skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody can setup a list of allowed topics, controversies or debates for society without destroying its ability to grow: any rule will eventually lead to censor a valid point.

20 years ago, when you talked about mass surveillance, you were a paranoid conspirationist or a crook.

70 years ago, when spoke against the vietnam war, you were anti-patriotic or a communist.

Not to mention we can be wrong now, or right now but wrong in the future.
The answers are always the same:

1. Redistribution.

2. Debt.

That's it. The money will be redistributed from people who were able to prepare for it beforehand one way or another or we are going to indebt ourselves and/or our children.

It is also possible to save money by not expending it (for example on infrastructure repairs), but this should be treated as short term loan. Expenses typically are not avoidable forever, because each one is done for some particular reason.
That's what I would do in that situation. I worked for a bank back in 2008. Just sat around waiting for the inevitable. Your boss could be a dick and lay you off on the spot and it may blow up in your face. But you might also be able to get more than what might have been coming your way. I'd give it a shot. It sounds like you have already caught wind, so jockeying for position is probably a safe bet.
Yep! 15 years too. Had DirecTV with multiple DirecTivo's, then moved to Sausalito and lost LOS to sats. Never considered Comcast, and that was that.
The fact that 47% after all these lies and misinformation still doesn't get it hurts my brain
Corrected. Commented in frustration, cooled off. sigh
Managing TLS connections using Lua and Lua coroutines (2018)
I've been de-googled (and de-facebooked) for over a year now. I wrote about it here https://tombh.co.uk/deleting-facebook-and-google

My main motivation is slightly different in that being a software engineer I am actually in a unique position to navigate this tricky path and therefore feel a responsibility to tread the de-googled path, so that it might make it easier for others to follow, should they so wish. At the very least we all need readily available choices.

Interestingly, although I went through all the steps to delete my Google account I got stuck at the point of wondering what to do with my Youtube videos. Although, since last time I checked, it seems now I can actually move them to another Google account, I'll look into that.
Good question. Probably the same. English, and especially business English, is not a precise language. I am not really an expert but was part of the larger org.

Just to be clear - colocation here is in order of thousands of square feet. The datacenter provider provides redundant utilities. The customer does everything else.
And this found in a reply .. https://mobile.twitter.com/darakass/status/12549732188735856...
Will BBR congestion control be supported? Without it QUIC performance cannot match that of TCP, in my environment at least.
I think "grocery store at the bottom of my elevator" was a give away, they have to be in metro area and the grocery store has huge markups due to real estate costs.
The way that the USA "runs out of money" is by being unable to sell bonds. But interest rates are extremely low: everyone wants to buy treasuries.

Worry about running out of ventilators, masks, doctors, flour, yeast, chicken, etc. But not money, which is extraordinarily plentiful at the moment.
I hope they do that with videos by cnn, fox, and the world health organisation too. This video by the doctors could be a refutation to certain pieces by others, even.
The point here is that youtube is not a harbinger of
scientific truth.

The point to make here is that Youtube is NOT the New
England Journal of Science and should not act like one
for just one topic - Coronavirus.

If anybody feels that their data or interpreation of the
data is incorrect, they should post their own video on
Youtube, refuting their claims.

But this interpretation is wrong.

A scientific journal has a panel, which are qualified experts in the field or related fields, that read and pick up on statistical errors, and other errors, and decide whether or not to publish the paper. Youtube does not.

Peer review as a whole, means that your work gets assessed by experts, and they decide before publication if your paper is of the right quality to enter the journal.

'Peer Review' =/= 'Allowing everyone to post and the truth will be found out or agreed upon in the end'

'Peer Review' == 'Having your work assessed by equally or more skilled people, who then decide if your work is good enough to publish'

Youtube operates in a fundamentally different way to peer review, it allows anyone to post, then retroactively decides if that work meets guidelines. This means that not only is it not possible to immediately filter work that is submitted, it also does not go through proper assessment of it's validity by a panel of specialists and experts. Youtube could not operate with it's current business model using that method, and so is forced to choose another. Just because it's retroactive enforcement, doesn't mean that the terms of the service and guidelines are not in force, or should be considered censorship. Nobody is actually censoring these people, they are free to post their video literally anywhere else, but they broke the terms of the Youtube service.

As many other people have pointed out, the work produced and hosted on Youtube does contain errors, these are statistical errors that would have been caught had they submitted this to an academic journal, however the video's makers explicitly decidedin to publish it on Youtube. There is very little reason to do that, other than to market this information to others.

As this information is dubious at best, it is fundamentally and ethically irresponsible of them, as scientists, as medical workers who have taken an oath to do no harm, to publish this work on Youtube and to the public without going through the basic step that is peer review. The comments section does exist, but has no value, because you cannot count on the general public to be as informed in the subject matter as a peer review panel would be.
Conversely, America was also founded on the rights of private property, and the shareholders of Google has delegated the power to control their property to the management team at Google, who have then implemented this policy to remove this content from their property.

Its arguable just as important for the concept of America to let owners of private property not be deprived of their freedom and liberties.
DDG already supports Google (and some others) by typing !g [keywords]
Will there be a Python binding?
> 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.

I know this is a popular opinion but it’s ahistorical. Compulsory education was introduced in the late 1800s when about half of Americans still worked in agriculture, by far the largest sector of the economy at the time. Most families did not need childcare outside their home.

Today, school ends well before the professional workday does—pretty poor childcare.

The fact is that the main purpose of school is to educate kids, which is necessary to prepare them to live in a complex society. But, to teach kids you also have to care for them, hence the “fillers” like lunch and exercise.

Sadly, it’s true that for some kids, school is a major source of food and care in their lives. This is a failing of society, not of schools specifically.

> 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.

Which is why it’s legal to home school your kids if you want to, even when there is not a global pandemic. :-)
Morphological development of organisms. Mainly, how do cells form the shape of the organism and how do they specialize to different type of tissues? How do cells know where they are? What is the mechanism that puts the constraints on the shape of the body? I can understand mitosis but the rest from there is magic.
Yes my heater is a heat pump and it has been for 30 years. As have all my neighbors’ heaters. Because it’s cold where we live and we use it for heating the whole house (hot water for radiators too). I didn’t think anyone in cold climates or even moderately cold (e.g continental Europe) would use a direct heater, at least not if they have hot water radiators.
Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi have since been condemned by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP):

https://www.aaem.org/resources/statements/joint-endorsed/phy...

> The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) jointly and emphatically condemn the recent opinions released by Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi. These reckless and untested musings do not speak for medical society and are inconsistent with current science and epidemiology regarding COVID-19.

> COVID-19 misinformation is widespread and dangerous. Members of AAEM and ACEP are first-hand witnesses to the human toll that COVID-19 is taking on our communities. AAEM and ACEP strongly advise against using any statements of Drs. Erickson and Massihi as a basis for policy and decision making.
I once had my car towed by the city, only I had no way to tell it was them because it's not like they tell you. I figured I'd call the tow yard before I filed a police report for a stolen vehicle. Completely automated system where you had to give them the social security number of whoever had the title to verify whether or not they had the car in the lot. At the time the car was in my dads name, so I had to give this automated system that I had no way of knowing was legit my dads social security number over the phone. They did have the car at least, but boy if a scammer had a spoofed phone number 1 digit off from the towyard's, they would be sitting on a lot of people's social security numbers right now.
Hmm, it seems I was wrong then. I had thought that they didn’t localize to any EU countries, but I guess they have more of a global market than the other papers I am more familiar with.
Yeah, except they did rewrite the entire Mattermost mobile clients in React Native (And contributed it back, too - https://eng.uber.com/uchat/)
Look, I'm all for Uber firing some of their 27,000 employees (27,000 seems like the wrong number), but their engineering team make a tonne of cool stuff and are really good open source citizens.
H3 Geospatial indexing, Kepler.gl, and yes the Mattermost react native client - I use them all every day.
Maybe let's trim in the HR and marketing departments, instead?
A closer real-world analogy is "is it unethical for john deere to sell a tractor that you're not able to service due to artificial restrictions".

But the McDonalds one sorta holds up too. Let's examine the 4 freedoms:

1. Freedom to eat the food you purchased using any utensils (freedom 0)

2. Freedom to modify the food (i.e. add ketchup or hot sauce) and study it (investigate the ingredients in it, i.e. ask how much sodium is in it, or if the oil it was cooked in was meat oil).

3. Freedom to share an unmodified piece of the food with others (give a friend some fries)

4. Freedom to share the food, even if you've modified it or attempted to copy it (give your friend fries with ketchup on it, freedom to share your home-made fries modeled after McDs with a friend).

It's arguable if "provide the recipe" needs to be included in those freedoms. Maybe. Either way, I'd argue that yes, it's unethical for macdonalds to sell you food without at the very least giving you the above freedoms, and also telling you all important ingredients in it (allergens and nutritional info, etc)

The reason people aren't complaining about freedom wrt food is because the freedoms are already mostly there.
Software licensing commonly requires things like "you can't use this software without an active internet connection to verify you purchased it", or "you can't install it on two computers".
I've yet to find a food that has a limitation of "you can only eat this food if you're on the phone with us so we can verify you're not putting ketchup on it".

If food was restricted in the same ways software is, I would call it unethical, yes. Selling mystery food with no ingredient list, that I'm not allowed to attempt to make my own variant of, that I can't add any additional ingredients to, and that I can't eat at my leisure.. yeah, that would be either unethical or a form of performance art.
That was rather part of my point. "Progress" as we'd call it is dirty, messy, bloody.

Although I tend to think what the Nazis did during WWII probably wins that particular title.
Put me in the bucket of Americans who lost faith in the American people.

Absolutely unconscionable.
Another reason to not work with them.
Compliance with local laws, localized marketing, localized support, localized administration, etc. It adds up quick.
Yes, Of Course, but unlike in a home environment, distractions in classrooms are quickly corrected.
Didn’t know that. Thank you!
Data Driven UIs, Incrementally (2018)
Wow. It must be the time of year. My MBA13's SSD also died a few weeks ago. I just ordered an OWC replacement (and battery too). However, I'm only going to restore macOS long enough to move my TimeMachine backup (/home only) into something readable by Linux. Catalina was the last straw for me. At the moment I'm writing this having installed UbuntuStudio on the SDXC card. The drive is deathly slow compared to SSD but it's working.

EDITED to add: I'm doing some homework to identify my next laptop. It won't be an Apple. Ideally something with an aluminium chassis, 13" screen, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD. i7 or AMD equivalent. Suggestions welcome!
For me all results are worse, computer science or not.

DDG completely ignores my country or when it doesn't, the results are misclassified. And you can forget about local searches, DDG being worse than useless for those.

What strikes me as odd is that DDG is worse for computer science results too.

DDG often ignores search terms that Google doesn't. And which terms it ignores is a complete guess, so you do this back and forth putting relevant query words in quotes to try and force it.

I use DDG as my default search engine, but there's no point in denying the obvious. UI might be nice, but UI is unimportant.
Well, in that case, this is unacceptable going forward.

We’re going to need a Youtube clone that has a better charter for content creators, and viewers alike.
Why is this misleading claim repeated so often? They are profitable on every. single ride. Even including all the marketing costs, they're profitable on the rideshare.

It's the investment into new ventures like Uber Eats that cuts into the revenue because it' expanding so fast.
Can those who have downvoted me here explain why? This was my genuine experience working in a GMP company and I would like to know if this is not the norm.
Fat pointers in C using libcello
You ask, "Are the doctors in the video saying untruths or misrepresenting data? I think what they said in the video was eminently reasonable."

> The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) jointly and emphatically condemn the recent opinions released by Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi. These reckless and untested musings do not speak for medical society 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.

> COVID-19 misinformation is widespread and dangerous. Members of AAEM and ACEP are first-hand witnesses to the human toll that COVID-19 is taking on our communities. AAEM and ACEP strongly advise against using any statements of Drs. Erickson and Massihi as a basis for policy and decision making.

https://www.aaem.org/resources/statements/joint-endorsed/phy...
> People in Ag love to say that they “built the first self driving vehicles”.

Ahem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-steering_gear
I am not making any statement as to the legality of YouTube/Google/Alphabet's actions.

The effective position of YouTube is that they have responsibility over nothing you or I say but discretion over everything. How does that make sense? I believe that asymmetry is wrong.
Their annual report[1] shows 2019 revenue of $14.1bn, with cost of revenue of $7.2bn and sales and marketing costs of $4.6bn.

Both cost of revenue and sales and marketing (for simplicity's sake I'll call these "direct costs") grew proportionately to revenue growth year on year from 2018 to 2019, running at 77% of revenue in 2018 and 83% of revenue in 2019. The 5% swing there is almost purely marketing: cost of revenue was 49.8% of revenue in 2018 and 50.9% in 2019, whereas marketing grew from 27.9% to 32.6%. So they could be hiding subsidies (prefer this term to discounts) in marketing costs, although it's not such a significant figure that it loses them money.

It's conceivable that they're still doing some hocus pocus with the treatment of pool revenue, but it would have to be a significant portion of their revenue for it to have an impact. I can't find the disclosures on this if they're in there (although they do disclose that they treat three people pooling as three rides, which seems fair enough).

The business suffered a 2.8x increase in losses from operations -- $8.5bn up from $3bn -- but this appears to mainly be attributable to R&D costs growing from $1.5bn to $4.8bn YOY.

[1] https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
I honestly don't understand how home schooling is supposed to work. I mean, primary school maybe (though even there I seriously doubt the capacity of most parents, but whatever, we could handle that). But secondary school & beyond? Like, we're lucky that we can explain path, physics, chemistry, grammar to our kids & help them, but we struggle on some of the subjects (& gave up on others - e.g. chemistry - at highschool level). But it's one thing to help them on some subjects - and a whole different things to be able to actively teach everything: not only those, but history, geography, foreign languages, arts, music etc - that's far more than one full-time job! The only reason why teachers are able to do it is that they teach a single subject (to an entire classroom). Yeah, in primary school you (mostly) have a single teacher for the class, so home-schooling is plausible. But beyond that, I just don't understand it.
New projects using C++20's module system will greatly ease the pain of makefiles.
If you want all the answers about this PLANdemic and how fauci has threatened doctors lives and silenced top NIH doctors, research DR JUDY MIKOVITS.

Her book plague of corruption explains it all. Fauci had her gag ordered and never charged, for taking her own research as evidence of their coverup.

She isolated HIV, she was leading NIH For 20 years. She discovered cures for cancer and aids and found aids isn’t caused by HIV but XMRV which you haven’t heard of because that was what was suppressed .

Fauci did this in 81 already with HIV, stealing her work then changing it,’and fauci having a vaccine and patent on it years before they announced HIV. Fauci literally threatened to kill them.

She explains how viruses don’t transfer in air. Masks make it worse because you self infect yourself while lowering your immune system. You can only get a virus through injection. External things can manifest a virus that’s dormant from 5g to pollution to drinking soda. That flu shots given included all of these diseases including contagious cancers.

All smear campaigns on her were redacted and she has all the evidence. She is literally the key to this whole thing. She talks about breaking down when she sees fauci on tv speaking on corona. She is literally the authority on viruses Covid 19 is 40 years in the making and is connected to her work. If you really care about the truth research her and spread the word.
This is a nice tutorial introduction on using D as a better replacement for C [1].

Some excerpts "At one time, C was my go-to language for most programming. One day I realised that most of my C programs kept reimplementing things from C++: dynamic arrays, better strings, polymorphic classes, etc".

[1]https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/04/05/d_as_c_replacement....
I once received an automated email to 'deleted@example.com'. Where example.com is my domain. I employ catchall, so that I can generate a new mail for each service. I contacted them and they apologised. The CTO personally explained that this was legacy they lost track of and thanked me for pointing out.

You catch a lot, with catchall: dataleaks, hacks, sneaky data sales etc. When suddenly you recieve, say, marketing mail for shirts on 'jeansonline@example.com' something fishy is going down.
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> People who don't want to stay home anymore are not a danger to themselves only, I could not care less if they die, I actually prefer if they do. But by not following distancing orders they are a danger to others.

So are all the people who get the flu every year. Oh by the way which yearly kills more than has been killed yet by COVID. Guess we should lock up all those war criminals!

> What you are missing in your perfect world

lol... gotta love HN commenters who live such cozy lives that they have absolutely no perspective. Check your privilege, is that the saying? THIS is what your "stay at home" order has caused: https://reportediario.com.mx/noticias/vallarta/filas-de-cien....

THIS is what I live around. THIS is what I see. Hundreds of thousands, millions, starving and dying, so that comfortable Americans and Europeans can posh off about how "go out and you'll kill people". You don't give a shit about people ACTUALLY suffering. Just the hypothetical ones your brain tells you about, but you don't even care about the same hypothetical ones who carry the flu.
Worcester has a higher population than England's Worcester, and as such probably has more backlinks to pages related to it. That is global. Expecting global results to be regionalized is silly; just use regionalized results.
This never made sense to me, if you're concerned about privacy, why send your search queries to an intermediary when the browser is perfectly capable of handling that for you.
A good summary here for anyone doubting you: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-apps-flag...
By your definition many successful companies would be performing poorly as they immediately invest all their profits.

Marketing is an investment, because the benefits of marketing are in the future and are aimed at increasing business.
DDG is nowhere close to google scholar, much less pubmed. If you don't want to use google scholar, web of science is good too.
>because C.E.O.'s are effectively unelected government officials of the United States

This is a really, really interesting take on it. I happen to agree, but if they're public officials, then how do we square the absolutely massive incentives to action at the expense of the public good?
Federated RSS?
I did read the following on the internet, not long time ago, I don't know if they are legit numbers, they could be fake :

Rides:
- Operations: 12k (+ 2.4k)
- Engineering: 3.8k (+ 700)
- Marketing: 1k
- Finance: 1.2k (+ 1.7k)
- HR: 1k (+ 2.4k)
- Legal: 0.9k (+ 1.2k)
Eats: 2.2k (+ 1k)
Self driving: 1.4k (+ 150)
Freight: 1.2k
Elevate: 100
I'm with you on the licensing side.

But C? come on Microsoft.
well there's got a be a reason why they're our favorite evil corp doesn't there?