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I agree with your point of view. Youtube is not the government so it, in my opinion, should have its own freedom to make its own rules.

The issue to me is that Youtube is pretty much THE video sharing platform. Yes there are others but as a content creator you will reach the most people on Youtube.

Would criticism of WHO be removed. Would information about China's handling of the outbreak be banned if it is contradictory to the WHO point of view. These videos are already demonetized.

I also am frustrated when I see videos claiming garlic will prevent coronavirus. Or that 5g is the cause. I would like to think people will recognize this is not accurate but people continue to amaze me.

In some ways though if I believe in freedom of speech though I suppose I should be prepared to accept all speech.
The chain is still the same length when centralised and may be weaker. Separate services would use separate databases but it would make sense to consolidate resources when centralised

If you had separate services the CI service database going down would not affect anything else. A centralised database for all the services will take down all the services when it borks

If your priority is profit or cost management then duplicated infrastructure will make no sense
2) Raspberry Pi has much better official and (especially) community software support than other SBCs.

I disagree, as my experience has been the opposite of this. RPis are always a quirky mess, where doing anything but using turnkey appliance-like solutions is painful, and even these turnkey solutions suffer from poor quality.

It's a low-effort, low-quality ecosystem, and my experience has been better with each and every one of the alternatives I've used.
I used android phones up until like two years ago when I got the SE. You have to understand that a huge chunk of SE owners are in the same boat for the same reason. The Android market let small phones die, and so a 6 year old apple product is now literally the best option in the market. I still don't like Apple's ecosystem, but the phone is small and fits my use cases.
Coronovirus has an rFactor of 2-3 and it is airborne, which requires droplets from a host to come in contact with an uninfected person. But these droplets travel to the air and then will collect on a surface. They will not stay suspended in the air. Simply breathing next to a person who has the virus isn't enough for transmission.

By contrast, measles has an rFactor of 17, because it is an aerosol. It is 6x more contagious. And as an aeorsol, simply breathing next to a person who is infected is enough for you to contract the virus.

Airborne is not the same as aerosol.

Put another way. If there is a person infected in a house hold with coronavirus, not everyone is guaranteed to get it, because it is only airborne.

If someone has the measles in a house hold, and there is no vaccine, then everyone will get it, because it is an aerosol.
I'm not sure what your point is? The comment I was replying to said "we know this is always true" I said, actually, economists aren't really sure about that issue. If your concern is that economists aren't good at making certain predictions, then guess what, we agree. Economists are also acutely aware of this fact and most of the ones involved in actual economic research are careful not to overstate the implications of their models.

Regardless, I simply have to laugh at your comment. The "finance bro says economists are all morons who would be traders if they actually knew anything" trope is pretty great!
Continuous Testing vs. Traditional Testing
Oftentimes this is done to circumvent paying patent license fees- for example if a patented component in a BOM would cost 75 cents per unit from the manufacturer, and the in-house team found a way to perform the equivalent function for 15 cents then it would instantly allow your product to undercut the competition. In Amazon's case, all it takes is a query to find high margin items in which knockoffs can be made and self-promoted to eventually outrank sales of the original item.
Well, because marketplaces like Amazon have a strategy for that: learn from sellers, imitate their products, offer your imitated product prominently on your "neutral" marketplace and crush the competition with a lower price until they have to give up or let themselves be bought [1]. That's nothing really new. The difference with Amazon is just the scale.

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/amazon-doesnt-just...
Subways seeded C19 in NYC:

https://web.mit.edu/jeffrey/harris/HarrisJE_WP2_COVID19_NYC_...
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Not that it really impacts your point, but Foxconn do make consumer products: RAM modules and motherboards.
Which SBC would you recommend for a better ecosystem?
That damn Muphry, always messing with people.
>Some companies foster cordial relationships with their partners by staying strictly in their lane.

That happens to be ARM's business model at the moment. It isn't guaranteed to be their model tomorrow, nor are they doing it be friends with partners.
that solves the problem for suppliers, but creates one for consumers with lower competition. Less competition, higher prices.

*just noticed I was down voted, likely by
MichaelApproved because he has 7500 Karma and I only have 156.

I'm starting to really hate contributing to HackerNews discussions because it's fully of a bunch of bullies who pound on your karma if you don't agree with their viewpoints. Bring on the downvotes, I know HN hates any mention of it's imperfections as well. At least my conscious is clear.
Wow this is ugly
Education is a part of that, sure.

But I wouldn't say that this leading to amorphous organizations means it's a failure.

It's giving clear ability to connect content you see with well established government legal frameworks. This can help internet ads follow similar level of scrutiny as traditional ads. Is that framework perfect? Of course not. But it's unified framework, with strong ownership (government), enforcement of best practices (judges), etc.

There's only as much as companies can do. Only small part of those problems is technical. Majority of the issues is much broader legal/free-speech issues, that I personally don't want any private, for profit company, to control. It doesn't mean that I'm excited and confident that governments will do it correctly (for sure they won't), but it's right framework to solve those problems.
These boards have a different form factor.
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Which goes back to the buyer problem, that they don't consider other channels. Then you get hostile co-development of browser extensions for cross-channel price comparison, and life in the jungle continues on as such...
Forgive my pedantry but Windows NT ran on both PowerPC and DEC Alpha and I believe there were Windows server variants that ran on Itanium as well ...
Walmart has had their own marketplace for a while. For example, I can order a HP DL360 Gen10 from a third-party seller on Walmart's site right now.
Me too, the Jak & Daxter games have a very special place in my heart as my childhood introduction to gaming. I'd love to reach about it!
>which I don't think is competitive with the raspberry pi 4 A72.

The power efficiency is certainly competitive. Very competitive.

Raspberry Pi has a lot of justifying to do, regarding its much elevated power consumption, as the benchmarks do elucidate it actually doesn't have the performance to show fort it.
Bitwarden is another example of a company that proves you can make good profit as an open source SaaS.
> Do we have any "iron lung" negative displacement ventilators still in service or did every single one get phased out? I've heard those are easier on the lungs in concept and I'm wondering if some got dug out of basements to fight covid-19 and their success rates.

I wonder if it would make more sense for non-medical-device companies like GM to produce that type of ventilator, rather than the more modern types. The technology is simpler and the required manufacturing process are probably closer to their core competencies.
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Some of the specific performance enhancements are quite remarkable. Almost double the performance with PHP? Wow, that's quite the optimization for a long-lived (legacy?) technology. And the improvements in ML number crunching are in some cases just as impressive. Remarkable work within the community to wring more performance.
In Europe RPI 4 with 4 GB is EUR 60, so even with lower shipping fees the price would be about the same. In some benchmarks RPI 4 is slightly faster, in others it is slower.
So neither price nor performance favor strongly one over the other. Depending on the application, the included WiFi of RPI 4 may be more useful, or the included 4-port USB 3 hub of ODROID-C4 may be more useful. For myself, the 4-port hub is more useful.
For some people, including myself, much more important is the fact that the RPI 4 CPU implements an obsolete instruction set, unlike the ODROID-C4 CPU, which implements the better ARMv8.2-A instruction set.

There is only one other cheap computer with ARMv8.2-A: Khadas VIM3L (a little more expensive, less DRAM, WiFi included, another variant of the same processor, no USB hub but PCI-E on an expansion connector).
> That's the same risk you have with any open source project.

Yes and no. The larger the number of dependencies you have, and the larger number of maintainers that are behind them, the more chances you have of one of them containing malicious code.

I think you're pretty safe from Phoenix or Rails or NodeJS getting owned because so many people work on them. But one of the thousand small packages you use may belong to someone careless or malicious.
This cuts both ways, and I personally don't know which contributes more statistically: Hospitals are also preferentially assigning ventilators to patients more likely to be saved by them. I.e. they prioritize patients who are sick enough to need a ventilator, but not so bad off as to be unlikely to be saved by one.
As long as you don't mind taking an hour or two to root it and unlock the bootloader, an LG V30 is 150$ new, is very well supported by the ROM community, supports GCam (since the camera hardware is superior to pixels, the quality is simply amazing) with results that my friends with iPhone 11 pros accept are superior, has a processor fast enough for everything except heavy gaming, supports "AirDrop" via KDE connect (I literally have my phones filesystem mounted on my computer at all time, and I can share->send to computer, as well as the reverse).

It doesn't have the fastest processor, but at least I can use it however I want, and doesn't have a 1500mAh battery that will render it useless in two years.
Subreddits tend to wildly misrepresent reality due to survivorship bias. People generally don't post or noodle through such communities when things are going well. That's not to say there isn't a significant supplier issue -- just be aware of the company you keep. I often forget to be critical of the bubbles I inhabit.

In any case, I do wonder if Amazon's treatment of folk like you would improve considerably if Amazon had competition. It seems they can push you around because there are no consequences to pay.
As a counterpoint I would just point out that 6 years ago was a fine time to do this while now is a uniquely bad time. As someone who took gap year that that happened to end +/- 2 weeks from the start of the 07 global financial crisis, I'd be cautious about doing it now. My 1 year gap with a healthy brokerage account turned into credit card debt, moving back in with my parents, and a 3 year gap(half unemployed half very much underemployed working an internship with 4 years industry experience). It all worked out in the end, but it took 3 years to recover to the point I was at right out of university. So just keep in mind that you're like 6 weeks into a year or so stretch of what will likely be the best investment returns and the worst job prospects of the decade. And by worst job prospects, I mean, forget software development, I found out from a friend that one of many places I failed to get a job as a cashier was because they had apparently laid off a bunch of the cashiers and told the accountants/white collar staff to start working cash registers so they could justify not laying them off too.
> because WASM does have a tendency to make big code blobs easier to produce, especially if you’re using generics liberally.

WASM was designed to be compiled to very small binaries. The big code blobs you see are produced by the Rust compiler and are not a characteristic of WASM... just check the output of the Rust compiler for a hello world project in WAT format and you'll see it consists almost entirely of the memory allocator that's included in the binary...if you write the same code in WAT directly, or something like AssemblyScript[1], which is designed to use WASM primitives, it's going to be a few bytes for your typical WASM hello world.

[1] https://docs.assemblyscript.org/
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Many retail stores do this to their vendors. Amazon does it to it's "sellers", which are really just a category of "customers". As an amazon seller, you pay for the privilege of selling through their platform.
It's really hard to estimate without implementing alternative paths that are more direct and yet fairly optimized. For example, since Intel and AMD have open-source drivers on Linux, somebody could write respective wgpu-core implementations directly on top of the drivers. That's a lot of work, and without a clear prospect of being much faster.
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https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-t...

> In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.

"They will not stay suspended in the air" means it's not airborne. An airborne disease is one that does stay suspended in the air.
I think that wasm potentially has a great future for cross-platform binaries. Eventually, hopefully, the same code that can run in a browser will be able to run natively on linux or macos without recompiling.

A major blocker for this is that wasm applications are slower than native ones. There are a few reasons for this, and some of them, like simd support, are slowly being fixed, but an important one in my opinion is that memory in wasm requires bounds checks.

Now, there are hacks to make that fast, but they work for wasm32 and not wasm64. I think architectures adding instructions for lightweight memory sandboxing would go a long way to alleviate this problem.
Hi HN,

For the last months, we've been working on a product that generates subtitles automatically from a video file, and an online editor that allows you to edit them.

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1. Upload a video file
2. Speech-to-text recognition is used to automatically generate the text
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4. User arrives on editor where she can preview the results, edit them, export or burn subtitles into video.

We're working now on a way to allow the users to tune the parameters of the Subtitle Algorithm to change things like CPS, CPL etc...

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Poland prevents the opposition from being able to take part in the government and pursues minority groups (political or otherwise), a totalitarian government doesn't require surveillance but I do recall from some newsreport some time ago that they approved quite wide ranging powers to the police.
Because it amounts to IP theft.

It's one thing to see that unbleached toilet paper is selling well, and getting a supplier to sell you a store brand version. But it's completely different to see that a particular office stand is selling very well, determine that it has a 20% margin, and have someone build an identical product which you sell 5% margin.

If you look at many Amazon Basics products, they are clear ripoffs of existing products. To the point where they are indistinguishable from the images. I was looking for a Lodge braisier just yesterday and saw that AB produced an identical product, down to the unique blue color Lodge uses in their enamel.

I guess you could go through the trouble of suing Amazon, assuming you had the resources. But then you'd be booted from the platform and they'd still be selling your knockoffs for years.

I think it's fine if Amazon sees that cast iron cookware is selling well and decides to enter that market. What's not fine is to blatantly steal the design of the best selling product in a category, then make your ripoff more visible on your site. At least make an attempt to differentiate the product.
There isn't a reasonable argument that will change this. Hate to say it, but you just have to recognize the people who advocate it and socially isolate them. While the police became militarized, the public service have became a cluster of policing agencies, but without any of the limitations of powers or the accountability.
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Is there any Business to Consumer intermediary/platform that doesn't do this?

All big retailers (Walmart, Costco, etc)
Apple
Google
Amazon.

Once you sell or distribute through a marketplace where they also sell or offer products to the same audience, expect the best ideas to be copied by the platform owners.

That's one of the downside retailers have to deal with.
Mostly blocking the EU from doing anything about Poland, which is deep in there, and heading there itself (and Poland blocking the EU from doing anything about that).

It's not as bad as poland yet but it's getting there, slowly.
Regardless of what the style guide says, multiple studies of real-world exception handling correctness have been done, and the results are clear: Very few (if any) real-world codebases correctly handle exceptions.

As the article points out, correct exception handlers would grow exponentially with program size. People can’t reason about that, so they don’t handle things like multiple error paths, or they conflate one error code with another, and so on.

The results hold across programming languages.
Both wgpu and gfx APIs try to avoid any significant CPU usage in hot rendering/compute paths (e.g. by doing more work upfront instead of during rendering), so generally the performance cost should be fairly low for most applications.

The Vulkan API is basically 1:1 with gfx-hal so the performance cost should be negligible when gfx-hal is running on top of Vulkan. There is some overhead when running on top of other backends (such as Metal or DX12) versus implementing separate backends for wgpu, but the design of WebGPU avoids most places where the overhead would become significant anyway.

Similarly wgpu-rs only adds Rustier bindings to wgpu-core, so any performance cost should be negligible.

There is some amount of overhead in WebGPU in general (caused by automatic memory management, additional resource tracking, etc.) versus directly using raw Vulkan/DX12/Metal, but WebGPU tries to find a good balance here between security/portability/performance/usability.
It is surprising that their relevance algorithms isn't able to show diverse results. If you look 4 or 5 pages down the search, you can still find innovating items but they are literally in the sea of almost exact same looking white-label items. My guess is that there are SEO businesses making ton of money by SEOing the hell out of Amazon for white label products off of Alibaba.

If Amazon did nothing else but allowed to filter products by where was it made/designed, the problem will be solved in significant way.
Depends what you call kernel space

For example, nebulet https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet wanted to run everything in ring 0, but "userspace" was WebAssembly code that had been compiled by "kernelspace" to run sandboxed in ring 0

If a CPU architecture was implemented to only offer ring 0, would a microkernel be impossible? Or would we accept this concept of kernelspace/userspace being implemented in software?
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> The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Agree, youtube has to be very careful there.

> WHO is a political organization with medical leanings just like Fox News is an entertainment channel that covers newslike topics.

Hell no! The fact you even consider them in the same sentence is astounding. No point in continue reading .
LibreSSL has all of the same problems as OpenSSL. It's just a fork from an earlier point in time before OpenSSL did it's big rewrite that came with OpenSSL 1.1.1.
>>"This is one of the most absurd claims of the supposedly "descriptive" MMT. Taxation does not delete money from the economy. When the federal government collects taxes, it doesn't take that money and burn it in a giant pit. It turns around and immediately spends that money."

I didn't know that idea was so polemic.

So, what you are saying is that government deficits are inflationary because they add money to the economy, but, on the other hand, government surplus don't retire money from the economy?

>>"This is completely false. The Fed creates new reserves (base money) in order to buy assets."

Yes, but the assets the Fed buy (when practicing QE) are in the accounts of the commercial banks in the Fed. After buying them, those assets are not there anymore, and, instead there is money (1). And money is basically a government bond that pay 0% interest.

1 - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=661
> Or, to put it more bluntly, a modern ethics committee would have rejected the idea of installing sewers

You get to choose whether to be in the business of installing sewers. Saying that it's ok to force people into medical experiments against their will for the greater good is how you get Nazi holocaust atrocities. Medical ethics has a long history that it sounds like you might enjoy spending some time reading about.
How? Everyone else can compete...
LibreSSL did not rewrite everything... Look at the code, most of it's identical to what's in OpenSSL. It's a fork, not a rewrite.
>Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically?

Isn't that a big point of this? Who does know? The answer is nobody, but a lot of these "alternative" medicine pushers aren't asking questions but instead presenting their "alternatives" as absolute cures
I have had nothing but happiness from SBCs based Allwinner (sunxi) chips. My experiences reflect A10, A20 and A64.

They have excellent community and Mainline Linux support:

https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

Support in BSDs is similarly very good.

I'd pick among the boards that use the A20 (ARMv7) or the A64 (ARMv8 aarch64), as these are the better supported chips.

Amlogic, iMX6, iMX8 and rockchip also have good reputation, from what I hear from my acquaintances. But I haven't tried these myself.

Broadcom (used in RPI) is infamous, and it's a much deserved infamy. I've had nothing but trouble with them, be it SoCs used on RPIs or other chips made by them.
No, this is not great for the consumer. It lowers the bar for everyone. What I find mostly on Amazon in the past year or so is cheaper imported versions of decent products. The decent products are hard to find or I have to look outside of Amazon. They've pushed out the quality and replaced it with higher profit junk.

Its kind of the same thing with Home Depot. I used to be able to buy quality hardware from a local store. Now all I have is Home Depot and they sell mostly imported junk hardware. I have to go somewhere like McMaster-Carr now for quality hardware. Home Depot has not been good for me, Home Depot has only been good for itself.
Same here. This article just lost me respect for WP-Engine.

What a pedantic, naive, intelligence-insulting article.

It insults my intelligence to tell me what my "customers" want, given that they've never met my customers.