skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to note that the state of Louisiana uses a completely different system of law than the rest of the United States, based off the French civil code.

It gives judges and prosecutors a lot of leeway in how they handle cases.
Don't discount the power of our filter bubbles. Someone can have good faith but their objectivity goes out the window because of the information they consume.
I think the poster is referring to how Disney was run when Walt was at the helm. This doesn't mean it applies still today.
Sure, if you don't care about free software or privacy.
Thanks, I enjoyed reading. As an electronic engineering student, I remember grappling with information theory in the abstract: it was a weather example very similar to yours that gave me the intuition I was missing.

An observation/suggestion. The intro is accessible to many people; that drops off a steep cliff when you hit the maths. Now, I'm not complaining about that: it's instructive and necessary to formalise things. Where I struggle is in reading the equations in my head when I don't know what words to use for the symbols. For example, that very first `X ~ p(x)`. I didn't know what to say for the tilde character, so couldn't verbalise the statement. I do know that $\in$ (the rounded 'E') means 'is a member of' so I could read the next statement. The problem gets even more confusing for a non-mathematician as the same symbol is used with different meaning in different branches of maths/science (e.g. $\Pi$).

I get that writing out every equation in English isn't feasible (or, at least, is asking a lot of the writer). But I wonder if there's middle way, e.g. through hyperlinking?

As I say: not a criticism and I don't have a good solution. Just an observation from a non-mathematician. Enjoyed the piece anyway.
Performance is in fact divergent by party; see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/hso3sf/oc_.... Blue counties are doing worse than red in both state cohorts due to population density, but counties of either party are doing worse in R states. Blue states were worse early on, mostly due to New York City being quickly overwhelmed, but now that's not the case, because D governors (e.g., Newsom) are generally leading responsibly, and R governors (e.g. Kemp) are... not.

>Obama failed to properly launch a simple website for his signature initiative

Healthcare.gov was a shitshow, but referring to it here is a very silly false equivalency. It was not time-sensitive in the same way that COVID-19 response is. It involved getting the federal government to exercise new competencies that it hadn't done at scale before; responding to national crises is kind of the number one job of the federal government, and PPE acquisition, distribution, and even manufacturing are not new. It failed for reasons having to do with mismanagement of timelines, not outright fraud; COVID PPE shipments have been hijacked and sold off to the president's cronies.

But sure, both sides technically did something wrong, so there's no difference between them.
I have a server-side rendering approach that can get instantaneous paint of arbitrarily-complex views after pulling down index.html and exchanging a single pair of websocket messages. Once the initial page is loaded, redraws are as fast as you can get packets between the machines plus 2-3ms for decoding. It involves some very unorthodox methodologies and has latency constraints (similar to Google Stadia hosting model), but there are serious upsides. Including completely untouchable load & response times.

I strongly believe we are stuck in a Malthusian Trap regarding the use of HTML/iOS/UWP/Android for clients and then an entirely separate stack of things for the server - Go/.NET/Rust/Python/C++/etc. This separation adds such a huge burden to the development and maintenance of any application. I argue that if we must have some division between client & server, lets move as much of the complexity to the server as we possibly can. It's so much more manageable when you have all of your state in 1 domain like that. If the client doesn't have to track state or reason about its views, the application implementation for each device can be trivial.

I don't think that HTML/JS/CSS/JSON APIs represent a good boundary layer. I think final rasterized views, viewport dimensions and client events do. JPEG/MPEG can be decoded incredibly quickly on most mobile client devices due to availability of hardware acceleration. You will never be able to write a website in the traditional sense that can outperform the speed at which you could decode a full-screen JPEG image and display it. Server hardware is also getting insanely powerful with the new generations of AMD CPUs rolling out. Encoding JPEGs using something like LibJpegTurbo on TR/Epyc is ridiculously fast. This is also a type of application that does trivially parallelize across many cores. As bandwidth becomes ever more ubiquitous, and services more geographically-distributed, there is a good chance something like this could become practical in the general case.

For now, this is all just a crazy experimental thing that only works for a narrow range of applications. But, I would strongly encourage other developers to start thinking outside of the box. As networks get faster and latency gets lower, we will begin to encounter new "step function" opportunities that fundamentally shift how we do business.
It's not going to solve all of your problems. But I know it's possible to be so anxious that you can't even bring yourself to get other forms of help you need. And in other cases, it can help break the vicious cycle you described.

Learning to slow down and breathe are the simplest thing that many never learn.
I think you are bringing your own biases to this problem. The US is not as decentralized as it once was, it's true. And that has pros and cons. But many countries that are more centralized than the US have handled this crisis better, and the same is true for countries that are less centralized. It's not clear at all that the reason for the US failure had been the level of centralization.
At this point I am even sure that being more efficient is better. From the context of economic opportunity the only ones that benefit are the rich and well connected. Now, I'm not one to bash "rich people" but think about it. If I was looking for a good deal for some land I could probably find one if I looked hard enough. Today it is pretty difficult to find land that isn't insanly expensive or too far away. Everything has already been bought up. The people that are well off and connected already learned 20 or 30 years ago where the land development were going to happen and they already bought the land.

As far as homeschooling is concerned. I spent 20 years in the military and the only thing that I observed that was a little awkward about the people that were home schooled was how they were around "authority". Meaning that they weren't as submissive to authority like everyone that went to a normal public school.
The difference is you think that mortality is avoidable. I don't. We're talking about the US, right? You still think containment is possible in the US? I am absolutely baffled.

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You have used the classic rhetorical technique of those on the "doom" faction: take a well-reasoned rebuttal, and reply with a single sentence implying I am callous for openly discussing mortality.

No, the callous ones are those that are imposing a dangerous and unprecedented regime of lockdown, and using fear and hysteria to do so.

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Also your math is just wrong. An extra quarter million? We already hit 130k dead, that leaves 120k left "to go" with your number.
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I'm entirely off the current mainstream interpretation of Akhenaten. Akhenaten, to me, was hardly a "monotheist". In fact, if I were asked to name a historic figure that was the famous pharoah of biblical lore (the anti-Moses) I would unhesitatingly point to Akhenaten. I suggest considering his treatment of 'temple' with the pre-existing Egyptian norm. His temple has no roof. The original Egyptian model reflected the canonical Macro-Micro duality and was in fact a 'closed' space. Akhenaten, per my reading, claimed that he was the incarnate 'one god'. No wonder the Egyptians erased all traces of his reign after his demise. They totally erased him from Egyptian records. Something to think about. (Egyptians were certainly 'godly'. Just review the Egyptian prayers of the dead.)

O sole god, like whom there is no other!
Thou didst create the world according to thy desire

That is a prayer from ancient Egypt.

That said, the idea that Hebrew mythological kings are in fact borrowings of Egyptian glory makes a lot of sense. Some of the imagery -- tributes being brought from far away lands to Solomon -- however is distinctly reminiscent of Persepolis.

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/relief-depicting-procession-...
The populists may have dispensed with the pretense of claiming not to be corrupt, but the corruption the parent describes was certainly there long before they came on the scene.
Vue 3 is now in RC
Because it would require hardware, network and general security engineers to perform the investigation. And along with that would be a dozen aides or delegates to these professionals that would be very familiar with the investigation.

It would be obvious if the results were opposite what Cook said publicly, or if the investigation was suddenly stopped and made inconclusive.

Apple would also be counting on the US government and Bloomberg to not leak "the truth" so that Tim Cook's statement would not be revealed as a lie.

The idea offers intrigue but doesn't pass any kind of reasonable pass of consideration.
Very nice. For those of us who'd appreciate a live demo (like me), I wrote this script:

document.querySelectorAll('link[rel="stylesheet"], style').forEach((style) => style.remove());

const style = document.createElement("style");
style.appendChild(document.createTextNode("body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:140%;max-width:38rem;padding:2rem;margin:auto}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5{margin-bottom:.6rem;line-height:120%}p{margin:0 0 1rem}"));

document.head.appendChild(style);
Twitter only has 8 consecutive quarters of profitability. At some point hn will catch on.
The US has handled the pandemic worse than any country in the world, except maybe Brazil. Otherwise, I can't think of a country that has handled it worse.

Which countries are doing a worse job than the US in handling Coronavirus, in your opinion?
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> Congress as an institution has low approval rates because people dislike what it does in aggregate, not what the people they have a vote in do

In other words, people like their individual representatives because those representatives favor their preferred policies; but they strongly disapprove of Congress as a whole because they don't see any of those preferred policies actually being enacted.

> If Congress was more effectively representative—which is a matter of apportionment and electoral system—the aggregate approval would be higher.

This assumes that, by changing apportionment and the electoral system, more people would see Congress enacting their preferred policies. I don't think this is true. I think the reason Congress as a whole doesn't enact anyone's preferred policies is that there is no broad bipartisan consensus behind any of them; if a majority exists at all in favor of any particular policies, it is a thin majority, and there is no majority with enough consensus on a range of policies to be able to make the required legislative deals to get those policies enacted.

In other words, Congress is reflecting the fact that the country as a whole does not have a broad consensus in favor of most policies that are on the table. And in that situation, those policies shouldn't be enacted. So I would argue that in this respect our current system is doing exactly the job the Founders intended it to do: it is preventing thin majorities from imposing their preferred policies on everyone.

However, the disconnect between individual approval ratings and the overall approval rating of Congress does allow something else to happen: since there is effectively no competition for individual seats, there is no accountability for bad policy decisions that do have broad bipartisan consensus behind them. So those decisions can be, and are, made with impunity. The grant of power to the FDA that I mentioned previously is an example: there is no serious opposition from either party in Congress to granting unelected bureaucrats in Federal agencies extremely broad powers that affect everyone and cannot be effectively challenged. So that disastrous policy decision continues on while people squabble over policies that have only thin majorities, if any, in favor of them.
Hospitals/ICUs being overrun in the United States is not realistic. I'm not equipped to discuss the medical capacity of other countries, but Sweden did fine.
Good. It will forever be normalized to wear a mask in public & private when you're sick now
I'm black, and I'd prefer that to any one of a number of things Trump actually does, like family separation. Blackface-for-kicks is, at best, insensitive and offensive, but on a scale with massive human rights abuses, it, standing on its own, doesn't even merit discussion.
wait, what is the CDC then? I am not trying to argue with you. I haven't heard the take that the US government doesn't have a public health role and am looking to learn.
> which could possibly open yourself up for attacks(albeit complex and likely limited in scope)

It's laughable to compare this to using a third party which can hold your funds indefinitely and censor your transactions with no recourse for you. That's very simple, and unlimited in scope.

Sure, running a local node is even better, but using a remote one doesn't "remove the benefit." That's nonsense. It removes maybe the bottom 1% of the benefit while leaving the other 99% intact.
Still no word on if they plan to make twitter bookmarks a part of the API. Disappointing
Reading the classics often make me feel we achieved very little improving our base instincts in the last 2000 years.

Robert Harris has a number of pretty cool historical fiction books about Cicero (Imperium, Pompeii, Conspirata) that are a good read also and put much of the goneby times in context.
I've worked with a ton of apps migration frameworks in my career. From GWT, jQuery, Angular 1, and several non-OSS ones. The only successful incremental migrations I've ever seen have been via web components.

I'm working with one now that rather than convert from Angular 1 to Angular 9 in one shot is converting component-by-component to web components and working on features as they go. They'd have to stop features for at least 6 months otherwise.
>It's tyranny when the people being arrested have not committed any crimes.

Why would you assume they haven't committed a crime? The camouflaged cops are clearly targeting individuals, not kettling up whole groups of peaceful protesters. Also, police brutality doesn't excuse serious crimes. We can do something about both at the same time.

I don't presume guilt (this is America, after all), but I rather suspect the Federales have some reason to arrest some but not others, and that reason might be things like arson, assault, or other serious crimes.

I'm not arguing that the media have pumped some things up to get ratings, but it's undeniable there have been criminal acts in and around legitimate protesters, perpetrated by bad actors, and it's not unreasonable to think perhaps the Feds have some evidence of wrongdoing by virtue of the targeted nature of the arrests.
Thanks, that would be awesome! It really makes state management within custom elements a breeze. I'm hoping others who appreciate observables/mobx will take interest and help me grow/maintain it :)
Sure, but my point being that I linked multiple topics which lead to very obvious low quality discussions that don't end up being flagged. In fact, they end up becoming the topic of the day in many ways. So the argument becomes why do those topics end up becoming popular and topics such as this one do not?

Obviously I'm already giving away my ideological slant here which is that I firmly believe the story in question is horrific. But what I find frustrating is that flagging only works if the userbase agrees to flag topics that will lead to low quality discussions. If the userbase ends up not flagging those topics, then flagging comes down to ideological divides and that's what I see.
Then you cut the school day in half, get rid of homework, and find the best-of-breed educators to deliver unidirectional video content with mandatory pass/fail multiple-choice quizzes. Do less than x% of quizzes and you get held back a grade.

Teachers are on the clock for what, 8 hours a day? I don't think it's too much to ask for two or three blocks of "office hours" for miscellaneous Q&A or face-time or "random topic of the day".

I mean c'mon, we all know half of what's taught in schools these days from K-12 is useless filler material. Teachers must adapt.
It would be interesting to see the data of which is more effective. I'm currently biased towards believing that masks were highly effective and SIP orders mostly are not (because people still leave for groceries, for example) .

If we create the false dichotomy of Masks vs SIP I would recommend Masks
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-admin-seizing-ppe/

There were three major disincentives for states to do this.

First, without a coordinated response there were dozens of high demand buyers and low supply. The market did its thing and State Governments were being forced to pay very high prices for PPE. States were bidding against each other and bidding against the Federal Government, this drove the price even higher.

Second, even when States could secure PPE, the Federal Government was seizing PPE and testing supplies to send it to Coronavirus Taskforce approved vendors who would then sell the seized goods back to the States at inflated prices. This got so bad that Maryland's Governor, after using his South Korean wife's connections to secure testing supplies from South Korea, placed them under the protection of the National Guard to prevent the Federal Government from absconding with them. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/maryla...

Third, the State budgets are shot to hell. When the public health crisis started it was easy to say, let's do what it takes to keep people safe. Now a sizable chunk of the citizenry is refusing to wear masks or social distance, and the State coffers are running empty. State leaders are faced with deciding if they want to use the limited funds left at their disposal to try purchasing PPE in the face of a constituency that is going to spread and worsen the public health crisis regardless. It's lose-lose for the decision makers, so they are disincentivized to follow this path. They can spend the last of the treasury on PPE just to watch it evaporate as cases soar.
It more or less maintains itself with OTA updates, just like a stock distribution. The initial (slight) hurdle is installing the thing but once that is done these devices can be maintained by anyone who can maintain a stock Android or iOS distribution.
Its a fairly old concept, but we're still not at the stage where it can be used in a product for human use. I work in vaccine r&d (though not as a scientist) and there are many technologies that sound great on paper, but haven't been shown to work in the real world.
Then they could offer that feature just in those jurisdictions.
On newer Android versions (8+), you have to allow the specific app from which the install is launched (browser, file manager, third party store, ...). In practice, not that different.

https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/alt...
It's definitely there, and updated often:

NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube frontend) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe
See, they use general human coronaviruses as a model, instead of SARS-1, which is incredibly functionally and structurally similar to SARS-2.

Why would you willfully ignore the enormous research literature showing enduring immunity developing from SARS-1? Oh, right, because either you haven't read it or you don't like that it doesn't support your conclusions.

It's like, imagine we're discussing H1N1 reinfection, and we have a highly similar H1N0 which varies very slightly, and we know that doesn't lead to reinfection. But instead you look at a number of Influenza viruses in the same family but not nearly as similar.

Don't you see how ridiculous that is?

We obviously should use SARS-1 as a model for SARS-2.
Thanks for showing us an example of exactly the kind of stupidity the parent is talking about. The government is well within its rights to require shelter in place. If you don't like it, get your case heard by the Supreme Court and win, but until then, stop pretending you have a right to not be quarantined. You don't. This is exactly the kind of thought and culture that prevents America from doing even the simplest things, like protecting people in a pandemic. A grass roots anti-intellectual culture of stupidity.
Waiting for Eritrea to open up the .er tld. I have first dibs on hack.er!
They transitionned to Citadel, which is a Thales product based off Matrix which made technical decisions which will drive the product off the Matrix dev flow (namely the authentication).
AWS and HSBC reach long-term strategic cloud agreement
SEC is garbage every where. I found a foreclosed property that was lost due from a reverse mortgage and the lender wasn't in a hurry to sell for fair market value. I dove in and found out that this company is taking poor performing reversed mortgage properties that are at risk of foreclosure and packaging it as a securitized debt and selling to Wallstreet. Pretty much stamped AAA+ by Moody's filed by SEC, same ol crap from 2008 is still happening, and the house can't even sell for how much they loaned out. Depending on any govt agency to protect us is just dreams, dig into the data yourself and figure it out. Lots of people noticed issues with Wirecard, you can do the same for any US company just learn to read their 10K filings, they might lie but it's often a good start.
I have uBlock, Facebook Container, and pihole set up so I should be good for any FB tracking on my desktop (heavy emphasis on the word "should" there), but my phone always finds ways to surprise me.
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You first two factoids are factually correct, and yet your conclusion is wrong.

The birthrates are still, globally, well well above replacement rate, and will continue to be so well beyond the climate crisis causing devestation.
I will third this. Please, just look. You'll need to go through decades of multi-level marketing scams, private military contracting, torturous approach to treating autism and other behavioral therapies, and multi-generational Charismatic Christian hate groups before you can even dig into her atrocious educational policies.
Hyundai is doing it. They started out with the lackluster Ioniq EV, but the Kona EV has proven to be quite popular, and seems like a very decent, fairly aggressively priced vehicle. It's cheaper than the closest comparable model, the Kia Niro EV, and has a slight edge (e.g. battery warmer except on the cheapest model). Still more expensive than the Bolt, but arguably a better car.
What the hell is an EA?