skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone here explain how Foursquare's business works? It seems like they are capitalising on location data that they gather from devices, but AFAIK the Foursquare and Swarm apps are pretty much dead.

So how exactly are they getting possession of the location data? Or is that not even their biggest source of revenue?

Just genuinely curious.
I don't know. I just don't see it.

Unlike in professional wrestling politicians, corporations, etc have real conflicts over zero sum games. Of course, there are situations where there's are incentives to cooperate.

As for his critique of neoclassical economics' reliance on perfect information - that's already been addressed by many economists, Stiglitz, etc. It's frankly banal to even bring it up any longer.

I just don't see this concept adding much value to a conceptual toolkit. Whenever I try to apply it, it feels forced and it seems simpler concepts do the job just fine.

For example, it's easier to just assume that sometimes competitors finds situations where it makes sense to cooperate.

And it's simpler to assume that even staunch enemies want to appear "gentlemanly" at times, either in public or behind the scenes.

Kayfabe seems worst that useless to me. It seems to violate Occam's razor. It offers an elaborate explanation where a simply explanation would be just as good.
I love the artistry and creativity around the HyperCard community.

Years ago I stumbled on this (wonderfully dorky) episode of Computer Chronicles, that focuses on HyperCard:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg

I love how the used-car salesman created his own application to help potential buyers find the right car. This was truly the “bicycle of the mind” era for computing; the user base was fairly self-selected, and people wanted to take full advantage of this new tool. [1].

The range of HyperCard was pretty amazing — famously, Myst was originally created with it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX5B6cD4_4

1: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Bicycle.txt
And I agree with that as far as it goes, but I think it reflects the problem - clinical research contains a bunch of hurdles that have nothing to do with uncovering the truth. So in a sudden emergency, where clinical research starts to diverge from the treatment decisions of doctors and the drug supply actions of governments, I'm not going to put much weight on clinical research.
Why haven't you gotten the hell out then?
I actually have - because I've built an environment for a bunch of Emacs / Lisp developers, that uses a container + Emacs + VNC, so that they literally connect up to identical, pre-configured sessions - like the spiritual predecessor of the cloud IDE.

What this replaced was madness. We could never train anyone up before. We couldn't sit with each other and debug stuff. Agreeing on how things will work is key on a team that expects to do things like pairs programming, even if it means everyone sacrifices a bit of muscle memory.
If 70% of people get it, you have a baseline risk of 30% of getting it.

My assumption is that a sizeable fraction of people either:

* Already got it

* Don’t take hand washing seriously or do it wrong

* Are bad at avoiding touching their face

* Unnecessarily touch surfaces when out (i.e. door with hand, rather than sleeve/bag, whatever)

* Don’t practice distancing well

* Are in a job where they must interact with the public

If you do all of the above correctly, my guess is you can raise your odds of avoiding from 30% to 50-60%.

It’s not based on any math, but I don’t think there’s any definite math to base it on. I could be wrong in either direction.

Nonetheless I think it’s sufficient to argue that it is not inevitable that and individual will get it and everyone should not even bother to avoid it.
I've well aware of the OSS/FOSS definitions - it was exactly those that made me question your argument thst VS Code isn't open source. It plainly is, and indeed is Free As In Beer.

I don't see the problem with proprietary extensions - any open plugin mechanism will have at least some proprietary extensions (by the primary maintainer, or by third parties), including Theia's if it gains enough traction.
Since I know you're targeting undergrads with Xena - do you feel that changes are happening in more entrenched academia? Is there any evidence of people using automatic provers who weren't before?
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Searching for the title will usually find a free copy.

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~wsoon/myownPapers-d/LegatesSoon...
Yes, assuming you have a fresh enough kernel.
Awesome! Downloaded all3 of them!
This introduction to io_uring has some history of the interface that may answer your question.

https://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf
33k Covid-19 research articles with ~31m annotations of 11 biomedical entities
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21685660
Apple speech I guess.

It was perfectly fine on any Symbian and Android device I got to play with, and much better than J2ME ever was.
deploy a redirect server side.. i couldnt get it to work until i read this comment - you're losing tons of traffic
Right. So, in your opinion, how many people would you be willing to give up for the economy? What ages? Prior conditions? What about yourself? Your family?

We've been conditioned over the last 100+ years that life - especially life of white people, but never mind that bit - is precious. So now, when white people's lives are in danger you suddenly want to go all super rational and equate lives with paying out unemployment? Good luck with that.
Let's be specific.

This applies to the Democratic and Republican parties in the US.
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Wake up, plunk kid in front of screen, plunk self in front of screen, shelter in place, rinse repeat
Still using foursqure over yelp for reviews.
Interesting. I remember there was a check-in aggregator app, you checked in using that app and it checked you in to Foursquare, Gowalla, and others.

IIRC I think Google Maps might have added a check-in feature... it was a crazy time.
Trying to connect now and all I get is the "AWAITING CHALLENGE... (n)" counter.

Am I doing something wrong?
There are almost no badges in the new app, useless coins (at least if you could upgrade your badges with them as back in the day).. I fail to see how it's the same "fun" as it ever was. I have a few friends that still use it religiously, one day I plan on thinking deeply about what these people have in common because on the surface they seem rather random -- some are technologists, some aren't; all of them are 30+.

I think there is a _lot_ to be done in the field. As with anything these days it would most likely require a large effort with sizable investment, but I think it's an area that's grossly overlooked.
Now you need to decide whether to use opcode 0x31 or 0x33…
Yes, my "see what the team is up to" git command is:

git branch -a --sort=-committerdate

That's short enough for my taste not to have to alias, and it gives output more or less similar to GitHub's "Active branches" view.
No idea what you are talking about I loved it...
You can (or at least used to be able to) sign up for PayPal with an email address. Or at least I'm fairly sure, since PayPal keeps prompting me to put in a mobile phone number, and so far I've always been able to exit out of that dialogue without entering anything.

Venmo, on the other hand, I will never use because of this "feature".
Based on your comment I went to buy Superforecasting on Audible. When I browsed to it I saw I already bought it on 29-04-19. Time to listen to it.
> Bitcoin implements only half of it

What does that mean? That the dollar implements the entirety of the economy? No currency "creates value"

I understand what you mean by saying bitcoin is zero sum, but I'm asking for an explanation of how that's any different (for example how is the dollar NOT zero sum)? I don't think you've explained what, in your opinion, is the differentiating characteristic here.
I'd like to do something similar using GIS tools, what JH API call are you using for the national data?

The one I have returns a mix of country and region data, I want just the country level summaries (confirmed, deaths, recovered).

Thanks for any help!
A bit shorter, and more focused from a different interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgWSPWX-6A
That's not a shallow dismissal. Fundamentally, what I read was a cohort size of 11. 1 died. No control group. No double blind (as no control group).

There's no aspect of this that would be statistically distinguishable from noise.

Then again, the original study suffered from this as well.

n=11 may be succinct, but it is not shallow. There is a world of statistical DoE, analytics, etc. behind this.

My concern is the rush to headlines about studies without any real resolving power. The bad part of this is that we don't have time to do proper studies (this takes months and many people to make work). The n=11 comment actually infers this issue.

Sort of like -1 = exp(sqrt(-1)*pi), you don't need many letters to convey a tremendous amount of meaning.
It looks like the multiplayer here does similar, no?
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> This, exactly this, is one of the reasons I founded VC3

I did submit an application but I'm confused now. Did you found VC3 to discuss how to build fun and profitable social media sites or is VC3 the fun and profitable social media site. Because it says on the site that it's free and not for profit?
> if he has an anxiety problem, he would straightly start by talking about it

In my experience, with an OCD component with general anxiety, it can twist your thoughts so much that it's difficult to unpick what the root problem is, other than a general and overwhelming feeling of "Something's wrong". I've often likened it to having two threads running - one is your normal, rational thoughts, and the other is irrational/incoherent, anxiety fueled nonsense, which often overrides the first - but it took me months (if not more) to be able to articulate it in those terms and keep some semblance of a rational thought process rather than just going into a blind panic for no reason.

When it was first happening, it definitely felt like something of a physical origin, as I could feel my heart rate going up and up, my mouth going dry, and breathing wasn't easy (and you think the panic is _due_ to those symptoms). However, as I was getting very similar symptoms from trying to ignore certain recurring thoughts (just coupled with an overwhelming compulsion to do certain things in response), it pointed me at an anxiety-based cause pretty quickly. Without that side of it, I'd not sure when I'd've come to that conclusion.

I'm now more or less at the point where it's 'just' my OCD obsessions that set me off, which are at least foreseeable and thus somewhat more manageable, but I'll still occasionally have periods where all I feel is "something _very_ bad's about to happen"/"something's wrong"/"I need to be anywhere but here" for no apparent reason. The analogy in other post about hearing the boss music is apt - that's exactly how they feel. Thankfully they're not full-blown panic attacks (no shortness of breath or chest pain), but heart rate jumps ~40BPM, not having a wall behind me _really_ freaks me out, and I can't concentrate on anything else or really talk to anyone. They're short-lived (30 seconds-10 minutes), but it's a really sudden onset (it hits me like a wall) and I feel jumpy for the rest of the day.

Slowing my breathing helps - deliberately breathing in for 5s, then out for 5s, and trying to focus on that seems to shorten the duration, and in the situations where I can tell one is coming (OCD triggered - I usually feel increasingly tense rather than it being so sudden), it can sometimes prevent them. Drinking water also helps for those - my mouth going dry is one of the first physical things I notice, and that just increases the anxiety. Keeping my mouth wet for that period helps stop that feedback loop.
I don't think the author is off at all. Sounds spot on to me.
There goes my week -- this runs wicked smoothly in my browser.
Amazed that this runs on mobile too (but no controls). Wow!
It's worth pointing out that Trump gave this order the day after or during the impeachment trial when it was risky for him to do so.

edit: None of this matters though because orange man bad.
This is it: My Time at Snap
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> There is a culture of not wanting to name your abuser for some reason.

No one wants to burn bridges. The world gets really small at the most inconvenient times.
The proper name for the deep state is civil service employees and they generally tend to be right on a lot of stuff because they've been at it for decades rather than a couple of weeks to months. The whole idea that some politician lands in a chair and starts making policy by their lonesome is laughable.
In hindsight, it is obvious that COVID19 was worse than SARS or MERS.

But at the time, especially given China's clampdown on information outflow, it didn't appear to be significantly different from SARS, which didn't effect the West much, or MERS, which had almost no impact outside of the Middle East.

But as another commenter noted, the timing matters a lot.

Everyone except Fox News thought back in January that COVID19 was going to be big, but based on prior coronaviruses not something that would significantly impact the West. They've all done 180s and are pulling out the stops to fix their earlier error.

Fox News is still saying that today (i.e., April 6). One of their talking heads just said that COVID19 is overblown just a few minutes ago.
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My pet-peeve in ruby:

'//'.split('/') # => [] instead of ['', '', '']
'/'.split('/') # => [] instead of ['', '']
''.split('/') # => [] instead of ['']

'//'.split('/', -1) # => ['', '', '']
'/'.split('/', -1) # => ['', '']
''.split('/', -1) # => [] instead of ['']

In comparison:

"".split("/") # => [""] in javascript
"".split("/") # => [""] in python
Having used McMaster-Carr for over a decade, I strongly agree about the filtering being non-ideal and also the prices being high. There's an interaction between the two as well: You can't sort by price. Often there are many items meeting the specs I want but I just want to see which ones are the cheapest. At the moment I skim everything, making notes about candidates, and them manually compare them on price.
> You eradicate the viral load after 6 days instead of 20+. Meaning

There would be many less deaths if so.
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Unfamiliar syntax is not the same as bad syntax. Erlang’s syntax is much simpler than Elixir’s, and generally more concise.
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I have heard it's quite expensive. The storage itself seems quite cheap, but I think the queries also cost so that's where the costs come from
It appears to be saying "authoritarian governments can use both direct persuasion and faceless persuasion. Democracies can't use the former, and can't use the latter unless they allow themselves to by the methods shown here."

Direct persuasion would be something akin to Weber's charismatic authority: the typical cult of personality stuff. A representative democracy, not having its identity tied to one singular leader, can't do that.
Looks someone else already found a few great examples.
The sounds are different in this case. You can use a single letter to denote both, because the sound is unambiguous from context.
Can I just thank you for your incredible product and service! I generally hate hate hate affiliate marking software and programs because they can often so quickly devolve into splatter-paint spam campaigns that do no value to (potential) customers (in the end). Your site, however, should be a shining example of how to do it _right_. You provide substantial value to customers, and I use the site (and Chrome extension) very regularly! I also tell pretty much anyone that will listen about it and it almost always goes over well. Aside from that one time you had a longish outage, it's always been reliable for me.

Whatever the present situation, thank you for being a great example of what positive/ethical affiliate programs can be like!
There's no excuse there. It's simply a polite way to decline an invitation.
Descent came out in 95. Quake was 96.
FF74 on Windows works great, so it sounds like it's something specific to that setup. Can't use Wayland on my Linux laptop, but I should at least try this on that config to see if it works on X.
“Lots of management would rather have a lot of average, commoditized labor than a little rare, elite few.”

Very well put and probably very true.
(I'm a googler, opinions are my own)

Even for US citizen's, there isn't a full-proof way to deal with account recovery. I'd say your account getting locked for incorrect reasons is pretty rare.

I think one important thing to know is that account-suspension stories you read on the internet aren't always legitimate cases. While, yes, getting publicity about an account lock can get it a second look, bad actors know this as well. Those who have done "bad" things will use this same approach to try to get their accounts unlocked. Google won't publicly comment on any individual case, so you are getting a one-sided story about why an account was locked, so be skeptical when you are reading them.
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I recently had a good type playing a Pictionary-type game with friends here: https://www.drawasaurus.org/ You can also join a room with people you don't know and play a quick game.
And also those that called it early should be seen as more credible. Chris Martenson was putting out youtube videos in January warning about the coming pandemic. He has been continually calling for masks as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRgTUN1zz_oeQpnJxpeaE...

People don't have the time to deeply engage in subjects themselves to understand what is true. So we take a shortcut of uncritically adopting ideas from elsewhere. I see this usually play out as the most repeated ideas coming from any direction are the ones taken as correct. There is some amount of ranking of sources: the New York Times or in some cases a professional network is given a higher ranking. But normally none of the sources are experts.
This should be something that you can fix within your app though. :~)
That could be a mistake or maybe they considered the prior evidence unreliable. "Lying" implies means conscious intent to deceive. Why would the WHO intentionally lie?
What's the purpose of chatting anonymously?
Off-topic HN rant: I think this is an unfortunate definition of skeuomorphism: "an incidental feature of an object that persists even in a new medium where the incidental feature no longer makes sense".

It is good to understand the origins of features, but it's not a good idea to apply a value judgement to it based on their origin.

The "official" (i.e. trivially googlable) definition doesn't have this value judgement: "an object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material" and "an element of a graphical user interface which mimics a physical object".

I would encourage people to more clearly separate the idea of porting ideas from other mediums and the concept of a "vestigial property" of some feature.

That said, I think these are valid usability concerns for presentations, but depending on the context of a presentation, you may want to more tightly control the flow.

I've worked with executives who insisted the slides get sent out before the presentation, which IMHO is an antipattern because it takes away your tools for clearly presenting the information and encourages bikeshedding. (The other antipattern is making slide decks for executives.)

It might be cool to have presentation software that isn't "slide" based exactly, but still lets you go BACK but not FORWARD, and also adjust the text size and other aspects of the presentation. Ideally also you'd limit the "creativity" available in the presentation format to make it so people cannot make terrible slide decks.
A few counter points...
Screen-sharing the slides facilitates recording. For my team's presentations, we typically have as many people watching the recording after the fact as attending live. Yes, I could record just the voice and make them download the slide deck separately, but I'm not sure that's any easier - my goal is to get information about our work out to our consultants, support staff, and sales team quickly (respecting their time).

Zoom displays the speaker and shared content at the same time, so no disembodied voice. I do agree that I like to see the speaker - I'm not a fan of people who disable their webcams. But, I also know people who are the opposite - they don't care about seeing the speaker at all.

The author is correct about point #1 - if each attendee controls their own copy, screen resolution is not longer a problem. That said, I don't run into that as a problem very often. Sometimes, early in a meeting, somebody will ask the presenter to zoom a bit, which they do, and we move on.
Quake 1 & 2 were story-driven.

Quake III was just arena combat. Looked great, but not the adventure of the first two.
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You're fortunate to be able to simply say "No." without it being taken as curt or rude. That's not the case for me personally, and a lot of other people.

In a perfect world, that should be all that needs to be said. In reality, people and emotions are complicated.
He thought that they would, but that the smart west would out propagandize and that our better natures would be convinced to win out.
> If you want to detour into tinfoil hat territory, you could posit that these studies on severe patients were designed knowing it would show low or no efficacy, because it’s too late to protect the patient’s hemoglobin.

I would think it is still useful because from what I've read, this protocol is often used for severe cases at the moment, so it's useful to know if it has no impact.
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There's also a lot of money behind the arguments made in the Economist that isn't there for a Left-Wing magazine (for obvious reasons).