skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully the newly created EPPO would fix some of that, at least the ones involving fraud with EU funds.
>but 75% of the time it fails to play the video

I would quibble with that. It's really all or nothing. Youtube changes something, NewPipe breaks entirely. Then NewPipe is updated, and it works perfectly again.

I like NewPipe, but in practice this means you just have to accept that there will be stretches, a few days or a week long, where it just doesn't work at all.
Upward mobility is much lower in the US than most of Western Europe and likely most of Europe period.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-co...
>There is a certain type of person that goes to the NHS even when they're well (or only have a minor ailment), because they're lonely and it's free. There'll be a certain type of person who will take everyone to court because they're angry at the world and it's free.

I think there would have to be some type of penalties for bringing obviously frivolous lawsuits.
This is what I imagine being on magic mushrooms feels like.
> it's about determining whether the literal and figurative loss of life caused by a lockdown is worth the loss of life caused by the virus.

oramit said:

"The United States is currently choosing the worst possible combination of options. We locked down - causing enormous financial damage, but we didn't follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus. So we get to have the deaths and have the financial damage as well. Yay us!"
> I think you'd struggle to find a better place in terms of upward mobility.

Just going to respond to this. The US used to be a paragon of upward mobility. That is no longer the case: https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/07/16/the-u-s... . That is just one article, but you can search "US upward mobility ranking" and find lots of articles and evidence how many other countries now do much, much better than the US in this regard.
>a federal government, which doesn’t have public health as one of its assigned roles

Yes, it does. It may not be explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, but the federal government is absolutely tasked with responding to national disasters, of which pandemics are one example. What is the CDC? What is FEMA? What is the NIH?

>Merkel didn’t issue a national mask order, for the same reason Trump didn’t: she wasn’t legally allowed to.

Even if it were true, that would make this the very first time in his life that legal limitations ever stopped Trump from doing something.
This is why products are starting to turn into subscriptions.

When you bought Adobe Photoshop, you never needed to update it.

Likewise, if you buy a Honda or other well-engineered car, you'll be able to get a decade or more out of it.

Thinkpads used to last forever and were user upgradable.

Tesla is introducing micro-payments and unlockables. I think other auto makers will follow suit.

Why can't farmers repair their own John Deere equipment that they "own"?

Everything is turning into recurring revenue.
A handy software defect tracking checklist
Wrong. It means the ad played not that it was actually viewed. Most people don't sit through ads and just ignore them.

If you ignore ads but don't block them you're helping the publisher steal from the client. Personally I think that's wrong.
Because templates should be declarative.

Error checking code becomes much more difficult because of the ambiguity and special parsing that has to be done. Its not just the loader, but things like the ide extensions used.

Allowing small bits of logic like this makes for very nice one-liners and demos, but in the long term its well worth it to make the template as declarative as possible - ideally just a method name.
Blind lotteries exist because it has been true, and most states still don't mandate blind lotteries. That's like using anti-discrimination laws as an argument for discrimination not existing.

Blind lotteries were started to combat this prevalent issue (and still fail to address poorly performing/SPED kids dropping out of charters and back into public education at a disproportionate rate, which undermines their goal).
Cloudflare: Is anyone else seeing DNS outages?
Seems that all our domains on Cloudflare are down. They can't be resolved and we can't even access www.cloudflare.com from several locations worldwide.
In thermodynamics / statistical mechanics there is another formulation of entropy: Gibbs entropy is different from Boltzmann entropy (and equivalent to Shanon entropy in information theory).
I'm 100% with this thought. Most "targeted" ads are garbage. I think this is also a chicken and egg problem. I don't want to give up more personal information so the the data set is limited on what i "like".

Instagram has an interesting model. Maybe because of the visual medium that it works well for me. I'll purposely do searches for a thing I'm interested in and click on related posts. After a couple days I'll start getting ads for companies selling things I'm looking for. Recently, new bedding & sheets. I'd imagine it's the same model Facebook uses but i rarely login there.
Invidious is grand. I think the missing killer feature that I want is to long into invidious via NewPipe.
My parents told me that if I didn't get a good education, I'd become a "ditch digger".

Of course, these days operating a Ditch Witch isn't a bad job at all, and frankly looks like fun!
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Working on Covid Exposure Notification System
No doubt cops use excessive for in some cases and blame it on excited delirium.

I guess my point is - it’s probably true in some cases.
I'm seeing this too, I can't even load the Cloudflare website.
AG: Apple, Google, and Microsoft are collaborating too much with China
Yes, and it's difficult to get information from charter schools because they are not subject to the same reporting that public schools are. This makes it easy for people take advantage of their opaqueness.

These are a few examples from Los Angeles:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/06/17/how-does...

https://patch.com/california/studiocity/la-charter-schools-f...

https://www.scpr.org/blogs/education/2013/04/05/13188/los-an...
> What about the Red Cross, the NRA, the Sierra Club, the NAACP, the ACLU?

Good point. Yes, we are not quite living in a libertarian paradise/hellhole of pure capitalism yet. :)

Even there, though, non-profits do compete for donor dollars and the competitive pressure is not always well-aligned with the altruistic goals of the organization.

> There is absolutely room in a capitalist society for non-profit organizations that at least some segment of the population are passionate about enough to fund them.

I agree, but I hesitate to rely entirely on the largesse of those with spare cash to support journalism. Journalism is a vital function for democracy, and democracy should support all of a nations' people, not just the views of those with extra money.

There are, of course, many wealthy people willing to support journalism that protects the poor too, but I worry as always about bias.

> In the modern age, there is also room for independent journalists. Thousands of Youtubers and podcasters make a living through patreon, why not journalists? With the internet, you don't need to backing of a massive news outlet to have your story printed and distributed.

I have some but limited faith that "all bugs are shallow" applies to investigative journalism. Yes, independent journalists can dig up and find a lot of stuff. But there's really something to be said for the doors that get opened when a journalist from a well-regarded important publication knocks on them.

When the Washington Post asks a politician a hard question, they feel some pressure to answer. When J. Random Youtuber does, not so much.
Slight tangent, but: I first encountered a function named BitBlt when using the Win32 C API a long time ago. I had no idea that it originated in Smalltalk-72 in 1975 and the function name was just carried forward into the Windows API.
Quoting from the link, this is what gets me:

Nim is case- and underscore-insensitive (except for the first character).
Thus HelloWorld and helloWorld are different, but helloWorld, helloworld, and hello_world are all the same

I really don't understand this feature of the language.
If you get an iPhone, you will get Apple's compulsory apps. The difference is that on Android, you can replace Google's apps with other apps.
Your analogy is flawed in that there are likely laws protecting used of the water of that fountain. Not so with an open service on the internet.

Further more, it's not an ocean sized fountain run by a monopolistic corporation and one of the only places to get water, with simple technology to restrict who can get water if the corporation so decided.
I doubt it's truly a consensus on the right half of the spectrum. It most certainly isn't on the left.
> Let's also not forget that a number of other countries like Sweden didn't lock down at all and are doing fine.

Sweden did a voluntary lock down, which was in practice pretty comprehensive. Even then they still had a death rate per capita many times higher than its neighbours, and it was economically hit just as hard.

Perhaps it was worth a try, but it didn't pan out. Their government even formed a commission to figure out why it went so bad.
Even if these strangers blithely brush past you, making no attempt to maintain social distancing? Sometimes they'll even come up from behind you, giving you no chance to avoid them.
For sure you can. It just has to be a very high bribe, to make the policemen accept the risk.
I used this a bit on a previous Android phone I had. (I still use Android, but am on a newer one now) It sounds good in theory but had a lot of rough edges that made me just go back to regular Youtube. I remember running into a lot of hiccups going full screen and not full screen, or rotating screens, or moving forward or backward on a video. Nothing was completely breaking but it was all minor issues like switching between full screen and not either stops a video or throws you back etc. Maybe I never got used to it.

And most of all, and this is weird to admit on HN, I kind of enjoy Youtube's algorithm of recommending videos -- it actually presents content that I would be interested in. Every time I opened Newpipe it was just a random mishmash of stuff, maybe it's what's on the default Youtube homepage or something, but it's never something I'm interested in. It's nice for when I want to explicitly search for something to watch, but not if I want to just open up the app and tap some random video to start watching.

I'll just add a side note that I don't watch political videos or anything and it's not about echo chamber or bubbles. I just watch videos about old video games (think AVGN etc.) or listen to music by artists I enjoy, and those are the videos that show up on my Youtube which is nice.
Cloudflare was down
1.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.1 are down for me for providing DNS.
We are. We suddenly can't pull up any of our properties that use cloudflare DNS.
Something like this then:

figure img {
display: block;
}

figure figcaption img {
display: inline;
}
Yep. Say http://npmjs.com/
We are experiencing issues with DNS, Discord seems effected as well
Not sure I agree. More like, arguing that cultural and inherited values and behaviors can result in changes to the gene pool. Not that people are generically inferior, but that their values can be propagated when tied to a higher birthrate, with potentially net negative outcomes for society at large.

The exhortations of early Christian leaders against birth control are thought to be in part an effort to ensure the faithful flock grew at a faster rate than rival religions. A similar concept to the one I am trying to frame in the above paragraph, but not one that I would call eugenics which is an utterly flawed and morally abhorrent concept.
yeah exactly. Apple might allow an app like this, but it's only because Youtube is not theirs.
Yes, can confirm I am seeing the same behavior. Other members on my team in other regions are able to resolve addresses - seems to be hit or miss to a degree based on location.
yes and funny enough, downdetector is down. started doubting my network until all the same outages confirmed on my mobile link, and mxtoolbox couldn't get a response either.
What if the meal was actually bad? Would you still say it? Some (not all) Americans would.

Obviously it’s a generalization, but an observation I found interesting.
Germany did quite a lot of ISDN over fibre to the home in the 1990s, most of the recabling in the east after reunufication was done that way.

However, they made the mistake of burying active components along with the fibre strands that only spoke ISDN. And of course no tubes. For upgrades they ripped it out again and built copper when DSL was en vogue... If they hadn't fucked up this badly, probably due to corruption, Germany would have had 20% broadband fibre coverage instantly 20 years ago
Sure... but we're not going to figure out how to reinvent education before September.
> This is due to (1) not having enough data to build good algorithms

Fundamentally advertising serves the needs of advertisers and not the needs of the viewer. No amount of additional data will make advertising less frustrating because ultimately neither the publisher, nor the advertiser cares if my experience is more or less frustrating.

More data won't result in less frustrating advertising, it will result in more effective advertising for the advertiser and more revenue flowing to the big ad companies as a result.

> The majority of publishers make more money from personalized ads. NYT and premium publishers don't necessarily since ads on NYT are valuable by itself, but ads on my blog are worthless by themselves. Add some user data, and ads on my blog are worth much more.

This is neither proven, nor entirely true. Advertising existed and was profitable before targeted advertising was created. Publishers made more money before Google/ Facebook took over and dominated the industry.

I've seen very few blogs which are worth a damn which have big advertising from Google/ Facebook on them. Mostly because good bloggers don't want to debase their otherwise good content.
> this is going to widen the achievement gap between students with high parental involvement and those with low parental involvement

How could it not? Volunteering in my kids' school since they were in kindergarten, it was sadly clear to me that some of the kids got dealt a pretty bad hand in terms of parental involvement (often out of conflicting demands on the parents, I'm sure). COVID-related home-schooling hasn't helped anything I'm sure.
Please share what countries you are referring to. This is not meant as a challenge, I genuinely feel the same way and want to evaluate things.
I didn't read them as saying anything about refraining from clicking ads. I took them to be saying they will avoid ads entirely, not viewing them but not clicking.
I'm getting some. 1.1.1.1 isn't responding to any DNS requests for me.
Guess that explains Discord vanishing from the net a few minutes ago.
Is there a meta area to discuss "astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like", or do we just pretend they don't exist?
Is it me, or has this been happening way too frequently for them lately?
I like that this illustrates how easy it is to make a web component.

What I don't like is this also shows (via the render method) how you can foot gun yourself if you aren't careful. Just slabbing in everything via `this.innerHTML` will lead to gross performance problems, among other things. There's also no real diffing (only matters on more complex concerns, in a way) so you're replacing everything just to update the count.

I know we're all suppose to know better (I doubt you did this except for the express purpose of showing just how simple the Web Component API can be), but I've seen example code end up in production more times than I can count, from all over the web, so be forewarned stewards!
1.1.1.1 is not resolving anything for me at this time.
> countries like Sweden didn't lock down at all and are doing fine.

Interesting, Sweden suffered more deaths than their neighbors and does not appear to be any better off economically.

Sweden Has Become the World's Cautionary Tale - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-c...

Sweden had no lockdown but its economy is expected to suffer just as badly as its European neighbors - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-sweden-economy-t...

Sweden's economy likely won't benefit from its decision to avoid a lockdown, according to analysts - https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-economy-likely-wont-b...

Sweden's controversial anti-lockdown strategy resulted in high death toll and no real economic gain, data shows - https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-coronavirus-strategy-...

Sweden Has Avoided a Coronavirus Lockdown. Its Economy Is Hurting Anyway. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden-has-avoided-a-coronaviru...

Now either this strategy isn't as good as you claim it to be or NYT, CNBC, Business Insider, and the WSJ and all the analysts and experts they cite are working together to cook up a conspiracy.
Lol, talk about timing. I'm currently working on a TLS library and was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why tests against CF sites suddenly failed. Can't even ask my cohorts on Discord because they are behind CF, too!
Dns issues for sure
One thing that in the past has taken a lot of time is proving the vaccine works 'in the wild'. Which means you vaccinate thousands of people and then wait a couple of years and see if they get infected or not. If they do, and that happens, your vaccine is bunk. Sometimes vaccines only provide short term immunity. Fading immunity is a problem with some vaccines.

And you also monitor them to see if there are adverse effects. Too many adverse effects and you're vaccine isn't safe enough. Adverse effects are like anaphylactic shock, guillain barre syndrome. And that sometimes candidate vaccines both fail to provide protection but make the infection worse.

There is a balancing act between how bad a disease and the risk you're willing to take with the vaccine. Covid19 is probably the worst. It's really dangerous to certain population groups like the elderly and people with certain health issues. And much less so to young healthy people. To get rid of covid19 we're going to have to vaccinate 90% of the world population which means the vaccine needs to be 100% safe.

Anyway you should not be ashamed just because you don't know something.
You're right, and it's because remote education is exposing the core truths of education, which are that it's mostly daycare (at least until dropout age) and signalling.[1] If that's not bad enough, our education systems (not just the USA) constantly make most students feel stupid, so the kids hate it.

I really don't know how you'd fix all the issues, but I am sure that any meaningful reform will be incredibly unpopular (especially with teachers).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
The users using 3rd party apps don't violate any of these terms (I'm sure you could argue it both ways depending on the specific legal terms depending on the context; IANAL). The app itself is probably violating some of these terms, but for the end users, they are not doing any of the things described, they are just using the app.

I think this is just one of those cases where copyright/IP law moves too slowly compared to the technology it tries to cover.
Oopsie Daisy half the internet goes down
Discord is entirely down right now, both the website and the app itself. Amusingly, a lot of the sites that normally track outages are also down, which made me think it was my internet at first. Downdetector, monitortheinternet, etc.

Lots of other big sites that are down: Patreon, npmjs, DigitalOcean, Coinbase, Zendesk, Medium, GitLab (502), Fiverr, Upwork, Udemy

Edit: 15 min later, looks like things are starting to come back up
Ah Shit, Here We Go Again
Speaking of absurd. I remember when I found out that Cantor set (uncountable) has measure 0, my mind was blown. No wonder Cantor ended up in an institution (as I heard).
Seems like they managed to break half the internet for everyone.
Cloudflare DNS is down too
Yes, experiencing the same issue from the UK.
Homer Simpsons car did not evolve at all. It was designed all in a single iteration.
DNS seems to be dead, if you have stuff in your cache and the site isn't low-TTL things still kinda work
"All systems operational"

What's the point of a status page if it doesn't reflect the real status...

It's either the status page goes down with everything else or the status page is wrong. Great.

EDIT: Looks like it's accurate now, 20 minutes later.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23869601)
using dig with 8.8.8.8 for discord.com and downdetector.com, I'm not seeing answer sections?
The people who told me this are elementary and junior-high teachers. The students are fairly young. They are all on social media though, which is why they all learned that the state won't hold students back this year.
Is it close to the median salary for a job that requires a bachelors and also has a significant number if workers with Masters degrees?

The fact that people constantly compare teaching salaries to non-professional jobs and minimum wage workers is very telling.
> If you have a point to make, make it.

My point - a solo good leader is insufficient in the US because the systemic rot is deeper and bipartisan. (FWIW, Obama was an okay leader, though vastly better than Trump).

> You are picking out one mistake

Here are a few more: California High-Speed railway, which was being implemented when CA had D-dominated government under a very competent governor (Brown). Did that leadership or unified government control help? Absolutely not.

Another: 2-mile stretch of Second Avenue subway in NYC, which took almost a 100 years and $4-5B. Why? Were all the NYC leaders incompetent for a century? I don't think so.
“Discord, Riot games and various other websites all just went down”
That page still shows "Cloudflare System Status: All Systems Operational" for me, but it's definitely down for me. Along with 1.1.1.1, which is... bad.
Same for the German downtime trackers.
Can confirm for taskade.com
Windows 45.8%
MacOS 27.5%
Linux 26.6%
BSD 0.1%

Huh, I didn't expect the split to that even. That's pretty gratifying, in my opinion. That's far, far closer to 33% per major platform than I thought possible. (all possible apologies to the BSD demons out there, we love y'all and I wish it were more like 25% per major platform, all 4 of them)
Having DNS issues. Had to switch to Google's DNS (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4) as 1.1.1.1/etc were not resolving anything.
2020 is all in on everything bad that can happen.
It's not clear that giving a criminal a second chance by not reporting him is compassionate. It may be compassionate to that individual but at the expense of his potential future victims. It's favoring the interests of the closer people over of the interests of strangers and is generally a selfish way to behave.

Unless you believe the justice system is wrong and nobody who does that crime should be convicted for it. In that case, it's standing up for what you believe in at the only opportunity you have to do so.
That’s what I love about it too.

Open a 200mb horribly formatted text file. Apply some regex find-replace to remove some cruft. Let UE format it into nice columns. All seamlessly, also for huge files.
And me. (UK)
Agreed it's a disturbing realization of the unspoken acknowledgment people in the US have been forced to live with: "capitalism doesn't care if you live or die"
I use Smart YouTube TV on the shield, same thing but works a lot better with the controller and tvs in general
I figured it out. I can download the vids and cast with the VLC app or use the "external player" option in NewPipe to play with VLC which can cast it.
There is another one called Youtube Vanced