skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s intuitive that contact tracing APIs, as Google and Apple PMs have conceived them, somehow help you. Some health officials have an opinion on what kind of software would help them, saying something extremely well publicized by Apple and Google will not. This conflict plays out with masks, taking flights, not being able to smell as a diagnostic, and any number of widely reported guidance that has some evidence, some intuition, tremendous exposure in social and traditional media but no conclusive, registered control trialed (RCT) results.

A line of logic that goes, “in the absence of conclusive evidence, play it safe” doesn’t give you an answer for “track locations and surveil, to collect more data and answer questions better, versus collect a minimal amount of data in the interest of some other kind of safety called privacy.” There’s no universal rationalist approach to your opinion here. You have to decide whether to trust John Gruber or whatever health officials WashPo quoted.

RCT is a real line for people in medicine, at least for people who aren’t looking to make a buck developing a drug. In the same way health officials don’t strictly care if the stock market goes down, they wouldn’t strictly care if Google and Apple’s brand would be impacted by detailed location tracking. At the end of the day health officials, like the UCSF prof quoted here, just want people to be safe and healthy.

The counterpoint is, what do Apple and Google want? To do something? The appearance of doing something? They are not health organizations. John Gruber isn’t a doctor. These are different perspectives and goals, not an argument over how to achieve common goals. Why crank out and die on the hill of a giant company’s PR team?
I'm not sure I understand, what's the problem with following people and using the timeline (maybe even in a third party client that sorts it chronologically)? What do you gain by only navigating to profiles manually?
> I'm going to hell for this

I'll take it a step further. Animals have coexisted with nasty viruses for a long time, and lots of animals are still susceptible to them. Are threats that constantly cull the population beneficial to the strength of the species? Are there viruses some species are genetically immune to because the virus killed indiscriminately, while other viruses provided a net benefit?
Nope. Not reasonable, and likely of no benefit to anyone. That'd be like 50kb... assuming it doesn't cause your hashing algorithm to take a shit causing breakage. 50kb to on one request, sitting pretty much at rest 99.9% of the time, is nothing to even bother with. Most folks should probably spend more time worry about optimizing their own payloads instead of their users [1].

[1] To that point, most people want to spend time on useless optimizations like truncating a password when they should be spending time reducing the size of their images, making sure requests are gzipped, or reducing their obscenely complex front-end bundle. It's just that most of those optimizations which are useful, only make you feel stupid for not implementing them sooner because they're obvious and easy, while truncating a password feels like YOU outsmarted something (when in fact you didn't)
Choosing C++ over C means his programming abilities aren't very good.
There are many, many products approved by the FDA that can be abused by "desperate people". Given the limitations on sale, demand, and other things that would appear to be a lesser evil. I'd definitely disagree with the conclusion that preventing this "did more good for the population of the US". Even more so given that many of these facilities were mainly doing "personal" size efforts, 10-15ml bottles. Even at 96% alcohol (which is what the distillery here was getting), 10ml of alcohol won't put much of a dent in the alcoholic who is debating drinking hand sanitizer. It's barely a shot of vodka.
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Sure, open source TTS seems to be lagging behind recent commercial offerings, but pharmaceutical research is actually an excellent example of a field with massive FOSS software usage. TTS is also "purely virtual" which makes it significantly different, and I would say significantly more approachable to open source collaboration.
Did you mean to type “most corrupt” instead?
Further details here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
google:
search terms -site:cnn.com -site:wikipedia.org -site:...
> Also, the platform must be profitable or promise future profit

This is arguable. The very idea and existence of non-profit organisations are proof.
Additionally CPI tends to be a lagging indicator.

This is true, but various parties have been predicting a large increase in inflation in the US for years and years and they keep being wrong. I expect them to be wrong again this time too.

But we'll see!
It's a meta tag in html, theme-color I think it's called
> Many in finance think we're headed for deflation

Pshh - not as long as we have a central bank.
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There's many

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs#favorite-blog...
What evidence of another 30%+ decline do you have? I'm not questioning that there is evidence, just genuinely interested in learning more.
So unlike 23andme, (1) realtime COVID diagnosis is extremely timely and actionable to recipients and has a real impact on disease spread, (2) the SCAN tests are reliable, targeted, and they have the data to support that, and (3) a positive or negative COVID test seems unlikely to induce suicide, or I don't know, a murder spree. So I don't think this comparison is especially suitable.

In addition, the informed consent form for participants has included language that results might be shared since early March: https://pastebin.com/wj6fMnrw So the FDA, in May, claiming to think the study was only surveillance suggests to me a remarkable failing of comprehension by the FDA.

> The FDA has not raised any concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of SCAN’s test

> We have been in conversation with the FDA since March 1st and hope to have our EUA soon. We initiated the process to authorize our lab-developed test and self-swab kit on March 23rd and, in accordance with the EUA process and timeline, submitted data to secure federal authorization on April 13th. We are actively working to address their questions and resume testing as soon as possible.

> We have performed internal studies to determine shipping and specimen stability with our assay, testing approximately 17,000 home-collected mid-turbinate swabs from both adults and children—including Seattle Flu Study and SCAN samples. We have provided the following information to the FDA:

> To date, only a single, minor adverse event has been reported.

> Our shipping and stability studies have established that detection of SARS-CoV-2 is stable for over a week at high and low regional temperatures.

> With regard to proper specimen collection outside of a clinical setting, our experience from more than 18 months of sampling with the Seattle Flu Study and now SCAN also shows a low rate of insufficient nasal sampling. The internal control in our assay readily identifies whether a sufficient specimen is collected.

> Numerous scientific studies have established similar rates of detection for mid-turbinate swabs and the nasal pharyngeal swabs typically used in clinical testing, including for SARS-CoV-2 detection. The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines endorse the use of mid-turbinate swabs and reference the potential for self-collection with appropriate instructions.

https://scanpublichealth.org/updates/2020-05-13
What are folks’ non-commoditized heuristics for finding new things online?

I was intrigued by how dorkweed’s approach has changed over time, as described in a reply to a sibling comment.

As general search results get watered down and rotten tomato inflation maybe trends towards reflecting company interests rather than my interest-level, maybe it’s worth re-evaluating the vetting avenues we take as users.

Here’s mine: for games and shows I’ve recently found myself using quantity of fan-videos on YouTube as a proxy for quality. So far it’s been a decent means to find cult followings for something I otherwise wouldn’t necessarily hear about.

Obviously this approach has its flaws - and is subject to financial perversions to an extent - but I figure if enough people genuinely want to pay tribute to a work, it might be worth checking out.
I’m not sure if the premise is correct here. What metric is Reddit being judged by? What if the various fashion subreddits, in aggregate, have more users, more content (both good and bad), and more innovation than websites like AskAndy?

I suspect what you’re looking for is:

1. The intimate small town feel of the early internet, and

2. The higher average post quality (because of the type of person that both had internet and used forums back then) as measured by intellectuality, domain specificity, and demonstrated expertise.

Reddit doesn’t display those qualities because of the tragedy of the commons phenomenon. Great content is interspersed with what is essentially “noob spam.” Even if it has a greater aggregate amount of quality content, it doesn’t have the same feel as older forums.

Reddit can try to fix this by grouping people together into social clusters. If there is a subreddit with 2 million people, why not create many smaller “breakout” groups that coexist with the main thread? Of course, this is easier said than done, but I’m sure it’s possible to execute this idea well.

I think VR meeting rooms will be the ultimate solution. They will be intimate by definition, and people will sort into their favorite social groups. An American scientist might join an international “scientist salon” and socialize with scientists everywhere from Germany to Japan. A bulletin would contain and display static text posts by the members of the salon. It would also display things like plebiscites and summaries of important meetings. You’d be able to bounce around different groups with a different subject matter any time you want. Some will have barriers to entry and identity verification, most won’t. Some groups will be purely social and defined more by the members than by any subject matter. Altogether that would make the internet feel more like a collection of physical spaces inhabited by communities of people.

What I’m describing ideally shouldn’t be run by one corporation like Facebook or Reddit. The communities should be strung together by a shared backbone under an Internet 3.0. Visiting one should be like visiting a different website. We can use the formation of the original 2D internet as a template for how to proceed in creating a VR internet.
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That what I am doing just putting £1500 or so every month into my ISA and learning to live with the big up and downs on a daily basis.
Wasn’t the WFC reduction you keep BRK under the 10% limit for banks?
Everyone should consider making their own blog! Kind of like everyone should consider baking their own bread, at least once.

Having a blog that I built that is truly “mine,” with a domain name that I own, is one of the most rewarding things I’ve done. Even though I don’t write that often and don’t have that many readers.

I currently host it on github pages, but I could move it somewhere else in a weekend if I wanted to.

Depending on your motivations, discoverability by strangers may be overrated. I’ve had good success just telling people that I respect that I wrote something and getting feedback from them. I’m not selling anything on my blog, so that’s worth a lot more to me than anonymous attention.

Social media like HN, Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook may also help for getting the word out about your writing while still letting you own the space where your writing lives.
Where do you hold a billion dollars?
Is this your site? It's really nice! I have something similar (although without all of the features on this site). I also scrape a bunch of blogs that doesn't have rss.

One thing, people really like https, especially when sending form data such as the signup.
Gatekeeping then?
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This a low quality article. There is no real analysis of why the US loses so badly, how the US's immense superiority in nukes factors into these simulations, the comparitive battle readiness of each nations common solder (US get lots more experience than Russia or China), etc.
> TSLA - with gas so cheap, electric vehicles are less attractive

One suggestion was that the big players will postpone electric while their ICEs get a temp boost, thus giving TSLA an even more unassailable lead.
This appears to be aiming at mobile, so maybe a split screen wouldn't work, but I'd at least argue that directories should be at the top.

There are cases where a file is associated with directory, e.g. you export a web page and its contents are saved within a dedicated directory, and some languages will allow module.foo and module/submodules.

But those are odd cases and the insight that the file managers had was that folder navigation and file manipulation are two separate things. If you need to move a file, you always want to move it to another folder. All the files just get in the way. If you want to find a file, it's in a folder, it's not "between" two files.

Putting everything together is plainly nuts.
In a vein similar to your annoying technology site, you would probably appreciate https://grumpy.website/
One of my favorite blogs of all time.
Half of the people managing hundreds of millions of dollars fail to outperform the market once they start managing those hundreds of millions of dollars.
bank accounts, money market funds, government debt
If you KNOW the market is going down you certainly don't want to be holding onto cash...
My in-laws are Trump supporters.

They live in a small town in Oklahoma that literally has two stoplights. There's no job opportunity unless you drive out a couple hours. Even then the job prospects aren't amazing (for tech anyway) but fine for the cost of living.

The roads are full of potholes and even the highway that runs through the town isn't in great shape. When you enter the town, there are a series of speed limit signs just after going over a hill, all in in proximity to one another. They're used as speed traps.

The high school my husband attended didn't offer math higher than Algebra 2, but they do have a basketball gym and football stadium. The high school sports are about as much the town has going on–seriously, the last time we visited them, our in-laws insisted we go with them to watch the football game. They were extremely excited to watch the half-time show. The high school band had maybe a couple dozen kids?

Trump's gotten through to folks like my in-laws. They honestly believe that Trump is perfect, that nothing he's ever been accused of has happened, and if it did happen, he was setup by George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, and that all three of them are allied with the Mexicans and Muslims. Also, Mexicans and Muslims are evil. I'm literally repeating a conversation from the dinner table.

They insist I watch Sean Hannity and read the Bible.

I guess the point of this long post is that Trump's response to Covid-19, however well or horrible it is/was, is completely irrelevant to this group of voter. As horrible as it may sound, I honestly wish my in-laws didn't have the right to vote. The notion that they have a say in shaping the world that my child will grow up in is a bit terrifying.
> they don't work anymore.

I see you haven't met my dad.
I find twitter great for following astrophysics researchers and optimization/DL researchers.
tweetdeck.twitter.com[0] works really well for this. It does not "filter" your feed in any way (as far as I know). You follow a hashtag you see every tweet for that hashtag. You follow a user and you can filter out "retweets" and "likes" to only see what the user posts (I wanted to see what @POTUS tweets and it's nothing only retweets).

A column in tweetdeck can be a user, a search, a list, a hashtag, and more. Every column shows ever tweet and they mostly come in realtime.

[0] https://tweetdeck.twitter.com
Ken, could the two 10^18 constants have two different signs? The signs must be stored somewhere like the exponents. Since most bits are zero for both signs and exponents, does it make sense for them to be coded as Boolean functions instead of being stored in a ROM?
Public health is controlled by the state though. FDA shouldn’t have jurisdiction in preventing a state from taking actions to control an outbreak.
The fed is legally barred from directly lending to businesses or households except for in an emergency where they can do virtually anything they want.

Congress authorizes $300 billion in direct checks to consumers. The remaining $2.7 trillion went to businesses.

The fed has separately printed several trillion dollars lending to businesses, buying corporate bonds, and other actions.

What should the stock market be at right now? Who knows. We have no way to know because we won’t allow the market to tank.
Hmm is forcing future you to do something going to change how you feel about doing that something?
Uh... because the market crashed ~50 days ago for reasons that still hold? The pandemic isn't resolved, the GDP isn't recovering. There's absolutely no rational reason for it not to crash again given that it did before. Now, it might not. That's the point of risk analysis.

You don't make an investment on the basis of "you can't prove to me this won't happen", you have to come up with numbers the justify it. So I'm asking again: what are your numbers that you feel the probability of a historically high burst of inflation is higher than another market crash like the one in March?
Honestly, the only thing I really like about Twitter is Moments. They aggregate the current trend from various tweets and compile a good enough summary to get you upto speed. But this is so deeply buried in the UI, it's a shame.
Duplicates are only allowed if a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

This one did though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072. In such cases we add [dupe] at the top and bury the thread. That's not because we think it's a bad article or a bad thread! It's because front page space is the scarcest resource HN has (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and curiosity withers under repetition (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
The timeline is controlled via algorithm, and either filters or selects things to show you based on an uncontrollable process which is likely just meant to make you more outraged, annoyed, etc. to keep you engaged with the platform. Not only is that unhealthy, but it doesn’t make for an enjoyable experience almost by definition.
Chinese owned, selling scam payday loans in Africa.
My guess is buybacks skew + weight from the previous quarters.
A top VC funded company obeys the same pricing laws as a public market one. It's part of the establishment. He is talking about bootstraped non-sanctioned S corps.
Seems like in the long run the Fed will end up owning the whole market. It gets to invest with unlimited money in the most depressed assets every time there’s a downturn, and as an institution it’s horizon is forever. It seems like this ought to be a bizarre funding mechanism for the treasury. Perhaps the federal government should sell downturn insurance on assets. After all, it’s basically like the Fed is pretending it sold puts on much of the market when it in fact did not. Maybe the Fed should actually sell puts?
But if you only follow people which profiles you would want to visit manually you wouldn't see all this outrage?
Look at the Spanish flu after that 1919 you had the roaring 20's people did not change behaviour radically after that.
Counterpoint: Twitter is the preferred social media among scientists, and a good place to keep up with the latest papers and developments. The quality of discussion on science twitter can be pretty good too, despite the character limit.
Assuming you're using Safari on your iPad Pro, you can in fact adjust the font size. See here: https://osxdaily.com/2019/10/04/how-increase-font-size-safar...

This setting is site-specific and is persisted across reloads, so to me, it seems ideal for your use case.
I'm not sure why this comment is downvoted -- it's definitely true, and the FDA does care about stuff that people ingest even if they aren't supposed to.
A charitable foundation is something rich people start to launder their reputation after a lucrative career of skulldaggery. Once you have more money than God you don't need an ROI for your bank account -- you need one for your soul.
Don't discount Instagram killing many of those communities.

So much easier to take a picture on your phone and post it to your Instagram page or story. Better dopamine rush, too, from a bunch of Like/Comment notifications rather than maybe a single forum reply hours later.
You might miss other more positive or neutral messages from those people.
If you think you have an investment that will do better in terms of climate change than the general stock market, I'm all ears
I think where it breaks down is when you have to run plugins that identify the kind of person a user is. I find that reduces the crapiness of the interactions if I can see someone is a POS without investing much time in finding that out. It's a step that shouldn't be necessary, but the faster that can be discerned the less I find myself second guessing their intent.
Because someone would inevitably try to submit a four megabyte password, or an eight gigabyte password, or whatever.
Wouldn't the parameters for a car loan be wildly different than for a home loan or for a personal line of credit that's unsecured?
> Cron has one of the worst configuration format ever and I'm certainly not going to miss fstab. I would find journald a step in the right direction even if the only thing it brought to the table was the ability to configure logging from the service file and not have to fiddle with logrotate.

What you don't like about cron format? It is nice, consistent.
Same for fstab, the only issue I have with it that e.g. Debian doesn't handle mounting network filesystems after the network is up (there are a couple of those and it shouldn't be hard to just grep the file for those).

As for journald, as long as they keep my log files in /var/log in pure text format it can stay.

The issue I have with systemd is that it tries to fiddle with my files, last year I noticed that /etc/resolv.conf contains some strange line with local resolver, WTF? I didn't install one for sure so why (and it was breaking my network).
If the KSA has the capacity and inclination to win a price war against every international competitor, it would have done so already.
Maybe what we need is a return to the very beginning, namely human curated web catalogs, aka Yahoo
I don't get the obsession with secrets...

Why not give us some signed JWTs for external authentication.

Secrets is only good for legacy systems.
Grumpy is amazing! We very much enjoy their content and actually got inspired by that site in the first place. Theres a link to them on our About page:

https://annoying.technology/colophon/
P/E fails to account for future earnings (ok, so F P/E), it doesn't account for assets and liabilities, and it ignores that security's relative value to other companies an other investments. And suppose profit margins are 7%, annual revenue is $1.2B, throw in a few more stats. What should the company's market cap be?
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I'm late to this party, but this is fantastic. I've popped it into the Firefox Stylus addon. Consider me a happy user. Thanks so much!
What an overstatement. We live in the most prosperous era of humanity. People have never had it better than today.
dystopian stuff. Are schools subscribing simply due to lack of alternatives or competition inside this new market?