skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US productivity increases at roughly 2% per year. With a stable money supply prices would on average decrease by roughly 2% per year. The Federal Reserve has a target inflation rate of 2% per year.

In the best case the Fed would need to hold interest rates a 4%+ per year to compensate dollar holders for the loss of purchasing power. Prior to 2008 those benefits used to accrue directly to the government. The Federal Reserve purchased only Treasury bonds which would lower overall market rates for government bonds. In addition any bonds held by the Fed were effectively interest free as interest was returned to the Treasury.

In 2008 the Fed started to purchase mortgage bonds and other assets and later started to pay interest directly to banks. This is a direct transfer of purchasing power from dollar holders to homeowners and banks.

In this case look at the alternative if the Federal Reserve didn’t allocate those loans. The airline would go to court and file bankruptcy and losses would be allocated to equity holders and creditors. Those losses don’t magically go away because it isn’t easy to see who the losers are.
Let's look at the death rates, no it's not. They're similar in prevalence and in death rate.

That statement alone is justification for removing their video as a public health hazard.
I had mistakenly assumed my MBP 2015 SSD was removable / replaceable but turns out Apple started soldering the SSD to the motherboard and in doing so eliminated perhaps the most bulletproof disaster recovery strategies in the cosmos... a USB caddy. Instead they put a proprietary SSD access port on the logic board for accessing the SSD. And in the case of my dead 2015 MBP, that port was unable to access the SSD.
Bravo apple.
> Also I think it is actually easier with everyone remote rather than some in office and some remote.

I agree with that and would add that I think a huge part of the difficulty comes from a rift in culture. If a CEO does not consciously make an effort bridge the culture between remote and in-office work, it creates a strange divide that chokes collaboration and can even be catastrophic to turnover.

Having a mix of remote and non-remote can work great, just keep in mind there's a particularly difficult dynamic that will constantly need management and maintenance.
There have been several lawsuits about this over the past few years and they always fail. Google is a commercial company and not a public institution. There are no first amendment protections here and they can remove any content they wish. The commonality of the platform does not make it a public institution. If that bothers you then boycott them.
I'd be highly surprised if they weren't using IIIF.

https://iiif.io/

edit: They are in the participating institutions

https://iiif.io/community/
You have to remember, the main purpose of school is to provide babysitting so all of the adults can work and keep the economy humming.

If you take a hard look at the time spent during school, you will see tons of filler. If you were _only_ going for schooling, you wouldn't need homeroom, lunch, PE (get your activity at home), and several subjects.

Not to mention, at home you can tailor the lessons to your kids, and you don't keep getting interrupted because some kids out of 30 in your classroom are being disruptive.
Wouldn't deepfakes have similar legal requirements as the Tupac hologram used at Coachella? http://www.ipbrief.net/2012/04/19/tupac-hologram-rocks-coach...
>>He would have been tried as an adult and put in jail for a long time.

Do you have evidence for this allegation of systemic racism?
Might be something related to this:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...

Also the number of deaths being reported in US includes "probable deaths" which are not confirmed COVID cases. 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...
I feel your pain. We have a 5 year old and twin 3 year olds. Our 5 year old will be entering K this fall too. Though, who knows what exactly that will look like. Right now the school which our 5 year old attends is having 45 min zoom calls with each pre-school class twice a week. It's not the same as having a whole day of activities and socializing but I respect what they have managed to do with the constraints that they are dealing with. Outside of that we've been reading to them a lot. But, there is a special force of nature weight that the twins somehow wield. And that is just tough. The way we've tried to spin that is to attempt to inspire them by feeding whatever their latent interests seem to be at the moment. And get that momentum in a productive direction. It does not always work.
Thanks! I'll check it out!
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Dangling the idea seems like a good way to attract hopeful voters. But let's see the plan for paying for such a program.
I asked a teacher friend of mine. Her thought is for most of her kids losing two months of school isn't going to matter much. Most kids have years to catch up. And a lot of kids get some learning at home just from their parents. She's more concerned for her students that are in trouble already due to bad home environments. Those students will need a lot of extra help.
And what happens when you yell fire in a movie theater and they silence you when it's true? It's not just about the "incorrect" content that's posted on Youtube, it's also the correct content that gets censored. How else would we learn about the water that makes the frogs gay?
> I don't understand what's wrong with the data they presented.

They took stats from a massively self-selecting population - people seeking out COVID-19 testing at their facilities - and extrapolated to the general public.

That's inexcusably dumb.

As the bit I quoted states, that's like "estimating the average height of Americans from the players on an NBA court".
"Cheap" as in "cheap drugs" given by drug dealer to new customers to hook them up.
Sorry I thought most people knew they operate in basically every major city worldwide that hasn't outlawed it.

From https://www.uber.com/en-US/newsroom/company-info/

> Facts and figures as of December 2018
> 3.9 million drivers
I tend to agree that the debunking video is a little too sure of itself with regard to the speeds, though I think we could also be over-estimating the competence of the crew in the videos. Maybe they thought it was moving fast because they didn't take the time in those moments to read their instruments. As for the shapes of the objects, I would accept that they are most likely planes, and the rotation an artifact, but this doesn't rule out the possibility they are some classified new aircraft.
True. I am just making the point that them choosing to be impartial is much better than the alternative
So true.

for chrome, every single point here is true (just replace outlook with gmail): A Glimpse in to an "Enterprise" Intranet

plus, IE never caries around my login and offer to it to more sites than facebook, like chrome does with my google login.
School is designed to force kids to grow in areas they do not naturally enjoy.
Not to play devil's advocate too far, but falling behind in the semiconductor industry is death. If they shut down and others don't, they lose.
In other news fox news is censoring anyone who does not agree with their Conservative narrative.
Ignoring the context here, YT has every right to choose what to display, and what not to.

In context: they don’t want to be responsible for harm to others and they certainly don’t want to pay to broadcast that content.

If people really want to spew nonsense they can pay to do it themselves. No one is stopping them.
Something tells me you consider everything that isn't Fox News and Breitbart to be far left?
Initially, IE was only ever evil for Netscape investors. It was great for users, a free browser! And it was great for developers, it spearheaded DHTML and browser based application development with powerful for the time ActiveX controls. If you didn't mind that stuff being non-standard, and as a dev I just liked doing cool stuff with tech.

It wasn't until 2005 when they stopped caring about making browsers better and it started lagging behind Firefox in all the new design fads at the time - transparent PNGs, rounded corners - and the dev tools couldn't keep up with Firebug. That is when IE started to be annoying, in my opinion anyway.
If you are arguing that they aren't really giving it away completely for free, I would agree. On the other hand, many people accept the word "free" to include "no charge, but strings attached", depending on context. Some would consider "you are free to view them on our website, without paying a monetary fee" to be sufficiently 'free' for this usage.

In your original comment you ask why you are downvoted. I don't have an answer, but please understand that simply asking this question, in this way, is discouraged by the guidelines and is likely to bring more downvotes.
We can make a pretty good estimate of COVID deaths by comparing against past years. There's a clear, large spike - NYC's death rate is six times the average for this time of year.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/27/upshot/corona...

Giving that we're still low on tests, if someone dies before a test of COVID-like symptoms, it makes sense to consider them a probable (and save the test for someone alive) if deaths are 6x normal - you've got a roughly 5/6 chance of being correct.
I agree with what you are saying, the numbers I presented in response to a comparison with the 1918 flu are not good to draw conclusions from.

In fact I will admit that thinking further about the numbers we have so far I am sobered by how they may add up across the world.

But back on topic, talking about lockdowns: The stated purpose of the lockdown was to flatten the curve so that hospitals are not overwhelmed, which has been successful so far. Do you think lockdowns lower the number of deaths when all is said and done? How long can lockdowns be sustained? Would it be more effective for vulnerable folks to self-isolate? Unless we can mass produce a vaccine in the next couple of months won't this continue moving through the population regardless of what we do?
Only a court can decide that. Parody is a defence in a copyright infringement case when it comes down to it, which is why Weird Al just gets permission instead. There's a lot of uncertainty on the edges.

It's interesting to read about the trouble Penny Arcade had https://whatever.scalzi.com/2003/04/25/strawberry-shortcake-...
> Some of my niblings have online homeschool classes with kids from all over the country, with way more diversity than they would get in their local public schools.

Is an online class with a diverse crowd a sufficient replacement for actually going out, interacting, and being next to people of various racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds?

I've spent half of my life on online communities. If I went out into the world thinking the average person I interact with online was the same as the average person outside, I'd be very stunned by the reality and very ill-equipped. The types of people I encounter on Hacker News and other communities/groups I participate in online, well, I've almost never encountered similar people outside.
This could be a different story a year from now, where NY ripped the band-aid off and achieved herd immunity long before SF, and SF took a much longer time resulting in a longer economical slump and still similar deaths over a longer period of time.

I'm not saying it will be that way, but it's worth considering.
They aren’t tied down, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that they get fueled up to weigh them down more
No. The video in question was not. And more generally just because an ad plays along side a video does not mean the video itself is a commercial work, in the same way a newspaper or magazine can have ads alongside editorial content.
> If public schooling was doing such a poor job at adjusting children we probably would have noticed by now.

We did notice! How have you not noticed? Almost everyone comes out of public school marred in some way that they then have to unlearn as a young adult.

It's just a rough, toxic place. Sure, while it is harming you (some mildly, some significantly), it also delivers some benefits. But it is a net loss.
No it’s not. There are innumerable hosting services.

The crux is people wanting to spread their views but who don’t want to pay to do that.
If you were a bit more self aware you would realise how hypocritical you are.

You want your freedom to communicate what you want. But you don't want Google/Youtube to have their freedom. They are a private website who should have the right to host whatever content they choose and free to look after their own interests.

And remember nobody is stopping you from exercising your freedom to host whatever content you like on your private website.
“We chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure because of its industry-leading security, outstanding performance and unmatched level of support.”

Zoom stressed security first, Oracle's executive team has a close relationship with the current administration. I wonder if this is a lobbying play in light of China centric security concerns.

Oracle isn't exactly known for its security, that would be Microsoft or Google.
> far right

People have started labelling anything they disagree with as "far right" now a days. How exactly is wanting to work to be able to pay the bills and take care for ones family a "far right" thing? How is calling out the rise in domestic abuse, child abuse, suicides, mental health issues a "far right" thing? I have many friends both left and right leaning who are struggling to pay the bills and have businesses shutdown with massive losses wanting to return back to work.

Also one could say the same thing about left leaning media (95% of the mainstream media and tech companies). When we start labelling everything we disagree with as "BAD NAME", we are living in a sad world.

And in case it matters (I feel like it does to you), I am a brown immigrant myself.
That comment was informed by my experience with Google devices more than by my experience with Apple. I don't own airpods and have only owned one Apple device in my life (my current iPhone). But Android devices - across various OEMs including Google, and both stock Android and CM - have always seemed to make simple things far more annoying than they need to be, in my experience. Same with Chromecast.

(FYI, I'm the GP commenter but not the one you're replying to directly.)
People should be able to see all the opinions of various experts; doctors in NYC, doctors in Minnesota. Just them on their merits and examine the evidence.

By pulling videos, YouTube/Google is saying they don't trust people to be able to discern anything or do research among several dissenting opinions. And yes, it's their platform and yada yada .. they still allow a lot of content to be uploaded and they have become the most typical/standard centralized source of videos.

I will admit, they might be right to not trust people ... at which point why do we even care about humanity anymore? Are those with more power and influence always going to think the rest of the world are sheep who can't think for themselves and need to be led around?

This time sets all kinds of dangerous prescients. I wish Orwell was still alive.
> The actual number for 2019 is 4.1BN

You are wrong, again. 4.1BN is the revenue for Q4. From your very own link:

> GAAP Revenue 2019: $14BN

So yeah, I guess it's much healthier than your company isn't it?

It's fine to be critical, but let's not make up fake numbers and then draw conclusions from that. There also seem to be many people here who are overly critical of Uber specifically because of it's image.
Today I learned they've morphed.

I assumed they want money in order to complete the delivery, but searching online it appears they want to verify someone will be home and nothing comes of it.

Seem to be some thought they're verifying names and addresses. Weird.
There's lots and lots of bad stuff there... The question is should youtube be censoring it?

if so, why this, and not others?
>If that is too difficult to comprehend, then consider:

>Be kind. Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Coronavirus deaths correlated to population wide genetic markers
Interested in thoughts on this.

R1b European populations appear to have higher COVID-19 deaths, while R1a appear less affected.

This is controlled for different start time of the epidemic by counting deaths at 28 days past the date of 1000 cases (the last country is therefore Greece, that reached 1000 cases on March 29th, deaths counted on April 26th).

All countries had isolation measures - except Sweden which is excluded.

If this correlation is correct, all countries <0.8 R1b could relax isolation measures with minimal adverse effects (Sweden levels).

Similar populations should have similar death rates. Looking at UK (>300/Million) vs. Australia (3/Million), this possibly indicates Vitamin D plays a role.
Australia was in summer, with vit. D generated from UV exposure in skin. UK was in the middle of winter.

This implies COVID-19 should wane during the summer in the northern hemisphere, and come back in late winter when Vit. D levels fall in general population.
Pop culture says that happens when the first dollar is handed over.
The DOW dropped almost 13% on March 16th. That's the biggest single day drop since 1987. How is that evidence of investors having steady hands? Multiple market volatility trading circuit breakers have been tripped since the crisis started. How is that evidence of investors having steady hands? All I see is an extremely complex system with the ability to be reactionary, irrational, and volatile.
I'll provide counter arguments to these statements.

> 1. Unlike gold, Bitcoin can cease to exist. If nobody keeps the blockchain alive, it doesn't exist any more. Try to make gold disappear from the ground!

To kill the blockchain, one would have to destroy every single copy. Try finding all of the thousands of copies of the blockchain archives around the world and make them disappear.

> 2. Unlike gold, the operators can decide to increase supply. Or reduce it. By orders of magnitude. It's a code change. Try that with gold.

The "operators" cannot arbitrarily decide to increase supply. It would require a coordinated effort by developers, miners, exchanges and other node operators. As past attempts to hardfork the bitcoin blockchain have shown, this is extraordinarily difficult.

The value of gold can theoretically be decreased by orders of magnitude which is effectively the same thing as increasing supply. Through a coordinated effort by buyers and sellers the value of gold could decrease 10x tomorrow. This is also extraordinarily difficult.

> 3. Forks are abundant. Good luck trying to invent a new element.

Yes. Bitcoin is different than gold in this respect. I would argue this is one of the advantages that digital currency has over a physical currency. Forks encourage innovation. A fork of Bitcoin does not affect the main chain.

> 4. The economical benefit of Bitcoins is much too small to explain the energy use. It can't even keep up with the transaction count of a small town. The energy expenses can only be justified by expected future return. This is actually where Bitcoin is somewhat comparable to gold as a valuable. It's just that gold actually has real-world uses besides acting as currency. So we know the price for gold won't go to zero. Unless of course we find ways to defy our current physics!

The market disagrees with your first statement. If there is no real economic benefit to Bitcoin, then the market has been operating irrationally for many years. While this is possible, it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify a conclusion that the market is irrational.

Bitcoin also has "real-world" uses besides currency. There are timestamping functions and tokenization protocols that provide a benefit beyond currency. These are all digital uses, but very real.
Just because they are counting probable deaths does not mean they aren't also undercounting the true deaths. Given the rate of testing confirmed is clearly << true, so I don't see why there is so much objection to using some form of probable deaths. And I haven't seen any legit claims that the specific mechanism for determining probable deaths used in NYC is net overcounting.

Excess death data so far suggests that they are indeed undercounting true deaths. While it is certainly possible lockdown has caused some additional immediate deaths, it is also likely other deaths (eg decreased car accidents) have gone down. So it will require further analysis once this is all said and done and more data is available, but my money is that the US has undercounted deaths thus far.
These may not even be "flying" objects. My understanding is the US military has the capability to generate radar "ghosts" ie objects show up on your radar that do not exist. This, as you can imagine, would be advantageous in confusing enemy defenses ("look, the Americans, they're coming from the east", when in fact, they are flying in from another direction.

I am really skeptical that these are extra-terrestial in nature or that the US government does not know exactly what they are. Think of the national security implications if there were beings with technological capabilities far beyond ours hanging around our military installations. The government would freak out, and rightly so. The absence of this reaction is the most convincing evidence to me that the origin of these sightings is not a mystery.
Rule number one: define your terms as you introduce them. On and on about ML. But what is it?

I had to search to see it was Machine Learning.

How hard is it to define it the first time you use it?

I can bet lots of people were scratching their heads but didn’t bother to look it up or continue reading...
Why SaaS Pricing Pages Don't Show Pricing
Are you OK with Google and other coorporations curating The Truth? Think about your kids! Do you want these people shaping what your children think? Put your money where your mouth is. Stop using them.

The time has come for a youtube alternative that can scale and is decentralized.

https://lbry.tv/Dr.-Erickson-COVID-19-Briefing:e1
>> Rust will start edging out Go once Rust becomes easier than Go to prototype/start projects.

I guess that time will never come...unless Go somehow looses its way
> you don't keep getting interrupted because some kids out of 30 in your classroom are being disruptive.

That depends on if you have multiple children and one starts flipping out.

Overall your point is pretty valid though
Sounds like a sure thing!
* /was/ in a tunnel.
That would mean compelling them to host all content, including child pornography and calls to commit terrorism.

That is clearly nonsense.

The CDA doesn’t say “in order to not be liable you must host everything regardless of what it is” it allows you to host potentially anything that is uploaded without being considered directly liable for that (which would be far more censorious)
So we just need to build our own Google or YouTube? That shouldn't be too hard /sarc
One of the reasons why the liberals (the Australian Conservative party) have been trying to gut and defund them.

They are much happier with the murdoch press, who had headlines like "vote this bastards out" (don't remember the exact phrase but it was direct like that) as a headline some years ago arguing to vote out the Labour government.

It's always interesting to see how some people always argue that news sources should be neutral and report only on facts if there are some left leaning opinions published, but completely ignore the blatant electioneering that goes on in the murdoch press.
AWS used to offer huge incentives for startups that had investments from well known VCs. I didn’t pay for service for over two years. Now it’s only 100k and expires after a year.