skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in this case, the French order is also trying to force them to not alter the results:

"The regulator is also ordering Google not to alter the indexing, classification, or presentation of "protected content"—e.g. French news articles—in its search results."

My reading is that the French are trying to force Google to pay for linking to news articles, and prevent them from removing those links. That is, the French are well aware of what happened in Spain (it was Spain, not Belgium) and are trying to prevent that too.

This doesn't sit well with me. It seems that in the US, this comes really close, if not over the line of being compelled speech. The French are trying to force Google to display certain search results, and on top of that, pay for the privilege of being forced to do so.

Google is probably more invested in France than they are in Spain, so pulling out entirely is likely not in the cards, but it would send a heck of a message if suddenly no one in France was able to use any french Google services.
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One would surmise that when such a forum exists, it should be utilized to plan for global events that affect every country, regardless of what the original intentions were of setting it up.
you could still recognize Taiwan exist without saying its a separate entity.

Especially important when they actually are the one handling the issue the best way possible.
The way he act is truly abominable. Its like Taiwan is in a separate dimension that didnt exist in this reality, and anything they did didnt happen
There's a reason for the term 'dead cat bounce.'
I remember doing that after reading a Wall Street Journal article in the late 80's that was demanding we stop wasting money on AID's research and spend the money on worthy diseases, like cancer, stoke and heart disease.

Thing is if you estimated years of productive life lost AID's was at least as bad as heart disease. Because back then heart disease killed mostly old people and AID's killed young people.

If I had to assign a batting average for the Wall Street Journal in terms of public health I'd give them a 0.0
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It looked interesting - is it really $400 a month for access to the course, or is there some other way to just take the course without some kind of certificate?
By "my" I guess he's referring to an internal state that has been built up over previous interactions with the external world? So more like:

10 receive information from world
20 do operations on information
25 update state based on operation result
30 goto 10
This is how this one's going to go down, it's the insanity of runaway inflation. We'll all be living in million dollar homes but won't be able to afford an avacado.
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I think Newsom is trying to convey that California will act as a sovereign state on the international stage, in an economic capacity. He may even be engaging in diplomatic missions to secure necessary protective equipment. Treaties are not the only way to be an international actor. California's capacity to make credible commitments is severely limited by the constitutional restrictions on states ability to enter contracts with foreign actors, but that may not be enough to stop Newsom from forging informal agreements.
That assumes the countries of the world have enough common understanding and respect for each other to actually create and execute such a plan. They don't.
The name is familiar. :-)
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It doesn't have to be a strict two in the box situation. I am the President of my company and I brought on a CEO. I have neither the inclination nor the skillset to take on CEO-related tasks, but I head up corporate strategy and other tasks. We both have circles of unilateral action, and we have some areas where we overlap.

At the end of the day I hold a plurality (and currently a majority) of shares and I'm the sole founder, but unfit to be the CEO, at least in my opinion. It's another form of delegation.
Perhaps, but the first (and only) original painting I ever purchased was on layaway.
This is a good point but I'm not going to be too quick to comment on those developers. Because they may be working on paid products and they contribute to the upstream project when they find certain features missing.

I like opensource, I myself am a Linux user. I just like a world where perhaps individual devs can build nifty useful software that we pay a small fee for and use. This way the small guys can benefit. Unfortunately, the current state of OSS (which has changes since the early days) are concentrating more power in the hands of a few organizations.

Take Sublime Text for example. I like it that an engineer builds something useful, ask a one time fee for it and we pay something really affordable for it (while there was also a free version available). This way, talented software engineers could actually make a decent living without everyone has to build crappy software for an advert-based economy. So, IMHO, opensourcing the software is an act of grace and would be at the discretion of those engineers. To expect everything to be FOSS or perhaps even demand that, I find is detrimental for individual software engineers/small players.
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As wealth/income inequality increases, capability to suppress dissent becomes increasingly important. And yes, "domestic terrorism" will include anything that threatens the wealthy.
Please feel free to explain the down vote(s).
Like what I wrote in my original comment:

> Expect customer audits to get more hardball; more aggressive use of anti-competitive bundling (“if you use this competitor’s product on RHEL, we will not support that RHEL host”)
The increase we’ve seen in the last two weeks make zero sense to me. It’s almost making me lose trust in the market as I feel like it’s rigged. We’re in a complete state of unknown, nobody knows when this will be over, unemployment raises like crazy, the US now realizes that coronavirus is hitting them the hardest...
I think I get what you say because it's very chess-like. But IMHO reality is more poker-like. Or maybe I mischaracterize or miscategorize your ideas?
BTW, wasn't my station, but a friends I help with.
because it's explicitly allowed and most can be circumvented with a little effort?
Red Hat has been running this way for years.
It’s rigged insofar that maybe people have insider information we don’t
I tried. I really did. After four minutes, and with no description for the video, I fled. Can someone tell me what I missed?
QuirkLogic builds large 42" e-ink displays that double as whiteboards.

I would suspect they have smaller ones too.

https://www.quirklogic.com/collections/all
my point is that the benchmark is deceiving, again if you are doing data analytics or ML, then you already are using numpy/pandas/scipy, so thats not a valid argument.
One of the great things about HN is that ideas are put forth and discussed on how much better the world could be, not simply state how terrible it is.
> the US now realizes that coronavirus is hitting them the hardest...

looks like the death toll will be well below all the current models so far, so that's probably why the market is reacting this way?
It means something more specific in government job parlance I believe, but essentially you are still employed but not getting paid your salary and you don’t work. Usually (and most importantly) it means that your benefits like health insurance continue as well.
The term you're looking for is Forward Error Correction, send extra bits so you can lose a few along the way.
If we are focused on job losses (and this article is), then it's a false comparison, since many of these job losses are temporary. Some amount of the contraction should rebound as the disease abates.

It's still a massive problem, but the Fed intervening quickly and the fact that many of these jobs are coming back (plus the healthy unemployment payments/bonuses) mean comparing straight up unemployment claims is disingenuous, and the stock market reflects that.

Still the SPY500 is down 500 points, which isn't "recovering" yet.
Part of that was because many of the countermeasures taken during the Depression were counterproductive.

Also, it turns out that fighting a world war is a good economic stimulus. I believe the first American recession after the Great Depression was a very brief post-war recession caused by scaling down war production. IOW, war production was such a large chunk of the economy that simply doing less of it because we won was enough to cause a measurable GDP dip.
Of course I put on a mask, and I rarely leave the house. I was not aware they were not helpful when generally interacting with others - obviously then I wouldn’t want to wear one.
not sure if what I expressed is a concern or an observation.

More of an observation, at this stage, I would say.

Asking folks who are more familiar with this to comment, I guess.
Let's check how non-capitalistic countries do after the crisis, for good measure.
The flu has a vaccine
A bunch of people sold off in a panic, a lot of volatility hit, people like Buffett bought at the bottom (and publicly advised others to do so), so who knows.

Unemployment is artificially high for now. Companies are incentivized through PPP to lay people off, especially with UI bonuses.
I’ve got projects on both, but honestly the extra power of the ESP32 is sort of overwhelming. If I want to use DMA SPC on the 8266, there’s only one pin I can use. On the 32, I can choose between most of the pins, but certain choices will prevent me from using certain other features, not that I necessarily need other features right now but maybe later, and also it affects my circuit layout. So the mental overhead is a lot higher!
I wrote this course, an introduction to using the command line: https://www.coursera.org/learn/unix
The market is pricing in a smooth recovery without a second wave of infection. It is not pricing in how much this will affect the poor, due to a cultural and class disconnect. I bet 50% of residential renters don’t pay rent for May.

It seems we’re wildly overextended, but I booked a loss on some short-term puts today so maybe my judgement isn’t the best. I’m still holding longer dated puts because I think we go down, the pre-pandemic economy is gone, we don’t know what’s left.

Edit: There were large outflows from equity mutual funds and ETFs last week. The most ever.
See also: information theory and channel capacity
It hasn't.

The finance industry is full of well-wishers and optimistic people right now. My complete outsider and uneducated hypothesis is that the fund managers are still trying to figure out what to do in this unprecedented crisis and are watching each other like lemmings. While millions go without jobs and we head towards an inevitable spike in bad debt.

My wife watches CSPAN in the background and they dance around the phrase "depression" by calling it the D-word in their commentary.
I mean, did the post-modernists who read his paper know what post-modernism was?
I always liked that quote. Even though I understand the implication.
Most people think WW1 was so bad because people kept killing each other (with machine guns, artillery and poison gasses). Less so because they severed their commercial ties.
All I hope for is that this going to serve as a cautionary tale in the future.
I used to think the NYT was a bastion of real journalism, and supported them as such for a while. Eventually I picked up on their blatant sensationalism, hardly better than Fox News.

I've since switched to NPR and it's a world of difference. The most blessedly dispassionate headlines you could ask for.
Was thinking something similar - rather than an old panel you could take a newer large high res panel, chosen carefully so it's easy to separate from the back-light.

I wonder what it would look like with just paper behind it instead? (or a slightly more reflective white material). I wouldn't expect color to "transflect" very well, but it might work ok as a simple 1-bit screen, fully transmissible as possible reflecting off the paper, or fully opaque.

The LCD still needs continuous power, but far far less than the backlight.

That might end up being a superior balance... a small amount of continuous power, with the benefit of up to 60hz refresh rate if you want it.
The general field of signal processing - in particular to pulling data out of noise there are error-correcting codes, algorithms like Viterbi and putting them together let's you pull off pulling data out of noise, really signal from interference. There's an entry for FT8 on wikipedia that I haven't digested but it has some other starting points.

As to the physics there's also the fact that the phenomenon that creates a good transmission line between participants is in flux and you have to get your data through while the transmission line passes enough signal that the receiver can decode it.
> 'Capitalism learned to smooth out crises, because so many happened' is now least true than ever.

I didn't notice that statement in the article, but I did notice this one:

> Lockdowns imposed by governments have forced many companies to close and lay off staff.
Barely. As in, to the most insignificant drop in the bucket given the infiltration of rent extractors into the average American wallet. 1200 is easily pissing into the winds of a single month, and gets no one far enough out of immediate financial concern that they can start planning how to reorient their productive effort.

Honestly, the more I look at the whole situation, the more it looks like two-thirds of the bail-out is going toward major actors in terms of the causative agents of the problem. The difference between a 1 time payment of 1,200, and a payment of 37000 is that:

37000 is 2 and change years worth of salary for someone making minimum wage ($7.50 an hour), a bit less two years for those at $10 an hour, and a year and change at $15 an hour.

Given that level of infusion, you've bought people a significant amount of time to contribute to normal economic activity at a level they're already participating at, and in some cases increasing it. You're also, by routing that straight to citizen's, giving people the chance to organize into new business units more adapted to the times.

There is also nothing keeping recipients from using said infusion to buy stocks or bonds propping up the Market in traditional ways, but also, by not bailing out companies directly, you give them a shot at dying, and for the price of assets to stabilize at a lower point via sell-off, also freeing up room in consolidated markets unfriendly to new entrants by taking out the least efficient yet too large to die actors.

To be honest, I'm shocked more quote "Free Market aficionados" aren't livid about how this stimulus is going down. Instead of dropping the stimulus in the place most likely to do some good, you've given Corporate America yet another infusion with which to become that much more streamlined at wealth extraction, and divorced from the material reality of delivering immediate goods and services through the coordination of primary market actors instead of leaving the primary wealth allocation decisions to a bunch of bankers.

I've met my fair share of cranks hung up on the Federal Reserve, but I'll be damned if I'm not starting to find myself aligning toward their general stance. The only difference between these two models of bailout is that one actually frees up and delegates economic power to everyday citizens to reshape the economic landscape as they desire (helicopter money) and one guarantees that entrenched players are in no way threatened in losing control of their systemically advantaged position in terms of controlling overall capital expenditure direction.

Sorry man, but I just don't buy it. There is nothing in Free Market economics which states that once you get big enough, your survival takes precedence over the rest of the Market. Yet this policy has clearly demonstrated that our political system as a whole buys that. It is frankly ludicrous. The only message I'm getting out of this move is that legal fictions are more important in the grand scheme of things than actual citizens, which to be frank, has likely been written on the wall for the last 40 years.
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1. Both; perhaps the dust

2. No

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I've worked parallel to a whole bunch of radio obsessed electronic engineers; they get really excited about atmospheric conditions, and they regularly use weather maps to win competitions with unusually long transmission ranges (- a whole bunch of mad people across England / Europe / etc. go out on the same day and try and make as many contacts as possible. The team with the most unique contacts wins).
The increase in the last two weeks is because it's becoming obvious that:

1) The US's response to this was competent.

2) The measures put in place are working.

3) The projections are improving substantially.

4) The time horizon is shrinking.

5) We are starting to understand how to treat this.

(+ "in the us").

Two weeks ago we were looking at places like Italy, and extrapolating that the US could see deaths in the millions. A week ago that projection went down to 100-200k, and yesterday it went down to 60k. Obviously that is still a massive catastrophe, but it's nowhere near the catastrophe we were fearing two weeks ago.

Additionally, the writing is on the wall that manufacturing is going to be moving away from China as much as possible in the near future. Much of that, for American companies at least, is going to come back to the US, probably at the hands of massive tariffs.

That's all good news for the US economy.

>US realizes the coronavirus is hitting them the hardest.

Where did you hear this? It is absolutely not true.
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Art.

And, frankly, an intriguing, even though incomplete, story - that's how I got it.
Very cool demo but I don’t want to read/write (code or otherwise) at an angle. It’s tiresome and straining.

Whatever I’m editing should be frontmost and dead center, IMO.
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2013/11/a_crime_beyond.html

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Not trying to bash capitalism, just saying that volatility never truly goes away.
a lot of investors have a lot of cash equivalents on their hands after the market plunged few weeks ago. That cash is set on fire with $2T in stimulus and more coming. There are not that many investment alternatives with interest rates becoming negative elsewhere
Open source still image camera matching
That takes care of lost information, but how do you reliabiliy filter out signal from noise? Can a simple FIR filter work in this situation?
As a young adult, I wrote purpley, and I still write that way when I'm excited.

Now, I see information density as a sign of respect and empathy to the reader, and try to optimize in that direction.

It's ironic, because I greatly enjoy novelists like Turgenev, Storm, Mann and Tolstoi: prolific sewers of purple patches. Although Kosinski, Hemingway, and other such literary minimalists are satisfying, too, in their own ways.

Anyways, here are some informal notes that work for me, in effective communication and documentation, if this philosophy interests you:

- allow the reader to stumble over the diction once (needing to look up one word in a dictionary), than to stumble over the grammar two or three times: convert grammatical complexity into diction complexity at any opportunity. In particular, if you can replace a prepositional phrase with a word, do it: many people stumble on prepositional phrases.

- avoid redundant words or repetitions phrases ("I think", "if you think about it", "plan to think about"), unless you're intentionally expressing deference or uncertainty. This unnecessary "stuttering" creates space to read "between", and makes your language more difficult to parse.

- terseness is an underrated virtue. One can almost always shorten a sentence without sacrificing readability. I find arbitrary char limits (per line) and line limits (per paragraph) to be helpful tools.

- "unliterary" or even "poetic" structures – bulleted lists, quotation marks, crazy line breaks, are underrated tools in the terseness crusade.

- for non-printed documents: 1 sentence per paragarph. If your paragraph has 2 or 3 sentences, only 1 is more than 8 words.

- subjects and verbs close together, ideally adjacent. English is Germanic, but it is thankfully not German: no sense in forcing your reader to buffer a subject whilst searching for a verb, or vice versa. Likewise for adjectives and adverbs.

- avoid leading with "it", only to reveal the subject later in the sentence.

- avoid parentheticals. this is hard for me, because I don't tend to think linearly, but if you have something worth sharing, it deserves to be free of parenthetical prison, and easy to read. (exception is if it's a medium-length sentence, at the end of a paragraph, that you want to draw attention to).

- if the reader wants to know more, and your medium is interactive, they will ask. don't overdo it.
How are companies incentivized to layoff staff through PPP? My understanding is one of the eligibility requirements is that you can't have reduced your staff since Feb 15th, and if you have, you need to re-hire them to become eligible.

The entire point of PPP is to incentivize companies _not_ to layoff their staff.
How can the market be wrong?! The market is the market.