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Not to state the obvious, but there's not been a diagnosis of covid-19 yet, so let's keep that in mind before concluding this person has it.

Also, otherwise healthy 30-year olds need to do exactly what this person is doing: quarantine & treat it with the same meds as the flu.

I think they also provide the origin of the images (example MySpace), and more often than not, the origin ends up with a definitive identity.

The response report on the author, for instance, clearly identifies her

Because the guardian uses diogwhistles when under threat of defamation. Instead of outright lying/name-calling Paul a right wing extremist - which opens up the guardian to fact checks and defamation lawsuits, they just imply it, with what to a bystander seems like irrelevant phrasing, but the very-online left knows exactly what the guardian means. If you want a dogwhistle --> reality translation, you should follow the top comments on this, on Twitter

The Guardian would like it if Twitter wrangled to retain Democrats at the helm. And apparently whoever opvoted this to #1

What's fascinating about Bernie's campaign is the almost identical stance he has with the Bolsheviks, that Google defines [1] as "...Russian Social Democratic Party".

So Bernie's P.R. consultants did the brilliant job of retaining most of the Bolshevik diktat, and switching "Social Democratic" to "Democratic Socialist", in an apparent attempt at sanitizing brand socialism.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Bolshevik

Why does Google feel the need to censor any conservative content? The right to censor doesn't have to culminate in actual censorship without cause.

Double speak is on full display here: self certified ethical, moral, freedom loving, anti authoritarians are the first to indulge in thought policing.

Moreover, this kind of censorship plays out on the daily across tech, while the companies involved lie about not being biased, with a straight face. It's all too Orwellian

Does anyone else find it ironic that Google (rightly) led the net neutrality fight against ISPs/carriers, with one of the complaints being potential censorship from these entities.

And then they turn around and censor conservative content disproportionately, with no self awareness on perceptions of bias that it creates.

It doesn't matter if section 203 requires neutrality, a giant megacorp with a monopoly on internet video needs to stay neutral. We cannot have a "rules for thee, not for me" attitude from Google. If they won't stay neutral, they need to be regulated.

Section 203 needs to be scrapped, and something that guarantees 1A, while shielding platforms from culpability, needs to emerge.

As with other attempts at sparking discussions on the origin [1], I'm not a virologist, just a bystander whose curiosity was piqued by the proximity of the sole lab in all of China that's equipped to handle/research extremely infectious viruses and that of the outbreak.

My observations (all facts)

1. Proximity of outbreak to sole advanced virology lab in all of China, suspicious

2. Publications ( https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 )from lab suggest they were dealing with CoVid-19 like viruses for a while.

3. State of China would strongly deny/cover-up the lab to be the cause of outbreak, even if that did happen. I'm not suggesting they engineered the virus, just suggesting that they were researching animals with the virus, and a freak case of violating safety protocol let to the virus leaking to the nearby seafood market. Again - attributing this to clumsiness, not malice

Given the above, I think an investigative journalist would find the circumstances fertile enough for a deep investigation. Given how hard it is to identify patient zero of the outbreak, I think journalists need to go down this path of investigation

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424013

You're assuming the state had a role in this

> persistent platforming of ..

First off, a journalist/news channel doesn't/shouldn't only hear from voices that affirm biases, especially state funded ones - in this case, it's healthy for the BBC to hear opposing views taken by their editorial staff.

Secondly, de-platforming shouldn't be there normal. Your phrasing is indicative of a trend towards decimation of speech in western civilization. Your labels of "extreme right" are unsubstantiated and expectations of default deplatforming of anything right of "far left", dangerous to discourse.

For the unfamiliar, here [1] is a recent example of the alleged "platforming" done by BBC QT as alleged by the op. These days, it's gotten all too common to label opposing opinions with extremely inaccurate strawman-able distasteful labels, just to censor them.

[1]: https://youtu.be/re7K2SGMmHU

Because BBC (and by proxy the ones that control it) want to have the last word on news and culture. What used to be a center left organization is now teeming with many in the far left, blatantly allied with the labor party [1].

Turning state funded media into a partisan propaganda agency typically doesn't end well in a democracy.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC

There is a desperate need for a publicly backed, ethical digital infrastructure hub. Just like NPR,PBS are the alteratives to profit driven CNN,NBC,Fox... we need an NPR for digital services: alternatives to Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and maybe even Google search.

If one were to run the above services at cost, and publicly fund the costs, we'd all be a lot safer

Disclaimer: No association with Google or the banned account. Also, strongly disagree with the banned user's take on the suit.

This ban seems unfair, and if it is rooted in an anti-astroturfing policy, then that policy appears way too aggressive - no one wants HN to be a marketing site for mega-corps, but passionately defending one's favorite company shouldn't result in a ban. Also, the moderators have all the power, and accused none. While moderating is likely arduous and maybe even moribund, being a fanboy/AstroTurf-er especially one not behaving badly, isn't worthy of silencing/banning (that's my opinion).

The consumers of HN content have a healthy skepticism towards polarizing opinions, and as with all social media, have their guard up on what can be blindly trusted. This ban assumes your average HN-er cannot tell a fanboy apart from a neutral third party - which is not the case. Let opinions be, let the fanboys talk freely (as long as they're not impolite), and trust the HN audience to use their better judgement in drawing any conclusions. I don't think anyone assumes the top comment on any topic to be an endorsement by YC/HN, or it's users.

What's becoming apparent is the fundamental nature of applied mathematics and ML/AI/DL to our future.

Our education system needs to adapt, include this as a mandatory part of a college education (BRIC countries are including this at the high school level). A degree in pure AI/ML without mastery over impactful problems and it's underlying science, is not the ideal future. Every chemist, biologist, ... should be proficient in ML/DL

Super bugs are a mostly first world problem, rampant in top tier hospitals providing cutting edge treatments, despite following safety precautions meant to deter secondary bacterial infections during or post hospitalization

How exactly does Fuchsia solve anything? It doesn't expose an Android ABI compliant user space, so none of the Android apps work out of the box

Does anyone really expect Chrome OS to ever make a dent against Mac or windows in the PC market? Continuing to lose billions with no hope of moving the market is - generous.

At least Microsoft knew when to cut their losses with Windows phone

Very sad situation - deeply empathize with the working class that's battling economic pain on top of a health crisis. No real blame can be placed on the manufacturing reliant employer base either - they work at razor thin margins and are optimized for just-in-time everything, including cash flow. No production == no cash on hand for salaries.

Reminder that our great civilization is fragile. If this situation lasts longer, it'll quickly devolve into civil unrest

Amazon is not a good example to cite for going against the MBA grain. No amount of convincing can get Amazon to fund a Makani style kite energy, or other X moonshots that Google funded.

As for ploughing investment to keep growing at the cost of profitability, that's every VCs formula and very well understood by the MBA crowd.

There's no basis for this claim - well before Sundar, Makani and many other moonshot bets were spun out. Ruth Porat was brought in specifically to account for the wild-west type haphazard spending, resulting in the Google --> Alphabet restructuring.

Most of all, investors wanted clarity on spending, and Google reacted with the restructuring.

Let's take a moment to fairly summarize what's happened: extremely risky ideas that no sane investor would fund, received disproportionate funding, and as far as I can tell, they all failed even after a decade+ of not expecting profitability. There's no reason to pin this on Sundar - the ideas failed on merit

Also, speaking honestly, he's been rather generous with many projects (Chrome OS and related hardware, Stadia, even horribly performing pixel phone sales), despite decades of losing billions for Google.

ASCII diagrams aren't competing with powerpoint, diagrams made with sequence js, mermaid js, etc. are.

For the particular offerings of these libraries, a higher quality, professional looking output is generated in a shorter time than powerpoint.

And most importantly, one can version control it, as the source is plain text

Part of the reason is the Ganges & YangTse river deltas are the most fertile on Earth. While other regions typically yield 2 crops a year, these deltas average 3 to 4.

Also, the climate is relatively moderate with no major high frequency calamities (like earthquakes and hurricanes).

Agree with all the pros stated in the article. However, there are cons:

1. Each desktop app is shipping almost a full browser, updating it independently and bloating RAM, storage and CPU utilization in the process.

2. RAM/CPU bloat issues are real - even the V8 team advices against overreliance on excess RAM. They've noticed a speed increase in the process of releasing V8-lite aimed at aggressive gc

3. Even amongst the most mature GUI frameworks based on html/js, there's far too much overhead for trivial things, like reading/writing to file. For instance, in electron, since the browser V8 context isn't allowed willy-nilly storage access, a file read from the browser V8 goes across a couple IPC requests to complete. Also, these hops aren't widely documented and understood, making desktop apps janky by default, instead of fast by default

There are many high quality podcast apps out there, let us not centralize more power and data by using a Google/Apple/.. FAANG product in what is currently a healthy vertical

I've seen a lot of folks criticizing Lambda. As far as I can tell, they actually offer a chance at a much better life, with no upfront fees - something even accredited and reputable universities are unwilling to offer. If ISAs offer lamda better cash flow that doesn't affect the students in any way, is it really such a bad thing?

Interesting - they cite a paper that gave Corbyn a much better chance at winning in Britian, and yet he lost very badly.

So, does this paper really pass muster, despite the detail?

Can WebRtc Data channels be added a transport? With Websockets, it is still a server <--> client paradigm, as against a p2p friendly webrtc

Why should the EU government impose restrictions on mobile charger types?

I'm no fan of Apple,and frankly, I find it gratifying that someone is pushing them around - something Apple routinely does to entities that aren't as powerful, but regulating chargers in the name of __insert_populist_reason__ is just way too authoritarian by the EU. Please go solve real problems

Can someone explain the distribution method to use with this. For instance, with WASM:

1. Compile source code to .wasm

2. Distribute .wasm via website.

3. User's browser downloads .wasm, compiles to machine code (for JIT path) and executes the result.

What are the steps with AsmJit, I hope actual source code needn't be distributed the client

What is TI's percentage of revenue from chips manufactured in third party fabs (TSMC, ASMC, ...)? Are these jobs really relocating to elsewhere in Texas, it moving to China/Taiwan?