skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a big fan of tariffs in general, and think there are usually better policy tools to achieve the same objective, but they have their place: there are sound reasons to want to retain domestic production capacity in certain industries, while still taking advantage of the efficiency that full nationalization often precludes. It's not entirely unreasonable to include domestic media in this category either.

But this set of demands goes far beyond what's required to protect critical domestic production, by explicitly laying out specifics for how the market should be structured:

> require the companies to negotiate in good faith on how to pay news media for use of their content, advise news media in advance of algorithm changes that would affect content rankings, favour original source news content in search page results, and share data with media companies.

On top of that, the doublespeak about the purpose of demands like these rankle me:

> Frydenberg said it was only fair that media companies that created the content got paid for it. “This will help to create a level playing field,” he said.

Paywalls have existed for ages. The notion that "it's only fair" that a business that chooses a business model based on ad revenue also get a government-coerced payout from a third-party is lunatic on its face. Aggregators and referrers like Google and Facebook don't create content[0] and thus aren't eating media companies' lunch; competitors like blogs are. If it's "not fair" that they're paid, why not fund them directly out of the government?

> If US tech companies want to generate profit from EU and other OECD countries why shouldn't they be taxed in the countries they generate that money from?

Are you under the impression that their profits within the country aren't already taxed? The difference here is that the tax receipts are going directly to media companies instead of to the gov't (and the fact that implicit taxes generally don't manage to capture the attention of the uninformed voter, who'd probably be put off by the idea that a tax should be have such narrowly-targeted payers and recipients without being explicitly Pigovian (Eg cigarettes)).

[0] Except to the extent that individual posts on Facebook have reduced news consumption, but I'm not sure if that's true
Haven't looked at them in a while, but already that difference there is my second listed point above. So it's no small difference.

I'd also like to flip the question around: Why do these other languages bother with complicated syntaxes and then try and spend so much energy in trying to close the gap with Lisp Macros? Why don't they just go with a Lisp syntax from the get go?

I know the answer is they want non Lispers to use their language :p But seriously that's frustrating to a Lisper like me. Julia would be beautiful if it had a Lisp syntax.
I have no idea how admissions work. I've heard stories about soliciting applications from unqualified candidates so they can tout accepting 1% of applications and the number of applicants so they can sound more exclusive.

One would imagine in a fair world if you applied as a Freshman and as a Junior you'd have a higher chance of being accepted, if Junior applicants had a higher graduation rate they would bias accordingly, or if they started getting more Junior applications they would find more spots.
FM stations broadcasting HD Radio are 400 kHz wide.

http://www.w6rz.net/fmbandzoom.png
I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago when I was 30.

I tried a few medications. When I as on Vyvanse, I noticed similar personality changes as what you described. Most notably, my sense of humour suffered. (And before on dexamphetamine, I was really grumpy when it wore off. So I did get into fights.)

Things got better after I changed to methylphenidate. For me, it's milder in the side effects.

Modafinil and nicotine patches also work reasonably well with only mild side effects. (See https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine about nicotine. Please don't start smoking.)

Caffeine never worked at all for me. Just messed with my sleep. L-Tryptophan seems to help me very slightly, but I have friends who report great effects, especially with sleep and mood.

Enough ranting, my point is: you can try different stimulants to see if there's anything else that works better for you.

Finding the minimal dose that still works is of course still a good idea.
> Last-Writer-Wins is a conflict resolution strategy that can be used by any kind of data type that needs conflicts resolved, CRDTs included. Unfortunately it's not a very good one: even if you use vector clocks instead of wall clocks, it doesn't give you much stronger guarantees than determinism. That is, given two concurrent writes, the winner is essentially arbitrary. LWW is a merge strategy of last resort; if that's the only thing your CRDT system offers, I'm not sure it's really fair to call it a CRDT system.

Can't reply to the comment below, so replying here.

I believe what markhenderson was trying to say is that in OrbitDB, the default merge strategy for concurrent operations is LWW.

The comment above is conflating a lot of things here. 1) determinism is exactly the guarantee one needs for CRDTs, and I'd argue generally is a good thing in distributed system but 2) adding vector clocks (OrbitDB uses Lamport clocks, or Merkle Clocks [1], by default), nor wall clocks, have nothing to do with determinism and in fact there's a good reason to not use vector clocks by default: they grow unbounded in a system where users (=IDs) are not known. In my experience, LWW is a good baseline merge strategy.

I don't think it's at all correct to say that "the winner is essentially arbitrary" because it's not. The "last" in LWW can be determined based on any number of facts. For example "in case of concurrent operations, always take the one that is written by the ID of the user's mobile device", or "in case of concurrent operations, always take the one that <your preferred time/ordering service> says should come first". It'd be more correct say "the winner is based on the logical time ordering function, which may not be chronological, real world time order".

As for the last comment, I'm pretty sure it's a CRDT system :) Want to elaborate your reasoning why you think it's not a CRDT?

[1] "Merkle-CRDTs: Merkle-DAGs meet CRDTs" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00107
I like perl when writing complicated conditions like this because of if and unless.

You can not only do stuff like:

if(condition) {...}

but also:

unless (<condition>) {...}

you can also do stuff like:

do_something if <condition>;
do_something unless <condition>;

in other languages, you have to say "if not <condition>" which adds not clarity.
And staff, likely the largest cohort. And least privileged.
How is SF considered above average in bread? Is it due to all the golden wheat fields rolling through Silicon Valley?

I jest of course, but seriously, all regions have a ton of variety of breads and bakeries. Even tiny podunk towns you wouldn't know existed...
Weirdly, smoking appears to be protective from COVID. 13.7% of people in the U.S. are smokers, but only 1.3% of COVID hospitalizations are of smokers.
This is a great view point that I'd never thought of or seen put forward. Is there any good information into the economic impact of the Spanish Flu or even the Bubonic Plauge?
I have no dog in this fight but it hardly seems beyond the bounds of possibility that Samsung would just lie and slander a former employee who was an annoyance. What’s the worst that could happen? He somehow finds rock solid proof they did so and gets $10m in damages? The chances of anyone supporting him even if everything he said was true is zero. Pissing off one of Korea’s largest companies isn’t something people with sense do whether they work there or not.
> Why can we only get like 7?

It's a very regional thing.

In Australia when I was a kid there were basically just one or two types of potatoes (other than the 'washed', 'unwashed', and 'young' varieties).

However going to Tasmania... there's dozens, maybe hundreds of varieties that you can't get outside the state.

It's the same with a bunch of things down there - apples, for instance - there's a huge variety of them that are available for maybe 2 weeks in a year, grown on a handful of small farms. Miss that window and you have to wait for the next year.
The bigger question is why we rely solely on disposable PPE for catastrophes. Instead of N95, they should be using P100 masks that can be cleaned and whose filters last a couple months in a hospital setting.

They should have gowns that can be boiled and reused.

Surgical masks that can be boiled, etc.

Disposable PPE is used for convenience. It's easier and cheaper to throw away an N95 mask than to clean an P100 mask, except when you can't buy N95 masks.
I've been typing Dvorak on my computer since middle school and so I thought it'd naturally be a good idea to switch my phone... turns out not so much. While having all the common letters on the home row is good for regular typing, it is not good for phone typing which is heavily dependent on autocorrect. If I miss a letter by one key it's still likely for it to be a valid word because common letters are clustered and autocorrect misinterprets. For example, I might type "i" and then "t", "n", and "s" are all adjacent meaning if I meant to type "is" and I miss by one key and type "in" then it is not corrected. Other annoying ones are "by" and "my" because the b and m are next to each other.

Sadly, I'm in a bit too deep to go back to Qwerty on my phone (I'd be very slow for awhile). I do still enjoy Dvorak on the computer and while I don't think I'm a faster typist than I would be with Qwerty, I rarely (pretty much never) experience finger strain when typing for long periods.
Don't think of it as covid-19 prevention vs. the economy.

Think of it rather as "what are the best life-saving interventions to fund with the money/resources we have?"

It's probably covid-19 interventions in some cases while some of the resources we're sucking out of the economy would probably be more efficiently spent on other life-saving interventions.

See "Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Cost- Effectiveness": https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/decision/1995-tengs.pd...
That was my first thought too.

So kids have to go to school to be saved from abuse but then they get to go home after school?
I know the folks at Baymard for quite a bit and love what they are doing. They aggregate years of research into their resources and for nearly every possible variation in the e-commerce world, they already have found an answer.
We are richer per capita, the large population of the U.S. should give us economy of scale (for software development etc), and the lower population density should mean less contacts to trace per case. There's no excuse. We passed a 2 trillion dollar coronavirus bill and there's no contact tracing army? Madness.
There is no provision for decompressing raw encoded video frames outside of WebRTC. Yes you can use Media Extensions, but that requires boxing the video. There is also Broadway.js, but that is limited to h264 baseline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United_State...
Can we stop posting twitter treats?
Another connection: the modern Korean alphabet shows some Mongolian influences. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul
Abuse? Authoritarian? That’s always possible. School can be just as toxic, and useless. Schools obviously don’t prepare children for participation in democratic society, because schools are designed to instill respect for authority, conformity, and to crush independent thinking. Schools prepare children for capitalism and consumerism.

Read “The Six Lesson Schoolteacher” by John Taylor Gatto. Or any of John Holt’s books. Or “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Ilich. Then decide.

https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
The term you're looking for is "call sign". K and W have been assigned to the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_prefix
Looks somewhat similar to Popclip[0], but is less intrusive(user needs to be explicit) and more visual(result is shown below).

Very interesting solution for text manipulation. (A bit off topic but...) Seeing these tools which primary interaction happens with the clipboard make me think that the GUI equivalent of UNIX pipes is the clipboard — it allows programs to interoperate in an unstructured fashion.

[0]: https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/

[edit]: fixed typo & changed some words to convey my meaning better.
Don't act surprised that people are getting cabin fever. It didn't help that when California entered the lockdown, there were no exit criteria, they're still pretty murky, and despite the rate of new cases being pretty stable for the past few weeks, there are still new regulations (face masks, park and beach closures) when the data point to staying the course being effective.
New York is starting randomly sampled antibody testing this week.

I am hopeful that they will find that they are already well into the prevalence range of herd immunity. If so, that will put them, to use a turn of the phrase, ahead of the curve. It would also mean that they didn't really flatten anything at all, and they could suspend their shutdown immediately.

If they are only at low single digit prevalence, that would be truly very bad news indeed.

If they're somewhere in the middle, say, 25-35% prevalence, then they could get through it with one more surge, or draw it out indefinitely. In that case it will be interesting to see which path they choose.
Is there any reason to believe that gauze masks are even slightly effective against influenza?

The flu can stay viable in air for hours, and the individual exhaled airborne particles are vastly smaller than the holes in gauze -- it's "breathable" (allows moisture droplets to pass)

I suspect the mechanism of action is inconveniencing people into not leaving home at all, a no-pants order would probably have worked as well or better
Yes, churning with the wooden thingy is not fun :). I think we had a hand mixer that was mostly used for that which made life a little easy.

The only product/by-product I never liked was the buttermilk left over after churning the butter, but I guess that is an acquired taste.
this will allow you to send video to any service that supports RTMP input (Facebook / YouTube etc..) If you just want to view your Rpi Camera remotely there are better solutions.
Concerns with Stanford study of coronavirus(“the authors owe us all an apology”)
Oh my God, I loved Camino so much! The browser scene for the Mac in the early Aught's was such a mess. Netscape was bloated, slow as hell, and wasn't keeping up with standards. IE was great, but you were always suspicious of MS's agenda. Safari was still a bit rough and lacked a lot of features.

Camino was snappy, clean, and had very good standards compliance. Such a great little browser!
Yep, that about sums it up. gevent can't monkeypatch synchronous code that's implemented in non-Python native modules, but I think pretty much all native Python libraries struggle with those sorts of things, and asyncio of course also can't deal with it.

The vast majority of the time, gevent's monkeypatching works without any issues. With asyncio, you basically have to rewrite everything from the ground up to always use the new async APIs, and you can't interact with libraries that do sync I/O.
The author uses a bad example and makes it hard to understand what he is advocating:

> If you’re Carnival Cruise right now, you can try to downplay the risk of pandemic. Alternatively, you can embrace the situation. Cruises have the opportunity to be the only safe form of travel in a world of COVID-19. Test everyone in advance and you’re guaranteed that fellow passengers are healthy.

Uh, no. Testing has a lag time. You can be infected but not yet infected enough that it shows up on tests. You have to hold the prospective passengers in quarantine for a week or two after the tests, and even then they could still be infected but show up as a false negative.

Bad example, try again.

Disclosure: I played Judo in college. I never got beyond white belt, because I got injured. But I liked to play with the black belts and I learned a lot. I like to think I gave them a surprisingly difficult “Uke” to play with, at least on occasion. If you want to use the example of how to use Judo in a positive way in this world, then you need to understand enough about the actual sport before you can try to explain it to others.
Realistically, I know this will be used to make pills.

But the first thing I thought when I saw the headline was, "Wow. That's some interesting beer."
New York City is very lucky in regards to its water supply, it mostly comes from the Catskills Mountains in upstate New York. They don't even have to filter it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_sys...
You get Nal h264 packets from MediaStream. Note MediaStream only supports h264 baseline on Chrome (you can request other profiles, but that's all you get). Not sure about FireFox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Abstraction_Layer
I am excited by this from what all the docs say but every one of the demos is either broken on my iPhone or so extremely slow to load that I am not able to demo it.
You could go around that error by claiming a lower capacity.

All file systems take up a bit of space to store their own metadata etc. So users are already used to 'lose' a bit of space on formatting.
Same with analog TV stations, I never understood why they use specific ones. Why channel 7, 9 and 10 but not 8 or 6?
Regarding motivation, I‘ve had good results with Cannabigerol - just like CBD, it’s a non-psychoactive compound of hemp, but it’s effects are different. It’s a powerful neuroprotectant (suspected to promote new brain cell formation), and for some reason it makes me super interested in technical problems and their solutions, and with it comes the motivation to code and tinker. Near infrared radiation of the forehead also helped [1], but for me that is more for mental capacity and less for motivation. For me, Co-enzyme Q10 also helps a bit with motivation, as does chocolate (obviously a short term hack, and I don’t eat it often as I get dependent easily).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042852
Archaeologists now have a handy new tool for analyzing paleo poop
I spent a decade at Google and I see it as rotten to the core. I used to think this was all Eric Schmidt but given the things that we have learned about in the last 2 or 3 years I am now convinced that all the founders are to blame.

There are a lot employees there that want to do the right thing, which is a why activism has been such a big deal for so long.

The tax avoidance thing used to annoy me but that's nothing compared to everything else that has happened. Even Vic Gundotra's incompetent management of Google+ looks tame now.

Maven was handled really poorly by Diane Greene who seemed to live in her own bubble during the whole thing. Urs Hölzle didn't fare much better in this regard. Moving all of SRE under cloud was a big mistake and it has backfired spectacularly because there's enough in SRE who are not happy with the whole "We want to work with the military" thing.

The shift towards cloud was a huge change and a lot of us would have preferred if Cloud had become its own company.

The high profile sexual harassment cases that we learned about did not do much to improve trust in Google execs. And the fact that the founders of the company just vanished into thin air speaks volumes about how bad things were.

Kent Walker in particular represents everything that is wrong with Google. He protected David Drummond, he's been pushing for more work with the US military and is as morally bankrupt as it gets. At one TGIF he tried to justify forced arbitration because it was better for employees to not have to go to court and when asked why not let them choose what they wanted to do he just walked off the stage. That's Kent Walker for you.

Heather Adkins is not much better than Kent. We all thought she could be trusted until two things happened: She actively sought out to destroy every copy of the Dragonfly investigation document that delroth@ had put together using searchable information and then claimed that the privacy review had proceeded as usual, which we all know it's not true given that Yonatan Zunger eventually left because of DragonFly.

Another interesting character is Laszlo Bock which many people used to look up to. When Eric Schmidt was caught colluding with other companies all he had to say was: "We do not believe we did anything wrong." That kind of moral compass, or lack thereof, is what defines Google's DNA.

Rachel Whetstone used to be loved here as well, for some mysterious reasons given her political background.

Google execs have managed to alienate many high value employees who either left on their own accord or were retaliated against until they had no choice but to go: Erica Joy, Liz Fong-Jones, Laura Nolan, Kelly Ellis, Claire Stapleton, Chelsey Glasson, Meredith Whittaker, Laurence Berland, Rebecca Rivers and so on and so forth.

This company could have been a profitable version of Xerox PARC. Instead it became SV's version of Monsanto.

It is a great place to work at. You will meet lost of ridiculously smart people and learn a lot. So put Google on your resume, learn a lot, and then run far, run fast.
Does your cat catch birds? I have had cat(s) for most of my life, currently two. They are proficient hunters, they can catch rodents and lizards and wasps, even a hare once. But never have any one of my current or previous cats caught a single bird.

I wonder, if the “common wisdom” of cats really catching and killing so many birds really is true?
I still don't understand. After all those assets have increased in price, the money is still not 'locked up'.
These seem to be commonly used in the USA - are they used elsewhere?
I don't know about the flu. Covid-19 is supposed to be spread mainly through respiratory droplets which settle on surfaces fairly quickly and which can be blocked by masks.
This just makes me happy.
I always love seeing people help others. :-)
The Ioaniddis survey was a total sham. The true fatality rate will wind up being something like 1-2%, if counted by excess deaths.

A town in Italy, Castiglione d'Adda, had 1.4% of its population die in March. Normally 0.1% dies in a month. That town did a serological survey of blood donors, and 70% came up positive. That exact number won't apply everywhere because there are different age distributions, different comorbibitities, different genes, etc., but that is the ballpark we're looking at.

0.15% of New York City has already died. That should tell you how reliable Ioaniddis' numbers are.
Cheap Chinese goods are indeed a boon to the rest of the world. Very nice of China.
> But it’s also important that children grow up exposed to community values, social values, democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people’s viewpoints,” she says, noting that European countries such as Germany ban homeschooling entirely and that countries such as France require home visits and annual tests.

Can’t imagine nothing more invasive than the state preventing parents from educating their own kids.

Annual tests just make it so you teach to the test and standardize
Lurpak is pretty good for supermarket butter. But at least in Aus you can easily get more artisanal butter at the local deli or whatever. Pepe Saya is popular.
> but are seeing a resurgence in cases

It's a reasonable low-value point in the broader discussion, however it's absurd as a reference of much consequence, given the outcomes in Japan and Singapore have been nothing less than extraordinary.

Compared to the US and Europe, Japan is sitting next to Wuhan. They have the oldest large population on earth. They have 127 million people. They have a per 100k persons Covid mortality rate of 0.17 --- 1/30th that of Germany, 1/68th that of the US, 1/169th that of France.

Read that again. Japan's per capita mortality rate is 1/169th that of France. Not a typo.

Mask up accordingly.