skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't to stop Covid.

It’s to signal people to stay away from each other.
> The only people who lose in this equation are the ones who accepted those risks.

And, more importantly, also the people who are collateral damage of this. I.e. the people in your or mine neighbourhood. The local restaurants, the local drivers, the local renters.

All this money raised isn't just sitting there doing nothing, it's disrupting markets - the way a disruptor wielded by a Klingon or Romulan would disrupt your body. By the time the disruption ends, your body won't work. These markets won't work either.
Keeping interest rates artificially low is a good way of making sure no one - companies included - keeps any cash at hand.
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> a rough 6% of global capacity

This December '19 CGTN (I know, I know) article[0] says 16%

“China currently produces over 16 percent of silicon chips. To compete for semiconductor leadership and make its economic relationship with emerging economies easier, China plans to produce 70 percent of all semiconductors it uses by 2025.”

And this March 2020 Daexu Consulting article[1] pegs China's semiconductor consumption at ~60% (!) of the world's total, but notes “However, domestic Chinese manufacturers are still only capable of meeting approximately 30 percent of their own demand.” ~60%÷10×3 = ~18% which jibes with that 16% back there.

What's your source for 6% ?

[0] https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-17/China-s-semiconductor-...

[1] https://daxueconsulting.com/chinas-semiconductor-industry/
I believe that in the USA fax is legally considered "secure" and doesn't violate HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy laws, but email does.

So yes, I think it's an actual fax machine in those cases.
As I stated in the comment you quoted from, this was about 20 years ago. Also, Chrome is made by Google, so it seems entirely reasonable that someone fixed a problem they found annoying about browsers. (At the same time, Google is so big now that they may continue ignoring "en-US" because of momentum and/or because no-one remembers the original reason behind that decision.)
We shouldn’t have to jump through these kinds of hoops. Their recommendation engine is smart enough to discern between a one off video watch and a genuine interest, but youtube gets stuck on recommending conspiracyland videos. It’s at the point where I just ignore the entire section as if it were ads.

I want a tool to work without having to sift through hundreds and hundreds of videos and try to guess which one caused the drift into crazy town.
It is pretty clear that imitating growth via creative financing and debt is a pyramid scheme. However, it is more of a symptom than the cause.
How restaurants suffered? I mean if restaurants were so unable to cooperate to set up their own delivery service to compete against the VC funded ones, then they were already well destined to go out of business.

(And I'm not saying the state shouldn't step in, because these are the typical pathological market states that need some intervention.)
Someone needs to take this to the EU courts and force google (and apple) to allow the use of alternate app stores that are not technically hindered.

It was done with Windows and Explorer so I don't see why this is any different.
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> Spending on things like roads is a small percentage of government.

I believe ST's point is that this is only true because cities and towns use cash accounting, and so the depreciation costs of roads and other infrastructure are hidden. Once these wear out and have to be replaced, these cities will find themselves in a very deep hole.

Note that cash accounting is so misleading that it's literally illegal for most companies to use it; municipalities get to be an exception because it helps tax cuts seem more viable than they really are, and voters want to be lied to in this way.
Virtually nothing in this article is cited or backed up with any data at all. Clicking through the links takes me to other pages with similar bold claims and a similar lack of citations or data.

Entire site seems to exist to sell me a book or for me to donate money so I can become a "member."

Just what the hell is this doing at the top of Hacker News? Anti-American title so people upvote it straight to the top without even reading it? This is garbage content that isn't even remotely related to tech news.
Reality check: The Russian economy completely depends on gas and middle class salary is 200 euro (said Putin). So who is sinking here?

At the same time they colonized Crimea, fought a war with Georgia. Who is starting wars here?

You might not like intelligence work, but that's another story.
Do you consider you're on a secure network?
20% fee isn't the whole story - about 5% is the cost-of-fulfillment - website, phone support, CC processing, fraud protection, etc. The rest of the "fee" is variable marketing and promotions costs - higher search placement, "buy one get one" offerings to customers, etc. The calculus for the restaurants is whether they spend any marketing budget, and if they do, is it going to be junk-mail flyers or targeted advertising that they have some hope of tracking success with.
> In the UK the three big pizza chains (Dominos, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut)

I don't know why but I am saddened by this. I mean, even in the UK they are the biggest?
Asking a non-dev user to manually download and install an APK might be a simple solution, but so impractical that it's almost useless in my opinion.
Building a list of RSS feeds takes time. I find that when I stumble across a new site (regardless of how I got there), I poke around to see if the content is interesting. If so, I seek out an RSS feed for it.

Note there are ways to get an RSS feed from some sites without them (RSS-Bridge[0] is what I use), but the experience is much better if the site natively produces one.

In time, you'll find yourself with hundreds of feeds on a variety of topics.

[0] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
I'm genuinely surprised it wasn't an Excel spreadsheet.
For Google it is extreme.

The results you get are very much dependant on where you are visiting from. I can set my everything to Japanese, both in my browser, OS and my Google user account and search via google.co.jp - but if I am not in Japan, results will be skewed away from Japanese websites.

For example: The other day I wanted to find the lyrics for the Japanese version of a song, so I typed "[song name] 歌詞" and because Google knows that 歌詞 means lyrics, and it can see I'm in Europe, my top result was an English lyric site, with the original version of the lyrics and no mention of the Japanese word from my search term. Technically, that is really impressive, but kinda useless.

On top of that, it can sometimes be impossible to visit help or product pages if you happen to be in the wrong country.
Uber killed Elaine Herzberg and didn't get in trouble.
Well the United States illegally invaded Iraq in 2003 without UN approval (with the pretense that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be false), and managed to get the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia and Poland along for the illegal ride.

Taiwan has a vibrant democracy and is highly regarded internationally. If China invades Taiwan, the resulting coalition will look more like the 2001 invasion of Afganistan in Operation Enduring Freedom [1], with United States and other NATO members attacking military assets on China's mainland to neutralize the invasion.

The risk of even a small scale nuclear exchange is huge, and so is the risk it will escalate into a Third World War with billions dead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_Operation_Endu...
And now this post has been removed from the Ask HN front page too...
I live in the Netherlands, so Google keeps showing me Dutch results first, Dutch videos on YouTube and Dutch ads, even though I don't know Dutch and I did set all my preferences everywhere to English, but it seems to be stubborn to show me Dutch content even though it's just a waste of bandwidth and ad budget.
People keep trying to sue (and otherwise legally punish) Google and similar platforms for not policing their content enough.

This is the inevitable result.
Users complain of Robinhood, Etrade outages as stocks soar
A false premise relentlessly repeated.
> Is it common for users to have the language preferences of their browsers misconfigured?

At the last millennium it was. Just like some people are still complaining that HTTPS is too CPU intensive, because it used to require a visible share of the cycles of a 486.
Whoa, they took away Podcast Addict? I've used PA for nearly a decade and can't see how they could credibly ban it from their store. Either this is a result of their advanced "AI" making an oopsie or they're using the current situation as an excuse to axe their competition, and I'm more likely to believe the latter. Google always acts with a degree of plausible deniability.
Does not compute. If congress passed a stock buyback tax 10 years ago, there would have been less buybacks over the 10 years.
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As is what happened to your comment here. As soon as comments go up they are dead, or -1 so hard mins after posting its almost invisible though not quite dead. I assume my comments are the same.

As an aside, this taught me early on with this site never to look for replies to my comments. Also aided by the fact HN does not notify you of replies, which then kills most discourse unless the drive-by kind.

It's gotten to the point where I skip JUST to the showdead comments here just to see the dissenting views, or more often as of late, correct information someone has for no reason flagged.

Fuck a shadowban, this forum pretends to be adult and treat us as such, but as with most things it's just lipservice.

Its like mentioning the very obvious trolls on any post critical of china. here comes dang to say 'you cant do that' while the trolls post all over the forum and kill all dissenting comments. We have all seen this time and again but WE are the dicks for pointing it out.

Pretending astroturfing doesnt gappen hurts the forums. Pretending dissenting comments arent there just hurts the forums.

Ive been here for a looong time, 3rd account over the years (forgotten pws or whatever, I never care as I've never posted enough to have the karma to even downvote), but it feels like this place has reached the tipping point.

So I'm here, for the moment, but mostly to read, and only until something better comes along.
The programmers brain easily gets stuck on a thought loop similar to the _categorical imperative_; in which if something is true, it must be applicable in _all_ circumstances.

Human life however is not an infinite array of possibilities, but stay in very specific zones for most of the time.

Think about it; exponential behavior would propably be deemed bad for most things out there in code, but if you knew the iterations never peaked above 3, it doesen't apply. Much like in real life, you have concrete real values that never really change, unlike the abstract unknowable problems you're used to dealing with.
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Growth in the US is 20% real, 80% bubble. Every now and then the bubbles burst, the baloons deflate to their actual value. And then greed accelerates things again. Unfortunately the acceleration happens on the "promise", not the actual.

If I may add a chart, the red line is for me the actual value of the US economy (DJIA)

https://www.tradingview.com/x/fvtBtRx6/

Top line is promised profits/accident waiting to happen.
Bottom line is actual value.

Another thing that pisses me off was depicted in the movie "The Big Short". There is not enough actual money/products/things to go around, so we do derivatives. I remember derivatives from my Uni years. We don't have enough/good numbers? Drop a derivative of something, inflate it, mask it, and sit back and wait. And then the balloon gets too much air, it will deflat, people (retail) will lose their money, and here we go again.

It's not growth (in the USA) unless there is a 10-year-looping wealth redistribution.
This is starting to happen through Research Software Engineers, although as it is still a (relatively) new movement within academia.

https://society-rse.org/
https://www.software.ac.uk/
No, seriously, why does it matter that poverty has "improved" over the years? It still exists. It still leads to suffering and brutal, undignified deaths. Is collapsing in your trailer, abusive nursing home, or city street any better than in your hovel or, well, city street, 150 years ago? Like everyone else, society must answer the question, "What have you done for me lately?".
You're right all just "for free" don't mind them now slurping up your emails, tracking your locations at all times, recording your voice, and more. It's free. Don't worry about what's happening outside the Coliseum focus on the bread and circuses being passed out everything is fine.
That's a common myth, and is completely wrong. In fact, it is almost 180 degrees wrong.

Before section 230, there had been a couple of court cases. One held that a particular provider was not liable for anything posted on it, because it did not do any filtering or blocking at all. Another held that a different provider was liable for what users posted, because it did do some filtering and blocking.

Congress felt these outcomes were wrong, and section 230 was specifically meant to make providers not liable for user provided content, regardless of whether or not they did any filtering or blocking.
And since in this case we are talking about Google - you can already side load apps...

Apple has less than 50% of the market in the US and 15% of the market worldwide. People chose to use Apple without any coercion from the government.

But back to this case, people can choose to sideload apps on Android. So what’s the problem?
Thanks, there are now a few demos at https://blog.notetoweb.com.
Not a comment on the specific repo in question, but I just want to note that I have seen utter monstrosities of academic code written in Python, MATLAB, and R - languages that are ostensibly "easier" than C++. I so not think that poor code quality is due to the many footguns C++ admittedly gives you.

I am sure that the main research is not in the implemented code. But with unclear code, it is exceedingly hard to know that there are no mistakes: that the researched models have been properly encoded.

That, I believe, is what software engineers are afraid of.
Make sure you're calling the right number

https://www.eater.com/2019/8/6/20756799/yelp-grubhub-phone-n...
There's this strange belief a lot of people have that leaders care about regular folks. They don't, they only care about themselves, and the system as it is is what got them where they are. Thus, they are incentivized to keep things the way they are. Not just that, but in a plutocracy like the US, leaders want to make sure that poors stay poor. The worst possible outcome for the rich and powerful is that it becomes easier for other people to climb the ladder, and harder for them to increase the size of the gap.
this is quite off the mark. the author sets the bar too low for himself by criticizing the most easily (and to be fair legitimately) dismissed criticisms of the Imperial College model.

here's a better laid-out critique that the OP doesn't speak to:

The Imperial College modelers released the source code a couple of days ago to the model that shut down the world economy. It's not the original model code but was rather original source code turned over to volunteer programmers who re-wrote it so that is more readable. I have done some model review of financial models in the past but without the source code I would not be able to do a full review of the Imperial College model. Now that we have the source code (sort of), I can.

Any such model ought to have been independently reviewed before it is ever used for real policy decisions. Policy analysis is awash in models but no one ever really checks them. Going forward, health policy makers should ask for and disclose independent validation of any model before using its results to make recommendations of any consequence.

Normally, model reviews are long technical documents but there would also be a summary section. Here's what I think a summary should have looked like.

Overall conclusion: this model cannot be relied on to guide coronavirus policy. Even if the documentation, coding, and testing problems were fixed, the model logic is fatally flawed, which is evidenced by its poor forecasting performance.

https://www.facebook.com/scarlett.strong.1/posts/25243721950...
The truth is that making money off of software is not a software problem. It's a business problem, to be solved with business skills and intuition.

I always think of the remote ok guy who makes most if his products in php, jQuery, as sqlite3. Software engineers engineering sense is ultimately what holds them back. I know it does for me.
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That was an unpaid hobby project. I have spent more time than I estimated, now I need to catch up with other things I’m actually paid to do.

Will probably improve that library when I’ll have more time, I have some missing features on the back log.
I advice to read this book then:
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/het-is-oorlog-maar-niemand-die-het-...

It was in there. Pretty interesting read as well. Lots of stuff on FoxIT and the guy behind it.
I think it is a bug. I think they relied too heavily on automation and scraping to get a list of all the restaurants, menus and prices. From the original article:

> My first thought: I wondered if Doordash is artificially lowering prices for customer acquisition purposes.

> My second thought: I knew Doordash scraped restaurant websites. After we discussed it more, it was clear that the way his menu was set up on his website, Doordash had mistakenly taken the price for a plain cheese pizza and applied it to a 'specialty' pizza with a bunch of toppings.

So I don't think its a feature.

> what possible moral or legal right does Doordash have to an operating profit when it deliberately operates at a loss?

It doesn't have an operating profit whether you exploit the bug or not. Doesn't mean its okay to steal from them. Even if they do deliberately lose money (e.g. first Uber ride free up to $10), exploiting it is unethical (e.g. tricking Uber into thinking you're on a new phone).

The rest of your argument is again, why you don't like Doordash or why Doordash is unethical. I won't address this point because I think its unethical to steal from an unethical company so their ethics is irrelevant.

If I think Walmart is unethical, is it okay shoplift from their stores?
Another thing with successful open source projects is that people dedicate their whole lives to it - don't you think you'd enjoy more if you had worked on lots of different projects, tech, companies, etc... instead of "just" VLC? For how long do you plan to continue working on it? There's a whole world outside video playback - do you happen to think about this time to time?
It's very hard to take the article seriously without actual numbers. Why not find an example town, go over its finances and quantify the expected deferred maintenance compared with its income? If the town stopped growing and needed to make up revenue without counting on growth, where would it come from? Sales tax increases? Property tax? Government transfer payments? How much hardship would taxing the stakeholders the balance cause?
> I just want them to understand that they aren’t very much more protective than if they weren’t wearing them. And they’re really not doing a whole lot of good for the people around them. So, we should continue to do social distancing as much as we possibly can.

The headline is rather misleading then. Given most lockdowns don’t encompass starving oneself to death by not leaving the home at all and no epidemiologist has hitherto recommended this, masks still would improve the situation; their use would not be mutually exclusive with any particular level of social distancing.
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Would it be impossible to federate a homestay social network like Couchsurfing?
Another issue not mentioned is municipal bonds. City governments are addicted to debt. Municipal debt is probably larger than unaccounted municipal infrastructure costs.

Municipal debt was almost $4 trillion in 2016. That's insane. Eventually it's the Fed that will monetize municipal debt. It's just part of the larger public debt problem.
Korea just has a different mafia-style rule in the form of chaebol
I have taken multiple university courses in theoretical physics, in artificial intelligence and in neuroscience, including on the topic of consciousness.

I can directly observe my own consciousness and I can tell that without a doubt it can not be explained by current physics and "complexity". It is completely different in kind.

If you believe that consciousness could arise just from complexity and information processing, then you are frankly mistaken. Whether you lack a consciousness or just the introspective ability to perceive it... or I suppose a knowledge of physics.

Now beyond saying "there is something going on", things quickly become much more difficult. Pan-psychism is a worthwhile avenue to pursue. If there is some phenomenon going on at a macrolevel, then we do expect it to be made up things going on at a microlevel. Some kind of consciousness or proto-consciousness. But am somewhat pessimistic. We don't really know what we are even looking for, so how can we expect to find it?

The attempts to connect wave-function collapse with consciousness are unconvincing to me. It seems basically like tying together two things we don't understand with each other based on... not a lot.
And dynamic behavior: handlers for mouse clicks and animation events that are written in the parenthetical language.
Legitimately, are you a paid Google employee?
Mmm... the license says MIT, but it’s not really.

> I have only open sources .NET parts. The native library is shipped in binaries, with a permissive license which allows free use in any software (attribution is required).

Also from the eula:

> 3. You may not reverse engineer the software, except when this is allowed by EU Directive 2009/24
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... or the laws of your jurisdiction.

> 5. If you institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit)
alleging that the program itself (excluding combinations of the program with other software or hardware) infringes your patent(s),
then your rights granted by this license agreement shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

I mean... good job and all, but let’s not pretend this an MIT cross platform graphics library.

It’s a closed source core that runs on windows and an source available C# wrapper.
Roads don’t wear out and “have to be replaced”. They are continuously maintained, which coincidentally fits perfectly with cash accounting.