skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not and did not accuse anyone. I simply noticed many links to many resources about same product in a short period of time. You can make your own judgement call on that. Are press releases standard - of course. I would ague that guerrilla marketing is standard ops for many new products/services and it should not be perceived in a negative way. Its a tool, i was simply curious if this was the case. In addition i'm fascinated at guerrilla marketing operations and am curious if they in fact are, how are they are engaged, paid etc.....
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The cost to doing this seems like a rounding error, even if it's not useful, isn't it? And if we can't use them, we can send them elsewhere to places that end up peaking later.
I was in the same situation. Comfortable? Well, worry free in a sense, but forget about buying a home. No American dream for ya.
> Use a dozen cheap foam panels to reduce unwanted room sound (placed closer to the vocals/instrument depending on situation). I tacked mine to a sheet of plywood so that it could be moved around.

You're talking about bass traps. They're an essential for recording in most every room. Here's a great video for how to build some quite effective ones for cheap. (I'm not affiliated w/ this guy or his channel). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZV-gxVpkGk
Not the grandparent, from what I've found is there's a lot written for the tablet since it is a Linux device that gives the user root access.

Some examples of the open source stuff can be found on github [1] and their wiki[2].

[1] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
[2] https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/start
the median compensation for a Facebook employee is $228,651

It’s not clear if Facebook will also give a bonus to contractors who are content moderators

Kudos to Facebook for trying to help their team weather the storm. Hopefully the folks who need it most get the bonuses as well.
No, but what about Helen Chu at UW? What about UPMC the other day as someone pointed out. Can the feds leave people alone when they know how to tie their own shoelaces and focus on getting ventilators deployed?
That is the article ... I don't think it had the "My back-of-the-envelope calculation is not a proper simulation, or a good model of what’s going on either. Don’t cite it as such" part at the bottom when I read it a couple days ago though.
The chances they don't actually have any cases is so close to nil that it's negligible.
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> It’s not clear if Facebook will also give a bonus to contractors who are content moderators.

It seems like they are the most at-risk, considering they are not paid as much as all the developers.
What do you mean by ADN? Possibly a non-English equivalent for DNA? (My guess based on EN Wikipedia's disambiguation page.)
They have collected legitimate reports from e.g. the news.

It's no less legitimate than a bunch of links on a Wikipedia page. Don't be lazy and dismiss this because you don't like the political leaning of zerohedge.

>Russian disinformation site

But we're just going to believe everything out of China without a second thought right now?

Everything in that link, all the suspicious relationships, all the published research (arrested smugglers have published on coronavirus very recently) is verifiable. Don't be lazy.
I’m sorry, but you rephrased my question:

The question is not whether “heavy alcoholics can moderately drink”, which you claim skepticism over, and I—for the record—claim ignorance.

The question is: “is complete abstinence necessary for some cases of substance abuse disorder?”

We have ample observational evidence that complete abstinence does relieve many people from the symptoms of substance abuse disorder. We also have some anecdotal evidence that that is not true for everyone.

I also have a problem with the term moderate drinking. I’m sure—although here I’m ignorant as well—that patients aren’t encourage to moderately drink. Rather they are—again I’m guessing—not told to have failed if they do drink.

Say a recovering alcoholic has a night out of heavy drinking, but that does not further negatively impact them, i.e. they won’t relapse into a constant drinking habit. I would hold on calling that a failure. In fact it might be actively damaging for their psychological well being to say that they failed, which might actually cause a severe relapse.
I bought the original one during the initial sale, I think I paid something around $300 for it. Loved it and used it as my main reading/note taking device. I got an iPad Pro (12.9) last year and I've stopped using the remarkable, but will prob get the newer version. I find it much easier on the eyes and better to read using the remarkable. It was a great piece of hw before, the new one looks even better.
I think they mean that if a Democratic candidate is going on the (known to the left wing as pure propaganda and lies) right wing network of choice to make their case then they are not arguing in good faith and simply looking to score points with people who will never vote for her anyway.

It's disingenuous and she had next to 0 support anyway.
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This doesn't seem like the right time to ask such questions.

It's kind of like Granny is on her death bed and the kids are measuring the windows for new drapes!
> and cease operation.

I hate when that happens. I choose the applications in my workflow for specific reasons or for some unique value that they offer. It's one thing when a developer moves on from a project and leaves it in an unfinished state. It's an entirely different story when the developer basically throws up his hands and tells their users they give up because xxx is too hard. Just tell me what's wrong and let me decide! Then if your userbase crashes you can make the decision if you want to continue or not. Deciding for yourself what's important to me is extremely frustrating as a user. Kinda like when Microsoft deprecated the SmtpClient Class in .NET and told people to use MailKit instead.

So now it's taboo to use the perfectly good Microsoft class which only takes 6 LOC to send an email and everyone is crapping their pants trying to make 300 LOC mailkit scripts to perform the same task. Because some clown at Microsoft got a hard-on over MailKit and decided to burn their own house down.
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Note that the stock buybacks were favored because they were a more tax favorable way of returning money to investors than via dividends as I understand it; and if the corporation did build up a rainy day fund, shareholders may have justifiably been upset at the lack of dividend.

In short, it may be more complicated than it necessarily seems at first blush; then again, what I just typed is a cargo cult parrot of the current business zeitgeist.

I will admit that I too ascribe to maintaining a rainy day fund as part of responsible operational stewardship given I see the purpose of a corporation to be providing a societal solution first, and generating/disseminating profit second, therefore I favor strategies that result in an operation that can keep chugging along even if something unexpected hits vs an absolute min/max on profit.

Then again, I don't have many successful individual business ventures to my name, so... yeah. Take it with a grain of salt. I can definitely tell you a handful of ways not to do it though!
As long as we’re giving strikes for/against their authoritarian government, should we mention the millions in concentration camps and the complete lack of civil liberty?

We shouldn’t be so fast to accept their system
People forget that ventilator means not only the machine itself, but you also need couple of doctors - anesthesiologist in the least and nurses that have to keep watch. Person on the ventilator needs to be partly paralyzed to not interfere with the machine. I do not know how many staff on average is needed per patient but it is a significant number.

Also the length of time that people stay on it, with covid-19 it seems to be 2-3 week so bed and staff turnover is slow, which meant you need many more people that are available.

ICU "bed" is a virtual term, it not only means the physical availability of ventilator, but also staff.
Assume and act as if you are.
>In an unencumbered free market system where shipping systems were not dominated by any one particular shopping vendor

isn't it a natural feature of unencumbered free market to become with time dominated by a one or a very few large players? It is basically a symmetry breaking process.
Well, isn't there fear that this will lead to another full-on recession? I could be wrong but I thought I read that somewhere.

I would very much like to be wrong on this; if I am I don't have to constantly worry about being laid off.
To me, the next great challenge of our time isn't finding the next SpaceX, but gradually dismantling the corporate dogma of full employment. The short-term goals should be along the lines of getting to a 30-hour work week, a single-payer healthcare system, free college and UBI from an automation moonshot.

The long-term goals should be about how to get everyone in the world self-actualized, but doing it sustainably so we don't destroy the planet in the process. We'll be on renewable energy by 2030, but the real destruction is happening due to manufacturing that we don't actually need. Getting demand flipped so that we can get to a sustainable or non-growth based economy is going to be tricky and may not happen before 2040-2050 as the singularity looms.

My dream for this would look like a 20-hour or less work week, with a great deal more capital available at the bottom with near-zero or negative interest rates. Young people would train for a few years in something like a peace corps doing the difficult work that nobody wants to do, then use the life skills they've learned to eliminate those hardships for everyone else going forward. Their degree or equivalent certificates would go towards hard disciplines, advancing things like medicine where devotion and commitment to a large organization is actually required.

But the rest of their time would be spent in their own endeavors in the humanities or working in maker spaces to invent new things. That's where the real innovation will come from. So instead of a the next SpaceX requiring $300 million, it will just need a few people with access to shared computing resources so they can iterate unfettered by the time suck of the workaday world.

We can look towards Star Trek for inspiration. In the meantime, I expect everything to go the opposite direction from the way I suggested, just like it has been for the last 20 years. We'll see more wealth inequality, more disenfranchisement, more neocolonialism. Unfortunately it's probably going to get worse before it gets better. But in spite of that, we can still envision the dream and work to manifest change locally in our own lives, as we plant seeds of hope globally.
What? I didn't write that having an economy is a bad thing.I wrote that our current global economy is sick and rotten to the core. It urgently needs to be replaced with something that works for all of us rather than the few before it dooms us all.
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> I don't think anyone knowledgeable is assuming reported cases make up all or even a significant proportion of infected cases

The WHO explicitly and repeatedly asserted exactly that.
To my understanding you can use any app supporting the common standard there.
2% is historically low, and is in fact below what the Federal Reserve has been trying mightily to achieve. Inflation has been below target since the 2008 crash, more or less.

There is a massive deflationary force acting on the economy. Anyone bringing up inflation fears, except to dismiss them, is not tracking any known factual reality.
The title misses the other, and more impactful/unprecedented change of giving everyone "exceeds" rating and skipping perf review for them (except for those high performers who will get separate review).

That does far more than $1000 to relieve everyone and make it fair for those who have to take care of others in the family during such time.
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And Google gets scrutinized for that. Now it’s Verizon’s turn. It’s good to know what and when these companies are doing.
This will not do anything substantial. When monetizing the debt, the Fed should instead helicopter money to everyone. Everyone can then be a millionaire like in the Weimar Republic.
Wow, 50-70% drop in online reservations, phone reservations, and walk-in diners, compared to last year, in every country measured by OpenTable.

The restaurant sector generates $3 trillion in annual sales worldwide, and provides employment to a vast number of individuals.[a]

Absent government intervention, the cascading economic impact from just this one sector will be enormous.

[a] https://medium.com/@CravyHQ/the-restaurant-industry-a-global...
You state this as fact. However there are also plenty of other sources of facts that counter yours. Who is right? Who the hell knows.

We now live in an age where you can dig up facts to confirm whatever you want to confirm. Information overload is a real thing.
Why "cargo init" instead of "cargo new"?

Also, wondering when Rocket will be usable without nightly. That makes me concerned that it is not stable enough.
Mostly contained based upon numbers. How much of those numbers are lies or omissions?
Is there a way to jail them for criminal conduct?

This is way beyond only immoral.
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Of course I can't say for certain, but there are N95 masks that are dyed and have designs on them. That said, those masks are likely tested with their design.

Just my 2 cents, but I'd probably say if you draw on a small portion of the mask, like whiskers etc, it would be fine. The mask would still filter and I doubt the dye from a marker would change its effectiveness. The worst thing I can imagine is it possibly causing slightly less airflow in the parts that are colored, but I even doubt that unless it was just overloaded.

I'd be interested in other peoples opinion too, kinda curious myself.
I shouldn't have gotten rid of my Sun Sparcstation 20. It ran CDE, and you could also run an early, super-slow GNOME.
Maybe they think all their employees will spend an extra $1000 they wouldn't have otherwise. Some of it might be spent keeping local business running for a week? I don't know.
> Arguably, you're being deprived of the money from the sale of the movie

And that's only wishy washy wish-I-had-money, nothing real. (And even that isn't really the case since sale and piracy are not mutually exclusive)
I've actually been really surprised by how well he has handled this so far too. The nation-wide lockdown plus direct cash stimulus are exactly the measures I had hoped to see. Pandemics may be one of the rare situations where having authoritarian leadership can actually benefit the populace. Though I guess we have a while before it plays out completely. I have doubts about whether any non-populist president would have taken these steps any sooner.
Exactly, yes. Although, does the amount of ammonia in window cleaner actually do anything useful?
Indeed. Collective punishment is prohibited in armed conflict by article 33 of the Geneva conflict, from 1947. Degradation as punishment was prohibited by International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the mid-1960s. There is a taboo against it for good reason.

However once projected body counts of the results of someone's actions are measured in the tens of millions, and the same family members would have been expected to be beneficiaries of the person's intended actions, what punishment would be proportional to the consequences? I'm OK with abandoning normal taboos if the suffering of a handful prevents a repetition of this kind of event.

And let's be clear. This is far from the first time that local coverups by Chinese officials have put the whole world's health at risk. (The most extreme example being the anemic first response to SARS.) And it is extremely unlikely to be the last time that Chinese officials will be in a position to be tempted to try coverups in the future. In a society and country that already accepts the death penalty as normal, what would YOU suggest to be sure that those future officials are deterred from even TRYING to gamble with the lives of the world?

Yes. What I proposed was shocking. It was supposed to be. It is unpopular. This is again not a surprise. But do you have a better solution?
Savings rates have been going up over the last decade. Some data is available here: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/can-personal-...
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Can any remarkable owners comment on the reliability/robustness of the document storage? Does it store versions and/or backups?

I made the mistake of buying an equilpen2 at an apple store years ago. I say mistake not because I didn't like the product (I used it for hundreds of pages of notes over the year or two after I bought it and loved that it let me write on regular paper) but because the company gave up on the product and eventually released destructive app updates that deleted all my notes from my local machines.

I was only able to recover my content because I had it synced to dropbox and now I'm paranoid about content creation devices like this potentially losing my content in the future if the company goes belly-up.
Not every FB employee is a highly paid software engineer who has savings to weather a multi-month public health crisis.
It might be a gesture at a company like Amazon where they employ many low paid workers, but at FB a high proportion of workers will see this as a 0.2-1% bonus.

The 'exceeds' performance review will have a much bigger impact on income.
GitHub is owned by the same entity that owns LinkedIn. Microsoft has really no problems cross linking persons. They can also easily link the source code between the systems etc (if they want).
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Only way I could get them to stop, was to contact a representative 3 times, each time getting bounced around until I reach a person that unlisted me.
Taking over a factory and putting people in concentration camps aren’t even close to the same thing.
Why? It's a fraction of a percent of most employees' annual pay, which presumably they are still receiving. If anything, it's like giving everyone a tiny bonus for some PR. At least that's how I read it.

If they gave that money to contractors, that would actually be a gesture of good will. Honestly I feel like they'd be better off only giving it to contractors and ignoring their employees, who are already extremely well-paid.
The scientific study wasn't even for COVID-19 but another very similar Coronavirus and yes they said it would have no effect on the cells without ionization (specifically zinc entering the cell to blocking an RNA that's needed by the virus to replicate).

There was a video of a doctor breaking down the biochemistry of it that got posted here the last time Chloroquine came up, which I can't find just now.

If it were only just as easy as taking zinc pills... I take vitamins daily already just to be safe (there's far more than coronaviruses floating around). I just don't expect them to be enough to prevent something as serious as COVID-19. There's a reason Chloroquine is being studied and not zinc by itself and is 100x more expensive to buy on the internet than zinc supplements, even before it became a meme. It's just not that simple.

That hasn't stopped naturopathy from spreading before though.
Because they know that the worse the crisis gets, the harsher the economical consequences for China will be.

Countries and citizens remember where the virus comes from, like they do for SARS and it they will put pressure on their governments to move production elsewhere.
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Again, not comparable at all. Find a case where someone was arrested and forced to sign a false confession.
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How do pigs fly?
Presumably it should be -100% in cities like NYC where restaurants have been ordered to shut down for in-restaurant dining.
then not everyone should get it
There's been a lot of ridiculous FUD about "DRM will be used even for text!!1" (wrt. EME especially) and nothing of that sort has materialized.

(also, wasm changes nothing here, you could always obfuscate js just as much)