skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just look at Chicago, New York etc. Both have broken historical records of shootings as well as fatalities. Portland has been rioting for over 45 days and the Mayor and Governor is not even stopping rioters from burning down federal property.

23 million in damages to federal property including courthouse:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/violent-demonstrations-in-port...

> A review of court records showed 59 people arrested during Portland demonstrations had charges dismissed, including several people arrested on felony charges.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/criminal-cha...

The person who set the court house on fire also got his charges dropped.
They're men with guns and notebooks. Which makes them much more useful than men with guns in creating a paper trail. If the suspect had known he'd been reported to the police, he probably would have guessed he'd be the cops first interview when his boss turned up dead.
Well you come across as an outsider telling us that the tools that we use—and do a fine job with—are no good, and that our literature sucks.

I am here to argue that this sort of attitude is problematic. If you browse through this thread you will find no shortage of comments describing how absolutely basic this article is (and a little void of insight, and a little out dated), and that there are people in the industry getting six figures while not knowing this stuff. Frankly it is a little insulting. And I think the attitude that you presented above is part of the problem. There definitely exists a lack of respect for the craft of front-end development within our industry. This sort of attitude is not helping.
Bill Gates was actually quite a capable software engineer (I would argue he was a pretty rotten CEO though - successful but unethical).

And Steve Jobs too. He wrote games for Atari. Not a good CEO from the start but during Next and Pixar he really learned the job.
Lives are only lost in a lockdown scenario because of god awful policy. Pay people to stay home. Feed the poor.
Yes but then you can't use your phone.
how many pages do you have in that single doc?
Well, that's what happens if you keep high schools open (where the kids are much more susceptible) and don't attempt reasonable social distancing.

20 elementary school aged kids that must stay with their group? Teachers required to only interact with one group of kids? I'm less worried at least in areas that aren't at TX/AZ/FL levels.
Primer on GPT-3 and potential use cases
Yes, people will die if we get it wrong by engaging in a destructive policy of lockdown.

That's your problem. You and everyone in your camp acts as if all the uncertainty exists in the "herd immunity" side. It doesn't. The risks of SARS-2 infection are much better bounded than the risks of unprecedented lockdown and economic destabilization. Full stop.
I don't get it. I don't understand why things can't be deprecated and why this requires a 100% new clean slate rewrite that actually loses functionality (the ability to run remote).

The other problem is priorities. There are a million other much higher priority things: better hardware support, better support for laptop power management, endless usability improvements to desktop apps, etc.
You can push for answers from those people, but there's probably no real answers to give. The federal response to the pandemic has been so ineffective, to put it kindly, that it leaves people at all levels with no meaningful responses. Principals, superintendents, and school boards can want to offer the support described in this thread, but have no real way to actually deliver it.
And which they are unable to use even if they were to pay for them, as they depend on Google Play Services.
So elective rather than compulsory?
So they stuck some end-caps in Ace stores and put a section on its website and for that gave up a majority share?

https://www.acehardware.com/grommet

What was Ace Hardware expecting out of this deal?

Aside: my local Ace is frustrating more often than not. I go there because it's a mile away, but the inventory is so small that at least half the time I can't find what I need and end up driving the extra 15 minutes to the big box hardware store.

This Ace also has a small section devoted to pet supplies, but there again, it's often too small to be useful. An example: we adopted a dog last year and I wanted to get a name tag right away. PetSmart has kiosks that print these on-demand. The Ace store does not.

Their employees are also no longer the experts that Ace stores were once staffed by. I'm lucky if they even know their inventory. Meanwhile at HD, I can usually find someone with plumbing experience in the plumbing section, electrician experience in electrical, etc. Not always, but so far I'm batting 0% at Ace.
Teachers have gone on strike for paychecks, I hope they do so because their lives are worth more than paychecks.
Ask HN: Is deconstruction ringing the changes on accidental forms?
Is https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-the-national-review-gets-wrong-about-deconstruction/ a reasonable summary of Derrida?

"Rather than simply tearing down the monuments of the past and leaving them in ruins, deconstruction provides students with the tools for remixing the past for the sake of shaping the future."

A/ I'm also interested in postmodernism in general, as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414679

B/ If de-con-struction is picking things apart to put them back together in different ways, how does that compare with function programming's hylomorphism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylomorphism_(computer_science)

(in earlier neologisms, we find
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylomorphism )
That... doesn't appear to be true. It's Wikipedia, the whole history is available. Heres the page as of early/mid April: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Excited_delirium&..., which as far back as I've bothered to go, and the cited paragraph is still there.
They serve their website to any browser, and NewPipe presents itself as one.
> Sometimes NSAIDs make the pain unbearable.

This sounds like an upper digestive tract issue. You should look into Roemheld Syndrome. https://cara.care/digestive-disorders/upper-abdomen/roemheld... I was having a lot of feelings of skipped heartbeats and my doc realized I was also having a lot of digestive issues so he told me that Roemheld seemed most likely. What I noticed is that skipped beats occurred around the time when I needed to burp. The burping releases pressure on the vagus nerve which goes to both the heart and the stomach. When I realized this my anxiety was much reduced.

In my case I found that I needed to limit chocolate consumption, sit up straighter and practice deep breathing.
> I mean, it's succeeded so far. There have been and will be growing pains, but so far the standard of living has increased over time. To declare failure is just speculation.

Industrialized society has been reducing the long-term carrying capacity of the earth for over a century. These effects, until recently, have been masked by intensification i.e. continually increasing consumption of resources for use as inputs of various processes (e.g. agriculture) that improve the standard of living. In the absence of infinite resources this method eventually reaches hard limits. Also, in a closed system negative externalities can eventually reach levels where they negatively affect carrying capacity.

> Sorry, but this is just the reality of being a living creature. You can go fully off the grid if you want and make all those things for yourself, but most people don't do that, because, spoiler alert, it sucks. It's more work than participating in an economy.

Hunter-gatherer societies have routinely been found to be happier and involve significantly less work than industrialized societies. The accelerating Holocene extinction, ongoing for millennia now, has obviously made this harder. Climate change is making this considerably harder as biomes, generally, shift poleward at rates that negatively impact biodiversity and hence carrying capacity.

> Citation needed.

Not sure what the other poster had in mind here, but the CMIP6 models taking into account cloud dynamics (which also happen to most closely fit historic data) show climate sensitivity of 5-7C, i.e. doubling preindustrial CO2 levels will entail to global average warming of 5-7C. Do you think warning in this range unlikely to occur because you see the necessary immediate societal change as likely? Or do you think that given that degree of climate shift occurs it is unlikely to entail a societal and/or biosphere collapse?
IMO the AAP's guidance on that page is extremely valuable and covers a comprehensive list of well thought out considerations. My biggest concern is that much of it will require significant increases in funding, strong leadership at all levels, and time for careful planning to implement according to those guidelines. Those challenges are not insurmountable, but are we doing enough to meet those goals, or are we rushing into decisions prematurely based on other factors which are clearly against the AAP's guidance?
Those Robert Harris books are a great read. And surprisingly historically accurate as well.
Grocery store workers don't spend 8 hours a day in a crowded room with kids who won't keep their PPE on, won't adequately wash their hands, want to give their teachers hugs / high fives, etc. Cashiers get to stand several feet away from those checking out, can put up plexiglass barriers, can slow down the checkout process a bit to sanitize between customers.

Hospitals are designed to prevent infectious disease spread. They plan for mass sanitation, employees wearing PPE, minimizing disease vectors. My wife's hospital has changed their policy to no outside visitors even on non-COVID floors. You can't do that in a school.

Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to downplay the sacrifice essential employees are making right now; they absolutely deserve hazard pay among so much else for putting themselves at risk for the benefit of everyone else. I asked my wife at the beginning of this if she wanted to quit, and we'd find a way to make it work, and she said "I'm a nurse, I signed up for this." That's just her mindset; she's been trained to work in a contagious environment and her hospital has many ways to help keep her safe. Asking teachers to take on that responsibility in addition to what we already ask of them, while being inside a petri dish of disease spreading is 100% irresponsible to everyone involved.
If there's a publicly exposed service with no authentication or security in place, it is not the fault of an individual for using it. It's clearly not illegal, and neither is it unethical. If YouTube wants to protect their service from unauthorized use, they are perfectly capable of doing so.
Segway’s current owner, Beijing-based Ninebot, says the PT sales were hampered by the vehicles’ sheer unkillability: “We have seen an over-saturation of the market for Segway PTs,” the company said in a statement. “They are an extremely durable vehicle, with many that are 10 years or older still on the road.” The Segway PT made up less than 1.5 percent of the company’s revenue last year.

Should there be some sort of subsidy for 'things that last'? Or 'year beyond average lifespan that thing is still in use'?

It feels like companies will actively try to avoid making durable things if there isn't.
Have seen those videos (quite good) and very familiar with the downfall of RCA, but not sure I agree with this take.

RCA basically set up an unworkable scenario and management did not heed the sunk cost fallacy to realize they were down the garden path. A stylus based cheaply made consumer electronic device with the technology at the time was pretty much impossible (and then of course by the time tech had advanced a stylus based system was totally moot). You could have hired manhattan project people and it wouldn’t have changed the physical/economic realities of what they were trying to do.
Another famous short seller, John Hempton, responded to Ackman's short with a very public investment case for going long Herbalife (he argues it's a kind of social club with supplement sales attached as dues). Short sellers definitely don't bat anything close to 1.000 though.
Can you cite any content creator who actually stated that they are making significant money from Youtube ads (AdSense)? It seems that all the content creators that I follow keep repeating that they make money trough sponsored videos, organic/direct ads, brand partnerships and even affiliate links, while on the other hand YouTube ads are basically a negligible share of their income. Here’s one example, I can find more if needed https://youtu.be/v8F4jrtZtNE
Does it end with "The Times was initially put in touch with the hackers by a security researcher in California"? There was no information whatsoever
So why did the price never come down?
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Looks like someone further down in that twitter thread posted a link to the torrent: https://twitter.com/lolalone/status/1284140222582796293
It's not the job of end users to support and maintain the ecosystem. If YouTube wanted to protect their services with authentication, they are very capable of doing so. It's not the end users fault, even a tiny bit.

YouTube is a corporate for-profit walled garden platform. Corporate entities put massive effort into designing complex and subtle policies for these platforms in order to drive first and second order effects that sustain them and extract value from them. It is absolutely not the job of random user to spend any effort figuring out whether their actions are in support of the particular platform policies. In fact I'd go so far as to say that YouTube is monopolistic and unethical and users should do everything they can to subvert it.
Yeah. I could get higher resolution out of 8×10 sheet film. If I have it perfectly flat. And if I nail my focus and have everything aligned properly. And if I get it into a scanner properly. A good scanner. That somehow doesn't get dust on it.

Or I can use live view on a 35mm digital camera and nail the focus and exposure exactly. Or if I’m really getting paid, I get a Fuji GFX 100, a 102MP medium-format camera, and get a ludicrous number of pixels.
In the open world, you have less information sucked from you because you can block ads across apps, and you don't have to tell big brother Apple which apps you've installed or where you've used GPS.
Oh, I see, thanks for explaining.
This is my most missed app since moving to iOS.
Your math is wrong. First, there are 56M students in the US (5-18 year olds, pretty much). Second, while you quoted the % of cases that belong to children, that is the wrong stat. You want the number of kids that would ever get COVID, which is probably all of them, although there is evidence that 20-50% of people have some sort of resistance. So, for worse case estimates, if all students get covid, then 56M * 0.018 = about 1M kids hospitalized. However, CDC also has evidence that there are 5-10x the number of cases in general out there. So if it is 10x, then it is 100,000 kids hospitalized because the hospitalization rate is commensurately lower. Still not a good number.

If we look at mortality, it is better. The current estimate for IFR in kids is about 1 in 300,000. That gives about 220 estimated deaths if every school age kid gets Covid. Cars kill more kids per year driving to school.

This is all horrendously tough to decide on, but we need to use the best data we can and understand the dangers and comparisons to other dangers.

Finally, kids are going to spread it anyway, so I think kids getting it is really a non-issue, except for the very vulnerable.

Staff/teachers are another concern. An even worse concern is people at kids' homes. That's the really tough part.

You need the Infection Fatality rate for mortality.
Not saying that your example isn't a valid critique, but shouldn't you weigh the number of problematic cases against the number in which the SEC functions well?

Moreover, certain parties would benefit from the SEC being starved of resources due to people not trusting governments in general anymore. Its a strategy that has paid out in the US in many instances.
Lots of people who believe divorce should be illegal out downvoting tonight!
No Bitcoin Cash? BTC fees are really rampant, I'd rather that the full amount go to the donation.
I think this is a misrepresentation. Texas has 85% of the infections as California and 74% of the population. California has had steady growth while Texas has been very quick with several days over 10k.

I think the reason the outcome is largely the same is this is a situation where we rely on our federal government to lead the response, and so far they haven’t.
> For every single test travel down to a missile range having days of turnaround.

Or just use Lockheed's test facilities in the desert in California, which are far more remote and have better weather.

There's a reason aviation companies operate in SoCal, and not Colorado.

As with the death of Fahim Saleh, HN is trending towards shadowy, dramatic reasons that just don't make sense in the face of numerous mundane explanations.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm mainly a back end developer. I can hack around with CSS, but have never been very good at it.
The Golden Gate Bison Cam is now live
Legit curious about the down voting. If we're going to allow news like this to be posted, then what about my comment is not adding facts or to the conversation? Is it because of this line: "If this chills you and you don't want to see it progress, call your representatives and ask them to intervene to stop this."?
I just like it when floats and integers are serialized into bytes and it's harder to see what is where. IPC becomes a little harder to decipher. Obfuscation is not exactly a use case for pickle, but still nice extra feature.
The argument is that there is a clear Quid Pro Quo here: you can use Google's expansive infrastructure[1]/bandwidth to obtain video content if you watch their ads or pay for Premium. Although Google hasn't banned people for blocking them, they have every right not to serve videos to you if you don't want to watch the ads.

1: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
Tech Lead got banned from Facebook (as a millionaire)
Online quizzes and video lectures might be fine for college students, but your idea is laughable for younger kids. You really haven't thought this through...
In the same vein: https://3scape.com/pic/9767/Tilted-House-or-Crooked-Street
> Have you tried searching for recipes? It's absolutely miserable.

Yeah, I went down this rabbit hole a few weeks ago while I was trying to find the perfect pizza dough recipes.

On the other hand, I've had much better success getting right to the ingredient list and instructions using Pinterest and Instagram instead.
You haven't heard it before because it's patently not true. The CDC, the FDA, the NIH, FEMA, not to mention the droves of smaller groups you and I have never heard of that are embedded in other agencies - the federal government has a massive public health role. It's so clear that I have to seriously question the motives of anyone saying that it doesn't.
> unwilling to hold anyone back a year

When I was in middle school, a couple teachers threatened a couple kids that if they did not do X and Y and Z, they would be held back a year. The kids did not do X or Y or Z, i.e. nothing, and they were promoted anyway.

I didn't know anyone who was held back a year, other than one kid in 2nd grade. It's a completely empty threat, and the kids knew it.
Things drop off the front page through flagging long before they pick up enough flags for [flagged] status. So I'm not sure your 'not flagged' metric is actually right.
The consensus on both ends of the political spectrum over the past 30 years is that public education is a failure and must be abolished through either defunding or diverting funding to charter schools. Providing more funding to public schools would undermine that goal.
The question isn’t whether the authors think that, it’s whether the police think that. If you thought a suspect had superhuman strength and was impervious to pain, wouldn’t you use more lethal means to control them?
What caught my attention is that if Facebook bans an account, you lose access to all other platforms that you used your FB account as identity - no way to appeal even appeal it seems.

That can be quite intense if someone uses it a lot.
It's terrifying how many people here are mistaking this for progress or improvement. We are not going to win this guys.
It's more the severity and granularity at which they did this. It's definitely done by most enterprise IT orgs and there's good reason for it. Then there's what Disney does which blows past any level of reasonable.

Think: getting approvals for upsizing an AWS instance in accordance with AWS's recommendations on an instance class you're already using in an account already serving production. Adding a user to a per user billed SASS that's critical to the org (we had to seek approvals to add employees to Slack/Github/email, and they frequently got denied).

They will spend thousands of dollars in man hours to make sure you're not misusing a penny.
One time when I lived in Rome, I was near Ostia and I saw a public water fountain. The funny thing though was that someone had attached a water hose to the water output and then ran the hose into their house. Free water!

"If there's a publicly exposed service with no authentication or security in place, it is not the fault of an individual for using it. It's clearly not illegal, and neither is it unethical. If [the city of Rome] wants to protect their [water service] from unauthorized use, they are perfectly capable of doing so."

I disagree that it is not unethical. I would hope most people recognize that abusing a free service to avoid a paid service is unethical.
Compatibility comes at a cost—by supporting old users, sometimes you fail to support new users. This is not hypothetical, this is at the core of the problem with BDF fonts.
If a child refuses to do anything when they were physically in school what was being done about it then?

You can’t physically force someone to learn then and you can’t now.

Not sure anything’s changed really.

All they did before was remove disruptive children and now I guess they remove themselves. Remains an unsolved problem!
Anyone confused by AMD Ryzen's mobile numbering, here's a brief summary:

Anything in the 2000 series is Zen, the 3000 series is Zen+ (although there's a 3200U which is still a Zen), and the 4000 series is Zen 2. The 3/5/7/9 indicates entry/mainstream/performance/high-end

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_microprocess...
Show HN: Dennis MUD Multiplayer Text Adventure Sandbox
Stay at home orders work because they minimize contact someone has with others.

Sure, people might still go to the groceries or other essential tasks. Once or twice a week. But if they're otherwise obeying the order and staying at home then just by not travelling to and from the office, going on recreational walks/drives/etc, and in general being isolated with a few people is obviously going to drastically limit the spread. It's not going to cut it down to 0, but it's still far less than the other extreme of living life normally and interacting with random people and surfaces daily.

Why are you even trying to create a false dichotomy? Just stay at home and wear a mask, ffs. It's really not that hard.

Saving lives should not be this grand political issue it's become in the US. It's objectively very simple. Limit contact and limit spread, and you'll have fewer cases. You limit contact by having people stay at home, and you limit spread by having people wear masks. This isn't rocket science or anything.
What kind of things are we talking about that someone would add to OpenSSL outside of its core functions?
Show HN: Lucid – 2D JavaScript platforming engine
Just got the HP Envy x360 (AMD Ryzen 5 4500U) and it feels faster than my year old and far more expensive Thinkpad T480s.