skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you insist on the same point, you didn't understand my initial reply. Again, I'm assuming the input is (a), not (b). But maybe you mean the lighter areas have the most information. If so, why? Just because there's more light? More light != more information. It could just be a bunch of noise.
The entire premise of this article seems naive at a level I find hard to understand.

Advertising can never be obsolete. Among other things it does these useful things:

- Informs or reminds customers of potential solutions to problems they have, may encounter in the future, or of benefits they need or desire.

- Informs customers of improvements.

- Build's brand awareness that a source of a product type stands behind the product's benefits with resources and their reputation on the line.

- At its best, does this in a way that is informative, entertaining and/or uplifting even to non-customers.

The problems of advertising to me all seem preventable and unnecessary at least at the individual companies' level.

Show respect for all viewers, customers or not, and your brand is going to build a great reputation: No cluttered ugly, psychologically manipulative, advertising. Nothing that mucked up people's lives with more dreck.

Keeping advertising constructive for everyone is a brand enhancing opportunity.
http://archive.is/pVeUg
Like most things it’s a spectrum. Rationally if something posses a non trivial risk, we should try to mitigate it until we can quantify the risk.

If some single digit percentage of cell phone users end up in the ICU I would certainly hope we ban the use of them until we can understand it better.
> The problem is that the shelter-in-place rule is already limited in effectiveness

I've mostly read that the "control" we have over covid-19 now is due to the SIP. Can you source your claim?
There’s an Intel Inside Your Computer – But for How Much Longer?
If you're really interested in the topic, the podcast "All the President's Lawyers" discussed that this week. But in short, you can't read a couple of sentences from the constitution literally and expect that to override a couple hundred years of judicial interpretation.

Regarding the first amendment in particular, one relevant area of law is "time, place, and manner". E.g., just because you have free speech doesn't mean that you can go outside at 3 am with a bullhorn and start ranting; the cops can rightly cite or arrest you. More here: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1023/time-place...
The only times I can remember having real issues with buying from Amazon is when I failed to notice that I was buying from a third-party on their site, not actually from Amazon directly. And that said, the vast majority of my (intentional) third-party purchases on Amazon have been flawless.

But, if they happen to sell what I am shopping for... Sweetwater and B&H Photo are two stores from which I have had consistently great service. I've never been to Sweetwater in person, but the physical B&H store is also a cool experience.
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Actually, Solzhenitsyn was still residing in the USSR at the time of completion of the book.
> Laws exist with the consent of the governed.

This is goalpost moving. Of course laws exist by the consent of the governed. Your original post claimed that there was no law, and that businesses should consider litigating to the Supreme Court, relying on pro bono lawyers who "remember their Constitution", despite the complete lack of Constitutional support for your argument.
You make two arguments here, one about degree and the other about kind. As for kind, as others have pointed out, the intent of IP law is to create artificial scarcity. The marginal cost of information is 0, so you have to put turnstiles somewhere. Society has kind of blundered and stumbled into the mishmash of enforcement measures we have today, but the intent is to reward content creators.

If you accept this is a good thing, then the degree problem becomes one of proportionality. I agree that life + 70 years is exorbitant, but that particular formula is relatively easy to change legally. Practically, you have to fight powerful interests (Disney) to change it, but it can (and IMHO should) be done.

One interesting notion is to fully privatize the problem of artificial scarcity. This might look something like leasing a Disney device (for example) to watch Disney content. This seems like something of a nightmare, until you realize that you don't really need to watch movies.
Show HN: Dirigible Freighter: steampunk cargo delivery
Civ6 is pretty good on iPad. The endgame performance is surprisingly good for a port to a machine with no fan.
Is it just me, or do these iPad reviews really seem strained? Like the author is trying really hard to love their new toy, despite the functional setbacks. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad Pro 11 too and look forward to using it as a writing/notes device, but you'll never take my Mac away except out of my cold, dead, hands.
Are you referring to this article? https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...
You could argue it the other way from the same data. Given that public health officials jumped on it early and got us such a low death rate, maybe we should keep trusting their judgment and let them decide when it's safe to reopen.
Of course there is something to refute - with the provided info we can only assume that GP is referring to the co-workers spending 3-5 dollars per coffee at a coffee shop. The replies are providing an alternative to this method of consumption.
Swift Concurrency Manifesto (2017)
Well I try to encourage bored engineers to work on open source hardware projects. Finding a funding stream is difficult but finding engineers who want to improve their skills and contribute to society is pretty doable. I spend half of my working time on unpaid open source work that is self directed and primarily chosen based on what is fun and enriching. I have a YouTube channel where I am slowly trying to get the message out, though it’s hard to put all my theory in to words and shoot videos for it. I seem to prefer doing engineering over writing scripts, though writing scripts has its place.
I recently installed an access point in an elevator. All that we did was put a cat6 into the umbilical cord that contains the elevator power, controls, etc.
> The problem with learning about hooks is that they're not generally applicable knowledge about computing or programming. They're a React-specific thing. In 5-10 years when you're programming something completely different your knowledge of hooks will be completely obsolete.

don’t tell him about SwiftUI
Annotated statutes should only be special when created by others. A state's annotation carries significantly more weight: it bears an official status, and it should have been obvious that the state's official interpretation, though not completely binding, still constitutes critical information necessary for citizens to know and understand the laws they are expected to live by.
In Germany: go to Amazon.de, search for the product. Check if it’s available from third party sellers. Copy the seller’s name, google for their online shop. If they have one, buy direct. Bit clunky but pretty often cheaper.
Anyone else getting this issue?

⟩ git diff
error: Found argument 'Extended' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context

USAGE:
delta --dark --minus-color <minus_color> --plus-color <plus_color> --theme <theme>

For more information try --help

My ~/.gitconfig file has the copy pasted lines from the github example

[core]
pager = delta --dark --plus-color="#012800" --minus-color="#340001" --theme="Monokai Extended"

[interactive]
diffFilter = delta --color-only

Installed with homebrew on macos.
>It is alarming the level of vitriol and blind adherence to 'the scientific method'

My experience has been that these faults are expressed in irrational opposition to "the scientific method", and just as dramatically as you've described - and that irrational support of it is much less dramatic.
Let's hope none of those sites use AWS...
Where I live (not the US) the same thing is happening, except that although the big stores are open they cannot sell nonessential items. They have those aisles roped off.
Freedom of assembly (and to a lesser extent, at least by precise Constitutional language, freedom to exercise religion) have Constitutional protections (that may or may not be unlimited, depending on the justice you're asking). There is no Constitutional protection for running a business or being able to patronize a given business. So protests in public and worship may be protected, but your neighborhood bar is not.
> [traumatic events] only return to bother us if there is some behavior that was contrary to the individuals values.

Or perhaps, a bit more generally, if the event causes a significant degree of cognitive dissonance. This would include behavior by one who later suffers PTSD, as you say, but it might also include events that were simply totally outside what a victim expected could possibly happen to them.
I have that book sitting on my bookshelf and would never dream of copying anything verbatim from it. Writing the code out yourself can significantly improve readability of the code.
It's not clear if Fitbit's pulse oximeter update was ever shipped in the US. I can only find forum posts by disgruntled users who say they don't have it. I asked an acquaintance and he says he doesn't have the functionality despite owning a compatible device.

Amusingly, both Fitbit and Apple are part of the FDA's digital health software precertification pilot program[1], which is intended to streamline the approval process. If not for the FDA, both companies could have shipped this 3+ years ago. I'm sure the data would have saved quite a few lives.

1. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health/digital-h...
I read the original story for "The Lion and the Puppy", and indeed, the summary doesn't do the story justice.

The story is more grim and heart-wrecking.

And there is no obvious take-away, everything just sucks.

But it's a story of a loss that one can relate to. Depressed people are known to listen to sad songs, and get relief from that.

I'm not in a very good place now, and reading the Lion and the Puppy story in Russian somehow was a relief. It melted the numbness away.

And that's what Tolstoy was going for, perhaps. No ham-fisted morals. Just carefully crafted vignettes of grim life.

I do think that Tolstoy never had an appreciation of the many dimensions of human happiness. "Every happy family is alike, but unhappy families are miserable in their own ways", he wrote. I disagree; I see commonality in misery, and it's the path to happiness that has to be crafted and often ends up unique. But I digress.
Please enjoy this short prototype! I have a few ideas for a richer trading economy in the game.
Same is true of amphetamines. US Fighter pilots were taking them as recently as 2002. I heard an interesting story about Elvis on NPR. He took two things from his time in the military: Karate, which colored his dance moves, and drugs. He got fat after coming back from the military, after he stopped the amphetamines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...
The media like to focus on Bezos because he’s literally the richest man on earth. But what they’re getting at is that Amazon the corporation should pay its workers more. They’re using Bezos as a talking point, but don’t focus too intently on that. What matters is how little workers are paid for such a lucrative business.
Reading the tweet thread linked under "personal attacks and general disparaging comments" (https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1253822258692284416), I see much more a criticism of poor science journalism in the WSJ than the poor science in the article itself (aside from one swipe as a "methodological piece of shit"). I'm all for rigorous debate of different scientific ideas, but the WSJ Opinion page is not where people should be marshaling allies to their scientific ideas that are regarded as tenuous by the majority of the community.
Probably downvotes because the answer to your question is the same as to 90% of all uninformed questions online - "we don't know". There are so many unknowns, things go day by day or week by week at best. I too get annoyed at the 1000'd idiot asking 'but will I be able to go on holiday in August?'. Not saying you're an idiot, just trying to explain why others, like me, would be annoyed at your post and would want to see less posts like it.
In OS X 10.15, all Excel documents show text upside down and backwards
Normally the media in the UK can't have 'how to avoid retailer x' articles as that means 'retailer x' isn't going to place adverts in their paper. However, online, I imagine it does not matter, ads just arrive without negotiation between 'retailer x' and the publication/paper.

Currently avoiding Amazon however I can't get a garden sieve/riddle in my preferred local store. So I have to go on Amazon if I really want one.

My local store has a sieve for £5 when in stock. That is all the sieve options, take it or leave it. The decision is easy. But, on Amazon, there is paralysis of choice. Hundreds of sieves to choose from, invariably more expensive than the £5 local store price. With shipping on top.

The choice works with books but not with everything. A decent retailer only sells top quality stuff with an affordable option and maybe a super deluxe option, so your choice is between a small amount of items. Amazon doesn't help with that.
On the surface there's not much constitutional protection for engaging in business but there would be some serious schadenfreude if Wickard v. Filburn showed up to defend individuals from state prosecution for once.

edit:

To expand on this, for an individual's right to do something to be protected from the states that right must be protected under the 14th amendment. Over the years the court has found that the 1st, 2nd, 4th, etc, basically all the big stuff is protected from state infringement under the 14th. In addition to this, for the incorporation of a right to under the 14th to have any teeth to this the court must have ruled that state regulation must pass strict scrutiny to be constitutional, in layman's terms it needs to be limited in scope to the bare minimum and there as to be a damn good reason. Unless you're willing to play some serious mental gymnastics there isn't any real combination of constitutionally protected rights and court rulings that restrict infringement on those rights that result in the ability to run a nail salon or other "clearly not essential" type business. Basically, no the constitution doesn't protect you from this.

That's where civil liberties advocates old nemesis comes in. In Wickard v. Filburn the court ruled that even non-business activity that is fully contained within a state is subject to federal regulation under the interstate commerce clause because it affects market conditions if everyone does it. If this sounds like an end run around the constitution it's because it is. Normally you see this ruling used (I'd love to say "abused" but is it really abuse when it's functioning as intended?) to micro manage how states regulate businesses or go over states' heads and regulate them directly. So it would be a more or less complete 180 to see the ruling used to justify the federal government not only prevent states from regulating but allow people to go about their business without being stopped by state regulation. I think this is highly unlikely but a) it's fun to speculate and b) if the rest of 2020 has been any indication, anything is possible. Also, it should go without saying but this analysis is not exhaustive, there would be more to the issue than this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_The_...

I’m sure that the company who owns somewhere around 35 cable TV channels and half a dozen film studios has the stereotypical intern running social media.
> I often use my 'Stabby the Robot' diatribe to convey this to people. Imagine a robot that moves too fast to evade, that doesn't rely on expendable, limited ammunition(i.e. a blade or sharp surface), and can locate the jugular vein of a human.

Oh hey I remember that write-up on qntm[1]!

[1]: https://qntm.org/robots
That's new cases though, isn't it? I was summing over the entire "tree" to get the total instead.

If R0=2 (each person infects two more), you have 1 case at time zero, two after the first time step, and four after the next, but the total number of cases is 1+2+4=7, not 2^2.

It's true that people are discharged from the hospital eventually (one way or another), so there's a little extra room from that, but not much.
I think it's more about justifying the case. I feel like Apple "pros" or bloggers really spend a lot of words justifying how each new accessory or device fits their use case instead of just saying "It looks cool, but it's not for me". For me, I'm okay with my current keyboard folio case - I can just pair a bluetooth mouse for the few times I need to work with a mouse, which is not that often right now because there's no native code editor on iPadOS yet.
Is avoiding Amazon so hard that a guide is needed? I have only ever purchased something from Amazon once because someone gave me a gift card. It wasn't any cheaper or more convenient than ebay so I'm not sure what the craze over Amazon is about.
You just got your wish in the form of Viewstamped Replication.
> How do we teach people to draw that line

By teaching people to recognize where faulty data are and how they were collected. I always encourage people to look at several sources of news and figure out conclusions on their own, ignoring potential bias. [0]

It's never a lost cause to emphasize the importance of digging through an academic paper or a news article, effectively doing their own research instead of just listening to figureheads and looking through headlines.

[0]: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/how-to-spot-types-of-med...
Well, it’s more like they should have been paying their workers more for a while. Now is as good a time as any to make good on a well deserved compensation increase.
Definitely. A friend had been working in Malaysia and surrounding areas when all this got going. He had to quarantine 2 weeks in Malaysia before he was allowed on a plane back to his home in Amsterdam, and now has to self-quarantine for another 2 weeks there given the airports he passed through. I could easily see similar restrictions. E.g., anybody wanting to enter a Western Pact state might be required to quarantine 2 weeks upon arrival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
Increased revenue comes with increased costs. They may actually be making less profit. We’ll find out this week when the post their earnings.
Yay for another descriptively named controls on an appliance.
What did people designing this think? I know it's probably in the manual. But there are people from whom you can't expect reading the instructions - not because of "fuck the manual" attitude - like guests who live only temporarily.

Would a more descriptive label save them $0.01 on ink or what?
Right, I meant that Sebastian is the current maintainer. Not to detract from Dan Abramov etc, but the feel I get is that Sebastian is the one who really sets the pace for where React is going these days (i.e. hooks, suspense, etc). Correct me if I'm wrong.
You're comparing apples to oranges, plus that's unduly harsh.

1. This is a KV store optimized (or claimed to be) for a combo of SSD and PMEM. Not a packaged, supported, appliance storage system.

2. People who pay for enterprise storage do so for reasons beyond being too bone-headed to appreciate the joys of cobbling together production systems from the white box low-bidder and open source software.
> A city the size of SF would be expected to see 5x as many cancer deaths as that in a normal month [1] and 7x as many heart disease deaths

This comparison is irrelevant. Cancer and heart disease aren't contagious and don't spread exponentially.

Let's say there were 0 deaths from Covid-19 because there are enough beds and they got lucky enough to save everyone. Would you say that an infinite number of more people die from lightning strikes?

> The lockdown has proven to be excessive.

Because not enough people are dying? I honestly don't understand your logic.
In this case, the "rights" would not be those of a book publisher but those of a patron/sponsor. Being among the persons or corporate entities who e.g. J.K. Rowling officially acknowledges as the "sponsors" of her work would create a lot of clout, and with that a lot of very real value. Authors used to be funded like that before the current copyright-based system became predominant; it's not just a theoretical model.
I mean, that makes perfect sense. Your local nursery is not selling essential good like you admitted.

What is the logic of letting them be open? It is very difficult to produce a perfect list of all spaces and businesses that might be "safe"; hence the only practical way of doing this is by producing a whitelist of those businesses that can remain open.

Essential services is a great demarcator of that whitelist.
I feel like setting up the tests to validate that your Raft implementation is actually correct would take at least a weekend by itself.
>You ignored his point entirely, which is that even if we did manage to further lock down our borders, it does nothing to stop community transmissions.

Your statement on the relationship between border control and non-border community transmission is obvious and irrelevant to my statement. Why are you belaboring the obvious?

>Those countries you listed weren't able to control the virus through strong border control

The topic of the comment I responded to was the rapid near elimination of the virus from a country. This was done in the context of fantastically strong border control, which [during this time frame] is a prerequisite to achieving that goal. Now you have changed the topic to "controlling" the virus, which is a relatively vague term and concept.
By what mechanism? Increased pressure on healthcare systems increases mortality not decreases it. It doesn't make sense to me that Sweden could get lower absolute mortality by avoiding lockdowns.
This is the paradox that we are in. When drastic measures work, some will assume that there was never any danger.
We use a heat pump to heat our 15,000 gal pool in FL - we keep the temp at 94° basically year-round, minus a few weeks, and it costs only ~$150-300/mo, depending on outside temp.
Yeah you can pretty much transplant this sentence to any public forum:

At the same time, we are concerned by a chilling attitude among some [people], who are wrongly ascribing legitimate disagreements about [issues] to ignorance or to questionable political or other motivations.
You can start opening things up, it doesn't mean people will go out to eat, get haircuts, visit movie theaters, workout at a gym or travel. As long as the virus is out there and actively spreading, people will voluntarily shelter. Businesses will still go bankrupt as most retail stores and restaurants run at around breakeven in net income. Also there is the liability issue. If we want to get back to normal getting community spread to 0 should be the goal and we need to keep everything locked down to achieve that.