skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WHO was pressured into saying not to ban flights from China. Made worse by the fact that China itself was nailing domestic flight from Wuhan to the pillars of shame for eternity.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/Whathappensif/how...

> The WHO is supposed to urge member countries to keep their borders open as much as possible

The WHO is supposed to care about health, not be the World Trade Organization. This had nothing to do with science. Saying: Ah, yes, banning flights will have little effect, because there are already Chinese tourists there, is defeatist, not effective pandemic control.

> The US banned travel from China, but continued to allow travel from Europe.

So you are effectively saying the US did not ban travel hard enough for it to be effective? Or that Italy should have also banned Chinese tourists, for the US ban to be effective?

> The first major outbreak in the US, in NY, was brought in from Europe. Because the US had almost no testing at that time, the outbreak in NY spread undetected for weeks.

From my information, it was spreading around the world in December of 2019. Expats in Wuhan who got hospitalized in November 2019 were told in December that they had contracted viral pneumonia SARS.

From CDC leaks, it appears to have been spreading with local community spread, and their warnings to prepare were either blocked by Trump, or were not send to avoid panic (of course it will start in New York and LA, so wait until it spreads everywhere, so people don't start to flee like headless chickens)

> If you look at the actual advice that the WHO was giving in late January / early February 2020,[4] it was probably a much better strategy than what the US ended up doing.

Do not ban flights from China! Or if you do, ban all flights from everywhere! But that won't be effective anyway! What is effective is testing! China shows us the way how to contain this. They are the role model of virus control.

The advice from the WHO was an absolute joke. Listening to it in the early stages of the pandemic would make you a poor master of the house, unprepared to deal with a family during a pandemic.

> What was the US' biggest problem early on in the pandemic?

Not a lack of testing. Testing only makes the problem formally worse. The real problem was a lack of information coming from WHO, as they were the mouthpiece of China, and China was hush about the real origins, the real CFR, the real R+, the real human-to-human transmission.

China had the guts to pressure the WHO into saying that packages from China were 100% safe, corona would never survive the trip. And now they push it as disinformation as the origin: it was imported into China or Wuhan from a package or frozen meat.

If you want to say travel restrictions are not effective against containment of a H2H virus, be my guest. The situation we knew we were dealing with from SARS-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_China_Flight_112
>Did you read the article? [...] But it seems like that NONE of the other commenters read the article either.

Maybe we're all confused readers because the Reuter articles make the timeline hard to follow.

>, the issue was already resolved... so what's the news here?

The timestamp for Reuter's own linked article about the "resolved last week" flight routes was May 29: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-ap...

But this thread's article's timestamp is May 31 with new issues about the routes around Belarus that Russia is denying clearance for.
Thanks for pointing that issue out! I had a fun time figuring out the codegen algorithm by putting printf statements in every function I thought was relevant.
I agree, it‘s certainly not REST.

It does not have to be a POST request or even HTTP. The point about the 200 status code is correct.
WordStar was a really good programming editor, if you put into text mode. I wrote a lot of C and assembler code using it back in the 1980s.

And it was a good word processor - much easier to get to grips with than WordPerfect, IMHO.
yes.

In the case for Clubhouse, it is over hyped.

How is a single feature that has less than 2 million active users, app only, entirely copied by many of their own competitors and has no revenue worth $4 billion?

With the pandemic drawing to a close, I won't be surprised to see Clubhouse struggling for the attention it needs right now to stay relevant.
Another company offering a proprietary silver bullet to the enterprise.

Condemning the stack is a novel entry point, I’ll admit.
In my youth, my parents spent quite a bit of money on a Funk & Wagnal's encyclopedia set. I do not regret my $20 donation, as I've received far more in return.

However, this seems like excessive marketing for an organization that does not produce a physical product (unlike Funk & Wagnal's).

I have seen less online criticism of WikiPedia accuracy of late; perhaps this is the result of the marketing dollars. If true, it is good, but it could likely be done with marketing efforts a fraction of the size.
Your cafe charging $3-4 for coffee doesn't have to pay 30% to Apple.

No, but they do have to pay their landlord. In all likelihood, they pay even more than 30% to their landlord, especially when sales slow down. I can't tell you how many restaurants and cafes have closed during the pandemic.
Where did you see that this is now resolved?
Using Qt does not require you to use (A)GPL, and it had that license before it used Qt.
For some people killing a foetus is the same as killing an infant. Please respect different opinion on a subject that has no definitive answer. Calling people racist as soon as you disagree is indeed very telling.
The Ice Age persists in the Upper Midwest, where the hills breathe
Bitcoin Uses Half the Energy of the Banking System
Coronavirus shows we must get serious about the well-being of animals (2020)
While I'm sure personalization increases ad efficiency metrics to some degree, I'm curious to see how all this will actually "hurt" FB, either by making their ads worse in terms of CPA/CPC/etc or in advertisers pouring less money into FB and more money into other DSPs/inventories. As anything marketing, it's not that straightforward, really, and advertisers may very well keep running ads on FB despite all those changes.
Id assume that people who are currently traveling are much more valuable targets: things like tour packages are something high margin and highly contextual.

Like, even if you only leave your home town once every two years, it might be worth more to facebook on that special occasion than the rest of the time.
You could install a cracked version of the app, but if you need a account that is paying to access you are SoL. So itll work even on Android.
Before I comment further, let me clarify I find the Nazi era one of the worst periods of human history...Just in case there is no ambiguity about what is behind my comments.

I understand a little German, though not much. One of these days, out of curiosity, I listened to excerpts of his speeches out of YouTube.

I was fascinated by how mundane and non-charismatic his speeches sound. Maybe somebody speaking fluent German can confirm my feeling. Looks like once in a while, he would drop some higher level concepts, like stuff around the vital space. Not sure most of the audience at the time was likely to understand. I watched it trying to get insights that would help me make sense of some recent fascinating events we have seen for example in US politics.

I am interested in understanding what really drives much of what we call crowd manipulation, demagoguery and all that. Is it driven and created by charismatic personalities and their speech ? Or are they just providing a vehicle for racist and resentment behavior that was anyway likely to emerge from that segment of the population ? In other words, was in that historical context an Hitler likely to emerge in one form or the other ?

I researched a little bit and found some interesting analyzes. The initial threat of the Nazi regime
was underestimated as highly educated, and German speaking, British diplomats were analyzing Hitler speeches
and saying "The man is an idiot".
There is a big difference between scripts conforming to a template and scripts being generated by an algorithm.
i lifted this link to an image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paddlefish_Polyodon_spath...

from here :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddlefish
Years ago a Facebook phone was planned. Its differentiating feature as I recall it was the "like" button.
It happened in the US already in the same way it's happening in India and China now. The Carolina Parakeet, the Passenger Pigeon, dozens or hundreds of native plants. Shoot, the entire ecosystem known as the Tallgrass Prarie is limited to a few pockets where it used to cover a large section of the Midwest.
Yeah but in the philipines they went from extra-judicial killing of drug dealers right to extra-judicial killings of drug users.

They also have outright literally terrorists living/hiding on some of the islands, so the unlimited force thing obviously isn't a solution.
My guess us that for the Russian citizens, Putin wants to show that: 1) Lukashenko is the good guy fighting terrorists, 2) EU politicians have mistreated Belavia Belarusian airlines, so Russia had to step in and defend their allies, 3) generally trying to show that he is more powerful than EU politicians.

In terms of actual long-term goals, I think, he aims to replace Lukashenko with a new pro-Russia president, so he tries to keep Lukashenko happy in the process (also making him more dependent on Russia internationally), and proving that the two countries are still best allies...
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I am more interested in LESS relevant ad. They will be less succesful at manipulating me.
I have never once asked for a refund from Apple and not received it.

On that same note, I’ve never asked a decent restaurant for a refund or exchange of a bad food or drink and not received it either.
Sometimes I read stuff like this and think I must be stupid. Other times I read it and think the author is full of it. I am struggling to see how a language can help with our enterprise applications because I approach the problem from the view of architecture and treat language as irrelevant. Hopefully, I am stupid and someone can enlighten me.
The premise is quite weird, because we're not "cut out". We've evolved, and still evolving.

The best thing evolution did to us is to make a lot of our behaviors learned. So how we perceive morality is something we can learn, and we can pass onto generations, basically recreating the concept of evolution through culture, at a much faster pace.

The article claims we need to give up tribalism to get there. I disagree. Tribalism is a powerful instinct that can be used for good or bad. We need to stick with tribalism, but make everyone part of the same tribe.
The site mentions UTF-8 support. Can anyone take a screenshot of this so I could see if it's worth compiling:

שלום, עולם!

I'd be interested in ODT support as well, but there seems to be no mention on the site so I'm assuming that LibreOffice compatibility is right out.
https://www.homify.in/projects/941489/diabacore-review-can-y...

https://get-diabacore.medium.com/diabacore-get-ripped-with-n...
They are, it's called "Save the cat".

https://slate.com/culture/2013/07/hollywood-and-blake-snyder...
A REST-ful POST is a pretty standard implementation of a graphQL network call yeah - it's subject to the same limitations and error handling as any other request.

The confusion comes in when are talking about what happens at on the graphQL server and the calls it makes.

Say for example your browser code makes a single graphQL query to a graphQL endpoint - that server in turn can generate multiple REST-full service calls, file reads, in-memory cache retrievals or whatever to fulfill the graphQL schema as determined by the incoming graphQL query.

All that was initiated by a single graphQL query (a single POST) from the client. What do you report back to the client if one out of the three server-side REST calls fails? Depending the schema, your initial query is still successful, it's just that one of the fields is empty or NULL (again depending on the schema). So that by any reasonable definition is still a 200. Even if all service calls failed, if your schema allows for fields to be empty or NULL, it can still be considered successful.

All that is to say that graphQL is not a replacement for REST, it's an enhancement that serves as a negotiable schema between client and service, a data orchestration layer that can stitch together multiple data sources into that schema, and as a pretty robust way to think about what to present to the user in error conditions since every field you want in your query, presumably, serves in the UI in some way. It gives you the tools to intelligently handle when those fields are not available.

You can do that with vanilla REST calls of course and roll your own solutions to the problems graphQL solves (or tries to solve).
Freedom to speak ones thoughts without fear of a mob attack should be absolute. Anyone who seeks to silence the speech of others is only after power, not peace.
In the US there was definitely a sense of embattlement having something that wasn’t the standard PC. I paid through the nose for a second disk drive and a laptop hard drive that fit under the keyboard. So for that effort it needed to be worth it.

I do remember smugly bragging to someone about it having 4096 colors, and he responded that his Mac Quadra had 16 million.
https://supplementstree.com/diabacore-reviews/
>Just look at the Linux kernel, it's auditable but recently it came to light that a university had submitted nefarious code to it.

...and it came to light because it is auditable. Short of rejecting digitalisation and returning to monke, is there anything better in terms of trust and security than using open source software?
Correct, it can be removed.

It depends on what you do. I worked on an application that could be cached heavily and got a very large number of requests and as a result the query parsing and validation mattered.
GraphQL is like 3k to 4k Lines in the server side. Not exactly a large system.
You can turn off wifi and bluetooth scanning beacons in your device's settings. It helps.
Very nice research; I thought I knew a lot of things regarding SQL. Little did I know there is a lot to learn. Being in the tech stack is quite rewarding as long as you commit to learning something new every day. Also, I agree that we should optimize our code and our database to make our application function fast.
REST is more like a set of guiding principles around building a particular type of "distributed hypermedia system". It is more correct to say that HTTP itself is RESTful than to say that RESTful systems must be built on top of HTTP verbs.
What is the value of targeted advertisement to publishers? (GDPR)
Not sure; targeted ads can work pretty well for small niche businesses, getting the same amount of conversions through untargeted ads may not be feasible. I could imagine those getting hit harder by this change than, say, Uber, so probably not quite the same end result.
There's one recent enterprise chip called CHA.

[0]: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/centaur/microarchitectures/cha

[1]: https://www.techpowerup.com/263978/via-centaur-cha-ncore-ai-...
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
There’s a sense in which free ad-supported apps are “redistributive”. Whether you’re rich or poor, Facebook costs the same and the experience and features you have access to are identical. Effectively, the rich users are subsidizing the app for the poor users (the rich users’ eyeballs being worth much more). I personally view that as a strong upside compared to paid models.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this. What does paid social media look like? Perhaps more like traditional media: only deep pockets will have access to “virality” and wide distribution. I could certainly see a market for that with the Instagram crowd.
Good point about resisting EU control of Eastern Europe, although this doesn't seem like the optimal way to do that. Maybe this is step one, then step two is to cut a deal that imposes some limits on Belarus' actions but puts Russia in the control seat of negotiations etc.
Climate emergency. We have a very narrow window to do
something drastic, or it becomes thermal and ecological runaway.
Still feels like the Notion API is pretty limited, can't even update pages :/
It’s interesting because I believe everyone would choose to see personalized ads if asked. But the wording Apple employs is “the app is asking to _track_ you”, which is negative wording and thus has no chance of being accepted. They pretty much turned off the feature but made it look like the user still had a choice.
Any sufficiently universal morality must include the impact our actions/inactions have on animals (or any other entity capable of "experiencing" some reality). We are nowhere near such a concept, and almost assuredly never will be.
If someone was giving out free coffee on demand on your phone, trust me, after a certain amount of time, you'd see a lot fewer cafes. It's a very toxic orange site take, this "just pay for it" perspective.
I wish there was a networking event!

Edit: for people to meet and talk to people, like speed networking
maybe i did something weird last time i installed ubuntu, but my user is 1001:1002 and the default ubuntu user is 1000:1001
Sure but the drama is over if/when she or the league relents. She's not making drama for entertainment. She's trying to improve her life and the lives of other athletes who are sick of this particular ritual.
This seems so unnecessarily antagonistic. People violate all kinds of "standards" all the time cause they don't know any better and design stuff terribly. You could pretty much make a terribly designed system in a similar way with GraphQL except maybe less accidentally cause it imposes some constraints on the developer to follow what the library gives you. The benefit of GraphQL is the fact that there's very few ways of implementing it
To be honest, this isn’t a very good article. Take for example the fire in a crowded theatre point. The article basically just moans about the people making the argument, points out that judicial precedent has moved on since 1919, and lists people that disagree with it. Well sure, but what the article doesn’t actually do is give a good answer as to why you should be allowed to make false statements in the knowledge it will cause harm to others. It doesn’t really provide an answer at all and that’s always the case for these articles - they’re very good at providing reassurance for people who already agree, but very little else.
You're very welcome! :-)

I also hope this helps.

If you are looking in terms of software-based solutions for an issue like this, the best resource is likely via Stanford University's SNAP group, which publishes BioSNAP datasets [1], which can be used for scaling.

For example, in the US, a lot of people are on a bunch of prescription drugs. This is called polypharmacy. Using AI, the SNAP group created AI to identify side-effects when on several drugs [2]. There is excellent sample code for this via the link I provided, that can be viewed on GitHub. Generally this is the case for all of the BioSNAP repositories.

There are also AI tools which Stanford has created which can help augment a deep search through the literature for a rare disease. For example, this "Disease-function association network" [3] can give useful outputs to help one direct a search for finding a certain rare disease.

> "This is a disease-function association network that contains information on relationships between diseases and cellular functions. Cellular functions capture biological processes (e.g., pathways made up of the activities of multiple proteins such as cell communication), cellular components (e.g., components where gene products are active such as mitochondria), and molecular functions (e.g., molecular activities of gene products such as drug binding). Nodes represent diseases and functions, and edges indicate associations between them."

The problem with AI is that it is intellectually bankrupt: it will tell you what it thinks, but it will not tell you why. So, it is critical to develop excellent intuition as an individual.

[1] Stanford BioSNAP Repositories: http://snap.stanford.edu/biodata/index.html

[2] Polypharmacy side-effect association network: http://snap.stanford.edu/biodata/datasets/10017/10017-ChChSe...

[3] Disease-function association network: http://snap.stanford.edu/biodata/datasets/10019/10019-DF-Min...
Hard-to-trace transactions are how Chinese crypto trading survives to crackdown
Interesting to see the cultural expectations across business types. Most of the successful management are so grossly overcompensated they cannot humanly imagine the magnitude yet this criticism of a different entity type captures what is an arguably reasonable critical perspective toward compensation. The social contract has become distinctly warped in the States.
Subscriptions to apps to will work about as well as subscriptions to news sites.
> I guess I can understand that if I have to see ads at all, may as well make them personalized

I think this is the greatest lie the ad industry has foisted on us, and unfortunately I see a lot of people fall for it.

We hear the word "personalized" and we think "relevant" or "interesting". That if you _have_ to see an ad, at least let it be one that tickles your fancy.

Yet interesting and relevant is _not_ what ad tech is optimizing for. Rather, ads are optimized for _conversion_; the likelihood that a user will be converted into a "sale" (where "sale" can range from simply clicking the ad, to buying a product, to subscribing to a service, etc. Whatever is most important to the ad buyer and measurable.)

Optimizing for conversion is _not_ the same as optimizing for being relevant or interesting. Instead these ads are being optimized to exploit whatever weaknesses you, the targeted user, may have. How can they _trick_ you into converting.

It's the same problem we see with social media. Social media companies optimize for engagement, which means they get filled with the baser human emotions in ways that get people addicted, regardless of its cost to the user or society as a whole. Ad tech is doing the same thing, and in many ways "engagement" is synonymous with "conversion". Ad buyers are paying ad markets to do absolutely whatever it takes to engage a user in the ad buyer's desired activity. Come hell or high water, those ad markets will convert you and they will consume as much data and processing power as necessary to find a way to do that.

All this to say that ad tracking is not about making ads more interesting to a user, more palatable, like many seem to believe. It's about using _your_ personal data to _manipulate_ you.

Ad tracking is finding ways to tailor a drug to the specific user to maximize the seller's profit.