skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is just that the outcome of manipulating it is usually not what the manipulators intended.

Citation needed on the "usually". Regulation sometimes goes wrong, but not "usually". Just look at things we take for granted like 40hr work weeks, no child labor, and health and safety protections for examples.
There's a Hardcore History episode about the event:

https://dchhaddendum.libsyn.com/ep5-nightmares-of-indianapol...
A Woman in Black: The last judicial duel in France
> Some have received far more after rejecting this offer.../r/wsb

This is rational for Robinhood, so I'm not dubious. But is there a reliable source?
Unrelated to the post, but I wonder how Americans pronounce and spell Banham's name.

Personal experience: My name is Behnam and I've often seen people think it's "Benham" or even "Brenan". This makes me think maybe it'd be wise to change my name (either pick an English name, or use Benham instead). I've seen many asians do this, e.g. Terry Tao, Andrew Ng, etc.
No, the direct UBI payments are $300b.

Some additional spending on unemployment insurance, SNAP, and some other programs that are going to be hit harder with millions of people out of work overnight. But overall, there is actually more spending directed towards businesses here than towards individuals ($775b for business vs $560b for UBI and unemployment).

https://i.redd.it/7ji35fxrq4p41.png

It's pretty funny to see Democrats patting themselves on the back about what a good deal they got for working americans. This is pretty much a handout to big business, and they wrote you a token check to get it shoved through.
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(As an aside, I was disappointed that none of the states defied the federal government in this instance. I had hoped for a state-level authorization for established medical labs to develop in house tests, and a subsequent court case challenging federal law on the matter. As far as I understand, the FDA only derives its authority from the frequently abused interstate commerce clause.)

Yeah, seriously. Every state is happy to defy DEA with marijuana. You'd have near universal support for defying FDA in this instance, and it would be a welcome breath of fresh air for the states, who have honestly been continuously disempowered by the federal government.
The oath ,,First do no harm'' is there for a reason: sadly for most new therapies, the alternative of using the old therapy is better in 99% of the cases. The FDA is there to make sure that companies find the remaining 1%.

The big difference here is that the speed of finding the right drug can make or break trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, so it's critical for the FDA to focus on the COVID-19 illness.
I don't know much about this issue, but there is precedent where a doctor who discovered that stomach ulcers were cause by bacteria could not get any recognition for years.

He ended up making a broth with the infection, and purposefully infecting himself to demonstrate his findings. Only then he was believed.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank...
To a certain extent, it's like raising the minimum range, only more so. A lot of jobs will just disappear.
That's quite an expensive strawman you've demolished over there.
OT: I can't understand why this website _want_ to looks like a mobile web __and__ hides scrolling bar. I'm on desktop and it irritates me a bit.
Oh I don't doubt the practice is common, but for an organisation making their claims about privacy it is at odds with their slapdash approach to development.
Only folks I’ve talked to on Reddit, no one has provided a settlement agreement and proof of payout. I’ll ask around if someone is willing to show docs.
Lab tests can take up to 10 days now.

That's a really serious problem. A fast test would be much more useful.

Of course, there are other equipment problems. N95 masks, PPE equipment, ventilators.

And there's the problem of creating more quarantine areas where the infected can go and not infect their families and friends. There's problem of making the lockdowns tighter and more rational (grocery stores should be forced to do curbsite service, perhaps with grants from the state. The state could contract with Instacart also). There's the problem of more people doing contact tracing. There's the problem of prevent landlords and others from evicting and harassing health care workers (for possibly carrying the virus). There are many problems but arguing about "where the focus needs to be" seems counter-productive. All of this stuff crucial.
The pressure is determined by the mass of the water column above you. If water were compressible (as air is), that mass would vary by depth, complicating calculations.

As water compresses minimally, density is constant, and computing based on area and depth at 1000 kg/m^3 is sufficiently accurate.
Yep, the Chicago subreddit has a photo of one wandering around this week. We also occasionally get deer that make it into the city; usually walking down some of the long bike trails from Skokie.
Amazing insight. I hope we invent time travel so you can tell that to the slaves of various civilizations throughout history.
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Really? Their own website[1] lists that any domestic or international flights in March, April or May are eligible for cancel or change without fees (it does appear that you can only cancel to get credit but it might be worth giving them a call to see if you can get an exception made). I say that because I have flights with them in early May that I'm increasingly thinking isn't going to happen and I've been assuming that I'll get to change it for free.

[1] https://www.delta.com/us/en/advisories/coronavirus-travel/ca...
The FDA is not what is restricting your supply of 2CB, LSD, and MDMA though. I think this present crisis is a perfect illustration of why the FDA is incredibly important. Just look at all the misunderstanding about chloroquine, hyrdoxychloroquine, chloroquine sulfate, etc. flying around.
It's as fair as dying in Germany because France had inept leaders (for example, not saying either of those countries have inept or incompetent leadership). American states are way more autonomous than the regions of most countries. The populace elects the leaders they get.
They use coyotes? I thought it was just cats. Huh ... I guess some of those photos of them on the street this week may not have been of wild coyotes like I thought.
One step further would be to incorporate the blurring, masking, and combining operations into the network itself, so you can leverage the GPU to do the whole computation in one fell swoop.
> How do you know anyone has ever read that code? Surely they read the lines they changed - that's where the problems were

Of course. To fix an issue on a line, you need to know the context it’s used on and what happens with the line before and after. You also know what calls it or under what context.

> did they necessarily read the lines they left alone?

We can’t say for all of them, but they must have read lines that directly interact with it.
I don't yet have a comment on whether they acted maliciously by permitting user data to be exfiltrated to third parties without their permission, but to make categorical falsehoods about the importance they place on privacy is malicious in of itself.
When I have reached out to my network I have good luck not asking them if ithey need help, but if they know anyone who needs help--makes the ask easier too. And the more specific the help you can offer the better.

Automation engineer > software engineer > job

Also suggest joining local and tech focused slacks, as it seems a lot of jobs come across those nowadays.
Under your scenario you will be targeted by extremely sophisticated psy-ops (think cambridge analytica *1000) to convince you that the super-snake-oil 2xt is the absolute best cure for your disease. Don't let the gov't tell you any different. Just look at this incredibly misleading data.
If you can see it you can make an informed choice if the tradeoff is worth it.
Nikon and Canon's flagship products are DSLRs, which are cameras that have an analog viewfinder and a moving mirror inside to redirect the image to either the viewfinder or sensor. Mirrorless cameras use an LCD viewfinder instead.

The biggest things holding back mirrorless technology previously was battery life and autofocus technology. I am not sure why Nikon and Canon didn't invest more into mirrorless technology sooner, and I'm no photography expert, but I think they were just too entrenched in the DSLR technologies they pioneered.
Moving Past the Quarantine
The App Store having additional restrictions doesn't have anything to do with the privacy aspect of the walled gardens being a "lie". You can go on a tirade about the app store's limitations if you want, but that's not relevant.

Your proposed solution would not work, obviously, because how do you define what services an app is allowed to connect to? How do you know it's connecting to Facebook's servers? Just hope they always use facebook.com?
It's an ideal I wish we would shoot for more consistently. It's wonderful when it works that way, but it's hardly the default norm for gig work.

I'm pro gig work. I've done it for about eight years and it made it possible for me to have earned income at all under enormously difficult circumstances (while ill and homeless).

But I'm also aware that it only works that way when the system is designed to allow for that. Many platforms aren't designed that way.
Little special hardware on those old macs, memory was 16-bits, framebuffer was part of memory (memory was expensive), no blitting hardware, no hardware cursors (software removed the cursor, rendered to the screen, copied the data under the cursor and restored it). Screen refresh also refreshed memory, during horizontal blanking it fetched audio data
>>West looks pathetically weak and ineffective

That’s what happens when your people have almost no rights and you can literally weld their building doors shut. Their strength comes at a cost, and it’s the freedom of their people.

Edit: Also, China only matters because we allow them to matter. As soon as we wise up and let other countries start making our toys and phones, China will be screwed.
Have a look at "T shaped" skills and see where that takes you. I know Microsoft looks at this when team building so they have wide breadth in addition to specific depth.

Also, if you have time, there is a fantastic book on this subject "Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World", by David Epstein.

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Speciali...
> Let entrepreneurs, doctors, and patients decide their individual risk level.

Try starting with something less dangerous first like rolling your own ciphers for use in end-to-end encryption.
This article is excerpted from “Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years," first published in 2008. If some portions seem outdated, it's not just you.
> I would rather pay a higher delivery fee

In New York, we have Caviar [1][2], a mid-tier to premium food-delivery company. They differentiated based on premium food. I haven't heard any complaints from their delivery staff, though this may be on account of their size.

Is there a premium player in the grocery delivery business? Something like FreshDirect, but with better service?

[1] https://www.trycaviar.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square,_Inc.#Caviar_restaurant...
great. give me precision, recall, and accuracy please.
You could file a lawsuit no? I don't get this "nearly impossible to stop" thing. Granted, I don't live there and I share many of your misgivings about the terribleness of what Airbnb does to home prices etc. But it seems like people who are negatively effected tend to just shrug their shoulders while being shat on. If you want the owners to stop their illegal activity, then you have to make it painful for them economically.
> Blaming Apple? Why, when Zoom is on the Play Store as well?

Blame Apple because they constantly tout the iPhone as being "privacy respecting" and "what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone"[0], while they

A. Apple doesn't default to "limit tracking", or at least make "limit tracking" an option on setup/iOS upgrade

B. Apple doesn't penalize developers for using Facebook's SDK with auto data collection (ie. punishment by having text like "sends data to: facebook, google, hotjar" on an app's install page)

C. Apple doesn't do any software stuff to limit and track the trackers. Having a counter for # of total days a domain name was contacted would be an eye-opener for many, and being able to toggle a "block" on the domain would be a big step forward.

Facebook meets the standard for being included in apps (respects the user resetting the usage ID), but that standard isn't the standard privacy-conscious users want. Apple can do better, but whether it be industry pressure or monetary pressure [google paying to be the default search engine], they don't actually put privacy first.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/apples-ces-ad-las-vegas-misl...
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your physical and mental health?
Being indoors all day is giving me more time to think about my physical and mental health, and I want to go about resetting how I track and use it to achieve my best self.

Curious how HN does it, especially given how data + insight oriented we all are!
well, how do you get one without the other?

either way i haven’t seen ROC, precision/recall, d’, or F1 scores either.
Have you by chance read anything by Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord? He’d strongly disagree with you:

> I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.
Might be that it's a mobile first theme that's more like mobile only – styling for the phone and not making any changes for desktop.
I promise I’m not being a smart ass, but can you point me to a reputable source for the 80% false claim? I’ve seen a lot of people complaining of inaccurate tests, but have not come across any news articles myself. Maybe just for lack of trying :)

I ask because I saw articles about rapid tests (a few hours for a result) claiming accuracy of 98% plus in South Korea. I’m not saying the info isn’t out there, I just haven’t seen it, there is too much crap flying around.
they can't see what happens inside FacebookSDK's code. even if they could see it, good luck convincing the PMs and directors to avoid implementing Facebook login.
well stacks typically grew downwards even before there were heaps (but not always - Burroughs large systems for example)

Heaps of course can grow downwards

With modern 64-bit address spaces actual running out of space is not an issue (especially since we're dynamically moving around code, heaps and stacks for security reasons anyway)
The US could probably lock in near-free loans for even longer terms if it wanted to, too. Austria sells 100-year bonds, which are currently yielding a mere 0.5%.
By ordination by God you mean ordination by the local religious authority, right?
Baffling how this can be the top post...

"Who audits that?" We just did. And if there was a law against that, Zoom would just have been exposed for breaking it. Any sane company will try their best to adhere to laws. Some big players like Google can afford to mess around pay a few billions in fines, but those are the exceptions, not the rule. Eventually, even they can't afford to pay the fines in the long run (Even Google bowed to GDPR or at least its getting bashed with steeper fines until they wake up).

"How do you determine what's legal and what's not?" You pass a law, read the law? This is a self-contradiction. Laws are open for interpretation but the interpretation is quite clear after a supreme court case (for the better or worse).

"We should be pushing for a platform that makes it obvious what the software you're running is up to". Oh the web of trust? Did you ever install Snitch or some other firewall on your system? Its utterly hopeless even if you are knowledgeable. There is simply not way to audit that. Who audits that? Here you CAN ask this question.

I can't for the life of me understand how you can believe that it is better for everyone, including parents and grandparents to audit their phone, instead of having researchers audit phones and report companies who break the law. This is non-nonsensical. You must either be some expert without a connection to the real world, or some elitist who thinks everyone is like him.
Clear is better than clever. Unfortunately there is no agreement on what is clear and what is clever. I think arrow functions in JS are more clever than clear, but I’ve had people tell me that my opinion is mistaken.
it's slightly relevant
Don't sell low. This too shall pass
I’m not sure why there’s an obsession with testing right now. If everyone is supposed to be isolating no matter what, what difference does it make if you have a covid test or not? If you have any symptoms at all, you should stay at home and isolate at least until you’re all better, whether or not you took a COVID test. From what I understand it’s the asymptomatic cases that are the problem, and they’re not getting tested anyway. It seems to only make sense once you’re in the hospital so the doctor knows what to treat, but a test that takes 10 days to come back is useless anyway, plus there’s probably other ways for doctors to tell whether you have covid, if you’re displaying severe symptoms.
> That would imply they are incompetent and negligent.

I'm surprised that you consider that unlikely/surprising. Lots of companies act in technically incompetent ways all the time
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708233
1. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

2. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

3. The idea factory - Bell Land and the great age of American innovation

4. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

5. The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

7. Intel Trinity,The: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company

8. The Dream Machine

9. The Soul of a new machine
I totally get it, honorable job with your channel. We all have our projects and when they get attention it helps and motivates us and if it's for-profit, can help generate us revenue to live off of.

As someone who's never heard of you before now, if I may offer some suggestions that may help you to expose your content to newcomers like me. Of course, take this with a grain of salt, I'm a random internet user but I felt I needed to take the time and write something nice and (hopefully) encouraging to brighten a stranger's day in this coronavirus pandemic. :)

- The name of your video could be improved to help searchability. You use "Tile Map Editor - Part 4 (designing a tile map)" and I see why you might choose that, it's a Tile Map Editor for 2D games. However, when I am on Youtube, I'm more inclined to search for "How to create 2D game tile map" or "Create a custom 2d game tile map".

- I happened to watch a few of your videos and noticed that you are working on this in your free time after your full-time job. Totally get that, I'm writing budgeting software in my free time, it's hard to find time. In my experience, when I find a video that's more tutorial-esque, I find it helpful for voiceovers and shorter segments that I can digest. When I don't feel I can pause the video without missing something, it's hard for me to keep my attention on the whole video.

- Do you have a landing page or website? I was hoping to find a link to that in your description on Youtube where we could read a little bit more if we didn't want to watch videos, or if you were using any software/tools you wanted to share on Github with others. I know quite a good portion of the HN audience enjoys seeing new code projects and I think yours is worth sharing with the community too! Likewise, sharing a github link in Youtube or vice-versa is good cross pollination.

- You seem to be moving your mouse a lot for the brush feature :), have you thought of click-dragging over a set of squares to create a brush that way? (They all seem to be contiguous anyway in the sprite map, right?). All of the squares you click-drag over would be in the brush. Otherwise, maybe you could hold ctrl + click on all contiguous squares (and a separate button to save those squares as a brush preset).

- Are you designing these sprites yourself? You do a good job, much better than I could ever do - I wish I could draw that good.

(I guess I _did_ have more to say, aha)
Covid-19 hospital charges may exceed $1.4T in the U.S.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a big proponent for highly accessible, rapid testing from the get-go. But, I don’t know what the benefit of a 15 minute test is.

Can anyone tell me why this is any better than the already demonstrated, very accurate, testing methods already in place?
Is it just a company IP type of thing?

What does it matter that we can get a result before we leave the test site, versus a few hours after we go home, eat some lunch, and do a little work?

Maybe I’m overthinking it. Great. Please, Abbot, manufacture these things as fast as freaking possible. Distribute them across the whole country in huge volume. But I can’t help feel like this article (on Abbot’s own website no less) is just a bunch of sales/ marketing BS.

Honestly, it mostly just pisses me off that an American company as big & powerful as Abbot, didn’t have these things ready to go from the get go. There should have been thousands of these available to every Governor in the country at least a month ago.

Maybe then, our leaders (in the USA) would have had the capacity to craft smarter policies. Instead almost every governor in the country just threw blind, blanket lockdowns over entire states. Never mind that rural areas were not experiencing the same rates of infection, or pressure on health care systems, as densely populated cities.

They probably just didn’t have data pints they needed to decide. So they treated everyone the same. Much to the detriment of smaller, rural regions.
Surely anyone who works on this project could tell me why it exists, why it's better than rolling slurm/bash scripts. That feels like a bare minimum sales pitch. Instead the homepage is essentially buzzwords with links to watch the talk or read the docs. I'm sure anyone who uses this could say, "well, it makes x task much easier/more concise! This is much more difficult to accomplish using y" or something similar.
No, raising widespread awareness seems to have worked. Getting mad reduces the chances of someone responding usefully.
Hard in the general case, but I'll bet it's trivial to scan for the Facebook SDK, or any other blacklisted libraries, unless they're intentionally obfuscated.