skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't back any of this up, but I think this is the logic.

Facebook is essentially a link distribution platform. It only continues to get visitors because media companies keep providing, like spooky magic, new links to be shared on there every day. Many of their visitors would drop away immediately without news. The news is the basis for a ton of engagement once the visitors arrive (39.2K likes, etc.). If that were all true you'd think it would be enough to get Facebook to pay to keep news companies afloat, but it isn't: they don't care which news organisations survive, only that there are still new links every day. Importantly, because nobody reads articles, only headlines, news orgs get nothing without the click. So "link aggregation" without ad revenue or subscription revenue is worth zero in the usual case. Fb doesn't have a problem letting good journalism die out as long as there are enough Breitbarts going around producing engagement on Fb. It takes a lot less $ per link to produce fake news than real news with facts in it, and those headlines are pretty damn engaging, so those places will die out last or more likely never die out because the margins are still fine and their competitors have died out.

I think that means they have to pay fake news places as well, otherwise promoting quality news (Fb can control how much attention a link gets) costs more tax and is disincentivised.
Glad you like them! The reason Scalatags is so good is that it is my 7th iteration of a HTML templating library: starting from using XHP at work, I had written my own templating libraries in PHP, Python, C#, F#, and 2 others in Scala before settling on the Scalatags style a few years ago that is basically unchanged today.

Given how much work I’ve obsessively put into that effort over many years, the final library damn well better be good to use!
Iceland did random sampling and while it showed 50% asymptomatic at the time of testing, only 15% ended up not showing symptoms at all
“I Cannot Babysit Your Depression ”
Elaine Herzberg was killed by a human driver not watching the road.
Where is the money going ?

Honest question here. Are professor really well payed?

Facilities cannot cost that much.
Mark Blyth is an economist who focuses quite a bit on this topic (labor vs capital).

Also Thomas Frank (journalist and).

Both have good videos on YouTube.
Another one is that the source code of OrbitDB is not completely obfuscated.
Israel's Ministry of Health's Covid-19 Exposure Prevention App
the new york times intentionally mislead people in order to get them to support war in iraq
Yes the book is based on that project.
Even though the specifics are not clear, we will (and should) be having more and more of these kinds of discussions going forward to avoid the monopoly created by the distribution reach of tech giants. It is in the interest of the tech companies themselves to come up with something reasonable, because the governments won't be able to, and whatever they come up with will likely be too complicated, mired in politics and too specific to each country. It is better if the tech companies can nip this in the bud even before it becomes too politicized.

Google, Facebook and Amazon owe their power to being great at content distribution. And I believe that if they take care to compensate content creators fairly, these sorts of upheavals will be greatly reduced. I think YouTube does a fair job of this. Not perfect, but a better balance, and I believe even that is enough.
Basic is great because it has lower level primatives.

I think it's very easy for an existing programmer to forget that even the simplest high level concepts like looping and functions are not familiar to a child. These things are just not optional in python. If you want to make a loop, is has to be a high level one.

I would much rather teach a child "if" and "goto" for them to make their own control flow constructs. Later on after they realise that they are making these things manually all the time then they will learn to value of a function or a for loop and how it simplifies their life.

I think it really helps internalise these concepts.

Literally all the best programmers I know started with basic.
Against subtlety: The case for heavy-handedness in art (2015)
Iirc, Spanner is eventually consistent.
there's already a way for megacorps to have to share some of their wealth - it's called taxes and subsidies, and it's a well-established system.

what australia, france, spain, and anybody else who is trying to enforce revenue transfers from facebook and google to their local media companies is trying to do is called a state-funded media, but that's apparently a bad look. so instead of collecting taxes and then distributing that tax revenue to the companies they want to subsidize, they're trying to pretend this is still some sort of free-market, independently funded media. a newspaper that's staying afloat because of government-mandated payments from big tech companies isn't any more independent than one being funded directly by the state.
A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe language alive
Exactly. And I have a very recent example, yesterday somebody responded to one of my replies with:

"Cuomo claimed to need 40k ventilators after the lockdown was put in place. He ended up needing only a fraction of that. Obviously, without the lockdown, there would likely be more needed. Of course, modeling has errors, but this is an extremely large error, and one that has direct policy implications." (1)

My response was that it wasn't "a large error" but what only 6 more days of exponential growth would have made still insufficient:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22911465

Also as an illustration of the "uncertainty" one can see the shaded areas clearly here:

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

As I write this, the model on that page was last time updated based on the data up to the 15th of April, only 4 days ago, and its best estimate for number of deaths in USA on 19th of April was 37,056. Also as I check the https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ it's already 40,423. But the 95% error area for 19th is 39,721-56,108. It's that hard. Also at this moment the projection for 1st of June is 60,262 (34,063-140,106) and we can compare all these values after some later updates, e.g. in 6 and 12 days.

1) careful observers know that there is one more talked about person who is used the same pseudo-argument before.
They love to repeat the crap about how gdpr fines are in the millions while making sure to barely "comply" with the law. Or just pretend to comply at least.

Just remember that following the letter and not the spirit of the law usually only flies in the US
You can make them yourself on a sewing machine, or even sewing by hand if you're desperate. My partner and I have made ~20 in some of our spare time in the last three weeks, for ourselves and our close family and friends. It's not high tech.

Didn't even have to go out and buy more materials.
I read the full essay. I don't think his points are wrong, but I think his conclusion is. It's not that "techies" are entitled, just that most of the world isn't going to understand the benefits "software freedom". That doesn't mean they shouldn't care.

A few months ago, I read Cory Doctorow's short story "Unauthorized Bread"[1]. It's an exceptionally preachy story about a refugee in near-future America, but the point it gets across is this: closed computer systems are a tool for the powerful to control the powerless, and the consequences will be felt by both tech-enthusiasts and technophobes alike.

Personally, what I want is for more people to become adept at using their computers, so they become capable of taking advantage of open platforms, and with it, agency over their lives. That's one reason I was volunteering at Girls Who Code before the Coronavirus shut everything down. I don't necessarily expect all the 10 year olds I work with to grow up to become programmers, but if they're comfortable making quick edits to a python script in order to better accomplish a mundane task, that's a really powerful skill!

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[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
> I don’t understand what you’re saying.

I think what GP means is, leaving it upto professionals alone is a recipe for disaster because of the inherent corruption, greed, biases, and prejudices at play.

> So what are you advocating?

Not speaking for GP, but simpler models are more likely to be a good approximation and more than enough, anyway [0]? Simplicity helps because it stops the pundits and politicians from sort of running away with it?

[0] Newton's theory of gravitation has been supplanted by Einstein's theory of relativity and yet Newton's theory remains generally "empirically adequate". Indeed, Newton's theory generally has excellent predictive power. Yet Newton's theory is not an approximation of Einstein's theory. For illustration, consider an apple falling down from a tree. Under Newton's theory, the apple falls because Earth exerts a force on the apple—what is called "the force of gravity". Under Einstein's theory, Earth does not exert any force on the apple. Hence, Newton's theory might be regarded as being, in some sense, completely wrong but extremely useful (The usefulness of Newton's theory comes partly from being vastly simpler, both mathematically and computationally, than Einstein's theory). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
One thing I remember form working on a crisis line was some people were definitely there because they had their own issues. That didn’t make them bad on the phone (AFAIK — we didn’t listen in on others’s calls but we did discuss them afterwards).

I have been told that quite a few people get into clinical psychiatry or psychology with the hope it will help them with their own issues.
What kind of workload do you have where there are enough writes that a 1+ DWPD SSD isn't viable but the performance of a 10k RPM hard drive is adequate?

It would have to be a highly sequential workload for hard drive performance to not be a problem, but that means it's also a workload that's well-suited for QLC SSDs that are cheaper per GB up front and draw less than half the power and are faster in every way. If your worries about write endurance are at all realistic, you must be averaging upwards of 50MB/s of writes over the entire lifespan of the drive, meaning your hard drives are spending at least 20% of their service life actively writing data.
Can we please abandon this trope that economic impacts don't have health implications of their own?

> “With the global recession gathering pace, there could be hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020”, the Secretary-General warned.

> This scenario would effectively reverse progress made in reducing infant mortality over the past two to three years.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1061892
Love it! Simple and to the point.
Do you have anything to back these claims up?
Wow, I loved watching that! Thanks for posting
Do you know more now than you did ten years ago?
> And then after that the companies will get involved in politics in those places so that it never happens again. This in turn increases the chance of regulatory capture and corruption.

Sounds like a great reason to change the distribution of wealth and systematically reduce the power and influence of corporations.
Or drugs to help the clinical management of the disease (which have a chance - not a certainty - to arrive earlier than a vaccine).
"Korean officials enacted a key reform, allowing the government to give near-instantaneous approval to testing systems in an emergency. Within weeks of the current outbreak in Wuhan, China, four Korean companies had manufactured tests from a World Health Organization recipe and, as a result, the country quickly had a system that could assess 10,000 people a day."

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co...
Fine them for what though? they don't seem to be breaking any regulations, they just have a lot of money and the local media companies want some of it.

that's not a fine.
What's the goal with all this testing?

The simple reality is that unless you have a large proportion of your population immune (either due to infection or vaccine) you will NOT be able to reverse the lockdown successfully without seeing a surge in infections and deaths shortly after. So you can test as much as you want, but this whole pandemic started from ONE person in China so as long as there is 1 or 5 or more likely 100s or 1000s of cases in any country then as soon as restrictions are loosened the infection rate will exponentially go up again.

You can play the game of opening/closing schools/shops every couple weeks for about 2 years until everyone either got eventually infected or we might see a vaccine hitting the public. Even if a vaccine might be available at the end of 2020, it won't be available to the public across the globe for yet another year if not longer. That is just simple maths on manufacturing and distribution, anyone who thinks differently is completely dillusional.

So my question remains, what is the end goal with all of the testing? Calling testing as a way out of the lockdown is either a dumb assertion, because more testing won't stop the spread (contact tracing and isolation will only slow the exponential outbreak by days or couple weeks), or it is a lie to give the public false hope.

There is only two ways out:

- Now, by lifting all lockdown restrictions, target, shield and isolate the most vulnerable in our society (old & fragile, people with diabetes, cancer, HIV, etc.), ramp up hospital capacity and let the virus rage through the remaining population, hoping that everyone else will mostly experience mild or no symptoms and only very few people who need hospitalisation and who will die given that the most vulnerable remain in isolation...

or

- stay in lockdown for 24 months at a minimum until there's the capacity to manufacture and supply a vaccine to roughly 60% of the population with a pointless ping pong exercise of easing and tightening the restrictions

I'm honestly not sure which one is better, but there is literally NO OTHER OPTION.

Most of Europe is currently going down the second option and Sweden is mostly leading on the first option. I predict that if in ~ 6 months time countries will see that there's little difference in the death rate between countries with tright restrictinos and those with lax restrictions (because tight restrictions only delay the deaths, but don't prevent) then everyone will change to a more Swedish model probably.

Only time will tell the truth.
Before the virus affected anyone in Korea the president brought together many heads of industry, and ramped up masks/testing/essential item production.
How is the value of the Euro depressed? It was launched at 1:1 parity with the dollar.

$1 now buys you a mere €0.92
The basic classes had good teachers and content at the CC I went to, on the same level as the university.
I think a lot of Americans want to believe that there was no other choice and that every other country is in the same boat. The fact is that this was an utter failure. With better preparation, communication and leadership, there didn't need to be an economic shutdown.
Yep, this is also how you run Docker on OS's which predate the addition of HyperVisor.framework.
> I have a permanent & total obligation to my kids' well being

Such attitude makes it significantly less likely to have kids in the first place: why would a potential parent want to get in debt?

If we want to decrease population of humans, then spreading "parents owe to their kids" attitude is one of the ways to accomplish that.
Not equivalent. In 1988, we didn't have the levels of investment in Internet we've seen in blockchain. We didn't have Internet-only companies launching. I suspect very few people had the word "Internet" on their resume. To compare things based on nothing more than the number of years, and ignoring the context of the times, is intellectually dishonest.
spanner is strongly consistent
Families, especially children, also add purpose and fulfillment to life that is otherwise missing for many.

On the contrary, it seems the breakdown of the strong family unit is causing most of the problems of society.
When this is done and everyone is vaccinated, Sweden will have at least 5x the number of deaths per capita of their neighbors in the west and southwest. And the people of Sweden will still have strong support for their authorities' decisive response to the epidemic. My prediction.
> The problem is regulation

No, the problem is corruption resulting in, among other pretty bad things, ladder pulling regulation.

> You may want a wealth tax because you don't like inequality, but it isn't going to do any good for the technological development of the world.

Study after study has shown that income and wealth inequality stifles innovation (again among some other pretty bad things). This makes sense if you think about it: the next Archimedes can't innovate because she's preoccupied with how to pay for her sister's insulin.

In fact all my policy prescriptions are focused on innovation, because that's the topic of this thread. Antitrust laws are specifically set up to encourage innovation.

I know you really want to focus on regulation as the big bad, but it's just a symptom of a much larger bad: corruption.
Now it's time to change the name to Pathos Capital
[citation needed] about cherry picking. The limits of their scheme was acknowledged and discussed in the paper. What cherry picking are you referring to that wasn’t addressed?
To me, that seems like a case of: people get most fascinated with what hits closest to home. And whatever you experience yourself qualifies for that.
This seems like a bad idea in that it doesn't address the actual issue: most people just read headlines now. The question that leads from that is asking whether that is a result of the design of Facebook.

Google is a different problem and it looks like they recognized the problem more with them and wanted to deal with the algorithms but I still think that people have accepted too readily the problem is that people just scan headlines and not that Facebook and Google to a lesser extent have an incentive for people not to click links too frequently.
You could have made the same comment 6 years ago, and behold, lots more people drive EVs today than 6 years ago.

There's been a lot of progress in cajoling and requiring apartment complexes and workplaces to install chargers, and Tesla has a lot more superchargers (mostly in mall parking lots) than they used to have.

So it sure doesn't seem like there's any insurmountable problem involved that would cause us to stop promoting EVs.

Meanwhile, hydrogen fuel cells haven't fallen in price like Toyota predicted, and so their hydrogen car is both expensive and low performance. Not a winning combination, even if it fuels up in 5 minutes.
Regulation is all about stopping people from getting taken advantage of, or hurt, usually by their own decisions.

Financial regulation is mostly about stopping people from selling dodgy investment schemes that are some variant of Ponzi.

Health and Safety regulation is mostly about stopping people from doing stupid things that might kill them.

FDA is about stopping Snake Oil salesmen. And y'know, making sure the drugs we're sold don't make us worse.

You can see it coming in the Cryptocurrency world - people lose money on stupid bets and then feel that someone else should have done something to stop this. Someone being the regulatory agencies.

So what would a solid set of regulations for crypto look like? What process would you devise that would result in a set of rules that prevented most of the crooks from profiting from their crookedness, while allowing honest folks to make some money investing in crypto?
The dynamics aren't the same, the UBI case has a much weaker negative feedback loop than minimum wage. The percentage of the population that benefits from ratcheting minimum wage is much smaller -- they are intrinsically a permanent minority.

Ratcheting UBI, on the other hand benefits a much larger population whose growth as a percentage of the population is effectively unbounded by negative feedback. It would be very easy to arrive at a pathological equilibrium where the majority of the population has a strong incentive to vote for short-sighted expansion of UBI at the expense of the minority. Once in that mode, addressing the pathological consequences of that politically would be very difficult unless mitigations were designed in from the beginning.

It is possible to design negative feedback loops for the UBI case to greatly mitigate this issue, but it tends to be avoided by UBI proponents because most solutions have varying degrees of unpalatability.
i would argue what blockchain has given us today with permissionless open finance, decentralized organizations / voting, NFTs / digital art, etc. is plenty of early indications of value. also the fact that the token business model exists is precisely the reason there's less of a traditional "ARR" mindset in the tools and apps.

the criticism isn't entirely invalid: the blockchain space has a lot of proving to do – there's a lot more work ahead than behind
I've heard WD allude to their surveillance drives having some kind of firmware optimizations to handle multiple streams of writes with good QoS. It seems plausible they they would have a bit of a different write caching strategy based on minimizing seeks and trusting that the data coming into the drive is interleaved from multiple sequential write streams even though at any given moment the command queue will look like a bunch of random writes.
Measured by a month of delayed testing at the outset of a virulent pandemic?

> Forced to suspend the launch of a nationwide detection program for the coronavirus for a month, the C.D.C. lost credibility as the nation’s leading public health agency and the country lost ground in ways that continue to haunt grieving families, the sick and the worried well from one state to the next.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/cdc-coronavirus-la...
The total number of rapid charging stations is large and is increasing rapidly, while the total number of hydrogen is small and increasing slowly. It is quite certain this state of affairs is going to continue in the future, until eventually there are enough charging stations for everyone to go electric.
Also, here's Carlsen having a mature response to it: https://youtu.be/2sWVmVhBKSw?t=157
Yes it would be more akin to an internship rather than an apprenticeship. Also, contributing to open-source is not a learning experience like an apprenticeship can be. You cannot contribute to FOSS without a minimal skill level. Whereas, you can enter an apprenticeship from scratch.

Whether or not you agree with apprenticeship systems being good or bad, it is clear that the GP comment on FOSS being a replacement for an apprenticeship system is wrong.
> Waiting until "it's all over" was not the goal of safer-at-home.

Someone should tell that to the Italian authorities. At least until recently, some public statements seemed to inch in that direction ("zero new infections"), although more recently they realized that this is hardly possible at this point (especially if the estimates of the actual vs effective cases are true - talking about at least one order of magnitude).
Liquid anhydrous ammonia is already the obvious way to store and use hydrogen. It contains lots of hydrogen but doesn't have the embrittlement issues that elemental hydrogen does. Agricultural regions have extensive storage and distribution capacity due to its use as fertilizer, so no new technology is needed for handling ammonia. Common internal combustion engines can burn ammonia as fuel with minimal modification.

The only thing holding back the use of ammonia as energy storage is the fact that fossil fuels are still the most efficient feedstock. Once solar is more efficient, ammonia will see widespread production and use.