skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Helping people struggling to make money through Covid-19. Sell your used clothes
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If you have used clothes or know people who have and need to sell, them; they can do it at www.shopyourfit.com. We won't charge anything on sales made through the site until things get back to normal

It's easy to upload. Just go to https://shopyourfit.com/new-used-product and start uploading products.

Also, we'd appreciate any feedback to improve

We hope it helps

*we will go back to charging 20% once activity goes back to normal
Maybe Uber could sell credits to their customers and pass the money through to the drivers. I mean I won’t be using Uber much at the moment but eventually I will. Buying ride credits at a discount would make sense.
I think once this is over we'll see a boom in the following fields: remote working, robotics, virtual reality, indoor sports and activities, non-perishable food production, etc.
perhaps, I think iTunes did so well because of iPods and iPhones.
> Why spend resources on mass testing and preparing for mass-scale treatment

This is a good question, I hear it a lot. So here's an inarticulate stab at an answer.

[TLDR: After quarantine the population is still at risk and the virus will start its exponential growth again, just a few weeks down the line]

No matter how effective your mass quarantine may be, we will never "nip transmission in the bud". This thing is endemic and may well be chronic.

The purpose today of mass quarantine is just to slow down the exponential growth of the epidemic. It's only worth doing if you have something to stop the growth from starting again at the end since shutting down the economy isn't sustainable and is enormously damaging even in the short term.

What's that something? Wide-spread, universal testing. Rapid follow-up on positive tests to trace contacts and isolate them. This way you cut down the number of people each person can infect so that the growth rate is less than 1.

You have to keep this regime going until a sufficiently large proportion (in this case, 60%-70%) is immune either because they have recovered from infection or they have been vaccinated.

So, barring getting really lucky with some kind of seasonal disappearance of the virus, we will have to maintain this surveillance-tracing-isolation three legged stool until a vaccine is available.

If we had done this from the beginning we would not now have to be shutting down and destroying the economy to prevent a worst-case disaster, which is estimated that it would peak at about 40,000+ deaths per day in the US, sometime in late May, if left unchecked.

If we had done wide-scale test-trace-isolate from the beginning we could just be going about our business, albiet with this new factor in our lives. Since the criminals bungled, and are still bungling the response, we instead will have many many deaths and serious illnesses w/lifetime consequences and unprecedented economic damage.
Url changed from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/17/tiktok-tr..., which points to this.
CloudFront will likely help you save costs if there is a benefit to caching the content. For example, if all of those 30 download the same file, from a similar geographic area around the same time, you should see some cost reduction.

Otherwise, it might not be worth the cost of the distribution!
> It included a level editor and scripting language, which allowed anyone to unleash their creativity and design their own text-mode games using the ZZT engine.

> This was absolutely revolutionary at the time.

Well... OK, I'll give you this maybe in the DOS world and maybe on the US side of the Atlantic. Maybe. And granted that we didn't all, me included, have access to the latest and greatest of anything back then: you knew only what you were exposed to through computing magazines, cover disks, and printed manuals, and you might not have extensive access to many of those. Almost all of my paper round income went on computer magazines back then.

Still, AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit), based on an earlier program called GAGS, was released for DOS in 1987.

Moreover, in the 8-bit world, The Quill was released for the ZX Spectrum in 1983, GAC (Graphic Adventure Creator) was released in 1985 for Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, C64, and even BBC Micro, and PAW (Professional Adventure Writer) - a successor to Quill - was released in 1987.

Point being, a wide variety of text and graphic adventure "construction set" programs were introduced in the early 1980s, and were widespread by the early 1990s.
> Dividends are direct payments to investors who will presumably stay investors — the buy back is a ‘buy out’ of existing shareholders.

I don't think that's true at all. Every day there's massive liquidity -- buying and selling -- of any publicly traded stock.

Buybacks are generally implemented gradually over time, to the best of my knowledge, and are simply buying the shares people are selling daily regardless, the existing liquidity.

Obviously because there's slightly more demand, the price creeps slightly higher, and a margin of people decide to sell (e.g. for $201) where they wouldn't have sold slightly lower (e.g. for $199). But obviously those people were generally looking to sell in the first place.

So the idea that buybacks somehow discourage or reduce investing or discourage long-term investment seems totally mistaken.
The article links https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/05/sony-and-remarkables-dueli... , which compares the older version of reMarkable to the newer version of the Sony device.
Banning non compete deals often makes sense, if they have become a standard part of terms and conditions and are hard to avoid. But people flying budget airlines usually have many other choices. Often they could upgrade to an exit row seat for a small fee, or choose a more expensive carrier with more room. They usually have the choice and the majority choose not to. This doesn't look like a market failure.
No it isn't. That's just something people with money tell themselves to avoid thinking about poor people.
China is going to face a deep recession as corporations rethink supply chain. The communist party needs something to blame and US is a perfect target.
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The focus on the viral load has helped, that’s for sure but as doctor and a researcher, I wouldn‘t throw most of the initial effort under the bus, or explain that quarantine doesn‘t work by quoting a pre-Pasteur example.
> You're talking about the United States vs. China, not China vs. individual American companies.

Actually, I was talking about something more like individual American companies & China vs. the United States.

> But the way you're painting it, allowing American companies to exploit cheap Chinese labor, allowing them wide-ranging access to the Chinese market, where they sell enormous amounts of goods and dominate many market sectors, and constructing an IP enforcement system out of nothing constitute China taking advantage of American companies.

What's so hard to understand? The idea is that American companies making profit selling Chinese-made goods to Chinese and Americans may not actually a very good deal for the United States. It's like a son selling his family's farm for the price of 10 years of produce and the paper title "king of the village," so he could focus on improving his underwater basket-weaving skills. Maybe that was a good deal for the son, but that doesn't mean it was a good deal for the family.

But the key point was to say the answer to this question, which you asked and seem to think is false, could conceivably be true:

>>> Do you think the rich countries just let themselves get walked over in that way by much weaker, poorer countries?

That question is a lot like this one: do you think king with a castle with impenetrable walls and overflowing storehouses will just let his enemy inside?

The answer is no, if the king is the only agent in the castle.

The answer is yes, if the guard manning the gate is an independent agent, and the enemy bribes him.

The answer to the question is very different once the model is expanded to include more agents with different motivations. The two-agent model implicit in your question is too simple for this topic.
> The development won’t affect the $5 billion lifeline SoftBank agreed to give WeWork directly—cash the startup badly needed then as it ran out of runway, and which it is likely to continue to need as the worsening coronavirus outbreak empties out its desks.

Some of that money, including $1.5 billion in fresh equity, already has been invested.

Still extending and pretending?
It was sold out at the places he purchased the entire supply from. You're kinda playing semantic games yourself.
The Russians call this "face control"; the practice of maintaining a club full of only good looking people by the bouncers.

It's unpleasant, but a handy reminder that TikTok and other social networks don't work for you, but make you into a product.
this is a very cogent point. algorithims act as a layer of abstraction and somehow gives people an escape for moral culpability. i wonder what facebooks algorithms would have done during US slavery, in nazi germany, during the apartheid, or any other (countless) horriffic human event?

no doubt we will hoist pitchforks at tiktok for being authoritarian chinese and neglect our own senseless populism.
He seems to assume it but doesn’t really detail. I’m not sure there’s a scale for measure symptoms in details.
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Doesn’t swine flu recur every now and then? Every virus could potentially become endemic.
If you’re worried about context, consider that the supply chain is already expended and has been for some time. Some utterance doesn’t change that.

There is no strategic reserve of respirators or respitory therapists anyway. The military probably has some for deployments, but not in meaningful quantities for a national scope.
When we see that the US airline business is asking for a $50 billion bailout, having engaged in $45 billion of stock buybacks, it appears that the sector is dominated by owners and execs who are either completely incompetent at risk management, or really in the business of robbing the public purse.
I noticed the same thing a while back with DoorDash when trying to order some Cracker Barrel breakfast. It was something like a 30-40% hike across the board.

If DoorDash or Uber Eats charges 30% (which is fucking insane if they do), where do you think that comes from? Restaurants aren't making 30% profit.

Compounding the problem GrubHub, and presumably other "gig economy" delivery services, preemptively adds non-partner restaurants against their will:

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Grubhub-Michelin-star-SF...
"Here in Australia Labor’s plan was for a nationwide network with 93 per cent FTTP coverage. Under the Coalition’s model, only around 20 per cent of NBN Co customers will enjoy FTTP. Around a third of fixed-line premises will be lumbered with FTTN."

https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/n...
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1csjNpDV94dt0VsJPP41o...
While cooking isn't that difficult, that biggest thing I think people will run into is just not being equipped. I have known several people that enjoyed eating out all of the time and never spent time equipping the kitchen. Sure, your basic pots and pans, but not measuring cups or spoons, mixing bowls, etc. Forks, spoons, butter knives on hand, but not a decent paring knife or chef's knife. I'm not talking stand mixers and food processors, but basic equipment that makes cooking easier and not frustrating. It's no wonder wedding registries are full of kitchen items.
The article mentions:

> The company is claiming a 3x boost to battery life, using the same 3,000 mAh battery, based on performance improvements throughout and a more efficient (but more powerful) dual-core ARM processor. That means two weeks of use and 90 days of standby. This is welcome news, because frankly the battery life and power management on the last one were not great.
Something like this would be so fascinating to delicately and tediously catalogue and study.
I don't think this is true. People analyze every detail of the books on those public filings. If the culture of investors changes such that a low cash reserve (or whatever) is considered risk, that will be factored into the stock price. This is particularly true if having continually low reserves bumps you off important indexes.
Which smells a bit of "they're essential because they're employing a significant portion of the population".
Thanks for your advice. Your suggestion re: success businesses with manual, redundant workflows is great food for thought!
I was thinking it was SIGINFO, but this reminded me of the SIGUSR1 trick to get the current status of a running dd process-

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!
$ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid

18335302+0 records in 18335302+0 records out 9387674624 bytes (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s
Iowa is carry-out or drive thru only as of noon Tuesday.
See the reply by masonic. The article makes no mention of this being different other than the added protection for the officers, but like I said the tone is clearly attempting to give that impression without actually saying it.
A better example is the difference between the contents of a normal English book vs a randomly generated string of letters. The former has a lot of structural properties the latter lacks, plus shares a large amount of mutual information with a source independent from the physical properties of the book.
These doses are quite high though because they are using them for treatment.

Preventative doses of chloroquine for malaria are about 300mg per week. I'm not sure what preventative doses of quinine are typically, presumably much higher than chloroquine, but how much higher?
I would be skeptical of _Le Monde_ too indeed. My point was that particular site had all the flavours of the fake news site that had mushroomed in the last year, with non-sensical translations and controversial content.

Before anyone raids pharmacies, I’d rather have a vigorous debate with peers, clear methodology, etc.
A company called nymi does exactly this. They have a wrist-watch device that actively profiles wearer's heartbeat for unique identification.
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The governor made it statewide earlier today
I don't know what I'm talking about.

And where's your evidence that restaurants are profiting off of Uber Eats / GrubHub / Door Dash / whatever? Restaurants are suing to be removed from these services. Presumably it's not profitable for the restaurant.

Let's not forget that in most states these "gig" jobs hire people as contractors who are then ineligible for unemployment and social security and are not guaranteed a minimum wage. Restaurants typically hire folks as employees.
Ever wonder where the big birds get their sticks?
I had just assumed they picked them up the way we would.
But a large bird on the ground wrestling with a stick is vulnerable to ground adapted things.

I have seen them breaking significantly sized dead branches off the tops of trees with full diving attacks where the sticks never hit the ground.
France is very known for this. It's not surprising. Doing businesses there can be very fishy sometimes cause of this.
but it's too big to fail
This is not about low quality content getting automatically filtered out by an algorithm because people don't like it. This is about TikTok using human moderators to prevent users from ever seeing content made by people they don't like.
TikTok works with AI

No, it's manually done by humans.
Setting up CI/CD via CodePipeline for a static website is trivial. Beyond that, Amplify Console offers an extremely easy experience deploying static websites, with built in blue/green deployments.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amplify-console-hosting-for...
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Is that what you base him being "controversial" on? My understanding is that he regularly publishes in the Lancet [1] and New England Journal of Medecine [2] (if I am using pubmed correctly).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=(Raoult%2C%20Didier...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=(Raoult%2C%20Didier...
I believe that viral load ("charge virale") is the number of virus in your system, so mainly viruses that are coming out of your own cells. Masks prevent contamination before it starts but if one is measuring load, I’d say it’s too late.
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"Dust" by Hugh Howey.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dust+hugh+howey
> Taking on debt is an unusual way to return money to investors.

Not if interest rates are low.

Suppose interest is 1% and a company takes out a 5-year loan. They pay ~$1.05 to distribute $1 per share now instead of waiting 5 years to distribute it.

I, as an investor, can take that distributed $1 and reinvest it at, say, an expected rate of return of 5% -- so that in 5 years I'll have ~$1.28.

Obviously that's a much better total deal in the end. I, as an investor, want the company to take on reasonable low-interest debt for dividends or buybacks. Which is exactly why companies are doing this.

This is the middle ground between your options #1 and #2, which is financially wise for companies who expect to continue to have healthy profits. Which is exactly why companies are doing it.
It does that since the last software update ;)
I was pretty adamant about pointing this out earlier. It’s so basic and for someone like the Surgeon General to spread misinformation is criminal in my view. Sure, it didn’t help that some people were hoarding the masks but the shortage was largely due to much of the US supply being redirected to China in January.
> Businesses can't always be paused.

Yes they can, if directed to do so. Will they incur a cost? Of course. It's part of the cost of doing business in a regulated economy.
Also, single consumer for SQS? Completely wrong. It is a common pattern to autoscale a group of workers based on the number of visible messages in a queue. Hundreds or thousands of workers are not out of the question. SQS has no practical limit to its ability to scale.
It's a SINGLE INDUSTRY that represents 10% of our workforce; I think that's more than any other. Overwhelmingly they are non-unionized. Profit margins for restaurants are very slim (avg. around 5%). Take-out/delivery is not going to come close to replacing the lost business. Many restaurants will close - many already have.

This is not to say other industries (like hotels) won't also be badly hurt. But restaurants are probably the single largest highly effected sector.
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The approval is not "temoprary and conditioned".

This was enacted using legislation from the time of the British colonial occupation of Palestine, which goes against every constitutional principle and assumes basic hostility between the government and the subject populace.

The Israeli parliament actually decides, every year, that Israel is in "a state of emergency" (never ending, of course) to prevent some of these powers from expiring. This has been happening mainly for suppressing the Palestinian population and limiting the freedom of the press.

It's true that over time, a lot of this has been scaled back (e.g. you no longer need a permit to issue a newspaper). But instead, Israel has adopted new draconian anti-privacy legislation, like the "Big Brother law" of 2008 IIRC, which allows the executive branch to access phone and cellular geo-location records without a search warrant, etc.

Also, some of the measures now in place were introduced despite the relevant parliamentary committee for overseeing these matters _rejecting_ fast-track approval, demanding additional information. The government just went ahead and ignored them. It's also convenient that the government is preventing parliament from properly convening (no more than 10 people at a time), and most court sessions from occurring.
> What is terrifying about that

Being a dinosaur and seeing a big fiery thing in the sky. Thinking maybe it'd be better to get a bit of a head start on that mammal business. But its hard to make that business case, isn't it? Thankfully this news makes it easier I guess.
This is what happens when you mix utilitarian morality with a desire to stop online bullying. You just stop letting the most likely targets of bullying be seen. This is much cheaper and easier than trying to get rid of everyone who has ever been mean online, because that's everyone.
His tone is controversial: he’s happy to say things that will make some people unhappy.

You are quoting a highly respected peer-review journal. Those were set-up to avoid appeals to individual authority and replace them with (anonymous) peer review. His presentation is certainly promising but it hasn’t gone through such a review yet.
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So, like reddit?
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Url changed now from https://allenleein.github.io/2020/03/11/pmarca-flying-car.ht....
It's not. The whole point is that you keep scrolling and they show you what the algo thinks you'll like.
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How are algorithms a "layer of abstraction" for guidelines given to human moderators?
They indeed were; ZZT is far from the first game creation tool.

However, most of those were either commercial products or restricted the editing capabilities in some manner to free users. ZZT was shareware, but the registered version differed solely in the amount of official game worlds available (and the lack of a registration message on exit). The editor was fully-featured and no restrictions were put on usage. This is what I think makes it stand out from other game creation tools of the era and what made it a popular tool on BBSes.
> A lot of trading is done via indexes.

Indexes are today's CDSes, it baffled me how many people were defending them (in fact, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people still defends them in one way or another) when in fact it had been visible for at least 3-4 years that they're the new "too big to fail" thing that will bring the whole edifice down at the first signs of weakness. We never learn, we always like to think that there's some silver bullet in finance that will make us earn money almost for ever with close to no risks.
I've never seen any of Sony's e-ink devices live. I understand that the first ones were pretty disappointing, but I'd like to try the CP1. I have tried the Boox Note 2, which is actually a decent Android tablet, and the tactile feeling of writing is much better than on iPads, but still far below the rM.

One marker nib lasts me about 10 weeks, but it seems to be very individual. Some people can write hundreds of pages on a single nib, others need a new one weekly. In any case, I wouldn't say nibs wearing out is a major concern. It would be nice if they didn't wear out, of course, but the design of the nibs seem to be crucial for giving that excellent writing feeling.

And yes, these devices are expensive. I'm in the EU myself, and some 400€ is rather steep for upgrading the rM to rM2.
Or be overruled.
So, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube..?
By selling / "doing an exit" to GitHub?
Cool get out of jail free card for nuking Neumann’s parachute. Whomever put that idea forward earned their fee.
This is great. For anyone who wants to dive a bit deeper I would highly recommend the book The Shape of Space by Jeffrey Weeks. It's a wonderful insight into topology that can be enjoyed by anyone with high school math or above. I've even spotted it in the small library for graduate students at the Cambridge University maths department.

Definitely my favourite maths book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599877.The_Shape_of_Spac...