skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hydroxychloroquine is not effective, but Remdesivir is not very effective either, so I would agree that it's a terrible waste of money.
The thing is that writing an intuitive explanation is hard, while writing down the actual definition is easy. Also, one person's intuition is frequently another person's gibberish (hence the "monads are like a burrito" phenomenon).
The CPC cannot be colonialist against Hong Kong. HK has been part of China for thousands of years and is ethnically Chinese. Hong Kong exists today because Britain used military power to force the Chinese government to import opium. In the process they annexed Hong Kong.

Not to mention, HKers DO NOT want independence. In a recent poll only 20% of HKers desire independence.
"Relatively few" for Germany means e.g.

- if you're looking for a job here, as an US citizen you get 3 months visa without questions asked

- there is no minimum amount of money needed in Germany for US citizens, neither as a deposit nor as pay
You then also need to make more, as you continue to be taxed in the USA, until you've lived abroad long enough to qualify for citizenship in your new host country, and can give up your USA citizenship.
4750USD doesn't sound extremely affordable for battery only up to 10 miles at best, so less than 5 miles one direction under ideal conditions. I dunno, I would expect at least better range from 4 wheels, simple body, suspension and electric enegine worth 4.8K. this seem like something worth max. half of the price they sell it for

I fail to see benefit compared to ATV - I just checked some shops and you can buy brand new gasoline ATV for like 3000USD, electric ATV around 5000USD. ATV will be faster, cheaper and have better range than this
From my perspective, discrediting the speaker to silence them IS an argument in bad faith. Whether its an ad hominem, tu quoque, or a pitchforking kangaroo court.

If someone is making a good faith rational argument, and the response is "I find your conclusion potentially offensive, so I will suppress your expression"; that is the suppressor acting in bad faith.

The energy around "doing what feels right despite evidence" and "the ends justify the means" have turned into the destruction of nuance. It's very hard to say "I agree with your conclusion, but not your reasoning" because how one arrived at a conclusion no longer matters, only that the conclusion fits the dogma.

It is anti intellectualism.
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> The statues are not arbitrary and many of them have been objected to for years.

Christopher Columbus and Francis Scott Key aren't arbitrary? It's not like they were removed by a democratic process. The majority had no say. A loud minority decided they needed to come down for arbitrary reasons and did it without permission. Anyone challenging them would be browbeaten by the loud minority mobs on social media and cancelled (employers pressured to fire them, etc.). Loud minorities have effectively been making entire corporations cower and kowtow on social media during recent weeks.
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1. Your profile is a landing page. Optimize copy, images, the pinned answer for the action.

2. Don't spam. It'll just result in your account getting downgraded/blocked.

3. Format your content so it’s easy to read.

4. Update answers that are important for you from time to time.

5. Link to reputable resources (not ONLY your website) in your answers.

6. Don't put a link to your website in every answer.

7. For every “marketing question” answer at least 3 general ones, like “What irritates you?”.

8. Put the name of the company in the first paragraph of the answer to get attention from users that just skim through them.

9. Use custom credentials for different answers.

10. If you have well-known competitors, answer the questions, where users look for their reviews or alternatives. Those are highly convertible topics.

11. Don’t trash your competitors. The community would not appreciate this.

12. Answer questions that rank in Google.

13. Buying upvotes is a short-term game. You can do it, but in the long run you’ll lose your positions.

14. Ask friends, who are active on Quora, to boost your answers. Join communities where Quora users support each other.

Not the most white-hat methods, but I don’t think we would be able to get as many leads without no boost from the friends/community.

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Oh, I see -- in Firefox it's all messed up.
Edited for clarification.
I think the biggest impact of this is the price. There are other similar products out there (Bowhead and Outrider come to mind), but those are really expensive. In a world where mobility product prices are through the roof (my power wheelchair costs north of $50k), selling something like this for under $5k is quite incredible.
Those things are also entirely subjective,as much as people like to claim scientific imperatives for socialist constructs the best tool towards those goals generally is regulated markets. Like we have now
They mean

easily-grasped (value prop)

not

(easily-grasped value) prop
Broadcom. They get a lot of kickbacks from the British government, AFAIK.

Edit: Not sure why downvoted. Broadcom very much is able to write off a ton as donations to charity, since the rpi foundation is a British charity. They also get sweet heart deals from the UK based on that. The UK gets the ability to put a passable personal computer on every child's desk, like they've been attempting to do since the BBC micro days.
The scenario I was considering was one where the half of the global fleet that is old/inefficient aircraft is kept grounded, but the modern part of the global fleet (e.g. A321 as an alternative to MAX8) is flying, and is big enough to cover the need.
There is a lot of competition. I think everything is on the table right now.

https://covdb.stanford.edu/compound-list/
> You should absolutely learn React if you want to be employed writing with JS

I know that this probably isn't how you meant it, but I think what you said is a bit misleading to someone who wants to learn JS for a job.

Having skills in React are an almost guaranteed way to get a job writing JS. It's definitely not the only viable way to get employed writing JS. Contrary to popular belief, there are many jobs out there asking for Node.js skills but not necessarily React or any heavy frontend knowledge. You can also make a living doing Vue or Angular, and Svelte is an up and coming framework that will be good to learn and I believe will create lots of jobs. I've been writing mostly Ember.js code for years now, yet I'm employed.

I just want to make sure that learners don't think that it's all React or nothing. Nothing against React, by any means. If someone learns React but it doesn't interest them, their career in JS isn't over.
Probably just fine. It seems they intend this mostly for use on soft surfaces, where the lack of a differential isn't really an issue, even on large vehicles, because the surface itself is compliant enough to make up for the lack of differential action.

But even on a hard surface it might work just fine, because the turning radius looks pretty shallow.

The advantage is that a solid axle is simple, cheap, reliable, and performs well in low-traction situations.
>if the end result is rising incomes for all, better life expectancy and an overall better quality of life does it matter that it came about through an authoritarian regime?

And when this growth ends, what will happen? An authoritarian system is able to withstand challenges with the full power of the state behind it. People that dissent are crushed, and many times the people that dissent do so with the most honourable of intentions. Viewed under the prism of authoritarianism this matters not. It's a system that remains not because of consent and merit, but ultimately due to suppression of dissent.

Just because China is able to catch-up some of the growth that it completely missed out on due to the turmoil of the Communist revolution and the turbulent 50s and 60s, doesn't validate this system one bit. Other countries were ahead of China, with more growth and sustainability, minus the cruelty.
SEO ‘hacking’ is clearly positive for the businesses doing it, but the benefits on a larger scale are less clear cut.

Do you believe strategies such as outlined in the article are a net positive, negative, or a neutral tactic for search engines and the web at large?
Yes, but it's a lot more distributed. It's people being assaulted in public spaces for being in any way different. It's the bathroom bills encouraging people to assault people in bathrooms based on nothing but perceived trans status - and then this actually happening. I've suffered both in a country where I theoretically have protections, and I am aware that my friends in the US have suffered worse. I am not going to go into what folk outside my communities suffer from, but I imagine it's not a whole lot better.

This isn't violence based on stating an opinion - it's violence based on simply daring to exist in a public space.

There's very little news coverage of it because it's "small" things - assaults that leave bruises and not much more, but which the victims know mean they're not welcome in the public spaces everybody else takes for granted - that happen all the time to people minding their own business, and this is and has been the norm for a very long time.
It absolutely is. Boeing already made a stretched 737 with larger engines. It's called the 757 and they stopped making it because airlines wanted bigger 737s.
Let's not forget there are still deeply embittered anti-Brexit forces prevalent throughout the public sector.
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This is a big reason why I talk compensation up front during initial conversations. I'm not sinking hours of time into an interview process only to find out they're only offering less than half of what I'm expecting. Plenty of recruiters say no they don't discuss this up front at which point I'm fine not continuing the conversation.
Much easier to just increase ticket prices than offset fuel costs by buying more efficient jets.

In a healthy environment, there’s always downward pressure on ticket costs, and you have to find efficiencies elsewhere. We aren’t in a healthy environment anymore...
I believe that one area the author's criticism mostly applies to is that of business applications.

I've been working as a user and developer in such field and I see a number of advantages of older applications (and even those text based ones) over the more recent web based ones.

Newer technology for web/mobile user interfaces is great, but it shouldn't be the "default" approach, in my opinion, and I think that they are at the heart of that overall disappointment with many applications. They are harder to build and maintain; they are less constrained, leaving room for "creative" deviations from core functionality. In summary, we are spending lots of resources on something that eventually destroys value.

I'm aware of a number of anecdotes about companies with 30/40 years old systems beating newer ones in terms of user speed. This, in conjunction with the fact that they are cheaper to develop, is a very strong evidence that we are doing something wrong.
The ruling party has ex-communists in their ranks and somehow that's ok with them. The whole argument about cleansing the judicial ranks is bogus and a vulgar excuse for a power grab.
Assimilation means the next generation won't be willing to fight the the memories of a HK half a world and century away. Also, most of the Asian diaspora in the anglophone sphere assimilate simply because there's not enough population, not because of some special cultural quality. 5% of the US is Asian American, and that's divided among all the different Asian nations. The Asian diaspora in Southeast Asia do a much better job of preserving their languages and culture.
So if you find that the ratio R of protestor violence PV over police brutality PB is over 1 or some other arbitrary constant you think we should just allow police brutality?

This is the most insidious justification of police brutality I’ve ever seen, here or elsewhere, even if it’s unintentional. It takes a position that police brutality and rioting/looting are two sides of the same coin and that we can (or should) only address whichever one is worse by some numeric calculation.

Who cares what the RATIO of cop violence vs protestor violence?

Do you know why we don’t need the “other side “of this? It’s because the police already do this on the other side. They are free to make arrests using their own evidence, including their own eyewitness, their own body cameras, their own dash cameras, and any CCTV they get access to. Some even use these videos!

Police are arresting protestors like crazy, thousands in the last month alone.

You know who else is documenting all the violence and looting caused by protesters? Every news outlet, it’s the only protest related content they bother to show because it’s the only part of the protest that’s interesting to watch for most people.

The purpose of this database is to collect and display evidence so that violent police can be arrested and charged. Violent protestors are usually arrested immediately, many are picked up later at home and a small handful of organizers are assassinated in the years following (see Ferguson)

We don’t need any help stopping protestor violence, we need help stopping police violence.
I'm curious as to how you are sending the emails under the hood to make the best effort that the emails don't get flagged as spam.
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This comment doesn't add anything to the discussion. Nobody has mentioned race in the context of this article and, although there are well documented racial biases in both human and machine profiling systems, it's irrelevant here.
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An ATV doesn’t provide the trunk support that most wheelchair users need.
That's got to be one of the most useful skills you picked up in school though!?
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That's true but might also veer into the land of "technically correct". Dedicated hardware and font lookups for screen display means that screen updates happened on the next retrace. That doesn't mean the time between hitting Enter and the spreadsheet updating or the word processor re-wrapping the text was faster in 1983 than it is today.

The first paid programming job I ever did was writing some relocatable machine code in a USR$ because the patron's BBS couldn't calculate the XMODEM CRC in BASIC fast enough to support the upgrade to his new 1200 baud modem. I know I got paid $20 and I think it was about 20 bytes of code. I wish I got paid $1/byte for code I write today!

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Same here, I’ve received refunds. And now you don’t even need to email them. You can just chat through iMessage.
I have not interacted with the chatbot, but I have read the code (it's open source). The health data they are collecting relates to: Fever, Breathing, Coughing, Sore Throat, Body Aches, Smell.

We were not given details on who has access to the data, including any DBAs. Yes, this University owns a Medical Center, and the data is being collected on the Medical Center website. The code was produced by the University's Tech Transfer team. We do not know who manages the data, if it's the same as the people who manage patient data. I do not know if the legal team has reviewed the chat bot usage.

I've started off with some simple questions: Who has access to the data, where is the data saved, and how long will the data persist. Thank you for your additional questions, as I will use them to go forward.
A little extra context missing from the Reuters article:

> "Do you see why we oppose social media like YouTube, Twitter, Netflix, and so on?" Erdogan said.

> "Turkey is not a banana republic. We will snub those who snub this country’s executive and judicial bodies," he stated.

> "We will chase those who attack a baby...," Erdogan said, referring to an insult directed at his daughter Esra Albayrak and his son-in-law, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak upon their announcement of their newborn baby.

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/president-erdogan-vows-soc...
Very interesting. Do you know the theoretical probability that at least one observable star will collapse/disappear during any given earth year?
I think it's Apple that doesn't understand UX anymore. Their insane focus on subscriptions as the go-to model for software sales is going to drive me off the platform eventually.
Thanks for the insights! I've used leanpub a bit and have seen some bugs, but also found the owner really helpful in fixing these so I kept with them for now.
Department of Health and Human Services should put some social media sites inside a federal public health order, effectively banning them.
I'm not, and frankly I think I need to choose a new name as I keep getting downvoted and I believe it's due to the username lol...
This unfortunately is very true. Hope things change as soon as possible for my kids. Intercase marriages are the solution to this problem, unfortunately is very low.
Correct - it's just one piece of software telling another what to do. But the cancel mob is determined to make it very expensive to resist making changes they demand, so IBM folded like a cheap suit. Maybe it's even worse than that and they made this change on their own, in order to "lead".

If Biden wins it's going to get much worse. But now that more partents are home (either WFH, or laid off) home schooling could become more popular.
Can you mention the name of the authours..
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Self-propelled modular elements that are built separately, and then placed and connected to others.
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Worked on an app that tried the same thing - new users were immediately granted a free month of the "premium" membership on our own backend. The exec who came up with the idea literally called it the "drug dealer" approach - "the first hit is free" - and the user couldn't see the pricing until their trial expired and they tried to enable one of those premium features again, at which point they'd see the subscription purchase screen.

That functionality was live for a few versions before we got an App Store reviewer who noticed and rejected us for it. At the time I couldn't find a specific guideline that disallowed the practice, but anyone who's spent a few years releasing iOS apps knows that's not necessary for a rejection.

The guidelines now include these lines, mentioned by the OP's rejection:

> Auto-renewing subscription apps may offer a free trial period to customers by providing the relevant information set forth in App Store Connect.

> Apps that attempt to scam users will be removed from the App Store. This includes apps that attempt to trick users into purchasing a subscription under false pretenses or engage in bait-and-switch and scam practices will be removed from the App Store and you may be removed from the Apple Developer Program. Learn more about Subscription Free Trials.

Our approach did alert the user that they were on a free trial, but the pricing wasn't related in that alert, nor were the premium features easily identifiable during the trial. I think "bait-and-switch" would be a fair appraisal.
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