skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why reward corporations and investors who gambled and lost? Bust them out.

Um, exactly?

As I said, the bank investors should have gotten wiped out.

The worst part is that a bank is probably the single business type that the Federal government can actually replace on a short timescale.
Same in London, UK. And you need to overwork yourself to eat then.
I felt the exact same way.
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I don't think anyone involved in COVID-19 vaccination work believes the first vaccines will be more than 50% effective and that only for a short period. I believe the Oxford vaccine project is expecting 6 months of resistance to infection. This isn't good enough for things to go back to the way the way things were.

We'll be dealing with this virus permanently and it will likely be years, or decades, until there's a good enough vaccine for it to be safe for to return to the way they were.

In the mean time, things will change enough that going back to the old normal won't be an option by the time it's eventually safe enough to do it.
You know I have, but I have moles on my face and have to be SUPER careful. With the gillette blades it's always been not only a nice close shave, but I can do it fast.
How is it factually incorrect?
Please don't be "inspired" by pandas.
Your list of things mods can do is totally wrong. Stop trying to get people outraged by parroting misinformation on topics you don't actually know anything about.

That's the kind of behavior that's really ruining the internet, not "power mods".
In theory they can challenge in FISA court yes, FISA court has denied less than 0.1% of the warrant requests in 30+ year history. It is rubber stamp court.
I am sure such rubber stamp processes exist in China as well.

The fact you cannot even mention that you received a NSL forget the scope and nature of actual request, and entire secretive nature of the court proceedings and no plans to every unseal this data, canary declaration being the only way to even tell your customers. If I said this happened anywhere else you will say that country is repressive.
There are a lot of claims in the article that the current scientific consensus does not support. The T-cells claim is one of them. Of course there are no absolute truths and I agree that my choice of words was maybe unfortunate.
>. To compare the present genocide of an entire culture to America's sins, right now, would be laughable

Really? As much as I dislike cultural genocide, such as the still ongoing cultural genocide against Native Americans, I fail to see how it is a graver sin than the Iraq War. And please, tell me how my vote can stop it.
She contacted the FBI to initiate an active investigation without informing her boss?

Did I misread or misunderstand that?
Depends on the city. Portland is a good example of a city with an anemic economy that people seem to be drawn to.

I mean, even Philly (where I live) has seen somewhat of a resurgence (especially relative to the MSA at large), despite a lot of jobs being outside the city.

I think we'll see the hypergrowth of the tech hubs drop off. I think cities more broadly might slow growth as millennials age into parenthood and that might be accelerated by recent events making cities more broadly seem less welcoming.

But I'm not sure that jobs will be the main driver here.
Possibly, but the ‘young driven worker’ dynamic in Europe is just completely different, where you do not need to compete all that hard to have a comfortable life.
>Those are preliminary flash estimates, we'll see how they hold up in a month.

> Swedish GDP is up this quarter, as about the only nation in Europe

so... is it possible to talk about the estimated gdp right now or not? Because those two statements don't fit together.
PACER fees are high, but at least federal records are centralized. Try searching for lawsuits at the local level. To my knowledge there is no online service at any cost that lets one hunt for civil actions. This is how the legal systems stays obfuscated for the average citizen.
And this is happening. The JMAP working group at the IETF is writing new RFCs to replace SMTP/IMAP, Caldav, and others with a much cleaner protocol built on top of JSON and HTTP.

Its already in use at Fastmail and a few other places. (The fastmail web client talks JMAP to get your emails from the fastmail servers.)

Specs and more here: https://jmap.io/

Still no sign of adoption by gmail / etc but hopefully we'll see the industry move forward eventually.
I love Star Trek, but I personally find the engineering practices of the Federation appalling. And, of course, the technobabble is an annoying and lazy subterfuge to avoid proper research when writing a script.
Sure, it would be nice to go back to IETF and RFCs. But it seems like the discussion has wandered far afield from a Google breakup (more standard APIs/protocols may not result from a breakup and may not need a breakup).

And what I hate about Google/Facebook breakup discussions is how they seem driven by a mob of all those having complaints against these tech giants, where the complaints contradict each other (too much censorship, too little censorship, Google too few or too many products, etc) but the likely upshot on success is states gaining more leverage over these companies and using them as even more effective control/propaganda outlets.
This isn't the channel used for videoconferencing!
> over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war

US deaths in WWII: 419k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties)
That's a very good point.

It would be interesting to see if the NSA care about it.
Some people ( like Marianne ) have the capability to stick around a bit longer and effect much greater change. Its exhausting, but there is a strong community that helps you make it though the really hard days.
> I'm curious what the goal was here, since the posts they made almost read as satire.

Well, that could have been the goal then?
I wondered when they were going to mention Richard Brody.
Case rate is unreliable due to testing issues. It's highly unlikely NYC only had that many cases with an implied fatality rate of over 10%.
Very cool! How frequently does it index the HN content? I've just tried searching for DevComrade which I submitted 14hrs ago and nothing shows up.
Sure, on average. But there seems to be a lot of people in nursing homes that are dying of covid, and I assume that population likely has a lower life expectancy than the average.
Want to make any guesses as to what Sweden's all-cause mortality for 2020 will be?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
So fork? Its not the big G's responsibility to solve all the internet's problems and honestly most other web metadata standards have failed, only difference is that this one has a big name attached we can all blame.
All right! Can't wait to see your paid solutions!
I appreciate the service of everyone at USDS and 18F. Thank you.
Exactly, the rental market is very illiquid, it could easily take a year for price to settle at a new low.

Landlords are stubborn beings always thinking they can rent easily and for more. Gotta take a beating with the property being empty for weeks/months before they adjust to reality. (Lettings agents don't care about waiting and pushing tenants out, they make fees either way).

Expect multiple hits downward over the coming year(s) as layoff benefits come to an end, personal savings dry up, evictions are reinstated, properties are foreclosed, etc...
I agree. Not sure why you're downvoted.
I think we really are losing sight of the before versus now comparison. NYC is an absolutely ghost town compared to how it was. Everyone stays remarkably limited in their social contact. Professional sports are a ghost of what they were, running in an incredibly limited fashion. Travel is rare.

The same is true of Sweden as well, of course. Social interaction has collapsed to very close to nil, and any article that claims that things are "normal" is lying to push an agenda.
I wish Erick made an edx course
That's assuming that the only people cops shoot are criminals.

in point of fact, legally, almost everyone the cops shoot are innocent people in the eyes of the law.
And a searchable history.
>And who is the idiot?

Short summary: Woznaik vs Jobs. The technical guy vs. the smooth talker.

Longer summary:

Some people are perpetual resume builders. They want quick promotion, bigger job titles, higher salary...

The ladder growth is their reward. And they'll avoid anything that jeopardizes their career path. They'll grab the glory for good stuff and push the blame for bad stuff.

The hacker, risk taker on the other hand does not optimize for career growth. Does difficult, critical stuff often without knowing that what they've accomplished is actually a big deal.

Even when know they've accomplished something big, they won't toot their own horns. They do it for the 'love of the game.'
NZ media has a negative opinion of the current US administration and tends to write everything about them in a negative way.
I respect your assessment.

You may think I'm falling into an idealist's dilemma, however, that single statement is speaking on the nature of emptiness of phenomena and how certain thoughts and emotions arise. Objects do not exist inherently and independently. Everything arises from an interdependent network of causality.

The scientist will go splat, but why does he fear death?

I have to lightly refute your point about it not being a successful philosophy, it was very successful for thousands of years in India where it originated and very successful in Tibet and other eastern societies. Western materialism tends to be in direct conflict with Buddhist wisdom.

All beings suffer, compassion is the way out of suffering for the individual and for others. Ask the Tibetan Yogis who were imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese who harbor no resentment toward their captors after release and who say that the greatest danger they felt during their imprisonment was losing compassion toward their captors.

No one ever said it was easy to develop, as can clearly be seen by such stringent resistance to the notion of having compassion for others, even enemies.
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First paragraph - "Unlike other countries, Sweden never went in to complete lockdown. Non-essential businesses have remained open, people have continued to go to cafés and restaurants, children have remained in school, and very few people have bothered with face masks in public."
It really depends on what you are parsing. Currently I'm writing a text adventure in FSharp and I've decided to just use a tokeniser/parser that I wrote instead of one of the bigger libraries like FParsec. When I was writing a compiler in Python the other year, I went through several different parsers but in the end I preferred Arpeggio.
My friends at USDS have indicated to me it's a highly politicized agency. (Though it's unclear to me what exactly they have been doing for the past ~4 years, besides releasing a new sans font.)
Your Finland comparison misses the author's argument. His claim is not that they haven't had many more deaths than Finland, but that Finland will catch up with Sweden. His theory seems to be that there will be a more-or-less fixed number of deaths per million, unless countries are willing to wait for a vaccine (which he thinks they won't do).
Portland cut 3%.[1] Seattle is going to vote on 2%.[2]

[1] https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/17/28550006...

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-c...
What is the criteria for an article getting into the index? To test it out I tried several of my submissions and could only find one in the index.
The region I live in has about the same land area as the Netherlands, and less than 2% of the population.

Of course we don't really have traffic problems, but I wonder how we are supposed to build similar amounts of infrastructure?

Should we stop living here and move somewhere with more people?
This has been in Clojurescript since its inception back in 2011 or so, and the two new operators are handled by the same function:

(get-in obj [key1 “key 2” (make-key obj 3) 4] “not-found”)

There is also a simpler version for single-level access with (get obj key not-found).

“not-found” can be a value or a function or a function evaluation, and the keys can be of any type, including nested maps or, if you wanna get really wild, functions.

Someday I’ll get to use this professionally instead of transpiling piles of NPM dependencies into something IE11 can work with...
Counterpoint, worked at a large well known bank who had a massive JIRA setup, and it honestly wasn't bad.

A couple of mandatory fields (department, team, application), that were manageable and that's about it.

They even the JIRA during my tenure there. Made user sessions last for a while instead of being disconnected every 15 minutes.
Good news! The USPS is self-funded. Your taxes do not pay for subsidising people to hand-deliver junk mail.[0][1]

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-u-s-po...

[1] https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/
In practice, I think iOS users will just move on to the next social networking app and forget that TikTok ever existed.
Dark Tangent (created DEF CON) stated in the Welcome video that they chose Discord based on moderation and tooling built on its extensibility. Also that had stability under load; “gamers are pretty abusive”.

https://youtu.be/pn68aAZc5Sg @2:57
> I want them ranked by something like the ratio of views to upvotes or upvotes compared to total upvotes for that day.

Yeah, this is definitely possible with public data. I did something similar on reveddit [1] for removed reddit content. Hovering over the graph shows the item with the highest vote ratio [3], and clicking skips to that point in time. Code is here [2] for anyone interested and I apologize in advance..

[1] https://i.imgur.com/p3Bi5IS.png

[2] https://github.com/reveddit/ragger/blob/master/revddit_aggre...

[3] https://www.reveddit.com/r/worldnews/?showFilters=true
Consider that recovery from coronaplague is lengthy and that a good amount of those discharged form hospital are looking at permanently reduced lung function. Death isn't the best metric here.
I communicated badly and meant the last quarter for which we have final results, Q1. Technically, "this" quarter is Q3 and we're already halfway.
Interesting, but I think that it's unlikely someone would say that an ordinary wooden pencil was smashed, short of some more catastrophic action. A pencil might have broken, but not smashed.

"We fired the pencil at a brick wall and it smashed" ... okay, it's probably the pencil that smashed.

Perhaps a mechanical pencil, but again, that seems odd and unlikely.

All of this requires a whole lot of knowledge about the world:

- Pencils are generally made from wood, wood is a material that's more likely to deform or break rather than shatter

- Tables can have tops that are made from materials that are more likely to shatter than deform/absorb the shock.
You need to turn off the Siri suggestions and Web results in Spotlight. That’s what caused it to go so bad some five years ago. Disable it I tell you.

I did this in Safari too hoping to fix their race condition bugs with the autocomplete. Sometimes I can even paste a full URL, see it in the entry field, hit enter, and Safari just loads the previous address again as if I had just pressed enter. Crazy that these types of bugs are sneaking in.
Bingo. That’s exactly why I don’t see China surpassing the US or the west anytime soon. They can clone Tesla or Apple as much as they want - but nothing truly groundbreaking will happen, since they have been “inspired” by the west for so long.
They're not when to contender is a totalitarian dictatorship with proven disdain of human rights, and ever extending cyber-aspirations.
Sounds like whining to me. Why are so jealous ? Why don't you run the engineering org ?
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Thank you for the interesting article. The comment about the pre-funding requirement removing their ability to make capital investments to improve infrastructure and systems was notable.
How the American West became the most unequal 'billionaire wilderness'
I went Blue > Brown > Clear > Blue > Silent Red (on order, waiting for delivery)

I went full circle back to blues, and blue are still my favorite... but the rest of my family does not share my enjoyment of them. I will go back to blues after they go back to work/school. :)
> They are typically a role model for high school bullies who want to continue to bully after graduation

Are you saying that bullies are more likely to become cops if there's an SRO around? I'd really, really like to see a source for that.
> Any discussion which considers Snopes a valid "fact checking" enterprise immediately loses all credibility.

Citation needed, and alternatives.

Also,

> radical leftist progressive propaganda

Who are all these American Bolsheviks that everyone seems to think have all this power? There isn't really a left, much less a radical left, in the USA at all that I can tell.
You bet and you'd be wrong. People can have opinions other than yours without it being some big conspiracy.
Attending DEF Con 28 virtually will be made easy for you. Soon you will be sent an .EXE in email. Just click to run it. Click Install when it opens.

Then you can easily attend DEF Con 28 remotely.
React: Should you use functional components and Hooks over class components?
That's awesome. Are there public examples of what you'd consider a good setup for that use case that you could point me to? Or is one of the use cases in the Sysbox-EE User Guide a good example (I don't see a 'docker sandbox' one but I may have missed it). Thanks!
RE: Why?

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1291879371461... for example.

"More than 130 employees at ByteDance, the Chinese owner of video-sharing application TikTok, are part of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee embedded in the company. Many of the employees work in management positions, an internal document reveals."

https://m.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/tiktoks-parent-company-e...
It's just a warning that NZ is not covid free. We are not yet. Yes it's under control but we are not out of the woods yet. I don't think this will impact diplomatic relations.
I really doubt it has much to do with messaging at all. It's more about the ability to disseminate and control messages the public sees, especially in a "narrowcasted" way.

Political forces in the US are constantly trying to influence facebook and twitter's content control policies. What does that look like when it's the CCP doing it?

Think creatively here, it's not just going to be Chinese flags overlaid on everything. Just amplifying stupid/criminal/vulgar/etc. content (more than the internet already does) could have a subtle but significant negative effect.
I'm much more concerned about the citizen's that seem to be begging for continued lock downs.
I highly recommend researching the Dutch street design. By explicitly avoiding freeways and encouraging biking, they save so much time (no traffic) and money (think long term health benefits, cheaper infrastructure, lower reliance on fossil fuels, fewer accidents, more visits to local businesses) it's insane the rest of the world isn't copying them ASAP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsQQ8Ujbua4
Yeah if Operation Paperclip is your particular interest then I would say start with Simpson and then move on to Kinzer.

There have also been some books written specifically about Sullivan & Cromwell, which was the investment banking firm where the Dulles Brothers worked and established financial ties to the Nazis, but I haven't read any of them.
Although there’s no hard evidence, there is more than a good chance that the data TikTok collects is, at the very least, accessible by the Chinese government. As this ProtonMail report points out, not only does TikTok’s privacy policy assert the right to share information with members of its “corporate group,” which would include its parent company, but ByteDance’s CEO has already promised to “further deepen cooperation” with official party media, on top of the ideological censorship it has already engaged in on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). What’s more, a 2017 law lets the Chinese government force companies to secretly hand over data, including data on foreign citizens.

Again, because of all the places, it's most tiring to have to repeat this in HN:

[...] ByteDance’s CEO has already promised to “further deepen cooperation” with official party media, on top of the ideological censorship it has already engaged in on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

What’s more, a 2017 law lets the Chinese government force companies to secretly hand over data, including data on foreign citizens.
I work in Silicon Valley at a FAANG and that doesn’t describe the culture I experience at all.
Just block their JS. All of their dark patterns disappear.
Yeah we have zero internal restrictions. Shaking hands is even making a come back.
It's because the rocket equation really bites when you get far out at extreme mass ratios, as in an SSTO. Very small changes in mass of systems have a large effect on cargo, and perhaps keep you from even getting to orbit at all.

Viewed another way: if you had an SSTO, you could radically increase its payload to orbit by adding a really dumb first stage. Even a small delta-V from that stage would make the job of the "SSTO" part much easier. And SpaceX has shown that such a first stage can be straightforwardly made reusable, especially if the delta-V allows return to launch site recovery. This basically destroyed any remaining argument for SSTO.

The benefit from going from 2 to 3 stages is much less.
I don't doubt that it will happen regardless, but what is the point of evicting people if no-one is waiting to rent the property? If the bottom falls out of the economy and regular people can't rent then landlords are screwed aren't they? Rent-seeking is the section of the economy which has to change, I think.
Not direct revelation? Works okay between two people. Unless you do controlled blind study on everything you observe and hear.
Toshiba Portege, at about 1.1kg IIRC, was pretty incredible, around the time the Macbook Air first came out, lighter than the Air but with a DVD drive. It was my travel work laptop, before netbooks became a thing.

It felt quite plastic though, nothing like a Macbook Air (which I got pretty soon after). Mechanical drive too, I seem to recall - I still have it upstairs and have it pencilled in as a first Linux laptop for my son.
2 separate studies are pointing to herd immunity being impossible because SARS-CoV-2 antibodies disappear over time and previous carriers could become infected again.

There haven’t been any cases of reinfection afaik but we’ll see in due time.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429v...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025179
thanks Rob! i agree with the other that parts of your reply should be included in the FAST homepage
The question should be whether the CCP has a long game where the youth potentially being tracked and catalogued today are the leaders, politicians, diplomats, journalists, etc that may be of interest to have influence over in the future.

Generally with totalitarian governments, the propaganda and control is for domestic consumption to maintain their power, but this does also extend to nationals living abroad. However the CCP does have ambitions for empire in the shorter term that should be cause for alarm and vigilance.
I wonder the same.
Life reasons I suppose
You’re the minority. That mirrors what I observe pretty well.
I hear this a lot, but I've never seen this claim put in context of a comparison to lung function following viral pneumonia from viruses other than SARS-CoV-2.