skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like that and also forum comments that are ranked by what I would find agreeable instead of what some anonymous, amorphous, majority of the moment finds agreeable. Why should the user always be made to feel like the majority view is the "best" or "most accurate" view of things?

At the core, I would do this by building a network graph of users who I've upvoted and users they've upvoted, and so on maybe a few levels deep. If anyone in that group of users has upvoted a comment, I want it on top - sorted by how many degrees of separation there are between me and the upvoter.

The very simplistic, single-faceted comment rankings that most places implement right now is, including Hacker News, is simply brain-dead IMO. I've brought this up before and 100% of the time, one of the responses I get is "sounds like a good way to build an echo chamber". It's not a bad thing actually. I think it more accurately models real life where we don't hang around with a bunch of people that we find disagreeable, even if they are in the majority and even if they're "right". With a system like the one I propose, everybody can feel comfortable, say what they want and things will most likely be way, way easier to moderate if they don't just moderate themselves.
While they could sell them for less they generally cannot sell as your product (name, logo, etc) is your copyright or trademark that you do not license when you license the code GPL.
I just tried this and still doesn't boot. What is interesting is that the fan will start spinning, also the haptic feedback on the trackpad is still working.
I got my numbers from a projection that also had them at 11BN revenue by now. The actual number for 2019 is 4.1BN. So yeah, Uber makes earns very little per engineer/product member compared to healthy companies.

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...

Btw, no bias, but interesting that you took it there. What motivated the comment? Can't someone be critical of the performance of an executive? It seems that a lot of people believe that running things at scale somehow requires defying basic business principles, when in reality is quite the contrary. You need to be even more vigilant of those metrics.
>RockAuto's site is ugly, but it's extremely functional.

I went to their site to see how ugly it was, and was absolutely blown away by how visually terrible it is. Truly function before form.
Isn't that what Zoom does?
I'm not super familiar with YouTube's policy on this, but apparently they decided to curb what they deem to be COVID-19 misinformation. I completely agree that what these two are doing is spreading misinformation, this is not anywhere in the range of a seasonal flu, the numbers are clear on that.

It's very naive to think that what these two are doing is a good faith attempt to present a dissenting opinion. If someone wants to use this tragedy as an opportunity to launch their right-wing media career I don't think YouTube is obliged to be an accomplice.

As for my opinions being silenced, if I ever yell fire in a theater, or tell people to drink poison laced Kool-Aid, or tell them to ignore this pandemic, I hope I get what's coming to me.
mind you shopify is acting the same way too. i get that they have to protect themselves, but when they hold all the money and power they have little incentive to resolve things quickly.
CCC absolute lifesaver and worth the money every time
Since I'm a fan of these low-volume but high-value things, also of NewsBlur: https://blog.newsblur.com/post/168429041705/infrequent-site-...

NewsBlur has a nice feature called "infrequent site stories" that holds items like this. It's so much more useful to me than popularity-based measures.
Paint me paranoid, but I think this is a move by Beijing to get closer to Oracle, which provides support for (and thus has access to) many US Government databases.
Yep. The video was a news conference from Dr. Dan Erickson, who along with Dr. Artin Massihi, own the largest testing site in Kern County, Accelerated Urgent Care, California. It wasn't some random joe making claims.
It's that youtube, reddit take on more of a public forum than TV, radio at least that was the feeling in the past.

The idea that anyone can be a content creator is, it's supposed to be as neutral as possible. Let the world battle it out against itself. Once you start taking sides of opinions (as opposed to legal ones) then you become a content curator.

For better or worse, America was built on the idea that I can have an absolutely stupid idea and that's my right. We'll fight to my death but it is my right to hold said stupid idea and voice it with youtube being my megaphone.

That's a core tenant of free speech and youtube was supposed to be able to help that. Now they're taking sides and it's not comforting
I agree! We had this org structure and had tons of problems. But certain small teams that worked cross functionality were very productive
How does it compare in performance?
They're all the same format...

[DHL/FedEx/the Chinese consulate] has an urgent package for you to pick up.

[Failure to pick up the package will result in the package being returned to the original sender./The package has been confiscated in customs due to irregularities. Failure to contact us will result in a formal investigation.]

Please call us... etc.
>So because it is possible someone else may have come along and stolen it, that is a justification for the Brits to steal (and keep) it?

Please do not pollute the conversation with strawmen. There are more options here than the two extremes. Take a look at the comment to which I was responding:

>...the Egyptian citizens would be the ones who would have those artworks today had the brits not come round to express their ancient tradition of thieving

And take another look at my actual comment:

>This conclusion assumes many things that are not a given, such as the assumptions that it would have been not have been lost, damaged, or stolen by a third party during all of that time.

The comment to which I was responding presented an absurd and presumptive claim. Absurd claims should be called out for what they are, regardless of which 'side' you perceive to be strengthened or weakened by doing so.
I graduated EE with ('understanding' but) bafflement that radio works. Like just plain old amplitude or frequency modulated radio. Madness.

I work with software now/currently. I'd be surprised it all works if only it wasn't so frequently clear that it doesn't! I suppose the idea of updates has been quite quickly ingrained in the consumer mind - software bugs are somehow more acceptable, seen as just 'to be fixed' rather than 'broken' or 'poorly made', 'not very robust'.
They said that good devs use IDEs, not that IDE use makes you a good dev. Those are very different statements.
Moving from Germany to the uk was very easy and there hasn’t been a lot “unexpected” things I couldn’t cope with... Robo, spam and scam calls.
I’m still only using my German number which only my family and friends have, who know, only call me in case of emergency.

Banks, insurances, institutes etc will never get my phone number. And my money will never be in a place where I have to worry about it getting scammed. Stolen maybe - but that thief would be very lucky.

And all this fuzz and lack of comfort (simply ordering stuff) [especially during times like these] because I’ve become very paranoid, because of situations like that...
The hacker news community never ceases to amaze me!

I've been binge-watching your youtube channel. Any chance you could give me a few pointers in how to start to debug this thing?
> Decay seems to be very slow even in the jurisdictions with the strictest controls. (I do think the hardest hit jurisdictions may show something close to symmetry).

Agreed. Watching the graphs for Italy made this exceptionally clear. It's been a month since their peak in new infections, and they're just now hitting the 50% of peak level for new infections. And that's with a very strong stay-at-home order.

> IMHE has entered the re-opening fray, and is setting target dates based on when they think we'll be down to fewer than 1 infection per million. It seems that it's driving public policy, and it's kinda ridiculous.

Re IMHE, hopefully policymakers will listen to IHME themselves:

> We strongly believe decision-makers should draw on a variety of #COVID19 models.

https://twitter.com/IHME_UW/status/1255294109503406080
> Are the doctors in the video saying untruths or misrepresenting data?

Yes, they are.

https://www.dailynews.com/2020/04/28/california-doctors-with...

> But public health experts were quick to debunk the doctors’ findings as misguided and riddled with statistical errors — and an example of the kind of misleading information they are forced to waste precious time disputing.

> The doctors should never have assumed that the patients they tested — who came for walk-in COVID-19 tests or who sought urgent care for symptoms they experienced in the middle of a pandemic — are representative of the general population, said Dr. Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington biologist who specializes in infectious disease modeling. He likened their extrapolations to “estimating the average height of Americans from the players on an NBA court.” And most credible studies of COVID-19 death rates in reality are far higher than the ones the doctors presented.

> In a rare statement late today, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine declared they “emphatically condemn the recent opinions released by Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Messihi. These reckless and untested musings do not speak for medical societies and are inconsistent with current science and epidemiology regarding COVID-19. As owners of local urgent care clinics, it appears these two individuals are releasing biased, non-peer reviewed data to advance their personal financial interests without regard for the public’s health.”
Coronavirus: What We Can Learn from Countries Around the World
Windows 98 with ActiveX was as obnoxious and laggish as a desktop environment made with Electron today.

You could disable it in a breeze and get a good boost.
You don't think it's worth reading the article just because you don't agree with the author's politics?
You're taking a map from R -> R, I'm taking a sequence of discrete values. It's not the same thing.

However, I was a bit fast and loose, the sequence .9, .99, .999, .9999 also gets closer and closer to 2 but it doesn't converge to 2, I should have said if you have a metric || and some number X such that for any d, there exists an N such that |X -An| < d for all n > N, then the sequence A converges to X. But I wasn't trying to write a proof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of...
Because I seem to recall the WHO (or I think it was the CDC?) blatantly lying about the efficacy of masks in order to keep them available to health professionals.

WHO is still lying, CDC has done a 180 and now recommends masks. So I suppose we should expect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx1yqvJgf4 to get taken down anytime now.
The color scheme on the syntax highlighting makes me crave cotton candy...
What kind of argument is that? Political views are unimportant in this case and even if they were, Glenn has been more left and right leaning. Also YouTube removing the videos from 2 highly credentialed doctors is a verifiable fact, not some subjective theory.
Businesses have the right to refuse service, why should YouTube be any different? I think the solution is a decentralized video sharing platform.
Delegating “responsible judgment” to a formal institution or organization sounds fundamentally dubious in this context.
How can you possibly compare a small group of friends to everyone at our public schools? Clearly you have a bias. If public schooling was doing such a poor job at adjusting children we probably would have noticed by now.

On the flip side, I can't possibly imagine how an average parent can homeschool their child in advanced calculus or chemistry. The knowledge simply isn't there. And saying it can be replaced with videos or books is missing the point of education.
There are 1001 active cases left in Australia so I hope that locked borders will mean that internally we will be back to somewhat normal by July top. Somewhat normal is that something like festivals and concerts will be still banned.
Why does it have the moral duty, when you signed it away in the TOS when you used their service? Host your own videos if you don't like it or better yet build a better platform that is censorship-resistant.
I've had good luck with https://gaggle.email
> - Text, colors, etc... appear sharper without tmux. I think. There are antialiasing configs you can mess around with in Iterm2 at least.

I thought this was just me! Does anyone have a solution for this?
I'm sorry but I don't follow.

If you take the Bell test experiment where Alice and Bob perform their measurements at approximately the same time but very far apart, I think you and I both agree that when Alice does a measurement and observes an outcome, she will have locally decohered from the world where she observes the other outcome.

But I don't see why the decoherence necessarily has to happen faster than the speed of the light.

It makes sense that even if Alice decoheres from the world where she observes the other outcome, the outcomes of Bob's measurement are still in a superposition with respect to each Alice (and vice-versa).

And that only when Alices' and Bobs' light cones intersect each other will the Alices decohere from the Bobs in such a way that the resulting worlds will observe the expected correlations (due to how they were entangled or maybe even due to the worlds interfering with each other when their light cones intersect, like what happens in general with the wave function).

I admit I'm not an expert in this area, but is this not possible?
In order to be successful with multiple children, you need to find a balance between self study (worksheet) and teaching. The younger the children, the more hands on you need to be. You need to figure out a good rotation so they are not all waiting for time with you.

It takes some adjustment because they may be used to having you full time. You can also start your 3 year old doing "school work". They can look at books, play with toys, watch leapfrog letter factory, color a page, etc.

The other thing to remember is that a 5 year old with attitude is always better than a 15 year old with an attitude. If you don't deal with it now, you are just going to push it off till they are older.

Note: we homeschool our 5 kids.
NUC mounted to the back of the display with an USB/TB3 hub/dock exposed to the desktop is a superior alternative to AIO desktops. One could choose way better displays than what AIO typically has (like EIZO or some curved ultrawide)
I understand how they feel. I’m being asked to serve as part time IT specialist, Nath Tutor and Booboo Nurse while trying to bill hours on my clients project.

I’ve also given up on tracking their assignments, I just give them a printout of the days of week each Monday and ask them to fill it out with due dates to organize themselves. Fortunately my kids are early teens and actually care about getting good grades.
Are these airliners safe during a storm? Do they tie them down in some way when on the runway? I mean I guess that's why they're in the desert. But the question still stands in a hypothetical context. Do jetliners survive massive storms on the runway?
> America was built on the idea that I can have an absolutely stupid idea and that's my right.

Was it though? First Amendment says:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”

Until YouTube joins the Senate, I think they’re fine doing whatever they want.
A good remote learning solution wouldn't involve teachers lecturing. Teaching is not about merely presenting information to be absorbed.

Teaching requires a feedback loop. What does the child need to know? What do they know already? Are they engaged? Can they explore the problem space themselves and get feedback and direction?
> They own their San Jose property¹ through an affiliate company.

Ah! That probably explains it.

Any residual money can be drained into the affiliate companies before filing bankruptcy so that there is nothing left in "Fry's".
Terraform does software/config just fine. "Immutable infrastructure" and all
Many studies across the world are showing infection rates for Covid-19 are far higher than official numbers indicate. These studies appear to support the spirit of their statements.
I agree that it’s not the job of news media to herd their audience into thinking the right things. However, it is their duty to uncover and report the truth.

“If someone says it's raining, and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the [expletive] window and find out which is true”
-Jonathan Foster
I think you have trust working backwards. This is a media company that was founded only two years ago by a talk radio and television host who holds no journalism degree or higher education accreditation of any kind, who already runs a conservative media personality cult.

And I’m expected to just keep an open mind about it and assume that this dude isn’t being disingenuous.
That's not what the previous poster said. They were talking about socializing with people your own age, which is critically important. When I was 18 if I acted like a 40 year old I would have never made friends or found a girlfriend.
That's the exact opposite of what's happened. The number of deaths being reported includes "probable deaths". It's even more than the actual confirmed cases.

Look at the graph on the last page for NYC for example:

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...
Blunt, but accurate.

Was there any state governor in the first 100 years of this country that wasn't on somebody's payroll? They didn't even bother to hide it.

Read about the Hawaii coup sometime if you want to see ugliness. Notice how all those tall buildings in downtown Honolulu are named after Westerners?

Is it any different today?
Have you taken a look at the AUR? I guarantee you there are several packages missing that you won't find with openSUSE and building those packages is significantly more challenging initially and in order to maintain and update than with Arch.
I purchased in the last year or so an Intel Core i5 processor. You know what came? A cardboard box that looked like an Intel box, but was filled with four packs of Chinese playing cards. When I called to request a WTF? The nice lady insisted it was a mistaken order to which I steadfastly replied no, this is fraud. It was pretty ridiculous.
the insinuation you're making is that there are statistically more unreported cases than deaths. That seems like a claim you may want to justify.

Find any serious expert who does not believe that. Estimates have always been that cases are underreported by 10-20x, and that's consistent with recent serology tests.
Excellent! Thanks so much for this!
> and it's vanishingly unlikely that Google got this right.

this is the fanboy part. I'm not a google fanboy (I own none of their products), but you can frame your comment differently (aka more neutrally). Just say what it is about the air pods you like, ask if google's pixel buds do the same, or just research it yourself and provide information as opposed to speculation. What makes it a fanboy comment is the bias, and you've still done nothing to dissuade me from believing you possess it.
When you're using a private network v4 address exhaustion doesn't matter much and the simplicity of only 4 octets helps with IP memorability and simplicity. I would still prefer a v6 option though, as keeping private networks on v4 might be contributing to the slow adoption of v6.
WHO isn't independent. They have been looking out for China's talking points for a while.
As if every kid that goes to public school learns social leadership skills (hint: the vast majority don't)... and as if a bunch of delinquent kids running wild without adult supervision is always a positive thing...

There are plenty of ways to intentionally foster and coach leadership skills without putting your kid into a public school, and there are plenty of ways to give your kids freedom without them running around and getting into trouble.

These things are in no way things that are strictly exclusive to the common public school experience. If anything, you are more likely to have success by being intentional with your approach in a homeschooled environment that is free from things like peer pressure and drugs and lack of supervision.
The Developer-Entrepreneur's Dilemma
I mean it’s fair - you need support systems to support it at the best of times.

In NZ there is the NZ correspondence school for children that can’t get to a physical school.

It provides the curriculum, materials, textbooks, grading, etc.

But the US treats homeschooling as a system to allow parents to indoctrinate kids rather than actually teach them so provides no such support (even though their are people who are homeschooled due to actual need and whose parents want their kids to be educated).

Couple that lack of support, with the lack of choice or real warning, and that many parents still do have to work and you’ve got a quagmire that is understandably overwhelming.
A reminder that people have tried that, and it invariably turns into a chan. Which is what YouTube would become if it went hands-off.