skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends.

A small basic pizza is $8-$10 here. Domino's always has a deal where you can get 2 medium pizzas for $6/each. (used to be $5).

But if you're buying larger, specialty pizzas without coupons/promotions then you're going to be paying more like $20/pizza.

My pizzas are usually small and plain, so I'm closer to the $10 mark.
I couldn't agree more. We're in the middle of a reproducibility crisis. It's extremely important that researchers start putting more effort into quality research instead of quantity. "Publish or Perish" is killing academia.
What could be more American than selling out your values in the name of making more money?
Cloud Buildpacks can help you deploy complex applications to your cloud
We never had free speech online. Only the illusion of it.

I've noticed, especially recently, that most websites that allow commenting will shadow ban comments they disagree with, even if it's not trolling or abusive.

The scary part is that most people don't even see this and just assume that all of the comments they see are the only ones on the site. This can create the false sense that a larger number of people have a particular viewpoint.

This sort of censorship and controlling behavior absolutely effects the outcome of our elections and is much worse than anything Russia can even dream of.

The Chinese government knows this well and in addition to online troll campaigns, they fund our media companies directly and will pull funding if these companies don't toe the line.

With Covid ripping through the profits of many of these media companies, now is the time they will buy them up in mass.

We all should be prepared for an online future of CCP controlled media and influence.
The corner cases is why reddit cmostly using armies of humans for censorship aka moderation - there are auto-report and auto-censor bots only for the most egregious cases.

(former mod for a top subreddit)
I wrote sidekiq.org starting 8 years ago and blogged about my experiences over time, e.g.

https://www.mikeperham.com/2012/08/26/the-sidekiq-experiment...

I sell closed source Pro and Enterprise focused feature packs for my OSS projects. This is known as "open core".

My first full year in 2013 I sold $85k.

I'm in the millions ARR now.
That kind "popularity content" policy will never work because because then scammers will just buy apps with good reputation. This describes the entire browser extension marketplace. Any extension with a good reputation and a broad permission set will sell for a good bit of money.
20 Years Ago. They lose 70 BILLION dollars, and their next play is to throw money into something called Alibaba.

17.7 billion in 2020 dollars is nothing by comparison. $70B then is over $100B in today dollars.

That is like saying "i hope that blackjack player learned to never double down", because they lost a hand.
I mean, has he really improved people's lives outside of the really rich or the bigoted (which makes you technically right)? I'd like to see evidence because I'm not aware of him actually improving things for anybody else. the only policy I think that he's passed that makes sense is to force hospitals to make costs available up front and public.
The argument dates back to Marx. Marx explicitly (already in the Communist Manifesto) argued that as capitalists run out of new markets to conquer, competition will force them to find their savings elsewhere, and that would inherently mean lowering costs of raw materials or lowering manufacturing costs, and that this this ultimately leads to conflict over property rights and driving down labour costs. He further predicted that this eventual pressure to drive down labour costs would push capitalism into a series of worsening crises on the assumption that driving down labour costs would drive down the market, and leave the market with over-capacity, and so intensify conflict.

Basically Marx assumption was to take capitalists on their word that the free market will drive profit margins towards zero, coupled with the assumption that a lot of people have a lot of vested interest in preventing their profits from going towards zero and will do almost anything to prevent that from happening.
AMD is making good CPUs, but i had an issue with Ryzen 5 1600 that left me with a bad experience with AMD. It's was my first ever build and i used this CPU, all good, but from time to time the Linux Desktop i use will freeze, hard reboot is the only fix. I noticed that this happen when i left the PC idle and the screen turn off, i tried everything and just accepted that this is a bug in KDE/Ubuntu/Kernel/Motherboard/RAM or GPU, not in my wildest thinking thought it would be the CPU.

Turns out it was the CPU and how crappy AMD handle C-states that save energy, i had to turn them completely off and that resolved the issue (In AMD defense, freezing the entire OS do save a lot of energy)

This was exactly 2 years ago, and i had the issue for almost a year before figuring out the fix. I wonder if the new generation have this problem too?
> The local restaurants, the local drivers, the local renters

1) Restaurants are making extra money they wouldn't have made otherwise, with zero upfront risk of hiring additional employees, capital equipment, etc.

2) Drivers are making extra money on capital equipment they've already purchased and time they would have otherwise not used to be compensated for.

3) Buyers are spending more money on food as a result.

> These markets won't work either.

But no one is forcing people to buy food using food delivery apps. They're actively choosing to do so. I recently ordered a value meal from Wendy's via Doordash. It was nearly twice as much as I would have paid if I walked into the restaurant (because of fees, etc). But I chose to spend that much. At some point, that's unsustainable and I won't be able to afford doing that for much longer.

The only people at a loss here are sharedholders. I'm desperately confused why so many people think this is a bad thing for the common person.
Markdown is 15 years old, and adoption has been relatively gradual. I believe you're experiencing the frequency illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
Beautiful introduction.

I remember my PID lab in college - we had two plexiglass towers with water in them and a pump - our task was to calculate the PID parameters so that one of the columns reached a certain level. I think it was measured by a buoy, so we had a pretty noisy input to begin with, but that was part of the problem at hand.

It was a great introduction because the lab was 2h and the pump rather slow, so we couldn't just half-ass it.
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I find this a pretty weak excuse for a high-impact epidemiological model like this. Universities are full of the brightest people you will find anywhere in society, and most universities have faculties and courses in computer science and/or software engineering. How about enforcing multi-disciplinary efforts, having computer science students work with microbiologists, and vice versa? Exchange programs between universities that specialize in one or the other?

University graduates need to do internships and a thesis anyway, so in terms of 'funding' you could argue they are basically 'free' in terms of assigning them to multi-disciplinary research.

I know I would have been delighted if someone at my university had offered me an interesting multi-disciplinary microbiology project when I was studying computer science. Instead we mostly just got boring run-of-the-mill exercises in parroting established computer-science theory...
HN is extremely corrupt in that way, but don't worry, my reply to you will be flagged and people will continue to ignore HN's extreme biases, and ideological agenda.
Asking for money can come across and feel very differently, depending on culture and context. But the simple fact is that if you don't ask, you are overwhelmingly unlikely to receive, no matter how dire your need or cost-effective the opportunity. Especially if you're mostly interacting through a low-context, low-friction medium like the Net.

Especially in those situations, doing right by one another depends on a rich environment of information about costs, benefits, needs, and opportunities. You have to talk frankly about your time, money, and interest, and you have encourage and listen to others when they do so. Otherwise, nobody can have any confidence that people are being treated fairly, rather than seething or starving in silence, and good work is being rewarded.

I've tried in the past to write up a few of the basic lessons we all learn the hard way in freelance work:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2017/10/16/mercenary-rapport.ht...

To spoil it:

Give as you take.

Talk frankly about time and money.

Slice the pie fairly.

Keep your integrity at all costs.

Pay help forward to new people.

Honest pay for honest work.
I'd like to close the Overton window on the sentiment, "Opposition to my preferred policies must be unacceptable." Two trillion in CARES Act spending and it's unacceptable to second-guess it? Sorry, this is precisely where more scrutiny and critical thought is needed, not less.
Security by obscurity is about poor asset defense.

Shadow banning is about raising the effort level for trolls, think of it more like virtual spike strips. Not going to stop everyone but slows most of them up enough to reduce the problem.
"AI Labs" tend to publish papers more than they actually work on real projects, so I wouldn't assume shutting down an AI lab implies suspending the self-driving car project.
> People in the VR industry sometimes sound like members of a messianic cult. They have seen the future, and they want you to see it, too. Just put this headset on.

I don't know if any of it is actually true but that's some fantastic writing, which feels like a breath of fresh air in today's informational overload world.
Localized power brokers like hospital systems and universities address this by being slum lords and slowly acquiring properties in areas of interest.

In many urban environments you’ll see blighted property adjacent to hospitals, etc that is essentially a buffer for future clearance.

It’s a win-win, the institution makes money (at arms length) on the slumlording, and they get incentives to “revitalize” the area when they need a new building.
A cursory duckduckgo reveals:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/to-hu...

which in turn links to:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-f...

Which talks specifically about the RQ-170 Sentinel monitoring electronic transmissions in the area, so it might be conflating the two?

The information about the Sentinel comes out of this leaked black budget:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black...

If I recall correctly Bin Laden mostly used couriers to transmit information and didn't use much tech because they were well aware that it would be a huge security risk.

This Intercept article based on leaked internal NSA newsletters has a lot of juicy details:
https://theintercept.com/2015/05/18/snowden-osama-bin-laden-...
We need a new internet where all information is free.
If this is true, follow the money. HN is run by a Venture Capital firm. What are their incentives? Who does the business have to keep happy?
Viral noticing is fed by widespread predispositions, which change over time like fashion.

There is a critical mass of people paying attention to censorship in general, and recently a critical mass of people attentive to the evils of the CCP.

Also, seems to have been at least since 2012

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/jun/all-blocked-keywords-...
Laughing all the way to the bank... It justifies the behavior to people who think for themselves and not for some intangible global internet community. i'm not trolling.
Before the act of union of 1801 the Irish parliament, although pretty ineffectual, did block food exports during times of crisis. Even in the year of slaughter 1740 when a short term famine was caused by climate change food exports were stopped by a combination of local officials and angry citizens. The difference in the 1840s was the presence of a large number of troops who protected food exports at gunpoint. It is nonsense to suggest that an independent Irish State would have continued to export food in these conditions: it wouldn't have lasted a week.
If you were being paid $300K/year, it costs your employer (as a rule of thumb) 1.5x, or about $450K/year. The only reason they could spend $450K/year on you is if they expected to make at least that much money with you, compared to what they would make without you. Even if you aren't directly working on this stuff, you are providing them with capital that is being spent on it.
Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
Uber lays off 3k more employees in latest round of Covid-inspired cuts
My cynical view is that it's because both OS makers want vertical integration, in order to justify their 30% platform "tax" on being allowed to sell apps on their platform.

I'd definitely agree there should be a decoupling (made mandatory if needed) to prevent this conflict of interest.

On both platforms, the OS maker enjoys an anticompetitive position of being able to provide their own services without the platform fee (see Apple Music and Spotify dispute), as well as being able to inhibit the visibility of third party rival apps at their whim.

I wonder if the issue is that now we don't have a platform with 90+% penetration, this isn't perceived as a monopoly scenario, even though the effects of it are effectively identical as there are significant (cost and practical) barriers to switching, and no feasible ability to enter and provide an alternative. And on iOS, not even feasible - no actual ability at all.

But that 30% platform tax must be pretty attractive when justifying your position with legal internally...
Everything you said was reasonable and even corroborated by other posters, don't know why you are downvoted.
A banded together band of bandits bandying about their propaganda. Communists are not US citizens, and even if they were, the US does not have laws to protect softies from "pejorative speech." Clearly, someone claimed it was "hate speech" -- which it is not -- and now it's banned globally on YouTube because US laws stipulate they must not entertain Hate Speech, but until a US judge says "Communist Bandito" is hate speech, zero relevance.
This is the German government's project executed by SAP and Deutsche Telekom. The source of the client app is to be released soon as well. All under APL2.

System is described in https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation
its sad to see a company from "Don't be evil" to kowtow but whatever
The US government should do something about Google, the sooner the better.
Other than the hn-liberitarian anything that resembles censorship in any form is bad circlejerk, I don't actually see what the fuss is about here.

Assume I believe that moderation is a reasonable action. Why is this unreasonable moderation, who is harmed?

Put another way, assume that I have some line on the sand drawn on when I would leave. Assume also that I believe that what I'm doing at Google has net-positive impact. Why should I move my line in the sand back to <whatever this is>?
Cool work, I can attest that going through the scanned filings is a pain as I've been working on something similar with someone else on HN: https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/senatetrading

It looks like the STOCK act originally had a requirement that reports be done in electronic format, rather than on paper, but an amendment removed that requirement.
But houses across the board are much larger than before. I live in a mostly 1950s era neighborhood and the houses are tiny by America standards. Almost all of them are <1,000 sq ft, two bedroom with a one-car driveway and no garage.

A modern house in much of middle America is going to be at least 2,000 sq ft, but 3,500 is certainly common, as the average size currently stands at around 2,800.
I find the included cooler for the 3600 not so great. I bought one the month it came out, and was hitting pretty high temps when creating h264 using only CPU. I tried applying paste before buying a better cooler. I think 3600x and up have much better coolers.
Compounding this is the veritable explosion of what words which are considered “harmful”, not to mention how vogue it is to be offended (“harmed”) on behalf of another group.

If google is hoping to appease these groups, they’re in for a futile challenge.
> If this is true, follow the money

Isn't it more likely it was flagged off the front page by overly-enthusiastic users?

I'll also admit that this link, to a support thread, is more compelling than the Ask HN, where half the comments were questioning whether the phenomenon was actually happening.
I have a bunch of friends at Google; it's a mix of "not my department," "the pay is good," and a few "true believers."
Western companies don’t talk about values, Western governments do. The past few decades have seen an aggressive destruction in the power of Western governments to subdue them to Corporate power. The US is a prime example where the Republican party’s only policy platform (not even exaggerating) is “tax cuts are the solution to every problem”.

The US government specifically has been declawed and dismembered by the current administration to the point of uselessness. The only time it’s willing to assert power is to enable the corrupt dealings of political appointees and lobbyists.
Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases
> In your example, I don't think that "Evolution" matches the popular definition of "emergent properties" (i.e. properties that lack concrete explanations).

I do not know whether that is the popular definition, but whether it is or not, it is simply wrong.

My usage, with respect to evolution, is the usage that counts in discussions of consciousness. It is the valid response to naive misconceptions about what materialism entails, such as in Searle's dismissal of the systems reply to his Chinese Room argument.
We have a model, we can run some sensitivity analysis, then we can go out and collect data to better estimate the parameters to which we are sensitive to. Important but not glamorous work and hence underfunded.
It's an insult but also a historical fact. KMT was listed a observer party in COMINTERN and Chiang Kai Shek himself was nominated as president of COMINTERN China branch. So in a sense KMT was the real Communist deal and CCP was a copycat version.

COMINTERN even ordered CCP to join force with KMT to form "united front", Mao himself was forced to join KMT. And it turned out to be a bloodshed purge by the KMT. Afterwards The CCP failed to hold its insurgent territories, CCP vows to kickout the Soviet consultants and cut links with COMINTERN and became independent, thus began the famous "Long March". THe term "bandit" was invented at that time.
I have seen this when running Linux desktop on older AMD CPUs.
I don't really think going viral on HN === mainstream ;)
Is it inaccurate enough that it cannot be used to safely create disinfectant-grade 70% dilutions from 99% or 91%?
I honestly don't think R and Python would have worked here.

While I was able to clone the repo and run it for Ireland, the UK requires at least 26Gb of RAM, which is not common on most personal computers. The US requires much, much more.

And given that it's pretty slow when written in C++, imagine how slow it would have been in R or Python?

I agree with you in principle with respect to this stuff being better, but the incentives skew otherwise at the moment.
And the support page is locked, so Google is also censoring people from trying to understand the rules they are expected to follow.
Hey, I can also make unsubstantiated claims on public fora.

China is not communist.
I don't know if I should be worried or not because I've never felt like an "impostor": I'm sure I know what I'm doing, because I spent a lot of time making sure I understand everything from the ground up, and working form first-principles to more complicated topics. If it's on a computer, I can figure out how it works because I know how computers work. What I do fear is that everybody else is judging me when I don't know the answer immediately, without spending any time researching, to every question. If I'm faced with something new - let's say, React, which I don't know anything about - my inclination is to start reading about it. But I find myself surrounded be people who imply that it should take about a half hour to read everything a programmer should ever need to read about React (or Swift, or Spark, or Kafka, or Gradle, or whatever the hell else people have decided is the flavor of the day today).
Because the Chinese market is huge. Because freedom of speech in the Western world is an individual liberty which platforms such as YouTube do not need to guarantee, whereas censorship in China is an absolute requirement they must abide by. The payoffs are asymmetric. If we had legislation in the EU or in the US that demanded that YouTube not tamper with users’ comments, then they’d have to choose between one side and the other. As it is, they’re not legislated as a utility, so they have editorial oversight.
These are different efforts from ATG, the self-driving car division.
With all that blood on their hands, they'd better be careful in handling the check or else the bank won't be able to read the routing number.
Fuck the CCP and Russia. This just shows Google is fine with censorship as long as they can profit from it.
My app was suspended back in March just before Google updated their policy regarding to COVID. And my app was just being submitted for (my own) internal testing, didn't even made public.

One would've thought the change in policy back then was to allow Google to offer more clarity and fairness.

Seems things are going the other way.

Hacker News Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22462315

Updated Link to Blog Post:
https://flyingnobita.com/mobile/flutter/2020/03/02/coronavir...
I was appalled when I went to install it and there was no way I could see to avoid handing 100% of my contacts to it.

Do people keep a private offline contacts list, or a clean phone just for this?

Or do folks just not care about giving away the mobile phone numbers (and addresses? email addresses? birthdays? other notes on the contact about kids names, etc.?) to an app?

Am I behind the times and everyone just knows none of this stuff is private anyways due to leaks etc.? Even if that is your attitude, it seems you are feeding more links to the graph someone else is maintaining. Did you get consent from every one of your contacts to do so?

I feel like I must be missing something here. Am I over-reacting or paranoid?
Money. Being part of a massive company with lots of compartmentalization. A majority left-leaning political affiliation which tends to be softer on China and against nationalism/borders.
So then it does hurt them right now.
Thanks for the link abyssin, indeed seems very interesting.
Btw, I tried accessing my profile from Wayback Machine and got a nice "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine". Really Couchsurfing?

Also, I forgot to mention that the message you get when you login to couchsurfing.com is a landing page that says:
"Due to the impact of Covid-19, we need your immediate help to keep Couchsurfing alive"
and then the only options you have are:
1. Pay with Credit Card
2. Pay with PayPal
3. Logout
(https://imgur.com/g7QKHEt)

Their site totally looks like ransomware.
Hopefully something like DTube (https://d.tube/) is able to disrupt the Youtube market soon. This google censorship stuff is getting ridiculous.
"Top-down socialism" is an oxymoron.
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The "why" is because the creator of the OS can lock down the system to only allow apps from their own marketplace.

The "why is this not being discussed as an anti-trust violation like Microsoft was hit with" is because the US government of the last 10-15 years doesn't have the same viewpoints on anti-trust that they did 20+ years ago.