skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>NO ONE was willing to get ahead of this thing and look silly requiring masks when there was no emergency.

AFAIK it was because there was a mask shortage and giving masks to healthcare workers provided greater utility than giving them to everyone else.
People lurk and upvote, you know
Half Life running on Windows XP running on iPad OS (using QEMU)
> "WhatsApp cannot read messages because they are encrypted throughout by default," said its spokesman.

Feels like a bit of a non-denial denial, given that that's not what the official claimed.
This. It's useful to think of it as an investor. As an example, if you own a property whose value is 250k in land and 250k in a house, and it currently rents for 20k a year and the land tax is priced at 10%, you would be losing 5k a year. So you put it on the market but no investor is going to buy a property that loses money so the price would have to fall out of the land value until the tax based on the value of the land is below the rent you are able to charge.

Now, if you abolish zoning or rezone places in addition to a land value tax, it could work as the investor could build more housing for the same land thus splitting the cost over multiple renters which I'm sure is the intended affect but a land value tax won't work without changing zoning laws.
Layoffs and Local Journalism
I'm not sure if this means you agree with me or disagree?

America is a staggeringly wealthy country and yet you spend all that wealth on trinkets while saying you can't afford universal healthcare, free education, fewer working hours, more vacation days, paid parental leave & other social benefits almost every other developed country provides their citizens.
Just to point out there are also: https://native-elements.stackblitz.io/
> ading a full descriptive profile) you get a great filter. I have done a good

can you explain? what keywords do you have to put to avoid this?
I get conflicting thoughts about this. Sometimes I feel we must have killed countless deep sea dwelling species without ever seeing them. Then sometimes I'm amazed by the resilience and scale of the ocean and wonder if somehow, very few species have gone extinct because of us.

The sheer biomass we've removed from the ocean is staggering though, and the cascading effect on the deep sea ecosystems must be immense. There is so much less food to fall down there now.
Identifying antibodies against coronavirus from convalescent plasma developed
> That is a shocking number to me. Entire grad programs are in serious jeopardy if the worst case scenario plays out.

Wait till you realize how much young engineering and sciences talent would remain outside the US and how much investment they will attract.
This is a 400 page book. Very likely overkill for what you intend to do. Many algorithms books contain the necessary discrete math prerequisites, so I'm not sure you should go with this book.
Check out https://github.com/omarroth/invidious: no js needed, audio-only mode.. It has some rough edges (channel pages and a couple videos seem to break), but it's very decent.
I don't know if it's legally required, but in China:

* Azure is provided by 21Vianet

* AWS is provided by Sinnet and NWCD

Generally speaking, serving the Chinese market is rather difficult as a foreign entity. My understanding is that unless you export more than 50% of the production value, you need to have a local partner. And even that's only allowed in certain industries.
I'm very glad of this development. Kelber has repeatedly made public statements in support of Matrix. Hope that more German government entities will adopt it.
Mention Python in a HN thread, and prepare for people to start moaning. IDK, maybe it's the SV filter bubble dealing with some mono-repo from google with a bajillion lines of legacy Python to support. Yeah, I can't imagine how unwieldy that might be. But for those of you that extol the virtues of the 'safety' a compiled language brings I say, try supporting a Java app that's been held together with shoe-strings and bubble-gum for 15+ years (in the enterprise world). Same nightmare, but much harder to re-architect.
So, I looked at the article they are refuting (or one of them?) and expected a bunch of superficial criticism as suggested in this refutation, but it does not look to me at all that "superficial" criticism is being defended against: https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/

^^^Swallow your politics if you can for a moment and read. At a minimum it seems that the rebuttal here was being argued in very bad faith. Given the stage set, I was expecting bikeshedding about the Law if Demeter or JSON vs other format, etc...
Ask HN: What is the biggest company on the market providing lab-microscopes?
3 years later, Nintendo's Joy-Con drift still a problem
Sounds like the driver is the loose end. I wonder if the author considered becoming a Doordash driver just for the arbitrage transactions.
But that it is efficient doesn't mean that it is not also crap. Suppose there is a community where people argue for X or Y. The moderators like X. 50 % of the users are assholes and 50 % are level-headed. The moderators shadow-ban all users who likes Y and who also level-headed. What you have left are the users who like X and assholes who like Y.

Uninvolved people who visit the community have no idea the moderators are so underhanded so appears to them that everyone who likes Y is an asshole. Thereby giving them the impression that X is more likable.

On Reddit tons of political subs moderated in that way. It's one of the reasons why there's multiple subs for Covid news. One for those who think more lock-down is needed and one for those do favor less lock-down.
> To preface, firstly - I am a supporter of free global trade and greater collaboration between countries to maximize the benefit of each other.

The problem starts when there is massive asymmetry in those countries in terms of human rights, worker protections, and environmental regulations.

Criticize the US all day (I certainly can), but compared to the Chinese single party dictatorship the US is massively better in all those areas. The EU is even better than the US in some.

Occupational safety, environmental laws, and a free and open society imposes costs on business in the form of higher wages and overhead. It's impossible -- repeat, impossible -- for businesses in countries that operate to those standards to compete in a "free trade" regime with businesses in countries that do not. It's even worse when said countries (like China) also subsidize their industries and implement protectionist asymmetrical trade policies of their own.

I am all for free trade between free countries to within some reasonable minimal standard for "free." Trade with totalitarian and lawless regimes should be heavily taxed.

The free world should form a trade pact among its members with heavy tariffs for imports from non members.

One way of implementing it would be penalties for wages below domestic median, carbon emissions, and human rights violations. Use those factors to calculate a score and impose tariffs accordingly.
It looks quite good, congratulations.
The foundation is immense "VC" funds that are throwing money at (often "unicorn") businesses that are using the money to grow their currently unprofitable businesses. The premise is that, once they are big enough to drive all the competing businesses out of business, they will be able to transition to being profitable.

The poster child of these "VC" funds is Softbank.

The foundation is crumbling. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/tech/softbank-earnings-intl-h...

When these companies collapse, the investment funding them will have to write down the losses the "unicorns" have built up, and there will be a lot of investors that will be sharing in that hurt.
Artificial intelligence?

More like dumber than the dumbest human.
Use Quart in place of Flask
No Benefit from Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19
Google is just such an awful, despicable company, that I've actually moved everything I can from their platform. It wasn't easy, I'd been a Gmail user for nearly 15 years. I'd rather pay Microsoft a hundred bucks a year than support them. That's how much I hate Google.
The insulin situation is crazy. I used to work with a guy whose wife had diabetes. He said the only way for them to afford insulin was to get it from Canada or Mexico. Otherwise he said he could not pay for it.
Not OP, but they might be alluding to the fact resource scarcity often leads to war
It's both. Sovereignty should not be taken lightly, nor do we really need yet another avenue for the big fish (read: US/China/Russia) to start throwing their weight around - whether it be through ""democracy"", troll farms, agitprop, etc. This may only start to become a better idea once we've proven we have an effective arsenal against these ideas.
I assume that the author must be in their teens/20s to call a stylesheet that is literally the most basic, primitive form of CSS possible "modern" :-D
Perhaps for some of these websites, this annoying design is helping improve monetization? Perhaps the users being inconvenience by this design is only a small minority and what they perceive of as a flaw could be the result of A/B testing with increasing profit as a goal?

Alternatively, some website consultant/'expert' is charging by the hour and adding this 'features' is a way for them to charge more?

Or, some technically clueless manager is asking the consultant why the website is not showing up in the local language when it is his browser that is misconfigured?
I agree that it's a simplification to blame the famine on 'British oppression', but to say `governments of the 1840s simply didn't have the scope of action available to a modern government` is something of a strawman.

There were a number of interventions accessible by the government. As parent points out there was ideological resistance to employing them, and where employed they were done so weakly and without enthusiasm. Sir Charles Trevelyan used the same argument you do - that there was ample actions Irish landlords could take directly - as an excuse for the government not to take action. Given he described the famine as a Godly judgement on the Irish, that argument is not a reasonable explanation for his approach.
Which restaurant? (I live in Austin)
I usually take it to mean full time equivalent...

It usually means either 25 full time employees, or a number of part time and full time staff that equal the paid hours of 25 full time employees.

e.g. 50 part time employees that work half the typical working week would be 25 fte
Yes indeed, I apologize and prostrate myself in front of the all-knowing gods of academia who never do anything wrong.

/s
> It contains troll harassment. By not letting a troll know they've been banned, you remove the incentive they might have to create a new account to continue their harassment.

Completely false.

It only adds another step, which is "check account with a private session". I'm sure eventually shadowbanning will also look at what IP address and also lie as well. But right now I don't know any sites that do that.

But shadowbanning is a disgusting practice, and is completely anti-transparency. It can be used to further political agendas (like the article is about). And if an account is spewing troll garbage, just delete, add to a mod log, and close. But very few sites are open like this. (The only site I'm aware of was the old site kuro5hin.org).

edit: And not only shadowbanning, but flags/dead also are abused here on HN. Its all too easy for a legit post with a differing (non-trollish) viewpoint that differs from the status quo, get -1'ed into oblivion, and then summarily flaggedkilled. Again, I've seen this happen when it appeared that there was some sort of concerted campaign to silence certain opinions. Requests to require a comment for flags/-1's, or even a 'who modded this' have gone unanswered.
You are constructing a false choice.

We have a general principle of due process and contract law that can be applied here in insisting that "massive corporations" play nice. Reigning in "massive corporations" doesn't require any new governmental powers.

I'm saying this as someone who leans libertarian but I don't think that is in conflict with the concepts of due process and reasonable contracts. The Devil is always in the details but it isn't an either/or choice.
Is the source code for this available? I couldn't find anything on the site or by looking through https://code.nasa.gov or https://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Car manufacturers and their thousands of suppliers for example.

How come people are not aware of this? Did Tesla have to give up controlling ownership to set up a plant in China?

https://europe.autonews.com/article/20180417/COPY/304179943/...
How I Built an AI to Beat Flappy.. Cat?
Reading mode does that, and you can have it auto-enable in Safari if you want.
I’m fairly centrist, almost a self-described neoliberal, but what you’re describing sounds like a convoluted argument to rationalize systemic oppression. I guess in many ways that’s what systems of property law and capitalism are for: ways for us to feel better about rationalising anti-social behavior as being a moral necessity even when plenty physical resources exist... “gotta pay rent, gotta pay debt, it’s only right...”

...and I say that as someone who recognizes the value of property laws. They’re all still a myth entirely created by society, so if it’s the system of debt and ownership that caused these people to starve, that is absolutely still what you can call “systematic oppression,” particularly when these terms of oppression were created by colonial masters...

(And the key to maintaining colonial power and oppression is always to make the colonial system in the interests of local power brokers like the local landlords you mention... but this sort of laundering of guilt does not absolve the colonial masters...)
Ha I used to worked on a tablet app that did a load of industrial safety checks.

We kept getting tickets to lock more and more of the device down as 'solutions' to support requests.

One ticket was to lock the device to maximum brightness, because support had fielded some calls where the users couldn't see the screen.

We then started getting calls from users who worked nightshifts complaining that this tablet bolted to their truck was blindling bright and there was nothing they could do to dim or turn off the screen...
Everything else is lost in US with immediate job termination, no thanks.

You can get those 30 pretty much everywhere, either by negotiating it, or taking advantage of the multiple holidays that we enjoy across Europe.

And as I mentioned, I don't have any complains regarding salary.

There is more in life than being rich.
This recent vibe of minimal CSS files for plain HTML tags feels the same as the CSS Zen Garden from years ago.

Which is very good and quite welcome in the current state of overbloated JS frameworks that do everything.

I wonder if this will also drive further the adoption of standard web components https://open-wc.org/guide/
You can also include how important privacy is in the talk.
It now indicates that there is a script by putting [JS] next to the title. Links that redirect elsewhere have an arrow in the post title appended!

Thanks for the suggestion!
I feel like that Forbes article is concentrating on the wrong things because it makes for better copy. I calculated estimates based on the numbers they gave.

For the 1980-81 school year, $20.7B at 41% for instruction and $13.0B at 26% for administration yields $16.6B at 33% for other than instruction/administration.

For the 2014-15 school year, $148.0B at 24% for instruction and $122.3B at 29% for administration yields $239.7BB at 47% for other than instruction/administration.

That means, for approximate multiples, instruction increased 7.15x, administration increased 9.41x, and other than instruction/administration increased 14.44x. When I recalculate what the 2014-15 expenses would have been had they all increased at the same rate as instruction, I get $29.35B excess for administration and $121.02B excess for other than instruction/administration.

It seems to me, based on those estimates, that the elephant in costs is somewhere in that "other than instruction/administration" category. Overpaid administrators are certainly a problem, but they appear to be a relatively minor problem.
Show HN: Create and play digital board games with rule enforcement
Could you post your back-and-forth with google support?

In the worst case, I doubt it will resolve anything but it could give other developers an idea on how or how not to communicate with google. In the best case, you might restore your app on google and have a template for other developers on how to deal with this issue.

If you have send a request but didn't get a reply, please post those as well.
Lazy-Loading Angular Modules (Ivy and Async Await)
Why is location a net benefit for anyone but the landlords? SEO is essentially just your digital location. It makes your restaurant easy to find and navigate to, in the same way that a good location makes your restaurant easy to get to (and maybe park).
Getting you to consider that seems to be the purpose of the publication in which the article appears.
Accurate deep neural network inference using computational phase-change memory
If we consider our brains conscious, and the foundational building blocks of that consciousness are electro/chemical reactions, it seems plausible that there is an innate property of consciousness to the underlying matter of those processes.
I did a quick search but I didn't spend too much time on the name. Although it reads a little like a marketing peace, and I would love it if others used it, it's just a little personal project so that I don't keep reinventing the wheel on my own minimalist web projects.
IBM blog : https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/05/iso-accuracy-deep...
I interpreter the Huawei example quite differently than you.

In attacking Huawei, the U.S. is using it's tech power to further it's economic and geo-political ends. There are, of course, legit reasons to be concerned about Huawei but Trump has made it clear that the attacks on them go away if he gets a trade deal he likes.

The ironic thing is that this is their primary nominal concern about Huawei in the first place: that its close ties to the Chinese government and pwa suggest it would be used to further their interests rather then simply pursuing corporate interests.
Most scientific software developers have been developing and working with enormously complex codebases for years. You're clearly starting from the perspective that they're eggheads who have no experience with this area; that assumption is almost certainly wrong.
For a further look at this, I would recommend the book: https://www.strongtowns.org/book

It's got some bits I disagree with, but is a great way to look at things from a different point of view and contains a lot of insight.
Open Web Components
I made a website for people to prototype and playtest/play board games

Quick summary:

- online, multiplayer gameplay
- rules are enforced (using a DSL)
- customize the look and feel using WYSIWYG editors
- modular: mix and match tokensets and boards across different games
- bonus: videochat while you play

Deck Chess is a proof of concept for the system: https://turn-base.com/games/lobby/22/
And even before that the Snowden thing had a profound impact.
The hundreds of Native American tribes of centuries past were as different from each other as they were different from European cultures. In fact the many different regions of Europe have always had much more in common with each other than the original tribes of North America had with each other.
Yes, the other day I found out my mechanic did terrible job fixing my car and in fact they damaged it. I came back to the garage and rewarded them with obscene bonus money. I also reassured them that I will be coming back for more business in the future.
Historically, you just buy land. As much as you can find, in as great a quantity as you can find.
Those grad programs are too large. The main draw for international students is often the visa, and the universities treat them as cash cows, often providing poor quality product.

A friend of mine in a graduate physics program recently told me that he felt that 90 percent of the students lacked the aptitude to capitalize on the program at all, but that the university was financially incentivized to keep them in.

Obviously, this applies to both foreign and domestic students, but the point is that these programs are grossly inflated.
As someone who constantly runs into mobile pages with poorly fitting content yet are still scroll-limited, I see this as a welcome feature.

Most mobile browsers seem to lock the scroll direction while moving anyway, so atleast it isn't sloppy in practice, imho
> A software developer will care more about maintainability and end-user experience than a scientific coder, who will likely prize flexibility and control instead. Importantly, this means that programming patterns and norms that work for one may not work for the other — exhortations to keep code simple, to remove cruft, to limit the number of parameters and settings, might actually interfere with the intended applications of a scientific code for example.

Granted, but when publishing, these need to be primary concerns. Source code, then, is a communications medium.

Many famous scientists like Einstein and Feynman would do their work in their heads, not by filling blackboards with equations. When they needed to publish, they'd write down equations because that is the medium of communications. You make it as simple as possible, so people can follow you. E=mc^2 is brilliant because it is so simple. Maxwell's equations got a lot more traction once they were simplified down to just 4.

Scientists using computers for research or analysis are welcome to use any messy code they want, but if they wish for others to follow their work, they need to clean it up to the standards of the industry.

It was beat into my head from a young age that research is only part of being a scientist. You also need to be able to communicate your ideas -- hence all of the writing class requirements. Scientists need to take this to heart, and if they wish to publish in terms of source code, to write source code that others can read.

When even professionals in the field have trouble verifying your work, you've got a problem. It's been a while since I worked in scientific computing, but I never saw a single published paper with a program where the program even matched the description in the paper it was attached to.
> >...but either way this is unlikely to be company policy

> Perhaps you haven't seen the article because it's behind an Apple News link. There's a screenshot of a message stating company policy as follows:

> "Pursuant to Section 8.3 of the Developer Agreement and the Enforcement policy, apps referencing Covid-19, or related terms, in any form will only be approved for distribution on Google Play if they are published, commissioned or authorized by official government entities or public health organizations"

How does their own browser not run afoul of this policy?
> No, but if I were you I would at least consider that there might be a "misunderstanding" leading to you having to find alternative accommodation.

Why, on a site like couchsurfing, would there be any implied sex, or opportunity for misunderstanding around 'sex for surfing'? It's blatantly outside the standards and norms of the community.
> That is a shocking number to me.

Makes sense. American universities are top-tier and lots of talent is abroad!

CS and EE in particular carry over in another country.
Astrid Kirchherr, Who Helped Create the Beatles’ Image, Has Died
This podcast goes into a lot of detail on what the CDA says: https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/make-no-law/2019/08/de...