skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he was suggesting it as a preventive use. Rather as a way for patients that have been diagnosed with the virus, even with little symptoms, to make them less contagious quicker (and therefore to significantly slow down the propagation of the virus).
The only thing that holds me from considering buying the remarkable is its size. If they would offer a 13 inch version, then I would consider doing that. Right now I am super happy with my sunny DPT-RP1.
I got Mobiscribe from Amazon for around 250.
Smaller screen, but has warm backlit eink screen. Decent ereader for ePubs, very good responsive notetaking. It comes with a note-folio & pen for $250
To play devil's advocate, presumably they work for some people, people that want to go to a club in which they attendees are selected by looks.

Sounds just like a lifestyle magazine, or a catwalk, or a million other situations that have been normalised in which people are chosen for how they look (just about every prospectus appears to choose people to present their idea of the right type of diversity, for example).

It's not great, but TikTok just seems to be doing the same as most other organisations?
There's an emerging field of Computer Science as Economics Discipline. That's the field of cryptocurrency. It is currently plagued with (pseudo) economists and scammers. Or people don't really understand system design (but they don't know it). It deals with money so there is a lot of misinformation and greed.

People in crypto don't understand the design tradeoff between centralization and decentralization. So they end up selling fake dreams like decentralization can fix everything. Bitcoin is decentralized at layer 1. But in layer 2, people still want to have the same level of decentralization when they design the Lightning Network. Then, some will buy into the idea that LN will fix everything and still be decentralized.
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When I was in school I remember hearing about this technology and how it was an exciting new possibility for sterile medical surfaces.

https://www.livescience.com/47870-shark-skin-hospital-superb...

Did anything ever come.of this? It seems like this is something that could be 3d printed.
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Forgive my ignorance, but why is WeWork a PoS? I don't have much awareness on the situation.
Moderators of the subreddits in reddit are normal reddit users (normally) compared to the moderators in TikTok who I presume are selected by the company and on payroll (or contractors maybe, I seem to recall Facebook uses contractors for this)
It would be interesting to self report your positive covid result to fb/social networks which could give an warn connection if they need to be tested or not (the assumption being that you are likelier to meet someone in IRL if you are a connection).
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Depends on what you mean by "an open web". If you consider "an open web" to be a publicly accessible network of documents and applications, it's practically absurd to suggest that Google - a company that makes almost all of its money from services that need to crawl everything it can find on the public internet - might want to hurt this. The more websites and applications that join the open web ecosystem and open themselves to public crawling and searching, the better it is for Google.

Walled gardens like Apple News and Facebook Instant actually run counter to this open web. They can't be publicly indexed or crawled or searched, yet they have the valuable advantage of being really fast. I see AMP as an aggressive optimization designed to bring web performance up to par with native platforms like Apple News and Facebook Instant. When a publisher chooses AMP instead of exclusively using those closed platforms, it's a win for the open web when their content uses web standards (AMP is merely a strict subset of web standards) accessible by anyone, not just Apple or Facebook users.

I think nowadays "the open web ecosystem" has come to mean something different in discussions like this, closer in meaning to "the distributed web" or "a less corporate web". Google obviously doesn't care for that.
Just saw an email from Cinemark (big theater chain) that they're closing starting tomorrow.
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Sure, the algorithm will try to figure out what you like and put that on the top, but the things being removed by humans don't even get into the algorithm, they are completely removed.
This is unreasonable. Airbnb operators are often law breaking, unapologetic neighbors, but in this situation they are asking for a bailout? The only way I could get behind this at all is if it is limited to legal, licensed short-term rentals and completely excludes all of the people in my town and others who ignore the laws and sue municipalities until they give up on enforcement. Taxpayer money should not be going to bail the majority of these sharks out.
asiekierka, I'm very impressed. How did you go about building this? Did you start with the assembly and work backwards to Pascal? Did you use a Pascal decompiler? Even then I can't imagine how you managed to get the output byte-for-byte equivalent...

Anyway, as someone who downloaded ZZT from BBSes and wrote ZZT-OOP back in the day, I love this. I recently started writing a version of ZZT in Go, but haven't progressed since being able to load and display worlds. :-|
If you can outsource the work -- if you can pay someone else to keep spamming them -- it is a nice revenge.

But if you send the takedowns yourself, you are wasting both their and your time.
Web browsers seem to be the refutation of the "if you don't like it, fork it" sentiment of OSS. If it were nearly any other project people wouldn't be strongly reiterating that using such a fork is irresponsible and dangerous. It mostly seems to be because nobody believes it's even possible for Pale Moon to keep up with the rapidly changing web standards, because not enough people care about it. All the development power is concentrated on the bleeding edge, things are moving rapidly, and this isn't solvable by asking for volunteers. Sure, all of the important code is in the open for anyone to contribute to, but it doesn't matter what your vision of the perfect open source web browser is if you can't get enough people to help work on it. Unlike 99% of other OSS projects, browsers are just too conplex, and their features are added by large committees who decide what's most important to add.

Even though the major browsers are open source, the significant developments in the web platform and the code changes necessary for them are practically impossible to implement by an average developer. They're decided on outside the general OSS community. You simply have to have a large team to be able to keep up. It feels way different than just contributing to less significant projects on GitHub with fewer maintainers. OSS doesn't imply the people maintaining things mostly move forward with things between themselves and have goals set by larger organizations outside the general community, but with browsers it can happen.

I don't think there's any real solution to this. The alternative was to deliberately limit the browser featureset while it was still small, but now all those features will never go away. And many of them provide enough benefit to both developers and users. It's not at all that adding them was a net negative if it really meant only corporations can implement them successfully. The complexity is probably an unintentional and unavoidable byproduct due to the sheer number of features.

I'm starting to view browsers as complicated operating systems in themselves, like the Linux kernel, which has its own significant developer culture and massive codebase. How much can you simplify such a thing while providing all the features people want? It's a tough question.
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You make it sound like the upgrading process is something to be savoured when for many it's the opposite.

Upgrading a code base because of language evolution is pure cost for most people. It's a relatively risky and almost zero-reward exercise for mature applications.

You've got 3rd party library/dependency drag, tooling drag (everything from IDEs to CI/CD pipelines), development effort for code changes or QA and testing resources. Your engineers have to invest time in learning about the language and library changes. Never mind that unless you do a total rewrite, you end up with an incoherent code base which mixes old and new styles.

All this busy work/effort could instead be applied to adding features, eliminating bugs, improving performance, etc. - changes that end-users actually appreciate or that add business value.

Java conquered the enterprise precisely because it was slow moving and stable and offered unparalleled backward compatibility. Pretty much, the very same reasons Microsoft windows conquered the business world. This is (was) Java's strength not the weakness you portray.

Let's face it, at this stage Java is never going to be "cool" again the way it was in the 90s. Trying to join the "move fast and break things" school of language evolution just makes it look like a middle aged person (I'm one btw) trying to be "hip" by emulating young teenagers in dress and speech. At the same time you're alienating your existing users.
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IIRC most large scale deployments have it at around 75-95% of traffic that only requires STUN (which is only used for the handshake & holepunching, not for the actual traffic). TURN is used for the remaining 25%-5%.

STUN is cheap, easy and does not require a lot of traffic. TURN on the other hand requires a lot of bandwidth, which can be expensive.
I wonder if racists get friend suggestions for people who aren't their "race" in appearance terms; I'm imagining that could be an emergent selection not explicitly encoded for. If that were the case ... would it be so different to people making that selection. It's a question of allowance vs. instigation I suppose ... but if you knew that behaviour was likely to emerge then the line gets blurred somewhat ...
I think his point is that if people set the objectives, the AI will learn what people like, and that is going to be discriminatory in some way.
How is this different from nightclubs having a high bar to entry?

I am not saying this is an ethical thing to do, I am saying these apps are no different from nightclubs and they gotta do what they gotta do to survive. And no matter what you may say, humans prefer non ugly people over ugly people. I am sorry but this is simply how humans work. If you disagree, then you are a hypocrite.

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?
cool project. Good extension of the pledge show hn the other day

I’d love for a feature “within 25 miles of {zipcode} so I can find some around me.
(I’m in the suburbs where local doesn’t mean the same city)

Clicked “view all cities”
Not down to type in the name of every city around me
Macros are powerful, but they should be used sparingly because they often have outsize effects on compilation times and degrading error message quality. I personally give myself a "macro budget" where macro-based solutions are prioritized based on benefit to a particular project.
> the top 50 again sees more trading than the entire 450 rest combined.

I have no number to substantiate this hunch but I believe that that was one of the main reasons why Boeing's shares continued to still remain at a reasonable level even after the MAX debacle, even though under normal circumstances its shares should have seen at least a 50-60% nose-dive immediately after the first signs of corporate malfeasance.

But when almost every big pension fund on the planet has to purchase your shares because it's included in a big index that will never fail of course that the stock market won't "punish" despicable moves like the one committed by Boeing.
I logged into my old yahoo mail account the other day and was surprised to find it had some interesting upgrades, such as views for emails containing photos and receipts. It was a fun way to time travel.

In fact, except for (or maybe due to) the entirely blank pane on the right that presumably has a bunch of ads blocked, looks cleaner and more appealing than what gmail has become.
'Training' is a perfectly conventional way to describe a postdoc role.

> So, What is a Postdoc?
> [...] A postdoc is a temporary position that allows a PhD to continue their training as a researcher and gain skills and experience that will prepare them for their academic career.

https://academicpositions.com/career-advice/what-is-a-postdo...

See also https://www.nature.com/articles/ncb0711-735a
That's Moffett Airfield.
I see no spam mitigation measure (captcha, honeypot). Am I missing something?
The documents reveal that it's about curating appealing content to get user retention, and that the talk of stopping bullying is just talk.
Humans also prefer being politically correct, so you would surely see a lot of people shaming TikTok here.
Ponzi scheme that took advantage of SoftBank, who is further attempting to prop it up to recoup something other than 0 from the investment.
Yeah, which implies that the free version routes all media over the server (a media node), hence it not being P2P.

Not sure if you are agreeing with what I said or not?
I don't know about the question.

Here's another: how do populations become motivated to exert pressure for change? One way is to have an enemy. That's been seemingly lacking with the fight to protect our ecosystems thus far. But once we understand that the rich are the common enemy of all life on the planet, it opens new possibilities.
But it's just "The Algorithm"... /s
Splitting ventilators to provide titrated support to a large group of patients
The best argument against nationalisation is that it makes it more difficult for companies or entire countries to raise capital.

Who wants to invest in an enterprise when it could all be taken away arbitrarily.
> None of what you just said is responsive to OP's question, which is simply wondering to what extent ibuprofen increases expression of ACE2.

I had the same confusion. I eventually found a quote here (published today, not available at time of up-thread comments):

https://kvia.com/health/2020/03/17/france-says-ibuprofen-may...

> NSAIDs might affect how Covid-19 binds to human cells, according to Dr. Yogen Kanthi, assistant professor of cardiology at the University of Michigan, who studies inflammation.
>
> "There is data from basic science studies that have shown that Covid-19 itself binds to a protein at the surface of cells called ACE2,” he said. “There is a hypothetical risk that giving NSAIDs like ibuprofen could increase levels of ACE2 shown in animal models, but not in patients."

That's the best I can find searching for '"ibuprofen" "ace2"' or 'NSAID' or 'COX2' in place of 'ibuprofen', so maybe take it with a pinch of salt, and it's not even saying 'yes definite link'.
Fascinating. Correct me if I'm getting it wrong:

The Quantitative Easing brought rates down to almost zero for a decade. Abundant liquidity, low rate loans.

Corporate management use the chance to get cheap money to buy stocks back. Stock prices go up, the management gets huge payouts. Workers and shareholders get nothing. Inequality grows. R&D expenses decline.

As stock prices go up, stock indexes soar and we witness (kinda) amazing market growth (woo-hoo) which is actually pumped up artificially (who cares).

The virus hits the economy. The stock indexes deflate.

The Fed announces another huge round of QE to "inject liquidity", and we now all know where it will go.

I'm not sure if all this can be better described by "scam" or "corruption".
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Sure, but we're discussing a shutdown in the Bay Area, so the American reality is the proper context.
Why just restaurants? This should be expanded to support barber shops, nail salons and massage business. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other business that could benefit.
That's not a stupid question at all. From what I've read and understand, the 'standard' masks (the cheap ones - surgical masks) are not a 100% protection, however it's in the >50% range. Probably enough to greatly limit the R0 and change the expontential curve to a linear one (I may be wrong - definitely not an expert).

I'm too amazed by the magnitude of the measures that are being taken as opposed to less invasive and technical solutions.

Adding other stupid questions:
- why we can't just decide to test everybody - what's the bottleneck ?
- why we can't just produce the n95 respirators in sufficient quantites and distribute free of charge to everybody - not even making it mandatory to wear in public - if enough people wear it, the virus won't spread
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That page doesn’t really look like most reasonable media ‘About Us’ page: no by-line, no photos, link to PO boxes or AWS (!), unclear editorial line. I’m happy there is a (generic) name for the editor but the rest wouldn’t really count as a positive to me.
Is it even possible to get covid-19 waiting in your car for auto-food?
Look, the Gov't is giving us nothing at the moment.

Gilead's remdesivir would likely cost a fortune, and it's not being widely distributed at all in the US for coronavirus.

There is very little risk of side effects in taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine. If it works - - great.

I have 3 or 4 studies that go back many years showing chloroquine has wide ranging antiviral properties.

>10 Chinese scientists just days ago published their recommendations for chloroquine in Nature Communications. Several Korean scientists followed.

If it doesn't work, what have you lost if the Gov't and our ivory towers of medicine have nothing else to offer us in drugs meanwhile ?
Software engineers are a tiny fraction of the population, and any money given to them can always be recouped via taxes anyways. The added bureaucratic/administrative complexity on such a time-sensitive measure just doesn't seem worth it.
I think what a lot of nightclubs end up doing is definitely discriminatory and we should not tolerate that.
Would that be a socially appropriate action to take?

Encourage people out of their homes at a time when it seems that the exact opposite is needed to start controlling the spread of the virus?
How is it not totally different?

People use Airbnb to rent apartments and people use GitHub to develop and share source code for software.
Ford was not bailed out. I think you’re thinking of Chrysler
The amount the company pay shareholders, and what people believe the company will pay shareholders, is what defines a companies price. If the a company never pays dividends or does buybacks its value will plummet. It's idiotic to say well dividends and buybacks are irrelevant: only total return matters because future dividends and buybacks are the only factors that play into total return.
I agree, we should be following their examples. But since we aren't doing extensive free testing, and don't have a culture of sick people wearing masks and self isolating, this is the best we can do for now.

Once testing becomes readily available we can look at loosening the restrictions.

As the Governor of Colorado put it, saving the economy doesn't do a lot of good if everyone is dead.
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Also not near Moffat, Steven, the person famous for being showrunner behind BBC TV series Sherlock and Dracula and few seasons of Doctor Who, who was born in about 85 kms from that forest.
I don't think 'controversial' is the right word for "he’s happy to say things that will make some people unhappy."
“Operation timed out -- app too busy”

Hug of death?
Unfortunately, the reason why it seems like arguing about the definition of a word is that there are there are more concepts at play here than we have words to describe them. When people talk about information as in information theory, what they're talking about is devoid of actual semantic contact, but when normal people people talk about information, that normally implies some sort of semantic content.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN?

You're running into the problem I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609080 - and breaking the site guidelines in the process.
Approximated perhaps, but I would argue that in evaluation it is subjective because it is always compared to something else.

The issue abstracts to determinism vs. infinite and unbounded physical entropy because we can't separate ourselves from the system. Decoherence and mixing of quantum 'information' is part of the puzzle, and I would like to claim processes of convergence are another.

It becomes difficult to not overload terms while discussing this topic.
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What difference does it make? People are moderating content that they want to seen or not want to be seen.

No different than the editor of a newspaper or television show.
Doesn’t this fly counter to the recommendation of “staying home”?
But the first few numbers went by much more slowly, right?
> The documents reveal that it's about curating appealing content to get user retention

Seems kind of similar to what supermarket magazines do. Obviously a social media app is not a supermarket magazine, but the premise of cynically using pretty people to drive up engagement is nothing new.
Louder voices want to be politically correct and shame those who aren't.
The difference is that a person with some flaw can compensate by having other qualities and still be popular. But if there is a hard rule, then that's not possible.

People need that hope.
So Econ 101 asks: If the drivers were better paid by the restaurant, why did they switch to delivery apps?
I'm having a hard time following these two paragraphs. Is it saying that SoftBank invested $3 billion into WeWork which, among other things, funded Neumann's $970 million exit? And they now think they can recover that $3 billion and then deprive Neumann of at least some of that $970 million?
Most forms of media do this to varying degrees. Most actors, for example, are attractive people. Few unattractive actors are successful, unless perhaps they only play roles which play off of their unattractiveness (like antagonists/villains). TV news anchors are also usually picked for their attractiveness.
> If you disagree, then you are a hypocrite.

That kind of tone is frowned upon here.
Google, Microsoft, Apple and even Firefox have an incentive to reduce competition by making the web as complex as possible. If the web is to be free, it must be radically simplified. To call that a lost cause is just a self-fulfilling prophesy.
It's good to see this, but the NYT should go the extra mile and publish reliable designs and instructions on how to make workable low-grade (surgical-like) DIY masks, starting from widely-available textiles or other materials.
What do you think "low quality" means if not "what people don't like"?

TikTok doesn't care who made it; they care how the video looks.
Ha, I guess I missed the joke.
They're building some, but also killing others, like the aforementioned <style scoped>.
Or news stations, which hire presenters based on attractiveness.

Or fashion products, which hire models based on attractiveness.

Or the music industry, which puts forward pop stars that are attractive while keeping ones that don't have sex appeal off the air.

Or the film industry. Or the literally any other industry that tries to survive via popularity and getting eye time. Attractiveness sells. What TikTok is doing is no different than any other industry, it's just that the models aren't getting paid.
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