skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> prefer being politically correct

Are you implying that it is only because of a sense of “political correctness” that people would object to discrimination?
As someone who does not frequent nightclubs, I don't really see the problem with a self-selecting group of people with standards?

Some people don't want to see you, and that's their business.
Adding another voice saying that I will not click through to techcrunch articles due to the insane amount of tracking and advertising, a privacy screen that doesn't appear to be GDPR compliant, but is certainly user-hostile, and finally the articles rarely seem to be original or adding value. I wouldn't miss it.
I believe the 6th and last slides are the result of their own testing and experiments.

I think you have to watch the video to understand why he is going through other published results on that virus. I understand he is pushing the idea that instead of telling people who feel sick to self isolate and only call a hospital (and get tested) if they have respiratory problems, to instead test them early, and if the are positive, provide them with anti-viral treatments. That way the patient is contagious for less than a week instead of 3 weeks on average.
Gartner would not explain why a document purportedly aimed at “preventing bullying” would make zero mention of bullying, nor why it offers an explicit justification of attracting users, not protecting them.

PR people really are the worst. It's OK to be rude to them at parties.
Sorry I'm not sure your comment is following what I responded to.
So, to quote:

> Platforms with "consoles". These platforms provide a concept of a "console" to applications programs. Consoles support direct screen addressing, to the level of character cells at least, and are accessed through an API that is a first-class part of the overall system API.

> Platforms with "terminals". These platforms provide a concept of a "terminal" to applications programs. Terminals are not directly addressed, but are communicated with via byte stream communications protocols, involving control characters and control character sequences.

In short, you're deliberately being non-specific. I'd claim that a terminal system plus ncurses is a flexible and reasonably efficient console which is portable between many different systems, on the hosting end and on the client end. I could claim that the IBM block-mode "terminals" are consoles if the system is taken as a whole, but such things are markedly less flexible than what you can accomplish with ncurses, albeit more machine-efficient on the host side.

As far as first-class APIs go, you can argue with others about the kernel-vs-OS distinction, and the irrelevance of unbundling in the Open Source world. In short, shipping with ncurses is no more "odd" than shipping with Gtk or, say, a web browser.
The "TikTok e-boy" and "Nightclub chad" are probably overlapping demographics.
Netflix and NBC TV do this in the shows they distribute too.
Renaissance tripped up by coronavirus-induced market upheaval
I'm honestly sad, but not surprised that a prime example of whataboutism is once again at the top of an HN thread.
> The factory that makes hydraulic fluid for Tesla's presses that stamp out car parts is also part of the transportation supply chain, As is the oil refinery that supplies feedstock to the hydraulic oil vendor.

Yes, I believe that is rather the point of the exemptions laid out in the order. The health commissioner is trying to prevent infections of Covid-19, not destroy the economy.

Tell me how you feel about drycleaners. They are also explicitly exempted as businesses providing essential services.

Actually, now that I think about it, you're right: It is more important to have a crisply-pressed suit than transportation to the grocery store for food. Grab the pitchforks, let's get Elon!
> These same documents show moderators were also told to censor political speech in TikTok livestreams, punishing those who harmed “national honor” or broadcast streams about “state organs such as police” with bans from the platform.

This is the story. Why would anyone use a CPC social media platform?
I'm glad this article came out. When I first started hearing about the first few cases in January I picked up a small supply of N95 masks, hoping that I wouldn't need them. Since then, all of the points in this article have been striking me as odd - and eventually I shrugged my shoulders and decided that I'd use my masks regardless of whether they said they were effective.

From an engineering and first-aid standpoint I figured they can't hurt, so it's good to see other people with the same perspective.
This is probably a very dangerous book that a bunch of monkeys will make into a dogma. On the other hand, this one from Google is awesome http://streamingsystems.net/
There were far more issues with IE than just ActiveX and Flash (especially since Flash was also available for all other browsers). It was the difference in how it handled HTML/CSS/JS, compared to other browsers, that was the biggest pain point by far.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22542185

https://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/TAR...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2016/09/21/trump-sh...

> Ford likes to say it “didn’t take the money” because unlike General Motors and Chrysler, it didn’t require a taxpayer bailout to survive the 2008-2009 credit crisis. But don’t forget: Ford tapped into a different pool of government money set aside for the auto industry during those desperate times. (And those low-cost funds were critical to Ford’s survival because no other funding sources were available.)

> Hoping to create “thousands of green jobs” in the U.S. and reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, the DOE under the Bush Administration established the $25 billion loan program in 2007 to encourage development of advanced technology vehicles that would burn less fuel and, importantly, be manufactured in the U.S. Congress funded the program in 2009, after President Obama took office.

> Ford applied for and received $5.9 billion in June 2009 (the same month GM filed for bankruptcy) to help pay for investments in more fuel-efficient engines, hybrids and electric cars and also to convert two truck plants to production of cars.

Ford is cancelling all their cars except trucks and the Mustang. They took a bailout that wasn’t a bailout in name only.
I don't know what [flagged] means. Is it because the article might be objectionable to Republicans?
I am sorry but this is simply how humans work. If you disagree, then you are a hypocrite.

No, that's how you work.
>The patterns we coax out of the machine are only meaningful to us, as humans, after we have interpreted the data and turned it into information.

I disagree. The number of processes that do something computation-like out of the space of all processes is vanishingly small. That we can input some informative sequence of bits into a computer, and the computer transforms that sequence into output which is then a different informative sequence of bits, tells us that computers are intrinsically information processors, and that information is not in general subjective.
> So should high end nightclubs be publicly shamed for doing what they do (when what their "users" want is exactly non-ugly people) and driven out of business?

Sure, why not?
We've banned this account for flamewar and personal attacks. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. That includes not creating multiple accounts to break the site guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good plan. Restaurants are almost like like hospitals if you discount for training, facilities and ability to deal with ill people.

ICU === eating pizza

With fries.
Based on other comments here, it seems that the Remarkable is missing several features that some people enjoy in their eReaders. The only one I can cite definitively is the lack of backlight. I can't speak to other allegedly missing features because I haven't investigated the issue. I am satisfied with the features I do use when I want to read certain docs on the large remarkable screen.
That's an entirely normal range.

https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/news/10608438/How_Lon...

"The viruses remained detectable for up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard, and up to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel."

Different surfaces are, well, different.
$1,000 pays for maybe two days of childcare at home. I don't see $1,000 making much difference for them if their interest is to free up resources for working at home.
It's just a preference for moral attractiveness, don't be hating!
I meant they can't always be paused without dying, that's all. But yes, they can certainly be stopped, no doubt.
> while at the same time assuming that the company can purchase and sell all the shares at a set price

For large cap companies that trade tens of millions of shares a day, you can figure out how much you can buy without moving the market. For less liquid stocks, you can also spread the buys out over a period of time to aim toward an average buy-in price.

The phenomenon you describe is called slippage [1], and those entering and exiting large positions are aware of it.

> it seems awkward to assume both that the volume purchased by the company significantly increases the price of the stock

I'm not implying that the reason why the stock price goes up is because the company is buying shares. The purchase may be done based on quarterly/yearly projections showing X% growth can be expected in the stock price in the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippage_(finance)
Paying their labor seems to be a respect in which TikTok is better than reddit, not worse.
Petulance is independent of age.
If I worked at Waveshare, I'd partner up with a phone case manufacturer and sell user-customisable phone cases.

They could also offer a SDK so apps could publish high utility info with low update frequency on the case itself: weather, public transport realtime schedules, etc.

(Edit: had originally written "low-latency" instead of "with low update frequency", because of the strong conditioning to associate "low latency == good")
> So should high end nightclubs be publicly shamed

If you want to do that, then go ahead.

But you should not use whataboutism to shame people into not fighting bad behavior on other platforms.

At the end of the day, this behavior is not normal on most online platforms. And users have the right to shame platforms that do this, and you are the immoral one if you are trying to attack people for doing what they believe is right.
You can pre-pay uber for a small discount - but I highly doubt that money goes to drives.

https://www.uber.com/us/en/ride/how-it-works/uber-cash/
Everything is becoming more curated and centralised, it wouldn't take a stretch to make a dystopian outlook where eugenics and social credit is implemented through a global tech platform.

If you're not gifted with good lucks you are punished in the system.
Like most Hollywood productions, TikTok wants to show the healthy and the beautiful over the sickly and the ugly. This is purely driven by customer demand. The good news is that 1) TikTok a private enterprise and it can set its own rules and 2) it's in China so it won't be vulnerable to public shaming and social pressure to bend its business decisions to please fringe groups.
It's impossible to time the market, and especially the one like this - it can be 20% higher or lower tomorrow.

Read some of Ray Dalio (one of the most knowledgable people about economy and finance out there) posts about how complicated things are:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/implications-hitting-hard-0-i...
Except very rarely can you live worldwide while earning that. Someone on that much money is going to be struggling in Sydney, not the sort of person you would call the 1% to their face.
It's actually around the legal minimum wage not including annual/sick leave and retirement benefits.
> Containment is moot in this case

Please be very careful when writing such things. Containment has already been proven to work even with almost 100k known infected, now down to basically zero new infections. The new cases in China seem to be imported from abroad now.
I mean, why give them a free pass for asshole behaviour? You can shame them and leave them alone.
> Instead, the companies are simply taking on debt and keeping it on their balance sheet.

Yes, my example is an admitted oversimplification. I was directly answering the question "why would a company use debt to finance a buy back?", not "why would a company use debt to finance a buy back and then leave that debt on their balance sheet for an extended period of time?"

Although I suspect the answer to that question is that they didn't want to leave profit on the table and wanted to continue riding out the bull run, then got caught by the fastest bear market in history and weren't able to get out at a profit. Or that they believed they could eventually service the debt without having to reissue shares at all and ran out of time because of the crash.
That being said, I think that most of the people on GitHub probably have computers at home.
I don't doubt it, but even in cultures where mask usage is commonplace, it's still not used by everyone (or even most people) all the time.

The demand level will drop significantly.
I don't know if it's 8chan, but there's a really weird cryptofascist--barely even "crypto", tbh--strain in that community. And I can see why. The community that huddles around outdated and bad tech for the reasons they do is going to skew regressive and is going to get progressively (ha!) more upset and resentful over time. That self-selects for the kinds of toxicity that share significant comorbidities with the "alt-right" and worse groups on that axis.
A TikTok spokesperson said the goal was to prevent bullying on the platform, tying the document to a report from December that showed that the company was suppressing vulnerable users’ videos in a misguided effort to prevent them from becoming the centre of attention that could turn sour.

Now that is some fine spin! Reminds of the Oscar Wilde sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uycsfu4574w
I can see how moderators would be instructed to surface content that is more "appealing" to the audience and beautiful people are no doubt going to be more appealing.

It's like the contestants on reality TV shows tend to not be ugly as well.

For some reason it _feels_ slimy but I am not sure why. Perhaps it is being confronted with the notion that the world isn't fair.
Not necessarily.

I'm re-watching Breaking Bad. A great show about some ugly f*ckers.
Largest corporate tenant in New York City.

We are just starting to see the first wave of this crash.
Please keep canned arguments like "whataboutism" off this site. It's a catchy name that masks a logical fallacy, pretending that comparables aren't relevant. Of course they're relevant. If something is comparable, it's legitimate to bring up. If it's not comparable, refute it by explaining why, not with a generic label.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
No, it just means somebody clicked the "flag" link on this thread. It's only visible if you have a certain level of karma, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
We had Java....
Just because it is normalized in some other parts of society doesn’t mean this isn’t a new front to fight this kind of discrimination on. Especially since this platform is gaining a lot of popularity with younger generations, an order of magnitude more than the nightclub scene’s impacted users https://www.oberlo.com/blog/tiktok-statistics
Fascinating. I found a video where two eagles work together to arrange a new stick in their nest. (It takes place around 10:25.) They try multiple spots to see where it fits best. [0]

And unrelated to birds, but hearing about how animals "design and engineer" their living spaces reminds me of the pufferfish, which creates beautiful geometric artwork in the sand as a mating ritual. The fish is only about 4 inches long, but the artwork is over 6 feet in diameter. Picture [1] and article [2].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KbtoO6CpQo

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C19XjjUUQAAuymb.jpg

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pufferfish_mating_ritual
i said restaurants for supply sites. whats your idea?
I'm very interested but am curious what the ebook consumption experience is like. Can any gen 1 owner comment?
It's all not great. We can call them assholes without having to pass laws. If there's enough assholes they'll survive anyways.
I'd love to see something like this on hard drives, both bare ones and ones with enclosures.
Stocks will certainly go down a bit more and once everything returns to "business as usual", you should probably just save your money for now because the market is very volatile and if you stare at it day-to-day, you'll go insane. Once they announce a definite vaccine, or when the Western world understands a direct population infection, like Asia is far more in the know now than Western countries, than that will probably be your time to start buying again. Mid-April likely.
Rarely. I operate several facebook profiles that exclusively look at very racist or politically extreme people, and guess who FB keeps recommending as potential friends.
> took advantage of SoftBank

Citation needed? SoftBank isn't some mom&pop shop that cant afford a lawyer to do due diligence.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

August
Can confirm Midway tower is closed, although the airport itself remains open (albeit with a ground stop for incoming traffic). ATIS is broadcasting the following:

Midway Airport Control Tower updates March 17 2227Z. Midway airspace has reverted to Class E airspace. The tower has been evacuated and is currently closed. CTAF is 135.2. One-minute weather is available via phone at xxx-xxx-xxxx. Are currently unable to provide IFR service off the ground. If you can depart VFR and request IFR services, may be received from Chicago TRACON frequency 128.2.

With no one in the tower to approve visual approaches, the airport is one-in/one-out.

ATC System Command Center advisory for the ground stop:

CTL ELEMENT: MDW
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 2138Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 17/2128Z - 17/2315Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (ALL+CZY_AP) ZLA ZAU ZLC ZTL ZDC ZNY ZHU ZJX
ZFW ZOB ZDV ZOA ZSE ZBW ZMA ZKC ZME ZID ZAB ZMP CYHZ CYOW CYUL CYYZ

PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 646 / 71 / 20
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 2233 / 131 / 68
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: HIGH
IMPACTING CONDITION: OTHER / OTHER
COMMENTS:
I own several cloth facemasks, but it is important to remember that reusing a washable can sometimes be worse than nothing, as it can trap and hold the virus and lead to greater exposure than no mask at all.
I can't fathom why so few medical professionals would try hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine off-label, considering research showing how strongly effective it is in SARS, and considering it's safe for rheumatoid arthritis and malaria across age ranges.
A severe and sustained global economic depression could kill significantly more people than CV19, mostly in Africa and other poor regions. It could also trigger a half-million first-time homeless in the US.

We need to "Flatten the curve" enough to spread out critical care capacity surges without over-achieving to the extent we cause even more harm long-term to the world's poorest populations. We need a constant gradual rate of CV19 spread. If we "full stop" CV19's spread now, when social distancing and lockdowns lift, we'll be facing Wuhan/Italy surges again.
Information theory addresses semantics through mutual information. 'Meaning' entails reference, and when A refers to B they have mutual information. Mutual information is how Shannon measures the carrying capacity of a channel.
Do they need human mods to make those decisions. Every other site takes popularity (which would includes looks) as a metrics for content people want to see. Human mods will always be a poor proxy unless the mods are known by name and have their own popularity and taste.
People worship him, no one has guts to strike at Tesla
Should MENSA be shutdown on the grounds of it's discriminatory membership model?
I downvote things that seem poorly thought out, poorly argued, incendiary, or in general seem to be adding noise to the conversation without adding anything meaningful. It seems like there has been a rise in this sort of low-effort posting in the past few years, and I think downvoting is helpful to combat it.

When I downvote something, I usually write a comment explaining why I think it's not useful, although I don't always have time to do so.
Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty
These schemes only work if the participants continue to think the world is indeed fair.

No wonder they're not interested in seeing people air this dirty laundry.
I don't think that's true. I don't think they give antivirals to people before they have fever.

And fever is one of the results of immune system working.
If the pretty people don't want an ugly guy like me around, then why would an ugly guy like me want to hang out with those pretty people? It seems like a "nothing of value was lost" situation. I'd rather hang out with people that enjoy my presence.

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?
> How is this different from nightclubs having a high bar to entry?

It's not, and that's pretty messed up too when you stop and actually think about it.

> If you disagree, then you are a hypocrite.

Just going to shut out any opposition to your view point like that huh? Great chat.

> So should high end nightclubs be publicly shamed for doing what they do and driven out of business?

Actually yes, discrimination is NOT OK and those supporting it need to be named and shamed.
News flash: social media is garbage. What do you expect from these companies? It's just a private entity that makes its own rules about its own landfill of humanity. All of a sudden because anyone can make a post TikTok is obligated to preserve their rights? Not the case.

Not that this is a good thing. It's childish to be surprised and indignant about these companies' policies and behavior like they're your buddy or something.
DirectX Developer Day
Cryptography Pioneer (Ron Rivest) Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way
You know how Saturn's North Pole is a hexagon? It wouldn't surprise me if someday we find some shape to the universe that isn't smoothly circular because of some fundamental force that we don't understand yet. I'd vote for a hexagon, since if you stack a bunch of circles, that's the shape you get (the other circles being other universes). Plus bees are probably interdimensional beings.
Can someone tell me if the virus could be persistent? The virus is related to chickenpox according to [0]. And according to [1] "Once chickenpox has resolved, the virus may remain inactive in nerve cells." Risk factors for shingles are: "Old age, poor immune function, having had chickenpox before 18 months of age".

[0] https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/covid-19/medicalinformation.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles
I posted a similar question recently on a forum. Here is the discussion -- https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=230362