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# Air Bud

* Budget $3 million

* Box office $27,771,629

# Air Bud: Golden Receiver

* Budget $11 million

* Box office $10,224,116

Air Bud: World Pup, Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch and Air Bud: Spikes Back are direct-to-DVD movies, so we don't know about their box office performance, sadly.
I don’t think that’s the only reason. They also supply camera sensors for a lot of Smart phones.
Anything remotely critical of China is censored supposedly because it's to prevent a "flame war".

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
America has created quite a lot of terrible, low paying and unsustainable jobs that also externalize a lot of risk to staffers.

It's great for consumers via low prices, and investors via returns.

But it's a problem on the whole.

Sadly, I feel if these people were paid a decent wage, the price would be high enough the market would be tiny.

I'm not sure if the long-run economics add up very well here.
Well here the issue is that Roche has been compensated as the orders are in. Roche just does not seek to fulfill them in a timely manner. Which is also a strategic decision of production and inventory. Given that any production ramp up would have been a risky decision in January, the point explicitly is not that Roche can not supply the material right this instance.

What's not okay is that Roche uses vendor locking in or legal lock ins (Denmark) to keep countries from running any tests.

This is not a matter of ramping up production in January ex-ante. It's a thing that happened and was discussed just last week, when many EU countries literally were in a state of emergency since more than a week. In an effort to protect future, not current, profits, Roche has more or less directly contributed to the death of people. And if you think this is a strategic decisions that firms should be able to make in such a volatile situation, then you should probably not be allowed to gain these kinds of market shares in the EU.

Because let's be clear. If there were a legal institution to solve this problem last week or two weeks ago, it would have been used. The only reason Roche responds now is because the EC would invoke its discretionary power, slow as it is.

The only ethical decision for Roche would have been to release either the recipe or release legal lock-ins as soon as it was apparent that they could not fulfill orders in time.
Roche, which is not a EU company, should be held accountable to whatever degree the law allows. And to the degree it doesn't, such laws should be created.

From a EU perspective, it is doubtful whether a company that acts in this way should be allowed to do business here in this manner - in my personal opinion. And that's not just empty talk - in several countries the constitutions actually do norm that lives and welfare of people take precedence over pecuniary interests. For example, Roche would have simply have been disowned of their intellectual property by a court here in Germany if we would have had the same lock-in issue. There's ample legal precedent for that, and there are high legal boundaries for such actions.
But given the setup of our constitution, these requirements are clearly met in this case.
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anti-white? can you explain?
For the curious the original text

> ソニーエレクトロニクス株式会社の設立により、EP&S傘下の事業間の一体運営をさらに推進し、組織・人材の最適化、既存事業の競争力強化、そして新規事業の創出と成長を図ります。

I mean it's still boilerplate business reasons but it doesn't feel as much of a word salad
"Great. Lets ban gig work and make sure that instead of a crappy income they have no income!"

There's a much easier answer and that's just to pay them better.
That wasn't what I was saying in the above comment. I was saying "I disagree with the oft expressed sentiment than HN is a small community or small forum."

People say HN is small and then cite Reddit or Facebook as examples of large forums. I would say that neither Reddit nor Facebook are communities or forums at all.

I would say that both Reddit and Facebook are platforms that host communities. Subreddits are communities and Facebook groups are communities and that's what you need to compare HN to if you want to gauge how big it is in comparison to other communities.

Comparing the 5 million visitors per month HN gets to the half billion members of Reddit is an apples to oranges comparison. I don't think it works.

As a platform, HN isn't very big. Reddit, Facebook and many other platforms have more traffic.

As a community or forum, I think HN is quite large. As far as I know, it's the largest and most influential (English language) tech forum on the planet.

Size does matter. The human mind only really computes a sense of community for a group of about 150 people. Above that size, you start having social dynamics like a big city, not like a tribe or village.

I generally define online communities in terms of "a group with one set of overlords." Platforms that have many subgroups with many different moderating teams strike me as platforms that host many communities. This is how Reddit works.

HN has one mod team. It has no subforums. So I think of it as a single community because it has some degree of cohesion provided by having one set of moderators (and a single space -- it doesn't really get broken up by topic, etc, the way some things do).

This is one of the reasons I feel HN is actually a very large community. Most platforms of this size or larger are more like Reddit and have been broken up into smaller subgroups.

Those subgroups are your communities. The fact that different people are in charge of different groups will foster different cultures, etc, even if the topic is nominally the same and the rules are nominally the same. They will be interpreted differently.

I've left a few other comments here already touching on some of this, chiefly these two:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22704995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707047
It’s a $425 billion fund that is to be leveraged 10x into over $4 trillion in extremely cheap loans to large corporations. This is a staggering amount of money will be used to further consolidate the American economy with all the attendant problems that causes in the mid to long term.

The “strings” attached are almost non existent and most of them can be waived by the treasury secretary. Including using it for stock buy backs.

The US Government has just robbed another generation to further enrich the richest and this was not just a Republican doing, although they’re going to get the blame. Schumer and Pelosi together wanted this in the bill because they serve the same interests. Pelosi could’ve stripped it in the House and the House could’ve passed the worker and small business focused measures leaving the slush fund for a separate bill. But they didn’t for a reason. Pelosi also didn’t take votes on the record so we can’t hold our Representatives to account for their vote here.
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Microsoft Targets VMware with 'Head-Scratcher' Acquisition
The implication of saying they “crumbled” to the “social pressure” is that it’s bad to take clear feedback from your user base. It doesn’t make any sense.
Another test, from BioFire. These look like they're rolling out pretty rapidly now: https://www.biomerieux-usa.com/biomerieux-receives-emergency...
virus = no tourists = no market for cameras?
Wouldn’t a meaningful win require a change to their privacy policy?
I personally have leftist tendencies, but avoid that on here because it's a one way ticket to your comment being nearly invisible. Plus its damn near useless when the consensus is "socialism is when the government does stuff" and socdems are labeled as full blown communists
Catching a virus normally provides you immunity for some time frame from three months up to years or forever. We aren't expecting reinfection (yet) because we're expecting immunity, but might be wrong.
"I think" is not always redundant. It serves the same purpose as "in my opinion" or "I'm pretty sure", which is to temper the confidence of the statement or indicate an unverified intuition.

Example:

"Hey, where's the emergency toilet paper supply?" "I think it's in the cupboard under the stairs."

I think (but am not sure!) that this use of "I think" is intuitively obvious to most native English speakers, especially when paired with voice tone.

Obviously, if you're sure that a statement is true, then adding "I think" only weakens your point. Unskilled writers might not know to avoid it in (say) an essay, which may be why you heard that advice in school.
legit question to the people downvoting this ^^ comment - what the actual f___ is wrong with you?
It’s a simple Gaussian kernel multiplied with a triangular mask.

You can do better by playing with intensities of pixel values as suggested in the article I linked.
Any company that sells to people inside their homes is doing great. Games and content providers, video conferencing software, restaurants that do food delivery, Amazon.
That's noble, but seven doesn't really scale to "hundreds" especially if you are wanting the news to break more or less uniformly across the group you are laying off.
This is the new article from Motherboard. Motherboard = Vice
Wow, I'm sure the millions of dollars he's gonna make from the 10k ventilators has no impact on his motivation.
Effect of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in 80 Covid-19 patients [pdf]
Nak. Help output can be more concise because it does not have to explain what the command is used for, does not have to enumerate every option for a particular flag, does not need a "See Also" or "Examples" section, etc.
Yes. That is correct. Just wanted to see if the idea in my head actually worked. I was surprised by how decent it turned out especially given that I did not do anything “clever”.
I meant about where this line comes from:

mask = masks[0][0]

Presumably 0 is the class ID? For someone new to ML or object detection, it might not be obvious why you take the first channel here.

Also recent related reading: https://bartwronski.com/2020/03/15/using-jax-numpy-and-optim...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22590360&ref=hvper.com&...
It's also possible they didn't listen to their app over the wire and see it doing this. What lesson could we teach about "why you should mitmproxy your app while it's in development?", so that people can start uncovering this in other apps — including their own?
There is PMD's CPD: https://pmd.github.io/latest/pmd_userdocs_cpd.html
Yes. That is correct.
He's a racist troll.
> Do people really not like the idea of collective bargaining

Since the gutting of private-sector unions, the average American’s exposure to collective bargaining is public employee union strikes.
Yeah, that's pretty slimy. That wasn't in the original article that was posted, which was in Eater and very short on details [1], consisting mostly of jwz's expletives. At some point the mods changed it to point to the better Verge article.

(It's a little frustrating that me and several other early commenters are getting hammered with downvotes because we pointed out how lousy that original article was, context that's now been lost. And unlike the mods, I can't go back and change my post retroactively.)

[1] https://sf.eater.com/2020/3/27/21197236/yelp-dna-gofundme-wr...
Zoom's blog post about the removal of Facebook login and SDK:

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/zoom-use-of-facebo...
Just read the book "Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English" and he mentions the practice of Kasina. This app definitely made me think of that chapter.

I think there's a lot to be explored in how technology can work with mindfulness & concentration practices.
Didn't they buy the camera business when it was Minolta? I recall the refunds Sony and Minolta had to issue for bad sensors back when.
I love $ZM, it works when nothing else does, and it's responsive to user feedback and cares about user happiness. Most of the interactions I have today are through $ZM and my life would be cut off almost entirely if $ZM didn't exist. If I'm fortunate enough to run a company, I would love to have a business relationship with $ZM, and I'll remember all this.

No, I'm not a paid shill, just a really tired and stressed out guy who gets almost all of his social interaction through Zoom.
How does it compare to CSA? Better (more diagnostics, better specificity/selectivity) or worse?

I love it when these guys leapfrog one another, seems like everyone wins for the most part.
I use workflowy. Its webapp works on any browser and it sync in real time.
It's not just San Francisco. I was driving onto the 406 in here Niagara (Canada) and I had to avoid one that had died after being hit by a car. In my entire life I've never seen coyote road kill.
There is a reason that anybody who dealt with it called it Mogrief.

An entire GUI toolkit was written from scratch simply to replace Motif (Gtk).

This should tell you what you need to know.
Great idea! Love the idea of creating apps that promote concentration rather than diminish it.
This is how conventional journal publishing works, so I don't see why this couldn't be implemented for books which provide a bibliography.
Yes. It probably bears repeating. The pandemic seems to be causing people to gloss over important details in comments.

So thank you for pulling that out and highlighting it.
I absolutely love working with Node. As a JavaScript developer I love it more than working in the browser.
That’s a possibility. Another is sector wide unionization, rather than worksite as we have in the US. Then one company is never granted that card to cry about.
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I live _on_ a mountain with mountain lions all around, but I've only seen one twice in 20 years. So seeing three in a city is really unusual.
Investors have traditionally not taken this sort of thing into account, focusing only on the profits. Although, I have read articles saying new generations refuse to invest in certain sectors, such as the military industrial complex (companies like Lockheed Martin). So perhaps it'll change over time. See https://www.upworthy.com/millennials-are-making-money-by-inv... for an example of one of the articles.

Getting a lot of downvotes by people on my above comment, but oddly enough no one wants to engage and say why they disagree. I feel like this platform would work better if people could only upvote. It would force them to comment / explain their own position if they really disagree with folks. Flagging should of course still exist though.
Not to be a downer, this is great advice but sadly bad timing, with the virus turning many countries isolationist (I think China is not allowing foreigners in, right now), and the next few months' economic outlook will be uncertain, in China as well: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-26/the-secon...

But well, when the world returns to the way it was, going to China is a great idea.
Is there no adapter?
It's the same platform as runs an existing flu test. Obviously the Covid-19 version was done in a rush, so it might not be quite as good, but the sensitivity and specificity rates for influenza are amazing: sensitivity above 95% and specificity near 100%.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558351
WW I is the more important because it destroys the power of the royal families that ruled the empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Turkey and China. By the end of WW II most royal families were reduced to figurehead status, except for the British and the ones that Britain tried to re-establish in the Middle East.
This is great but we really need antibody tests almost as much, if not as much.
> For comparison mod_perl was 1999 or so

I used mod_perl extensively in the summer (May-Aug) of 1996; it was the only way I found to embed perl directly into the server process, at the time.

See also http://apache.perl.org/about/history.html
Thanks for responding. You are far from the first to suggest I launch a podcast or vlog. It's time for me to try even those tactics that are unusual and unlikely. I'll make some recordings in the next week, and see what sticks.
Money printer goes brrrr

[1] https://brrr.money/
> the company is apparently still going to worry about milking advertising dollars out of me

They will never not do that. Paying customer or not, no business is ever going to say "let's give up a huge amount of revenue so we can avoid invading people's privacy and annoying them with ads they don't want to see". To do so would be to miss an opportunity to make even more money.

The fact you're a paying customer also implies you have disposable income and you're willing to spend it. Ironically, paying money to avoid advertising makes your attention even more valuable to advertisers.

The only way they'll stop advertising is if it's not profitable. The only solution is to block all ads and reduce their return on investment as much as possible.
I appreciate you taking the time to reply, but this is hardly proof. It's all anecdotal. I was hoping you might provide some articles or citations backing up your point.
Me too, but neither you nor I represent the market.

If there was a sufficient market for all of this to work out, it probably would have existed before Instacart. Instacart provides no innovation, other than dumping investor money on the market, and externalizing a lot of cost and risk onto gig workers, thereby making the price of delivery somewhat worthwhile ... for now. The moment the workers are paid reasonably and/or the VC subsidy runs out, what then?

Since when do the unit metrics on this business add up?
Booking did in February, no questions asked (although I did mention it was due to Corona fears). They had to call the hotel, but the hotel was fine with it, and so was Booking.
Charter gives techs $25 gift cards instead of hazard pay during pandemic
When the dust settles in this crisis, the scientific and medical communities need to have a discussion on how they communicate with the public. Countless times I see statements to the media along the lines of "There's no evidence that masks work". But this is a truism, infectious diseases exist along a spectrum of transmissibility, as the transmissibility of COVID-19 is still a matter of active research, then of course there's no evidence that masks work. That's simply what it means for a disease to be new. Yet the public in the West hears it as "Masks don't work".
Woah. Hold up.

I will repeatedly and loudly criticize the US government response to COVID-19 so far as inept, particularly the FDA in the early days. Brittle laws combined with their failure to move quickly hamstrung our chance at containment.

Under normal circumstances though, health and safety oriented regulatory bodies such as the FDA play an absolutely essential role in protecting us from bad actors. The only reason I have confidence when purchasing medications of any sort is because of them. They also protect our food supply from all sorts of misguided and dangerous production practices.

Even in an emergency situation, they have an essential role to play in preventing bad actors from popping up left and right peddling snake oil. There certainly needed to be more flexibility and speed in responding to the current crisis, and I'd argue that states ought to have _significantly_ more autonomy in a number of areas, but that's a far cry from calling them irrelevant.

(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.)
i meant exactly what i said: it's a humble qualifier . "I think" functions as an admission of fallibility. it transforms a certain claim into a proposition subject to change. its purpose is rhetorical rather than formal.
> Because people just have the option to produce food for themselves right?

Are you really arguing that farmers shouldn't charge for the food they grow?

> This is just plain false. Many children who relied on school lunches are going hungry as we speak.

Haven't most states provided a substitute program? Mine certainly has. I'm curious to know which jurisdiction is not.

> My neighbor is just as poor as me. We can only afford rent, food, and healthcare (healthcare is a luxury). What are my options now? I have to work as an Uber driver because it's hard to find work around here.

Then sell to someone with money? I do agree that we systematically prevent poor neighborhoods from access to capital markets, but that is due to burdensome regulation, not greed. I would assume if your hours have been reduced, you should be getting the unemployment insurance you paid for, if not, that's a different story.

> That's great, if you live in a rich neighborhood. Unfortunately when I go door to door in wealthy neighborhoods the cops pick me up.

No. On craigslist. You clearly have internet access and time to post. It's free and people just meet me in parking lots. Paid a few dollars for the seeds, and grew them for two months in my house. People pay ridiculous amounts for heirloom varieties. Seeds are often free if you have a local seed library.
FDA Gives the Green Light to Portable Covid-19 Test Kit
> run apps from inside the DMG instead of copying them to /Applications and deleting the disk image

First, there's nothing wrong with that.

Also, some apps display a message asking to be moved to /Applications when launched from a DMG.
There is a Sankey diagram of where all the money is going from DataIsBeautiful on Reddit .... >

[plug] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708372
Plastics are very chemically difficult to degrade. The nearest biological polymer is probably lignin, and even though it's part of a very porous matrix, it still takes years to break down.

I'm not too worried about PE, PET, PU, or nylon "rotting"
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> WW 2 is the war that took the USA from an isolationist power to global policeman.

The US was never isolationist. It's one of those lies that we tell ourselves to pretend we aren't an empire. If we were isolationists, we would be a 13 state nation.

Our first vassal nation was japan and we got them in the 1850s. But of course, we'd never call them that since that's what empires do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition

Go read up on the spanish american war and the colonies we got from that ( also in the 1800s ).

And of course wars to prevent freedom of the philippines, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_Wa...

Go read about the Great White Fleet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet

For an isolationist nation, we sure did get around.

> Conversely it set the UK (and to a lesser extent, France) on the path of liberating their colonies.

Path of "liberating"? The UK and France didn't liberate anything. The indians, vietnamese, etc all fought bloody wars to free themselves from their brutal colonial masters. Tens of millions of indians, vietnamese, algerians, sub-saharan africans, burmese, etc had to die to liberate themselves. India, vietnam, algeria, etc weren't given their freedom by the "gracious" brits, french, etc. The british, french, etc colonizers were never the good guys.

> And the groundwork for a new international norm against wars of conquest.

How convenient since the world had already been conquered by the winners huh? Not much left to conquer other than land dominated by the "winners". Also it wasn't anything new. The league of nations already laid the groundwork. Funnily enough, germany and japan weren't too fond of that since they had just begun their quest for conquest.

> Yes, the same countries wound up staying in charge. But it transformed the world.

The former negates the latter. If you could point out the fundamental ( paradigm shift ) that occurred because of ww2, I'm all ears. Instead of saying it transformed the world, point out the transformation.
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