering it costs about $400k just to be able to bid on a franchise...
wework isn't the first company to do this, and not even the largest. Regus does the same thing but instead of elevating the world's consciousness they actually make money
I think you're measuring how bad things are relative to what is considered normal. Relative to normal, absolutely, the pandemic is terrible.

I'm measuring how bad things are relative to how rightly fucked things can be, and climate change offers up a whole wenu of awesome things. Widespread crop failures, Ecosystem collapse, Food supply shortages, violent uprisings, Mass human migrations, Famines, the collapse of the global supply chain and upheavals in the global balance of power. How bad can it get, and when? I don't know exactly but 2020 is off to a very exciting start.

2 months ago The pandemic felt unreal to North America, even though the warnings were easy to read. Now it's real, and hopefully it's waking us up, as people, as governments, and as businesses as to how quickly, suddenly, and shockingly the unreal can become real.

And I agree with you, the economic fallout is going to be terrible. There are many things to worry about, and one of the things I worry about is that thousands of small businesses are going to go under, and their employees, who are often young and living paycheck to paycheck won't have a job to go back to after this blows over.

If this pandemic causes an economic heart attack, I'll see it like a middle aged guy keeling over trying to climb 2 flights of stairs. As in: hopefully that heart attack will scare you into a greater appreciation for taking care of yourself, and it is in fact a blessing in disguise. Or maybe all those businesses will go under and Gen-Z will have to work at the Amazon warehouses until they're 30. Difficult choices need to be made.
Did you read the article?

Quote: Under this policy, TikTok moderators were explicitly told to suppress uploads from users with flaws both congenital and inevitable. “Abnormal body shape,” “ugly facial looks,” dwarfism, and “obvious beer belly,” “too many wrinkles,” “eye disorders,” and many other “low quality” traits are all enough to keep uploads out of the algorithmic fire hose.
The approval is for 30 days.
So back to my question: "What would shaming them for this accomplish? Is the idea to shame them so much that they pretend to like ugly people like me? What would be the point of that?"

What effect on their behavior do you hope to accomplish by shaming pretty people for not wanting to hang out with ugly people? I'm not seeing a productive reason to do this.
I believe they're providing the back end infrastructure that receives that processing that POST request. Maybe they store it in some DB and you can retrieve the data later on via an API call or something?
> Why must we always have a foreign enemy? Be it soviets, muslims, mexicans or now China.

I don't know? Why must "we"? Can't China just get it's shit in order? Is it too much to ask for?
The wired article doesn't go into too much detail - I forget which one I read that went into a bit more detail, but NPR has more information[1]

It's clear that he doesn't have any additional capacity to turn on.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/05/8113874...
254NM UVC light lamps might be a good solution for packaging.

Make sure they are made by a reputable manufacturer, and that you get them from a reputable distributor that tests for proper maximum UVC efficiency.
Is this somekind of test to spam HN submissions?
Agreed, for the most part, more spread of knowledge is the best option. Arresting and deporting actual journalists (not talking heads) is a horrible move.
They are the most highly discriminated against, though.
That's exactly my original argument.

"I determine you're ugly but you can still come into my nightclub" is not that much better than "I determine you're ugly and you can't come into my nightclub"
Well that's no fun isn't it. You warp reality to make the whole social network a complete misrepresentation of only looking at the happiest of everyone's side. There is at least someone keeping a straight face and on TikTok but still feeling ugly or depressed there anyway. It is the same nature that users of Facebook have and it isn't very healthy and promotes one-sided stories.

The interesting observation and funny side to this policy is that there could be a story to be told here where the suppressed "ugly" and "poor" people become the heroes and the TikTok elite and its glamorous fans have become the super-villains.
Let's get that DoubleClick episode out! Gotta hear that story. Interesting that y'all went with absolute dollar amount! Did not think that Instagram would have made that sort of money!
Meltdown by Thomas E. Woods

The Great Deformation by David Stockman

The Fed Flunks: My Speech at the New York Federal Reserve Bank by Robert Wenzel

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
It's not. It's just a giant nightclub filled with a lot of people, so there are more people to complain.
Didn't read the article but "They encrypt one bit at a time" is exactly what stream cipher is, that is, a PRNG. The resulting stream of bits from PRNG is XORed with cleartext bits to produce ciphertext bits.

Dan Bohen told me that in Stanford Cryptography courses.
Monday.com is the worst product I have ever had the experience of working with.

Spreadsheet with 200 rows and 20 columns? Your browser will be laggy as all hell thanks to their wonderful UI.

Try to tell support? The entire page jitters up and down as you type every single character in the support box on Chrome.

Reload the page? Well now the page isn't laggy at all, but literally it is not rendering rows that _are definitely there_.

I really wanted to like it -- beautiful user interface -- but it's an absolutely terrible product. And it was ~15 people on my team reporting the same exact behavior as we tried it.

I would consider recommending Monday.com to my worst enemy.
Realistically, everyone in the house with an infected person is going to catch it. You’re breathing the same air if nothing else.
Could the best mode of noninvasive support for COVID-19 be CPAP?
Maybe consider doing something else with/for those people that you'd like to meet? What about teaching or volunteering maybe?

Also people just don't like to talk about things that they don't find interesting - so if you like to talk exclusively about entrepreneurship with your friends, then it might be boring to them.
Well sure if you look at income alone and disregard cost of living. 32k is barely enough to live on here in CA (yet somehow I survive on well under half that). At min wage you have to work hard for at least 40 hrs/wk to make 32k, and then you can hopefully break even if you're healthy and don't have kids/family to take care of.

We're all suffering. Americans are very spoiled in certain ways, but we miss out on basic human things like buying homes, starting families, self actualization in general. People living in shacks are generally much happier than most people I know here, despite all the struggles one faces in such conditions.

It's all relative. It doesn't matter if I would be the richest man in some village in Belize if I don't and can't live there. The reality is that we have the resources for everyones basic needs to be taken care of, but that would be socialism which is a sin. Instead we let a small percentage of the population hoard all of those resources and force us to work ourselves to death to get back just enough to survive. It's horrific, and it's even more horrific to see working class people defending that system. There is no reason everyone can't sleep in a warm bed with clean sheets tonight and eat a warm meal of their choosing.
As stated it’s easy to have a parent company receiving payments for IP by a subsidiary with debt. But, that’s also why laws are longer than just one sentence and interpreted by people not machines.
Chewy and the Customer Service Multiplier
It's conventional, but perhaps a little misleading since it is almost entirely "on the job" training--there's almost never any coursework or anything like that, just (hopefully) advice from a more senior researcher.
Yishan Wong: Free, Widespread Testing Is the Only Way the US Goes Back to Normal
Folks, this is skunkworks open source. https://github.com/joshua-s/coronavirus-diary

Please, pour your time into this app. Check it out, build a bit, commit. Don't kibitz about legal issues, HIPAA, app store policy, etc. Yes, I know. I'm in healthcare, working this at the federal policy level, attorneys, senior tech folks and senior federal officials are involved.

The policymakers and healthcare leadership are asking for answers that the data science teams tell us the current data can't provide. We need higher resolution data, and we need it now. Thus, this app, which collects data on device and only ships it to a backend if the user authorizes it.

I need you to build it. You need you to build it. Your family needs you to build it. There are two possible worst case scenarios: 1) we're in the thick of it now, and this is going to blow up now. 2) we luck out, spring weather saves us, and it comes back with a vengeance in October or November.

Need more developers:

* security engineer

* iOS engineer

* Android developer

* Dart engineers

* Flutter developers

* Engineers with health industry experience

* backend infrastructure

* backend security

Goal: 1-2 months to MVP deployment. Maybe sooner if people pile on.
I listened to the linked video and read the article/papers. What I take from them is:

- Chinese doctors initially tested chloroquine in-vitro on SARS-Cov-2 and it reduced the viral load significantly. Similar results were observed with other viruses including SARS-Cov.

- They then tested it in-vivo (on patients) and it showed promising results

- The speaker explains then that they had 3 cohorts of infected patients on which they tested daily for SARS-Cov-2. First cohort was the control (no treatment), second one received Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine), third one received Plaquenil and azithromycin (an antibiotic). After 7 days 1st cohort had approximately 85% testing positive, 2nd 40%, 3rd 5%. One could be surprised by the use of an antibiotic but it apparently helps with fight opportunistic bacterial infection resulting from a viral pneumonia. He adds that for every recorded death, the patient tested positive for the virus before their death and concludes that if the double treatment of azythromicin + Plaquenil reduces the viral load, then it would improve patient prognosis.

In conclusion, I think it's quite a big deal if it is confirmed that chloroquine can reduce contagiosity and improve outcomes. It's widely available, cheap and safe. Give it to everyone showing symptoms, individuals who were in contact with confirmed cases, medical professionals, and you'll surely reduce R0 significantly.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4J8kydOvbc&feature=emb_titl...

pre-pub paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485792...

ppt (last page is result of experiment mentioned above): https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
I had the exact same thought while reading the article. Not the first I've read by far, but perhaps one of the few publications that consistently puts out short-form masterpieces.
How do you feel about GM keeping factories open? Or Boeing?
> there are objective sufficient criteria to identify meaning

You have just shifted the problem by now using a very specific, narrow definition of "meaning" rather than doing so with "information".

The objective sufficient criteria to identify meaning only work because this definition of meaning refers to an intrinsic property of a system; however, the common usage of "meaning" involves a relation between multiple systems.
Thank you, today it seemed better until afternoon... now its back to tight chest and all. It might very well be psychosomatic but I dont dare to go out to a physician these days.
I guess I wasn't clear enough about that. Disabled people certainly don't want to be part of that classification but there's no subjectiveness when it comes to their disablement.

Unattractive people don't want to be part of that classification and their belonging to that class is 100% subjective in any direction. Even them leveraging their status to get some sort of benefit.

Also, where's the line? Does that mean that rhinoplasty should be covered by insurance under the same merits of sex reassignment surgery?
I don't have stats or references, but I heard on a pretty reputable podcast a couple of days ago that physical contact appears to be the biggest single vector for SARS-CoV-2. Hence the huge emphasis on hand washing.
There's an entire genre at the Museum of ZZT dedicated specifically to in-game "magazines" covering community-created games and previews -> https://museumofzzt.com/search?genre=Magazine
"Easy Button Hosting" ... "that was easy."

Though Office Max (or was it Office Depot) may sue.
This is so good!

The "Dark Horse" in spot two is quite the outlier

As for number 1, I think they got the GOAT right. IG has proven to be a ridiculously good acquisition…not just in economic value, but also in how quickly the platform grew, given the team size of 13 when it was acquired
Six feet comes from the settling distance curves for droplets of different sizes. There may well be a hard cutoff where the probability is negligible under normal circumstances.
Very cool. Android browsers been freezing/hanging with code and markdown pages
Thanks, that's just what I needed!
Murder of Vincent Chin
"There also seems to be this weird narrative going around (or at least it was, I'm not sure if it still is now) that this is all being overplayed by the media"

If there isn't already, there should be a thread about Elon Musk gaslighting his employees.
I wonder if these locations are recorded in WW2 era classified documents that have never been released. Someone at some point must have known where they were, in order to assign personnel.
> The reactant in thermal paper is often BPA.

Too bad. The original "invisible ink" activated by heat is lemon juice.
How about no demo day for Softbank.
Because TikTok isn't a nightclub, it's a place for people to put their own content out on the Internet

No, TikTok is a place for a company to sell ads on views of creator content and they, much like those nightclubs, believe having "desireable" creators will get them those views.

Other sites have different strategies (much like the local bar in comparison to that nightclub). Their strategy seems to work for a variety of industries.

I am not supporting it, as being on the other side of the good looking line does tend to make life a pain in the butt around the "pretty" people.
> Google places very little emphasis on things like code readability and testability because it’s easy for them to do rewrites or just run tests on 1 million cores to shake out race conditions and locks.

This is complete nonsense. Google's code review and testing and reliability practices are better and more sensible than most big and small companies I have worked for and heard about.
Yes is the answer, but it would be much slower. Assuming 1w for 6 seconds (4s refresh + 2s transfer), it would take about 42 hours for a lossless storage + regulator circuit. 40uw is an incredibly small amount of power.
Real Estate for the Apocalypse
Your vote is correct. You're not the only one voting hexagonal: https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library...
> People in crypto don't understand the design tradeoff between centralization and decentralization.

Care to elaborate about that trade-off?
And could you be a little more specific on who is 'crypto people? (e.g. everyone from users of a crypto systems, core developers, etc.).
How about “I’m not allowed to use attractiveness to determine if you can come into my nightclub”
That's a slippery argument, if we consider that letting people post to these social networks is somehow a right, then doesn't that effectively mean that the alt-right folks who complain about deplatforming being a free-speech violation have a point?

Or maybe there's a case to be made that censoring people for being homosexual or looking different is a form of harassment by censorship?

It's not like these platforms offer any kind of critical service. They come and go every couple of years it seems. TikTok seems pretty crap, just tell people to stop supporting it.

Some people feel socially obligated to go to nightclub, others feel socially obligated to use some social networking app. They're probably both wrong.
It is allowed for by courts for hiring decisions when hiring sales people. And things like commission based pay means it happens even if not explicit.

Aside from beauty, if you do things to signal you are poor as a luxury sales person, I’m not sure the company is required to keep you on, right or wrong.
Which is why rather than protected classes there must be protected characteristics.
They are going to catch them
The entitlement is too real here.

Their platform, their choice for what goes on. You want something better? Go build in yourself. I have no problem with platforms self moderating. At the end of the day consumers speak with their actions.

How many TV shows feature dwarfs or people with who are abnormal? Don't blame a platform for the inherit flaws in most of us. It really only serves as a black mirror to the truth.
A night club is your private home?
Wow, I didn’t even think of it like that. That’s a great way to reason about it that makes it immediately clear. Thanks!
I hope I get it soon just to get it over with.
Curious, what's special about 254 nm? Is that a proven effective wavelength for killing bacteria/viruses for some reason?

Was wondering if places like Amazon considered adding UV lamps into the process to reduce contamination potential.
Time has no meaning at the North Pole
They surely didn’t. Softbank just thought they could take it public before people realized it was garbage.
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This is incorrect. Paracetamol, Tylenol etc are brand names for acetaminophen which is not NSAID. Ibuprofen, Naproxen,
Aspirin are NSAIDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-inflammatory...
Did anyone find a license file? The source code doesn't even have a copyright header.
Except, it IS a night club. The Web is not what it used to be decades ago. There is no elusive concept as "The Web", it's now just a different way for people to connect, just like going to a nightclub. It's been like that ever since the majority of the world got on it.

You say "it's a place for people to put their content out on the internet", but you don't ask WHY they would do that. And I don't know if you have used TikTok at all, but if you ask anyone who "put their content out on" TikTok, they would agree TikTok is like a giant nightclub.
Oh, I wish it came with a USB NFC device so I could send it an image from my desktop. Not sure what I'd use it for, but at that price point I can figure something out :-)

I've always been highly annoyed that I cannot set the screensaver on my Kindle to "the last page I read". Then I would set it to things like my itinerary when I travel, to an editor cheat sheet when I'm learning an editor, etc.
HashiCorp Announces Terraform Operator for Kubernetes
I'm curious about the intensity and length of time needed to break down viruses with this light. Just wondering if there's some a possibility to use a "light bomb" to sanitize a room--set a light on a pole in the middle of the room. Leave the room and close the door, then trigger it for some length of time. Just an idle musing I had.
I remember asking someone maybe a physicist since space is curved why do we locally see it has relatively flat.
I remember spending hours playing with the level editor as a kid. Then, as a teenager, I spent hours building levels for a moderately successful Unreal Tournament mod/total conversion.

Was mind-blowing to find out the same guy was behind both (not to mention Jazz Jackrabbit, which I also loved)!
Anecdotal evidence shows that you can get reinfected.
Seems like a set of ~8 or something core contributors working on this open source project. You talk about it like it's a professional product. Ubuntu 16.04 is still everywhere and I'm sure they have their reasons for not having time to deploy on multiple platforms / architectures / beta lines in order to test changes.

I think you best shot at fixing this problem that has "no good excuse" and using it would be "idiotic" would be to contribute yourself. The least you can do is open a thoughtful issue asking the same things you asked here, but in a way better tone. Even better would be to contribute code but eh, Java.

Edit: another comment in this thread: "That readme is 17months old. and the reference to 16.04 is atleast 3 years old. So it may just not have been properly updated." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611533
Yes, but it is also true that the number of available tests is increasing rapidly, and also is partly in response to government demand.

If the the available number increased to the level where everyone with symptoms could be tested, would you favor doing so? and do you think that governments should push til enough tests are available to do that?
Some manufacturers, like LG, have commercial models that are just dumb tv with no os or other software. Monitors are a good option, too.
>If the public is told that only the sick people are to wear masks, then those who do wear them will be stigmatized and people may well avoid wearing them if it screams “I’m sick.”

If people avoid you that's rather good. Also, the mask might also say "I'm a healthcare worker who mustn't get sick, please keep the highest possible distance."
When I hear about the testing fiasco and the order not to use masks, I wonder what outcome certain people really want.
Public life is surreal in a pandemic
Pentagon Preparing Navy Hospital Ships for Coronavirus Response
My standard of ugly may not match yours. I can refuse to patronize a nightclub that bars people I like.

Privately-run-and-owned social networks like TikTok tend to attain a critical mass where they're considered a utility when they're really not. So boycotts don't work because it becomes literally where everyone is after a while, and alternatives become difficult because the barrier to entry gets so high.

That's the real problem, and the problem of a centralized Internet. I should be able to broadcast video from my house and participate in a peer-to-peer CDN of my choice.

Tiktok is not a CDN, it's a presentation layer on top of their own CDN or one they rent through cloud providers.
package.json for the frontend mentions LGPL-3.0, good enough?

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/blob/65c3a8b1...
The short version is: it’s not an inessential business and it poses little risk. So balancing the economic impact of shutting it down versus the economic impact of workers on social isolation orders possibly getting sick, the better option for everyone is to keep as close to BAU as possible.

Shutting cities down is not going to make coronavirus go away — it is a last ditch effort of a failed nation that let its health infrastructure rot.

Everywhere else we are taking sensible personal precautions, and retraining people for the six month fight ahead: social distancing, self-isolation, far more attention to hygiene. We can do that because our health care systems and pandemic response capabilities weren’t vandalised by vested interests.
Gekke cowboys ook altijd.
I agree, what an awful way to pressure your team. I respect you voting with your wallet like that.
They may have done a lot of useful work in order to have the money to purchase that asset. Most homes are paid for using the fruits of useful labor.