skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when very young repeated begging my mom to buy red delicious and each time being disappointed such a beautiful looking apple tasted so bad.
Harvard professor makes $1.2B from coronavirus pandemic
If by "de facto recognizes" you mean they suddenly have trouble with their Skype connection the moment Taiwan is mentioned.
games are a grind
everyone thats ever played an mmo knows flipping specific builds/leveled accounts using botting software is some of the most common middle schoolers first money making enterprise

at some level almost all games could be reduced to a version of cookie clicker

good games keep players actively looking for a new meta by tweaking and adding content, similar to the everchanging running of a business
Interesting, and congratulations on launching the site! How do you plan on growing and generating demand?

I starting making exactly this back in 2018 but didn't get people interested back then so I dropped it and let the domain expire, see the original (seems broken though):

https://web.archive.org/web/20180901171627/http://web-app.st...

It was my first time using a skeleton in CSS and using a Google Form as the way to submit a new app (with the spreadsheet as the database). I believe it was also my first PWA but I'm not 100% sure about that. While I learned a lot, some times I regret not having followed through, will keep an eye on https://progressiveapp.store/ to see how it goes.
The next time someone who has nothing to do with congressional politics refers to President Trump, are you going to get on their case for failing to acknowledge the existence of the impeachment issue? Will you accuse them of explicitly supporting one side of that conflict?

After all, it is crystal-clear to all right-thinking people that if the world were just, he would currently be in jail. Referring to him as a president is explicitly taking a political position on the subject...
The guy who thinks he "trapped" me with a rhetorical question accuses me of arguing in bad faith? Okay...

All I did was get you to say clearly what you believe. If what you believe is so embarrassing that it's a sign of bad faith to get you to say it in clearly, maybe believe better things?
It’s partly because around a week ago we discovered evidence that Chinese leadership was well aware of person to person transmission on the day that tweet was sent.

https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9

There is a lot that a mission-driven version of the WHO would have done differently. This Zeynep Tufekci piece does a good job of detailing that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world...

> This mission-driven WHO would not have brazenly tweeted, as late as January 14, that “preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.” That claim was false, and known by the authorities in Wuhan to be false.. Taiwan had already told the WHO of the truth too. On top of that, the day before that tweet was sent, there had been a case in Thailand: a woman from Wuhan who had traveled to Thailand, but who had never been to the seafood market associated with the outbreak—which strongly suggested that the virus was already spreading within Wuhan.
And this was with the $4B in annual energy subsidies provided by the Federal government[0]. Seems like so many industries were teetering and over-leveraged before the pandemic hit. We have to take the loss of jobs very seriously while acknowledging these deeply antiquated entities in our economy.

0: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
I wonder if some stores form partnerships, while others don't and Instacart does what they want there.
> Amazon employees can't just quit their jobs and choose to collect unemployment instead

You're right, they can't.

However, the 26 million Americans who have been laid off from other jobs have negative incentive to sign up for a new job with Amazon because the benefits are tied to staying unemployed. That exacerbates the problem for Amazon.
Funding Models for Science and Invention
I remember signing up for Hotmail and abandoning my isp email as if it was some sort of internet activism ;)
"the usefulness of that improvement is going to be a lot lower to someone who just needs a car to get somewhere rather than someone who can afford to buy a car with the long view of how it will affect their finances over many years."

I don't understand how a longer lifespan could not affect TCO regardless of how long you keep your car or what portion of its life you use. What does it mean to say people can't afford to spend less money?
Even if the study is true, this doesn't follow.

You only get to limit your response if you have the capability to do actual testing... which we didn't and still largely don't.
you mean like the NYT's Judith Miller, ostensibly a professional, who sabre rattled for the 2nd iraq war based on aluminum tubes which .gov leadership immediately cited after being published? because that was fairly crackpotty.
Policies can't be decided based on your insecurities. You don't want anyone to be better perceived than you even when they may be objectively better. All your elitism comments say the same thing.
Except huge tech companies are incentivized to vertically integrate into selling their extra datacenter capacity. From there it's just an economies of scale game that a pure cloud company will have difficulty keeping up with (not saying it's impossible).
Really disappointed in hacker news today. Children all of you, crying for the right to scream "fire" in a crowded theater.
How you read them is irrelevant. What's relevant is that hundreds of thousands of people read the first one, took it at face value, and decided that the coronavirus is not a threat. The WHO definitely misled people with that first one, the only thing up for debate is whether it was deliberately or due to incompetent messaging.

GP comment is a bit too categorical but it's not even a contested fact that WHO initially downplayed the epidemic, put out recommendations to keep borders open, and still continues to spread disinformation e.g. about not needing to wear masks.

I won't even say anything about the string of corruption allegations and ties to China.

And then the fact that WHO basically pretended Taiwan doesn't exist[1] and is clearly aligned with Chinese political interests over even its primary mission.

Giving absolute authority over 'truth' to an entity with such a shitty track record is insane.

[1]: https://twitter.com/studioincendo/status/1243909358133473285
has it been established, without a doubt, that IQ is a quantitative genetic trait?

">..We proceed by summarizing IQ psychometrics and IQ as a quantitative genetic trait..."
Bavaria has great stuff too. Obazda or Kaiserschmarrn for example.
Umm, isnt the universal quantifier by definition not the existential qualifier?
Blech. Nothing here that's obscure or likely to alter the path of some one's knowledge. No philosophy, no history, and the list includes Gladwell. Actually, the inclusion of Gladwell probably distinctly colors my thinking on the subject.

Maybe "How to read a book" or "The Alchemist" or I don't know, something that's not just so totally typical.
Virtual On! I forgot I remembered that until you reminded me, which then brought to mind Zone of the Enders and Front Mission. There was one other one which eludes me. Oh yeah, Armored Core. I know there are many others but these were most memorable to me. I think of all of those I love Front Mission series best. It’s kind of an oddball since the others are action games but FM is tactical RPG closer to X-COM series.

Thanks for the memories. Time to find some mecha games!
How the Coronavirus Outbreak Will Change Careers and Lives in Foreseeable Future
The $600 extra is nationwide, every state. If they aren't getting it, maybe they were unemployed too far before the crisis?

Otherwise, a vast # of fired workers come from relativy low paying service I dustry jobs. Even $300 capped plus the extra $600 works out to about $47,000 per year. More than most service industry workers. Also, about 35 states have caps at $400 or higher. The most impacted states are as high as $600-$700. If you're capped in one of those states and getting the extra $600, that works out to about $62,000/ year.

Please note I'm not saying this is wrong to do. I don't think a lot of people would stay on those short term benefits if they could get a steady job. But instacart is far from a steady job, and any temporary I crease in pay from the surge in demand will eventually go away. Not worth giving up those unemployment benefits while they're still available without a better job guarantee.
Expansive essays are sometimes hard to comprehend. Setting aside a debate about the author's argument, let's just focus on comprehending his actual words.

The author clearly isn't implying that the Senate's filibuster is the reason SFBA has a housing crisis when we writes about the senate. You can tell because housing is discussed in a section on "The state and local veocracy" while the senate is discussed in the section entitled "The federal vetocracy"!

He's identifying the filibuster as one instance of "vetocracy" that causes certain issues. By "vetocracy" he's referring to a phenomenon that happens at the local, state, and federal levels. The effects at each level are different. In fact, vetocracy even in the private sector (dear god have I some first hand experience with that!)

The senate is at the federal level, not the sort of state/local issues you identify.

The author identifies many other examples of vetocracy.

In particular, there is a section entitled "The state and local vetocracy", in which he discusses state and local issues such as the ones identified in your post. And the author even identifies some of the root causes from your posts. E.g., he links to an hour+ discussion between a leftist and a libertarian on "neighborhood defenders", i.e., the NIMYism you identify in your original post!

As a meta point, section titles are super useful. When reading, I always read the intro and then skim section titles. Only after that I then read through the article. It's a simple but useful reading comprehension trick. For example, in this article, it's easy to lose the overall flow of the argument. However, if you skim the section titles first, you certainly won't make the reading comprehension mistake of confusing content in a section entitled "federal" as talking about state and local stuff when there's also a section entitled "state and local" :-)
> why the US fatality rate per capita is better than many European countries

A combination of better healthcare infrastructure (# of hospitals, beds, ventilators, nurses, doctors, etc) and also having a less deadlier strain than the one on Europe (although the deadliest strain was reported in Washington but luckily hasn't made it to the east coast).

I know this will likely go in one ear and out the other, but you should really stop listening to Fox news.
Same here (Chapel Hill, NC) - I routinely get multiple Prime deliveries per day. And I see Prime vans running around everywhere.
with high availability you don’t wait for an outage to spin up new resources, at that point it’s too late. it’s by definition not highly available and if you build infrastructure this way then you can’t blame AWS for an outage
Thank you! I will keep that in mind when I’m ready to go live.
'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought
Politics are a fact of international relations. It's childish to think an international organization that depends on its member countries for funding can just completely ignore that or blow it off, rather than eat shit occasionally in order to work around it.

Sure, they can make a bold impassioned speech about how science is far beyond petty concerns like national sovereignty and so on, but this isn't a movie where a great speech suddenly brings everyone to their senses. In reality the WHO works through public health departments in nearly 200 countries and also gets its funding from governments, so if they spit int he face of sovereignty, they'll cease to exist in any meaningful way and aggregate health outcomes will definitely be worse.
There isn’t “qualified” and “unqualified”. It’s not that black-and-white, and I wish people would accept that more. Basically what we should be asking ourselves is “What’s the likelihood that what this person is telling me is correct?” which is much more useful, because it immediately puts the focus on what factors contribute to that.

We aren’t going to conclude anything useful until we can agree that there are good and bad tradeoffs between central information control and decentralized, and that the optimum at any given point in time probably lies somewhere in between and depends on the context in which the communication takes place.
well I really just love PWA's and the freedom it brings to the developers and wanted to create a store to help show their potential.

Appreciate it!
Ironically (coincidentally?), I think you can apply a direct analogy between the tastes of Coke and Pepsi, and their branding. People have a preference for one drink over the other, but they can't articulate why. Most people can't tell one from the other in a blind taste test, much less describe what specifically they prefer about one over the other. They can still taste it, though, and the experts can break down the flavors and sensations to describe the differences between the two.

I suspect the branding is perceived the same way. People pick up on all of these things, and the experts have a language to describe their branding strategy, and they're very deliberate about what they do and do not include in their ads. People don't express it or notice it consciously, but they can still tell when the marketing feels "wrong" compared to the ads they've seen before.
Edit: I should add, I don't want to leave out other groups of individuals (and non-groups) who would gladly sign up for such an opportunity to help even with some risk. Healthcare workers, Police, probably most veterinarian staff and civil servants as well (!) if they were young and fit. And so many others.
The "right fruit" usually depends on personal tastes plus the application: eating whole fruit, juice/fermented juice, preserves, baking, accent flavor in a salad. There are a lot of reasons that things can end up in the dustbin of history other than taste in one circumstance.
Alibris.com is an independent book marketplace like Abebooks. You may recognize some of the bigger vendors on there.
They clearly took a side, I don’t know how you can look at it any other way. In your counter factual with Russia, of course they should recognize the de facto situation and send aid if something terrible happens there, regardless of how mad that makes Ukraine.

It doesn’t really matter whether my politics were assuaged, though, because they pissed off the majority of their funding and had it cut off. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The fallacy in this all too pervasive argument is assuming that once a competitor dies or is bought out, there is no more competition from now until judgement day.

This is flat out silly and has never been observed. Monopolies cannot significantly raise their prices, or competitors instantly appear.
nit: 0.01% is 1 in ten thousand.
The alternative being...? We know that covid-19 will likely mutate, just like other coronaviruses, H1N1 and its mutations are still around every year; are you suggesting we must remain in quarantine until we both create a vaccine for covid-19 and then every fall quarantine until we're able to develop a vaccine for that year's bout of viruses?
FWIW I found reading about the process of making respirators quite fascinating. It opened up a whole world of reading about nanofibers and the melt blown process that I'd not previously stumbled upon. Turns out good masks aren't just any old fabric - producing unwoven sub-micron nanofiber fabric is quite involved and that fabric is in short supply.
I would love to see some data here. What service outages? What’s your infrastructure like? What’s your DCs uptime?
How are the employees of YouTube or any tech company exempt from those forces? What makes them somehow wiser or smarter than everyone else in history?

Just ask them. They'll tell you. And tell you. And tell you.
Will New York Ever Recover from Covid-19? or how mega city will come out of this
Some are more that than others. I'm very tired of fallacies of composition.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

43% approve
Someone should sell a cooling shell for MacBooks that replaces the aluminum underbelly.
It may also have been observed in livestock.
Stick your head in a microwave, if that doesn't kill coronavirus, nothing will.
Perjury Is a Crime, Even When Amazon Does It
I did something very similar, with a very similar pattern of stressing myself into inaction, though my combination of savings and freelance gigs only lasted me about 9 months. I'd hoped I would be free to the winds for the rest of my days, and it... didn't quite turn out like that, to say the least.

Still, I'm glad I did it. Because a) I hated the job I'd quit and was much happier with the one I ended up finding afterward, and b) it answered questions for me about what I did and didn't want to do with my life. Now I don't have to wonder: I know I don't want to freelance.
Only if the people getting the pennies demanded them in exchange for not cutting internet cables. Countries in the early 20th Century that did not have social programs, Russia, Germany after WW1, found large masses of discontented and starving people were fertile ground for populist messages. If those people had been well fed history might have taken a different course.
> strict scrutiny requires fine-grained analysis of every application of state police power

That's what strict scrutiny means, but it's a very high standard that certainly doesn't apply to every case. As I understand it, it's more likely to be applied when fundamental rights are infringed, but I would never try to predict how the Court might rule on any particular case.
Google cloud run. If you can put your python app in a docker container (very easy) then you can run it on Cloud Run. They have a very generous “always free” tier.
I built a car to drive around. Car broke at a nearest intersection. We, however, not talking about car' intentions - we talk about my intentions, and my intentions weren't to stop that soon.

> I don't think you should judge a system's purpose by the stated intentions behind it, you judge it by outcomes.

I do judge by outcomes. I also judge purpose - which is something which was planned, desired for before the system was built - by how I can find that purpose. If somebody tried to save a drowning person by throwing him a rope, but missed and the person died, that doesn't mean that somebody was trying to kill the person. If a system doesn't produce effect A, that doesn't mean it's not trying - as system's creator intended.

The Wikipedia article is ok, if we differentiate intents of a system - which could be a special thing for non-humans - and of system creators.
Who has that much spaghetti on hand?

Also my local grocery store is limiting how much spaghetti you can buy...
4chan and terrorgram were also workshopping Corona-chan memes, entertaining the misconception that black people were immune to it, and trying to figure out ways to launch the boogaloo on the back of it.

They take it seriously in the same way that a rotating drum full of ping-pong balls happens to contain the winning lottery numbers every week. Glomming on to novelty is is the defining trait of quasi-anonymous social networks.
Here's my counterpoint.

I do this stuff for a living. I know that primates are a valuable translational model, which is why I've spent the last 15 years working with them in neuroscience labs.

On the other hand, I also know that it's an ethically-tricky form of research too[+]. Public support for research depends on people understanding what we're doing and why. Conflating chimps with marmosets (which are still primates, but much less "human-like") or rhesus monkeys risks eroding that support. For example, I'm fine with genetically engineering marmosets; I would have serious misgivings about doing the same thing to generate autistic or Parkinsonian chimps.

Therefore, I think this is an important distinction and not being careful about it puts the benefits of primate work--that you're trying to champion!--at risk.

[+] For what it's worth, we do take excellent care of them.
Australia is one of several countries who did impose restrictions early and the data is pretty compelling. We meet all criteria: "Stay-at-home orders, low assembly thresholds, and business closures".

We have several states with 0 new infections for several days and all states in single digits. 78 deaths so far.
KD, never Kraft Dinner
Eh, me and my friends (all adults in our 30s) have been loving this game. It’s relaxing and fun to decorate a house and island and slowly build up from nothing. It’s a lot like Minecraft or The Sims in that way, although there aren’t any bad guys to fight (a feature I tended to turn off while playing).
No, the idea is "there is a massive coordinated disinformation campaign designed to make the pandemic worse, what, if anything should we do to address it?"

There are two obvious options (and lots of options in between).

(1) Do nothing. Pros: the propaganda gets clicks, which means revenue. The armchair libertarians are happy because nation states continue to have the freedom to saturate all communication channels with lies. Cons: The pandemic gets worse, mass graves continue to fill up, the US continues to destabilize politically and economically.

(2) Learn from past mistakes and address the propaganda with some sort of restrictions. Pros: limits the spread of deadly misinformation, greater chance the US remains economically and politically stable. Cons: Lost revenue. The restrictions will never be perfect. The armchair libertarians get riled up because it reminds them of a Hayek fairy tale they once read.

YouTube is part of a private company. They're under no obligation to give a platform to the propaganda arms of every world's intelligence agency.
> The system's goal has been perverted or coopted.

I think that's a good description. We can use this model to work on fixing the problem.
How do we know what is best for us? What and who should we believe? It kinds of remind me how Copernicus was banned centuries ago despite now we know he was closer to truth than anyone else. If we live at his times we would say he is crazy and certainly his YouTube channel would have to be deleted but why? I guess if someone is right, he will prove it eventually. Even if it sounds crazy but the person is determined we should have right to know it and decide if we agree. Why someone esle should decide for us what we can know.

http://origins.osu.edu/milestones/february-2016-400-years-ag...
> travel restrictions are counterproductive

That's a very strong and very stupid claim.

The fact that WHO made the same claim and the fact that it's disputed by most actual experts around the world, hence ongoing travel restrictions, is a pretty good example of why there can't ever be one arbiter of 'truth' in a free society.
I'm not sure it's debunked and I don't understand the rabid hatred of it (like bringing it up where it isn't mentioned at all).
Maybe try out glitch.com .
Search for Python examples.
Those are White House-based messages now.

https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance
My Canadian prime account seems to be having no effect. Home cooking appliances not showing up.

Tomorrow I'm cancelling them and cancelling prime renewal. We started using Walmart and curbside delivery and its great.

I feel like covid will stress test existing "curbside pickup" systems and force them to become robust. Where before employees weren't well trained or didn't care, now they're well practiced.

Walmart, Homeless Despot, Zehrs, and Canadian Tire curbside have all been well oiled machines this month.