skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, calling it the most popular requires defining popular in a rather unconventional manner... That said, as a data point, a handful of years ago I saw a report that the average iOS user generally had a quite a bit more purchasing power than the average Android user, so despite making up quite a bit less than 50% of the mobile market, iOS users actually come closer to making up 50% of the market that most advertisers care about reaching. I don't know if this is outdated these days, with more high-end Android phones than in the early days, but it still fits my anecdotal experience of Android phones being given to children as their first phone, and cheap Android phones being very popular in developing countries.
I hadn't seen a Youtube ad in years, but now Youtube gives "An error occurred. Please try again later." on first load in Safari on a Mac with Wipr. Reloading without blockers gives ads before and every few minutes and some overlays. Miserable.

It's still easy to work around, but maybe Google's getting more aggressive about blockers.
The world needs more heroes like John Crowford, now more than ever.
With iOS Safari you can change the YouTube website setting to always request the desktop site. Then if you press the home button while a video is playing, pull up control center within 5 seconds and press play you have background playback.

There is also a ton of ad blockers for Safari which block YouTube ads.
Not my field, but my understanding is that a high positivity rate means you’re not testing enough. That’s been my concern with the rush to say that children don’t spread coronavirus. It seems more likely that children are asymptomatic, and therefore not tested as much. If you’ve had the test, you can understand why parents are probably not rushing to have their asymptomatic kids tested for the sake of having better data.
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Understood - I'm more of an old-skool CSS kind of person, but this explanation makes good sense.

I had another look at the docs, but I still don't see anything about the benefits of shadow DOM for this library (unless the benefit is the "part thing"?)
I think this is the major point but it's side-tracked from the writer.

Here is an interesting tidbit:

> In order to track the weapon’s use, the cartridges containing the projectile darts are given serial numbers. When fired, the projectiles are accompanied by 20 to 30 vibrantly colored circular paper tags, a little smaller than one-quarter inch in diameter. The tag is known as an AFID with each AFID bearing a serial number printed on it corresponding to the serial number of the cartridge from which it was fired. Despite the bright colors of the AFIDs, their size makes them very difficult to detect. This presentation demonstrates a method for locating the released AFIDs using an alternate light source.

tl;dr: Tasers' use is traceable and identifiable. The assistant probably didn't know that.
The ad platforms have very clear incentives to deliver the ads that perform best for marketers so that the marketers spend more with the ad platform.

As much as you think the ads are doing a poor job, they're likely doing a better job in aggregate than alternatives.

Retargeting ads deliver higher value than prospecting ads so that's likely why you get so many more of those.
I never said it was, I simply said that is what is happening. Also are you attempting to imply that increased testing will somehow reveal a low positivity rate?
Yes you can put a price on nature. Doing so could stop environmental destruction
Could the employees have requested a second opinion from another psychiatrist not connected to their employer?
Sounds great, but you can't convince half the population of the US to just wear a piece of cloth over their faces and you think it's possible to convince the entire population of the world to radically change their way of life?
They should continue to bring it up, every time, until the story is rescinded.
Shannon is the Eisenstein of the information technology.
If you wrap an image in a figure, but leave the image still inline, you’ll probably get a few pixels of extra space at the bottom of the image due to line-height and vertical-align. People find that really confusing. With how most people use images, I agree that `img { display: block; }` is what you want >99% of the time, and would rather people reverse it for the rare occasion when they want something else. (BTW, doesn’t MathJax emit SVG? Viz., not <img> anyway.)
This is completely false and implies lack of understanding of market dynamics.

It's also insulting to the reality of any person or group who's actually created a business, and wants to get the word out about their product - as if the word magically just 'finds out' about it.

I'm shocked at the level of anti-knowledge and anti- rationalism on a forum of such intelligent people.

Of course advertising can 'skew' people's emotions, nobody doubts inefficiencies. If there were no ads, it would be tantamount to the banking disaster - it would go down like dominos.

Targeted ads are the only hope for a lot of small companies playing into long niches, as I say, without them, you get Nike, Apple and Ford for everything.
> they are asymptomatic with signs of lung damage and probably neurological damage as well from other studies on covid coming out from multiple sources.

Some of this research is rather worrisome. But it's important to not overstate what it says: we find evidence of lung damage in imagery of a small proportion of asymptomatic adults. (I'm not aware of any imaging study of asymptomatic children).

How significant these imagery findings are, what proportion is from COVID-19 (because if you image a bunch of people without COVID-19 you're going to find some weird things in imagery, too), and what proportion of adults infected would have this are unknown (even the asymptomatic adults who manage to get a positive test result and enroll in an imaging study are not typical). Let alone knowing how common this would be in children.
I agree -- the Economist is the exact opposite of what Bloomberg is pointing out. They provide a few scant (or no) examples, and then oddly jump to extrapolating what we should do about the universe. They don't seem to build credibility within an article to make you think they should know what should be done on some specific issue.

Sorry to fall back on a stereotype, but they come off as Oxford students sitting in college, pontificating on the world they've read about.

Maybe I'm mostly thinking about their pseudo-opinion pieces. It just got to the point I didn't enjoy reading them, and no longer do.
> or if you employed in healthcare

Or an NBA player.

To be fair, the league is paying for these and sending them to a private lab, so I'm not sure if they're actually coming out of the test pool available to the general public.
I've used this from the start.
Btw you don't need to give your google account to use this in any way. It is a fully functional (better) youtube client.
> But, if ads were needed for monetization, wouldn't you choose personalized vs non-personalized?

I looked online at mattress once. I did some research, made a decision, and even bought one. And then for the next month at least everywhere I looked was MATTRESSES! DO YOU LIKE MATTRESSES? HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS THING CALLED MATTRESSES? HEY MAYBE YOU WANT MATTRESSES! GET MATTRESSES HERE! Like, mfer, I already bought my mattress. Step off.

[edit] I guess someone out there _really_ likes mattress ads.
Ah, I didn’t realize “FDN” was a bad review
Musi[1] is what I use for playing in the background on iOS.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/musi-simple-music-streaming/id...
Got it, thanks! I misread.
Geography would be my guess. The places people are building are likely not the places that people are missing payments.
There is a lot of argument about the quality of the numbers. Bottom line is the much higher all-cause mortality rates (on top of lower non-natural rates from homicide and automobile accidents).

https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/2020/06/06/what-s-...

There is an uncontrolled covid outbreak in Florida that has killed thousands and at this rate, will get much worse. This is after state leadership had the opportunity to see the exact same thing play out in Hubei province, northern Italy, and the NYC metro area. This is no surprise, the means of preventing it are well know, and it happened anyway.
The problem with this approach is it also assumes that overcoming the virus means a return to 100% health with no long term impact. We're already seeing that it can lead to other long term conditions. I have a friend who is being treated for heart damage after having COVID.

I'm in a low risk population but just because I'm not likely to die from it doesn't mean it's completely harmless to me.
What would you expect though? More than likely someone's mobile device. These things are not good at taking pictures without plenty of light.
You'd think so, but yet I see the same people who are ardent defenders of the Second Amendment and supposedly hate government tyranny come out to defend what is essentially unnamed federal officers in unmarked vehicles grabbing people off the streets.

You'd think that the same people that are incredibly pro-freedom would see this as a massive assault on someone's rights and yet, well.
I think the industry has an attitude problem towards the front end stack. HTML and CSS is not what programmers do. Nobody takes the time to learn it, everybody neglects it, managers hand it over to their newest junior developer, project managers are happy as long as it looks shiny, bootcamps don’t teach it properly, curriculums don’t teach it properly. In the end we have a bunch of people that don’t know anything about the craft, that accept poor craftsmanship as an industry standard.

I had a conversation about this with my partner—who is a woodworker—this morning after reading this thread. I explained my perception of the status of front-end within our industry as such:

It’s as if woodworking and carpentry were synonymous. There are woodworkers that do cabinetry, but all of them learned carpentry. At most they took a single course on cabinetry, but that course probably used outdated methods, tools designed for carpentry, and the teacher them self has build a couple of chairs and a few tables in the past. Most of the people new to the field of cabinetry would come for bootcamps that last for maybe a month where they had to learn woodworking from scratch. Good furniture makers are only expected to be good at woodworking in general. Master carpenters are often expected to be able to finish—or at least manage—furniture projects at their job.

You can imagine the sloppy craftsmanship you would see in the furniture building industry if that were the case. And yet, as tech workers, here we are.
Tables can get quite complex as features get sprinkled on. I doubt any out-of-the-box solution will nail it for all use cases. I'm not opposed to including one in Shoelace at some point, but I'd want it to have an API that's capable of handling the majority of [reasonable] use cases in an elegant way.

It's definitely high up on the list of components that are challenging to get right!
Not quite. Most wars are avoided since one side or the other backs down. If it's obvious you'll lose, you don't go to war. The US projects a lot of power worldwide because of its superior military. It's sufficiently superior that you have peace through superior firepower. If the US asks for something, and an aircraft carrier shows up off your coast, what do you do?

The only time you have wars is if either the military powers are nearly equal, or the demands are over-the-top unreasonable.

* China won't take over Taiwan while the US is defending Taiwan if the US can defeat China in open warfare.

* If things are close, it'll think twice about trying. That'd be an expensive bit of work.

* If China has clear military superiority, I think they'd topple Taiwan's government overnight. The US would back down.

The whole point of a big stick is that you don't have to use it. If I come up to you on the street, point a gun at you, and politely ask for your wallet, I'm much more likely to get your wallet than to need to use my gun.
If anyone wants more, I liked the recent biography: "A Mind at Play"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32919530-a-mind-at-play

The author is interviewed in the documentary.
I got the badge. I didn’t understand why and couldn’t find which repos I’d contributed to had become part of this vault I’d not heard of before. I decided it was meaningless because I couldn’t immediately see any substance behind the award. I turned it off. Have I missed out on some greatness?
He brought an electric saw though, right?
> But it seems like youtube is going away from subscriptions and channels and into a scheme where they pick the content they want to feed you with (Start page prioritizes "random" videos instead of your subscribed channels etc.)

I wouldn't say that either and the current state of recommendation system research simply does not have an answer yet. Your proposed suggestion of basing suggestions by subscription and similar users is what they are doing. However, while you may not see it, I would argue that does not mean it does not exist, as evident by the article and the discussions people are having in this thread.

> should youtube plaster my start page with pop music and make up tutorials that they know I will never watch?

In my preference, yes, though not to the extreme of pure random. I would enjoy seeing options I only select once in a blue moon or not at all. To me that allows for a sense of exploration. However, that is only my preference and your's may be entirely different. Again, I'd say this highlights issues with recommendation systems that maybe one model does not work well for everyone.
In the fine HN tradition of picking fault with every article:

"It took me a while to realize that money is not evil, money is oxygen."

No, money is like food: you need it to survive, but when it becomes your reason for existing, that's pretty sad.
...electricity that is needed to manufacture the products consumed by the US
It is also integrating SponsorBlock in the app. It skips sponsors, patreons and LTT plugins within a video

Free and Open Source - https://sponsor.ajay.app/
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In case someone wants an example of an actual published story that looks like this, here's one from the NY Times: https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-is-the-mystery-shopper-leav...

1100 words to answer the titular question, which really only needed a paragraph or two.
John Tukey coined the term "bit", not his contemporary Claude Shannon. They really could have picked a better title.

That said... I look forward to watching this!
That speculation, specifically an organized Saudi hit à la Khashoggi and leaning on geopolitics and business regulation to make its case, dominated the HN thread. The discussion was sprinkled with dumping on Nigeria’s systems and business environment, assuming because he wasn’t American that he had to borrow from shady characters, linking recent changes to his business to the killing, and panicked nailbiting over NYT descriptions of his condo hitting a little close to home. With few exceptions (such as accusing Saleh of being involved with cocaine), the examples I’ve mentioned found themselves steering the discussion, not downvoted in the slightest.

I wish the HN guideline was “there’s no upside for anyone mentioning Reddit from an often glass house” instead of specifically calling out comparisons of this site to that one. When this forum dumps on Reddit, it walks away with an impression of superiority that could not be further from the truth. Observe my sibling. All forums have their problems and HN is not blessed with immunity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23847195 is the main overall thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848397 is another including smug necros, and there are many others.
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Anyone can taser anyone and do anything to them.

It doesn't matter if they have public social media profiles, a bunch of accolades, or not. There is a group of people that carry tasers in their purse for a sense of security, theoretically putting the people that don't carry purses at all at more risk.

You can also have a healthy relationship.

YMMV. Its actually pretty random and potential dates miss many connections if they resort to overfitting to reduce potential strife. The end.
When you login with the Developer account it gives you an option to upgrade and there you can see the prices. But I'll save you that: 2500 requests against their Full Archive costs 1899 USD. That's 75 cents per request.

That sounds absurd to me. 2500 requests is nothing and what if you're testing? The sandbox level is 50 requests for free.

Maybe I don't understand well the use cases but all the things that come to my mind for these APIs would required more than 2500 requests to do something interesting. They are pricing their data like if it was some sort of unique canonical truth vault when in reality 95% of it, it's just a bunch of shitposts.
COVID-19 patients may have neurological symptoms, but that doesn't mean that SARS-CoV-2 directly attacks the CNS. As noted recently, most neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 can be explained by vasculopathies and coagulopathies rather than the direct infection of neurons [1]. Such results are consistent with findings from autopsies. In contrast, neither of the papers mentioned in the linked article provide any evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is "directly attacking the brain".

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328585/
They can't personlize ads then, unless they are willing to put extreme load on their servers for every video ever requested
Is there any indication that all these locations have stopped all elective surgeries and procedures?
Most early states did that, which hurt the bottom line tremendously, but enabled all hospitals to stay below capacity. From what you are writing, this doesn't seem to be the case. Covid19 doesn't cause a shortage in medical staff. It causes a shortage in capacity and beds.
I think its probably hard to draw much from this, other than it seems to substantiate the theory that a LOT of the transmission has been asymptomatic. And kids are the least vulnerable here. I dont think it would be a stretch to say most kids are asymptomatic. But, at least here in Florida, there still not a lot of "show up and test" style facilities available. Most have to be registered with your employer or healthcare provider. So you have to have some symptom or otherwise ASK to be tested.
"I never buy something suggested by an ad "

Many people think this, it's rarely actually true.

Have a look at the things you buy, you'll remember you've seen ads for them at some point. Now the question is - how much self awareness does it take to make the material connection between those things?
20% of 328 million is 65.6 million. Divided by 770k is ~85 days.

It’s probably better to think of immunity as regional and also not binary (herd vs not herd).

States like MA and NY have a significant benefit from their population immunity levels, versus FL and TX less so. That is to say they have to do less (if not nothing) to keep their R0 below 1 and whatever cases do show up are less likely to spread widely.

Immunity benefits are cumulative to any policy measures put in place. You can try to slow down the rate (flatten the curve) which might not change the ultimate case count in the end, but can lower deaths through greater availability of care. At some point immunity and mitigation measures combined will get you below R0 of 1.

If you’re an island nation with enough testing for effective contact tracing and constant vigilance and willing to lockdown repeatedly, then the other option is trying to actually prevent any spread even without any immunity, but you have to be able to continue this process indefinitely until a vaccine is widely available.
Coronavirus in Schools: Teachers Fear for Their Lives
This is such an empty argument. Name me a coronavirus that has ever exhibited these mysterious long term impacts everyone is blindly conjecturing.

Even SARS-1, which is way more serious than SARS-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), doesn’t cause long term damage (lungs, etc) in actual adults.

What we should be concerned about is the long term impacts of poor socialization, weakened immune systems due to suppression of natural pathogen exchange, an environment of fear and hysteria, widened educational attainment gaps due to non-scientifically-grounded refusal to allow in-person instruction etc. Virtually all the uncertainty is on the “pro lockdown” side IMO.

BTW I recognize you weren’t saying that long term damage does happen but rather that we just don’t know. But I reject that entire argument. We have no evidence it happens and plenty of evidence it doesn’t happen with more serious viruses.
Murder is almost always personal. Even for people involved in conspiracy-adjacent stuff.
I don't see the connection between the two statements. We very deliberately don't tag posts with categories; "non-siloed" is part of the ethos of the site. Meanwhile: dogged adherence to original titles is not the rule, nor is it the spirit of the rule; the spirit of the rule is "the submitter of an article has no privilege to editorialize; submissions are community property". So the rule is "please use original titles, unless they're misleading or linkbait". And, indeed, you'll see stories here that don't use the <title> all the time.
Are you talking about confirmed cases here?
Blindly following what Bill Gates says he does would be the opposite of thinking critically, however ;)
And be compensated?
Parent mentions pumped hydro like that can be setup anywhere in the world.
It'll probably be upgraded later when they finish their investigation. The priority now is keeping him in custody, and for that they may have to present evidence to a judge. So they're going with what they know they can prove right now.
Watching youtube videos using Google's bandwidth, without watching any ads or paying for sub, I don't see how this could be legit in the long term.
And IMO it's gotta much worse since Crichton said that do to online style publishing encouraging newspapers to be even looser with fact checkers and always trying to publish things ASAP over trying to publish something that is interesting, informative and/or factually corrective.
The way car manufacturers are pumping out BEVs and PHEVs with 50+ km range, and buyers are gobbling them up, I think that nut is showing serious fissures ;-)

Personally, I'm expecting to reduce fuel spending by about 80 or 90% ...
This is the best youtube client, bar none. It keeps local history and "subscriptions" without requiring you to log in to google. I use it on an Amazon Fire Tablet. There seems to be no iOS equivalent, which is one of the things preventing me from upgrading to an iPad.

Has anybody used it recently on AndroidTV / FireTV? I've tried it several times in the past, and its always been wonky there. I use SmartYouTubeTV (https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/) on AndroidTV right now, and the logged out experience is terrible.
I guess it’s when something happens across a population that moves them from contemplation into action on the stages of change model.

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/SB/BehavioralCha...

Like gym memberships after New Years.
Isn't that the Wall St. Journal? I have a sub for the NYT, and it's asking me to subscribe.