skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a bit more complex than this. No, you can't magically create a yuppie utopia in the middle of the Southside, but you can start on the northwest side and expand it just a couple blocks west, then a few more blocks west. It's a coordinated effort from the large-scale developers and the city - look at Lincoln Yards for the most large-scale and egregious example.

Housing supply absolutely needs increased, but we must require developers to build mixed-income housing. The wealthy developers can afford to leave many units empty to maintain the luxury cache of the building or area. The relationship between supply and price in housing is not that sweet sweet smooth curve - it's lumpier than that in reality.

Additionally while the increase in supply can hurt your local landlords, it can also raise the average income of the clientele of an area, which then benefits them. In practice these landlords have not been staunch opponents of all the new luxury buildings.
Misinformation is killing people. Given that, who should YouTube use as a source of truth?

The US government? Bill Nye the Science Guy?

Or should they let 4chan tell your grandma to drink bleach to fight the Rona?
From firsthand experience, I can tell you the handheld versions make it more challenging to obtain a diagnostic quality image. Also, many of them are intended to be plugged into a personal device (like an iPhone) which I would not want to bring into a Covid patient's room. But in the right hands, they are a decent alternative to a more sophisticated ultrasound machine. They are not a "potent weapon" compared with other more expensive tech that already exists. They are just a cheaper substitute, which is a great but incremental innovation.
Give me one example of a graphics API today on desktop where this isn't possible. Unless you're a console graphics engineer, you're shit out of luck if you really think you can stop client-side injection. Short of a kernel-mode injection like the crap Valorant is pulling, layer hooks and trampolines are literally how those APIs ship (D3D, OpenGL, Vulkan, etc).
It's not actually required.

As long as the first csr puts a note on the account about what's going on, any csr can resume from there.

i.e. a note like "20200423 - asked customer to call back to discuss recent large transactions on credit card".
Learning to say no to solicitors gives you the freedom to make new connections with your neighbors. People enjoy that freedom.
Nope. I said what I meant. Any system optimized for maximal efficiency on any measure becomes deoptimized as soon as that measure changes even a little bit.

> After all, we could use robustness as our optimization criterion.

It's almost impossible to optimize for "robustness". You are always optimizing some measure. You would have to deoptimize for all measures, and that's just silly from an engineering perspective.

The only thing you can do is to simply not optimize to the last 0.1%.

The whole toilet paper fiasco is a good example. Toilet paper is such a low-margin business that everybody optimized it to hell and back. Lines are already running 24/7 even in normal times. The consumer and industrial production is split so they can optimize them independently to squeeze those last couple fractional percentage points out by making commercial toilet paper even shittier.

Consequently, there is zero ability to absorb the demand shock that occurred when lots of commercial usage transferred to consumer usage.
People Are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots
What if more users install the browser extension/add-on that automatically changes the user-agent string based on domain name, e.g., for Instagram it changes to a random mobile user-agent. Sorry I forgot the name of the extension.
Depends on the circumstances. I live alone and work from home, so there's very little difference for me between the current situation and an indefinite quarantine.
And yet... growth will end. It will end because we choose for it to end, or because we've over-mortgaged the resources we have available to us and experience a collapse.

Bacteria in a sealed jar will continue to multiply until they've consumed all the available nutrients, at which point their population collapses. If you constantly add a trickle of nutrients to the jar, this behavior still happens, just with violent yo-yo'ing between collapse and growth until an eventual steady-state is reached.

We can argue whether or not we've exceeded the replenishment rate We can argue how far it's reasonable to go past this point if effects won't be felt for thousands of years. But there is simply no argument to be made that we can continue growing endlessly and exponentially past the replenishment rate of the ecosystem we live in.

Personally, I think we're well past the replenishment rate. Our ecological impact is causing systemic collapse in multiple areas: our climate is warming past dangerous thresholds, our oceans are acidifying and being depleted at an alarming rate, our oceans are rising at an accelerating rate, and we're experiencing unprecedented rates of of extinction of both animal and plant life. We're running out of sand (to make concrete with) for fuck's sake.

On top of this, at current rates of energy growth, we'll literally cook the Earth within two or three hundred years[1]. And I'm not talking about greenhouse gases: just from a raw thermodynamics perspective. Put enough energy capacity on Earth and it will eventually take the form of waste heat. Even in the complete absence of carbon dioxide, the only way for that heat to escape Earth is by being radiated into space. And there's only so fast a perfect blackbody with the surface area of the Earth can get rid of that heat. Even if the Earth were a perfect radiator (it isn't), this[2] is what our future looks like.

[1] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

[2] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tmp-10...
Because they won't have to share IA-64 with AMD.

ARM has many other licensees so Intel didn't want to continue
The WHO never denied human-to-human transmission. This is a blatant lie.
Running firefox 4 (or any other comparably old browser), this would be the least of your security problems, it's not even RCE. The stream of discovered vulnerabilities is constant.
Elizabeth Warren's plan does just this by designating such companies as “platform utilities”: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...

I agree a diverse marketplace is a healthy one, and that requires intervention since clearly the initial rules are not enough. Some like to pretend that free markets are only negatively impacted by regulation, and only positively impacted by its participants.
I find it worrying as well.

However, I enjoy dabbling in the crazy side of youtube now and again, and there is absolutely content out there that will harm people, and there seems to be an audience for it.
It seems like one of those lamentable 'this is why we can't have nice things' stories.

The line youtube is drawing seems like the wrong line. Youtube has a storied history of making dumb choices and an inscrutable system to appeal their arbitrary decisions. I'm pretty confident they will continue to mess it up.

I would like to be a free speech maximalist; it's easier since there are no tough choices to make. Unfortunately there has always been speech that is not protected (incitement/yelling fire) and we are left with the difficult task of delineating which side of the line some speech falls.

In the end that means we must always be ready to fight to keep our freedom of speech.
What is the competition though. We need someone with a clue on competition. I'd go with anyone with a broad / reliable selection - ebay has been working recently - is that the future?
The WHO advised against the public wearing masks and advised against travel restrictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/all-uk-hospita...

https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...

As I understand it - many Canadians of Asian decent in Vancouver BC wore masks early on.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

EDIT: As of 3/30 WHO still doesn't recommend wearing masks (except for the obviously sick) - contrary to Vancouver BC who now require at least a covering or mask.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...
Not OP, but he's emphasizing that the increased compensation should be of a different kind rather than of a different degree (of the same kind, one may assume).
> and don’t consider that this is an exceptional situation

exceptional situations are ripe for exploitation by corporations and governments and political parties. And indeed we've seen all of these try (and succeed) in taking advantage of the situation...

"Never let a good crisis go to waste" -- Winston Churchill
Outside the context of this virus, for adult men, the survival rate one year after mechanical ventilation might be 30 percent: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8404197/
Can not you use MS Outlook as email reader then search using it?
As with any viral pneumonia
I've heard about these kinds of practices anecdotally. We really need some anti-trust action in the US. We have these laws that give the federal government a lot of power to force companies to play fair, but we don't use them because of politics.
Taiwan has:

- a military

- a government

- a language

- a judicial system

- foreign relations, however hampered they are by the Communist party

It also happens to be in a state of cold war with their nominally Communist neighbour.

If it's not a country, nothing is.
I switched from a Macbook pro 13" (2015) to the 16" this year. It's much noisier in day-to-day usage, which I've tracked down to high heat generated by the discrete GPU whenever it is in use (regardless of load).

Unfortunately, some conditions force the discrete GPU to activate - one of which is "being plugged into an external monitor." Even if you've only got terminals open, the GPU runs real hot with 1% load, and the fans ramp up to match. (This may only be true for some monitors - my work-provided monitor is the Apple Thunderbolt Display).

Sometimes Slack forces the discrete GPU to turn on, for example when clicking on an embedded youtube video. The discrete GPU will remain in use until Slack is restarted. Other applications sometimes behave similarly - I use https://gfx.io/ to see what applications are forcing it on.

Perhaps the cooling engineering is better, but the practical effects of it make me miss my 13" laptop.
Are you using Spring? I've seen medium-large Spring Java apps take 10-15s to start. Not to build - to start. They're usually very fast then though.
Amazing app! what happen after I reclaim my data? how do you make sure its gone?
Sure, lots of people.

As a PhD in ML, I get asked about the singularity all the time. My
goto response is I am far more worried about a virus causing mass death than machines taking over the world. Fortunately, this is not that and rather a good warning and test for humanity.

Lots of people will claim to have, it's more about positioning and marketing when they do.
Right now it's just a press release so there's not much to read. Cuomo's statement reads to me that is just demographically adjusted though.
So .. drawing a line between two points, if NY had 20% immunity for 15k dead, that implies there will be 60k dead by the end of the process. Roughly one 9/11 every week or so?
That's interesting. I don't use Gmail but mail.com. I'm considering to move from mail.com to prontonmail.
I'm glad that film/print has seen a resurgence in recent years. For a while it was hard (expensive) to get decent supplies. This is a nice ad-hoc setup. Darkroom equipment is definitely like a gas; I think my enlarger timer was around $100 alone.

I have a full darkroom packed away, but just don't have the time/space for it. I miss it. There's something very special about seeing images appear.

I find some darkroom edit methods like burning/dodging more time efficient vs software like Lightroom (much faster to 'mask' with your hand in many cases). But dealing with spot removal -- no contest I'd rather just do that digitally. I don't miss trying to paint chemicals on a negative :)

If getting started, I suggest a class or some good end to end books. Knowing the basic principles is quite helpful (digital or not). You'll also learn a lot about the decisions (+debugging) that ensue. Example -- RC vs fiber paper, properly winding your film onto the dev reel (done by touch), over/under agitating, weak/old chemicals, under fixing, washing, etc.

The more right you get it in camera, the easier time you will have in the darkroom. On average, large sensor digital cameras can be more forgiving than film. That said, there are tricks to fix your mistakes or work around limitations (e.g. pushing/pulling film, printing contrast filters, dodging/burning, exposing multiple frames onto single print, etc.).

If you don't print a lot, a vacuum or accordion container will help preserve your chemicals' life span. Your paper usually likes a cool/steady temp; too hot and it can get fogged. Check your city/county on how to properly dispose of the spent chemicals; usually they don't want spent developer or fixer down the drain.
A link would be awesome. And we would still need to ascertain that they did not have this damage before getting covid. :(. CT scans have a troubled history of seeing damage that preexisted. (See back pains)
> Researchers currently poring over the papyri in the Carlsberg Collection are finding that medical information discovered in ancient Egypt didn't disappear when the Library of Alexandria burned

That's because almost nothing was lost when the library at Alexandria burned. Because there was almost nothing there to burn at the time. The library had long been in decline by this time period, and there were many other great centers of learning in the world which had extensive libraries. Why does this myth still persist?
Every one of the many Taiwanese people I know refer to it as Taiwan, too. It's very rare to hear anyone refer to it as the ROC, unless in the context of specifically making a distinction from the PRC, or in a formal document.
Absolutely. This article is simply another example of the fall of American exceptionalism.

It has been assumed for a long time that the US could easily win any major conflict, but is that really so true anymore?

NATO is as weak as it's ever been. Europe is less likely than ever to trust the US or to support it. Key allies are now looking more inward than outward.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were large scale blunders that cost trillions for little benefit.
US manufacturing capability has gone down dramatically. There are not enough with trade no-how to support a large scale war-effort. Any war of attrition is likely a losing one - it will be too costly if it's possible at all.

Key positions of government and diplomacy go unfilled because of the Trump administration's refusal to do so, severely limiting US soft-power across the globe.

A captain of a capital ship was publicly relieved of command by acting SecNav (Trump has yet to fill the position permanently, still. The Secretary of the Navy. Still no permanent leader.) in embarrassing fashion after a COVID19 outbreak onboard. That is extremely telling.

A huge portion of military-service eligible citizens are far too overweight to serve. Numbers more are disqualified for other reasons. Waging war requires smarter soldiers - which are not in abundant supply.

Misinformation has been weaponized by Russia and China and the current leadership has done nothing about it because it benefits them.

The polarization divides the country sharply - if one party or the other goes to war, would the rest of the country support it?

There are significant cracks in the armor.
I'd argue that in a lot of US States, the distrust is not in all government, just in the central Federal government. Consider that every State in the Union has taxpayer subsidized State university system, state police systems, fire departments, public libraries, etc.

Maybe an optimal equilibrium is one where Vermont can be authoritarian-democratic and Texas can by hyper federalist. Singapore and Switzerland seem to work because they are small polities and everyone is on the same page.

In Switzerland's hyper confederation, everyone seems to be on the same page: that nobody is on the same page :).
Anyone know if they've fixed the bug where someone could set the tip to $50 and then remove it entirely at or after delivery ("tip baiting")?

https://nypost.com/2020/04/10/people-are-baiting-grocery-del...
Very simply "the experience" is much better on mobile = we track everything you do, your location, we mine your friends info...And sell that for more $$$$. And either you don't it / or you don't care or it is simply too complicated unless you are in Europe (in that part of the world it is more risky to sell your personal info without your explicit consent).

Can't really do that if you use your laptop. At least it is harder and harder to get to it (trend to use Safari, Firefox, etc).
Did the WHO explicitly deny human transmission? Their earliest reports I saw said “we have no confirmed evidence of human transmission, but we are likely to find it”. It’s the second half of the sentence that people and the media seem to have ignored.

EDIT: Here's the link to their news conference on Jan 14th (same day as the "China has not reported human-to-human transmission" tweet): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-wh...

Relevant bits:

>“From the information that we have it is possible that there is limited human-to-human transmission, potentially among families, but it is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, acting head of WHO’s emerging diseases unit. The WHO is however preparing for the possibility that there could be a wider outbreak, she told a Geneva news briefing. “It is still early days, we don’t have a clear clinical picture.”
Taiwan is the common name for the state that officially goes by the name Republic of China. It's de-facto administrative boundaries have been the island of Taiwan for the last 70 years. That's long enough for most people stop caring all that much. Many countries in todays world were still colonies back then.
Okay, so the .NET big integer implementation is like two orders of magnitude slower than it could be? I will have a look into that, I always assumed that all big integer libraries are more or less comparable in performance. Thanks for the hint.

EDIT: I found an issue [1] concerning .NET big integer performance, it seems it is only using pretty basic and relatively slow algorithms, especially for multiplication which is the relevant operation here.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14407
Well one thing missing is ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1" for /dev/ttyACM devices. This should really be the default, IMHO. Otherwise Linux tries to send AT commands to what it thinks is a modem device, but which is probably a serial port.

There is more: a nice property of FTDI devices is that they have unique serial numbers. So if you want specific cables to match to specific device names you can do it with ATTRS{serial}=="A106YEUY", SYMLINK+="my_special_device"

On the other hand, FTDI is ruined by its own success. Lattice Diamond (an FPGA tool) takes over all FTDI devices. So it's a good idea to keep a CP2102 or Prolific USB to serial adapter just in case you want a serial port and an FPGA programmer on the same system.
Excellent data charts in this article. Really well done.
Because "consumer choice" isn't a practical and full response to corporate abuse of power. Regulation is complete - if it's a well written regulation it works.

"Nobody is forcing you" misses the point.
Current WHO advice: "If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19." [0]

Where we live, due to local laws, we are now obliged to wear a mask to go shopping. Can one discuss that on YouTube, or would one be contradicting the WHO?

I fear there isn't "one truth" out there, despite the content providers' and fact-checkers' attempts :(

We keep trying to encourage our kids to ask good questions, then I see what's happening out there in the world, and I wonder when the grown-ups are going to start asking good questions...

[0] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Actually, I see a lot of non-Apple laptops offer HD (1080p) displays, with the only upgrade option being 4K, usually at a price premium of $300-$500. That's even more annoying to me. Lenovo is one of the few manufacturers I see that allows you to step up to a 1440p display for a moderate cost.
Laptop vs. Desktop.

Linux laptop experience is notorious for weird quirks and instabilities with the hardware. Desktop is a lot smoother.
What makes you think it’s an excuse to remove those, as opposed to the reason they did so? What do you think their real motivation is?
I absolutely adore new experience, it's facebook after all. You can't do it on facebook and now on instagram. I didn't use these products for a long time but IG was definitely moving to that direction.

Can't get why some users don't like the change. You're free to decide should you use a product or not. To put it from other perspective, you choose to become a product for instagram to sell or not. If you don't have an account, it's hard to earn more from your time spent in the app. Billions doesn't ROI themselves.

Old web is still there, forums/personal websites isn't banned. You still can do things the old decentralised way probably to a greater extent because internet is even bigger now.
This Maker Turned an Antique Typewriter into a MIDI Drum Machine
How about this article [1] (translation at reddit [2]) about german divers who had "mild cases" (no hospitalization, recovered at home) and were found to have suffered permanent lung damage, so severe that they can't dive anymore.

[1] https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/articoli/2020/04/tag-C...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/g3rv7h/permame...
> rust [has] much less corporate backing than Go

I don't know if that statement is really justified. Sure, Google is a much bigger and more influential company than Mozilla. But when taking the average over the entire company, all-of-Google supports Go much less strongly than all-of-Mozilla supports Rust, and I think that pretty much cancels each other out the company size, so I would consider both langs to have roughly equal corporate backing.

I think the actual difference is that Go has a much larger immediate audience than Rust. Go appeals primarily to developers of web service backends, who are coming from Ruby/Python/Perl/PHP and are looking for something faster and statically typed. Rust OTOH initially mostly appealed to systems developers looking for a better C/C++, although that audience has been steadily expanding since then.
It's highly dependent on what you're looking for. If you search for "Belkin USB charger", you'll usually end up getting some good results at the top of the listings.

But if you search for "USB charger", you need to prepare yourself for pages upon pages of identical-looking chargers from "Amoner", "RAVpower", "iSmart", "Ailkin", "Anker", "Power7", "Nekmit", etc.

And most of them have hundreds or thousands of 4/5-star reviews, most of them compensated in some form or another, so good luck trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.

For about half the things I search for on Amazon, it's a similar situation.
How long until the headline is: "google datamined your emails to detect and squash disruption to its business models?"