skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. This is a shame. Having read "The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way" by Amanda Ripley, I learned that the United States is the highest spender on technology amongst all OECD countries. You'd think with such a big budget for tech, we'd do a better job of transitioning online. If anything, based on this fact, we should be one of the best equipped in the world for it.
You don’t need to go to water sites. The installers are in the App Store just hidden. I have a link somewhere to the Apple support KB with the AppStore links to their previous OSes. But they really want you to run the latest OS and make it abundantly clear they don’t want you to even think about old hardware.
Why does the UW doctor's opinion supercede that of the doctors in the removed videos?

The answer of course is ideology. These are two experts giving two different opinions based on different sets of similarly poor evidence. The fact that a doctor goes against consensus does not necessarily mean he's wrong and it certainly does not warrant censorship, all else considered.

Youtube is making a dangerous mistake.
Kind of a tl:dr, the market is ahuman and possibly anti-human.
Let’s just stick to the facts then for a second. In this particular case, Youtube has decided I can’t watch a video with dubious facts and make up my own mind whether it’s bullshit or not.

American values are not all about capitalism. We have some ideas on the individual in America.

But, I’m with you on the need for YouTube competitors, but I lack the imagination to see how it can happen. That’s why I’m advocating for the jamming of American values into a what is essentially becoming an institution as opposed to a company that operates against market forces.
Nah, a stay at home order is to flatten the curve. A lockdown is to burnout the virus. If you lockdown for about 2x the time the virus incubates and people follow the lockdown. You can snuff the virus out. At the beginning of the lockdown, assume someone just got it and lives at home with others no symptoms but they spread it to other's that live at home, assume those don't have symptoms and they stay in for the recommended quarantine period, then the virus should have subsided. In the case of sars-cov-2 2weeks+2weeks. So 4 weeks minimum, add 1 or 2 more for safety measure. If people are sick enough to go to the hospital, they get treated, contact tracing is done. It's tough, but if everyone said home for 6 weeks. Absolutely no contact, the virus will burn out since it won't have any new hosts to infect. China didn't do their lockdown to flatten the curve, they did it to snuff out the virus, that's the same strategy India is attempting.
and none can reach any consumer in China.
In our case it is longer then usual, as the assembly chain is quite long and we are very conservative with cash flow. Manufacturing on avg is 15-45 days in China in my experience. Sea freight - 2-3 weeks, and couple more weeks to get through customs (if there is no random check on your container) and receival by Amazon. During pandemic last step is there most unpredictable. Also these avg numbers apply to something more or less standard product factories already making a lot of (meaning a lot of other sellers also sell it). Any customization adds time.
Now it is more important than ever to choose alternatives for YouTube. Vote with your wallet by refusing to use their platform, or if you do, use adblocking so they bleed financially.
It’s not. WebP doesn’t have hardware decoders, which means that it’s going to be hell on batteries.
Love your site! The link to British Museum has a typo: hhttps
Author here, since I've had a question about cost/performance, I thought I'd post my experience:

I had 9 participants for 1.5 hours. Using an m5dn.xlarge, which is $0.27/hr, I peaked 13Mbit/s incoming, 23Mbit/s outgoing, 40% cpu. Over 1.5 hours I accrued 20GB outbound network, which AWS bills at $0.09/GB.
Am I missing something? The author says that a solution to the Post Correspondence Problem with infinite dominoes in finite time is impossible. He then writes a bunch of C++ code that can solve the PCP for any arbitrary list of dominoes. Did he realize that this list must be finite since it’s written into the C++ code? If the list had infinitely many dominoes it would require infinite space to store and infinite time to compile anyways, PCP or not. That’s like saying Java is undecidable because you can write List<List<List<List<...>>>> and have something take infinitely long to compile.
How does Sensibo handle the state synchronization problem? I would happily pay for something that works, but throwing state-dependent IR codes into the void is a recipe for pain.
The title says "5400 employee layoff" but the article doesn't seem to mention that. It only mentions that they expect a big layoff. Am I missing some other news or is this title wrong?

> Uber’s 27,000 employees

I am curious why Uber has 27,000 employees and whether tis is reasonable? Does this number include their other app UberEats too? And do they consider their branches for driver registration verification etc in each city to be employees? I feel like a lot of this can be trimmed down.
> the main purpose of school is to provide babysitting so all of the adults can work and keep the economy humming

This point has been especially proven by the fact that a lot of countries right now have reopened schools, but only for children whose parents can't supervise them at home because they have jobs that require them onsite still.
No, my point was people's kids aren't as wonderful and smart as parents think they are.
I didn't know that used something akin to exceptions. Still panics aren't as common as exceptions (in D), and still only have to worry about unsafe code (for the most part).
I got my first coding job from a take home test. I found talking about my code and thought process was far easier than the typical trivia, and I covered miles more technical ground with them talking about my own choices than some rando incomplete hypothetical someone might ask me.

A year later I realized the questions they asked about my work were about topics that had they asked me point blank....I wouldn't have known what to say (regarding a given pattern or such), but in my own way I had shown I was thinking about them / understood them with my own code. It was something we could sync up on only through me coding it out in longer form than a whiteboard.
All you need to know about Regular Expressions (Regex)
This is such an awesome article that goes into the world of regular expressions in java.

The article has detailed explanation on what you need to start off as a guru in Regex. Check it out.
Yes, Amazon buys space just like everyone else. I have been in lots of buildings or campuses where they were located.

They buy a lot of space, and they work with lots of providers, but they don't own very many sites. So I guess they don't "have a datacenter" for the purposes of this thread. No one I know in the business thinks this way in the year 2020.

Designing and operating datacenter facilities is specialized work, and it's about compliance, auditing, risk management, electrical, plumbing, hvac and other skilled trades. The datacenter industry actually has very little to do with computers, so there is a natural split between the facility and the server / network equipment it houses.

Basically all commercial datacenter providers operate as REITs, which is tax advantageous but extremely limiting in some ways. Amazon can benefit from this (with lower pricing) without dealing with it themselves.

Owning can offer some advantages, but it also means you're with that site for the long, long haul. Efficiencies of designs are always increasing, so operating in an old facility costs you money. If you built the site to your own spec, good luck exiting -- the next owner will have to do a total overhaul to get it to industry spec and get customers.

Even if you have a 10 year lease, there are always ways to get out if you want to. Especially if you're Amazon.
It's almost like they want you to depend on the news orgs for... the thing they're selling you (or, the thing they're giving you for free because you're the product).
NFL virtual draft tech stack: Microsoft Teams, AWS, Verizon
Yes, you are right to point out the official 'death rate' is useless, because policies for testing are different. Sweden does very little testing so their 'death rate' will look high.

BUT - we can compare deaths to 'actual antibody rate' when doing broader sampling.

For NYC we have 12K dead as of 2 days ago (and it will be 15K even with 0 more cases, because it takes time for people to die).

They had a 20% 'antibody rate' in the city from a report released a few days ago.

NYC proper is 9M people, so that's 1.8M positive, 15K/1.8M is 0.8% 'true death rate'. Which is not that far from the earlier estimates of 1-4%.

Germay is saying 0.58% based in their random smaples.

The Swedish Ambassador said 1/3 of Stockholm has it. Stockholm is 900K people so that's 300K. They have 1K dead, will be about 1.3K so that's about 0.4% 'true death rate'.

0.4% is nicer lower then NY and Germany it seems, but it's not like Swedes are special beings, we can't assume they're going to be too-too far off other, similar places.

So the 'true death number' is probably somewhere in the range of 0.4-0.9% as of the information we have right now.

This is kind of a high number to be shooting for 'immunity' especially when A) We didn't have that number before B) We still are not sure of the number now C) We don't know if people will be immune (are asymptomatic people immune?) or how long that will last. And of course, those are big numbers. 0.6% of Americans is a little over 2 Million people. That's a lot of people.

Finally, there is no doubt that some countries have had success. Taiwan, Korea, NZ, even Australia have done really well with it. Swedes are smart, wealthy people, they literally talk about themselves as being 'humanitarian superpowers' it seems reasonable that intelligent people would use effective measures to protect their own population.
My opinion is that it's basically a mutually assured destruction game. Either the censor blocks everything and creates significant damages to the national economy and popular support, or it has to allow free access to these websites. I'm optimistic, and to me, both outcomes are good outcomes. I support these aggressive industrial efforts to increase security. Free access is the most desirable result, but a complete block is not really a big issue - it cannot last forever, and the collateral damage will force the censor to eventually back off.

But there are some potential issues. One problem is the assumption that MAD as a forever-lasting situation may be flawed. In the Telegram incident in Russia, the Russian government literally blocked all Amazon servers and created massive disruption, however, Amazon also suffered economic damaged so it surrendered first before the Russian government backed off, and blocked the domain-fronting technique used for censorship circumvention. It's a way that the plan can fail. So the key to a successful ESNI deployment depending on the fact that cloud providers will never surrender after they received a total block.

Another argument says the possibility to bypass censorship is ultimately a dynamic balance - on one hand, the Great Firewall has loophope that allow circumvention, on the other hand, it's effective enough that the censor lack an incentive to implement stricter control. By introducing aggressive web security measures, this balance will be broken. As a result, an process to implement stricter censorship that would take 5 years otherwise, will instead take 2 years, and the result is a net negative, thus it's a terrible idea.

I maintain my own opinion, but I do find these are interesting and persuasive arguments.
A better solution would be just to reopen all of the primary schools. Sweden never closed theirs because it appears that small children aren't a significant virus transmission risk.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...

For those who think schools should remain closed, please explain what we should do next school year when the pandemic is still ongoing? We obviously can't leave schools closed indefinitely and there's no guarantee of an effective vaccine anytime soon.
> revenue to nosedive by $17 million to $22 million in the quarter.

It's interesting how often news articles get millions and billions mixed up. I feel like I see it all of the time. Apologies for the digression.
These concerns should better be handled by other kind of law such as defamation, not the copyright or patent or trademark. The exact definition of defamation varies between jurisdictions so what constitute to be the defamation is another problem though.
Offline/online takes a lot of people. Global logistics is nothing to scoff at.

I'm actually more surprised they have 3,800 engineers. Probably one of the biggest cost centers will definitely get trimmed.
Same with me. The cheaper factor is just brainwash marketing machine or very short term campaign till people trust blindly.
This sounds made up, everyone knows Uber doesn't have any employees. That's how they make so much money from all the slave contractors with no benefits or protections. (maybe kidding a little but not really)
Microsoft says Surface devices don’t have Thunderbolt due to security concerns
The money involved in getting the level of breadth of music I listen to on any given week would be absolutely prohibitive compared to the monthly subscription fee.
Fair point, but Sweden can effectively lock it's borders pretty well. They are surrounded by legit entities with managed borders. If they put up barriers, those barriers would effectively be respected, it's not like they're sitting on the Med with boats sneaking across daily.
Because their hosting companies aren't your competitor. Just because they have the same general brand name slapped on the label doesn't mean they are one company. At the same time, even if it were a competitor: does it matter? Your service superiority isn't based on whose computers it runs on, as long as it runs well.

Say it's about the money: then yes, you could in theory have a problem with that, but one way or the other you'll have a problem: if you work at zoom and someone has an xbox, uses windows or uses office you're still tied to that 'competitor'. It seems to me that the competitor is just that specific element (Teams, Skype) and not everything that happens to be close to me. But I'm no MBA and my perspective is probably not the most profitable one.
Yeah, me too.

It is insane the amount of people developing software those companies have.

If they can keep afloat while having such a big tech body paying high salaries hats off to them! It still amazes me.
> Put a banner up. Identify it with Mr Yuck sticker.

I would consider this a form of censorship as well, and I would absolutely support it.

> That we should be debating, identifying and responding to bad/poor speech. It should not be simply removed.

I suppose I could agree in this particular circumstance that YouTube having some sort of banner over this content would suffice, I think it's the same thing as just removing it.

> If you don't believe it's dangerous, is it because the thing that's being censored is in your favor/belief/alignment?

(I think you mixed your words up here, but I am interpreting this as you asking I'm ok with censorship if furthers my beliefs, if I'm wrong please correct me)

I'm ok with any censorship/curtailing of free speech that: results in a net-surplus of free speech, endangers others ("fire" in a crowded theater), or incites violence.

> Censoring goes both ways.

Censorship that is used to silence legitimate opinions that do not cause harm to others is a terrible thing and shouldn't exist. This has nothing to do with "both ways" or any "way"
Show HN: Implement a Simple VM in JavaScript
Create tables with paragraph-like content in Org mode
Sorry to dilute the topic but you’ve got to listen to Frank Sinatra singing the “Navy Seals CopyPasta” with this technology. It’s the best thing I’ve come across so far this month:
https://youtu.be/8ixYcyslmSI
> Uber said it expects an impairment charge of up to $2.2 billion in the first quarter due to the outbreak and for revenue to nosedive by $17 million to $22 million in the quarter.

The impairment charge is on the “reduced value of equity investments”. Not sure what that’s about.

But “revenue to nosedive $22 million...” this makes no sense. Last year Uber reported a net loss of $8.51 billion.

I think $22 million is the cost of programs it has put in place to help drivers during the pandemic. In other words, a pittance.

Last report was that Uber traffic had cratered 60-70% in Seattle as of March 19th. I can only imagine the world of hurt Uber is in for based on a global 60-70% revenue drop in the face of their fixed costs. $22 million ain’t it.
The US also has a massive budget for healthcare.
I think this is especially relevant given China's rollout of the digital yuan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/china-starts-m...
That is not how it works. It’s a complete legal myth that there is some sort of “Platform” v “Publisher” distinction in the law.

Section 230 of the CDA was created 25 years ago to avoid this being the case. It gives companies the ability to moderate user generated content on their platforms without being held responsible for other UGC posted to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

> One of the first legal challenges to Section 230 was the 1997 case Zeran v. America Online, Inc., in which a Federal court affirmed that the purpose of Section 230 as passed by Congress was "to remove the disincentives to self-regulation created by the Stratton Oakmont decision".[8] Under that court's holding, computer service providers who regulated the dissemination of offensive material on their services risked subjecting themselves to liability, because such regulation cast the service provider in the role of a publisher. Fearing that the specter of liability would therefore deter service providers from blocking and screening offensive material, Congress enacted § 230's broad immunity "to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children's access to objectionable or inappropriate online material."[8] In addition, Zeran notes "the amount of information communicated via interactive computer services is . . . staggering. The specter of tort liability in an area of such prolific speech would have an obviously chilling effect. It would be impossible for service providers to screen each of their millions of postings for possible problems. Faced with potential liability for each message republished by their services, interactive computer service providers might choose to severely restrict the number and type of messages posted. Congress considered the weight of the speech interests implicated and chose to immunize service providers to avoid any such restrictive effect."[8]
> Initially, IE was only ever evil for Netscape investors.

Not true. IE was part of the embrace-extend-extinguish campaign when Microsoft wanted to win computing and the nascent World Wide Web. Thankfully, the antitrust case threw them for a loop and they never realized their dream.

I'm convinced that if they'd have won that case they'd have squashed Google, Apple wouldn't have had its chance to thrive, and the web would look like a Microsoft version of AOL.

We'd be using MSN messenger, Hotmail, and Windows Mobile.

Balmer lacked the tenacity and the vision of Gates (you can see it in the historical stock price), and the government forced them from building an unstoppable empire.

We need the DOJ to revisit antitrust and direct it at Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. They're using their power and platform to disenfranchise and steal, just like Microsoft wanted and historically enjoyed:

- App stores need to stop being an exclusive gate and required tax.

- You can't lie to your customers about ad impressions or views, nor can you disregard robot and fake account activity when it benefits your bottom line.

- You can't control the world's most popular browser and be the default search engine, most widespread ad platform, and most popular mobile operating system.

It's all bad behavior that hurts small and independent business as well as the web.

Microsoft has played surprisingly nice recently, and Nadella is absolutely killing it. There's no reason the other giants can't be more open. Google doesn't need Chrome as a moat.
Almost 200K USD. That seems like quite a steal, almost a reverse heist. Amazing that the museum was able to work that out. I wonder about the size of the team, how tight the spec was, etc. It's been fun to search around...a very impressive collection for sure.
There's no billion/million mixup here.

Quarterly revenue will be down by 17-22 million.
The job may be too hard for the teachers. Will they give up their pay if they end the year early? Will taxpayers--still paying all their property tax--get a refund?
The unblocked version says 800 out of 3800 engineers will be slashed. That is pretty uniform and brutal TBH.
Germany: the city of Freiburg is also buying 18 new cameras for the area "Bermudadreieck" and "Bertoldstraße". I couldn't find any information on how "smart" that system is going to be.

In Darmstadt the central tram hub "Luisenplatz" is going to get modern video surveillance, too. Bought from Dallmeier Electronic GmbH & Co. KG. The mayor said no facial regocnition is planned, even if the vendor offers integration with such systems. Its unknown if advanced behavior analysis is included. It is likely that all cities buy from different vendors and may get very different quality of automated video content analysis.

In Hannover the local police veiled their own cameras last year during a demonstration against a new police law. The demonstration asked for that and announced to go to a court and the police just complied without waiting for a court order, as they wanted to show clearly that they are not interested in filming and (possibly) personally identifying their political opposition. When the city council in Darmstadt was asked for such a rule for the soon to be installed cameras, they laughed and said both the police and the interior intelligence agency can and will request demonstrations to be filmed on a case by case basis and the people will not be told if the cameras are on or off.

Germany's federal police (BKA) and ministry of interior security ("Ministerium für Staatssicherheit") are unhappy with these fragmented and diversified solutions. They aim for a networked system that can find people nation wide on any camera using biometric recognition when a search warrant is issued.

In the meantime Deutsche Bahn is experimenting with a "facial anti-recognition feature" that replaces faces with fakes because they believe they can easier share the data with third party data anaylsis providers if they do that.
I honestly have to wonder if in this case it's because the article is designed to be primarily viewed on Bloomberg Terminals, and the website is secondary.