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good answer. (edit: i wasn't being facetious, i agreed with your comment.) and for anyone complaining about "wasting time" on this issue of terminology, i'd point them to the milli…

The problem is that the "public health consequences of having the schools closed on the kids" have not been defined, yet alone measured, and thus we have no basis for comparison ag…

I couldn’t find anything documented about the consequences of having schools closed , only the consequences of them being open . According to internal CDC documents, “fully reopeni…

what of those who don't quarantine, get covid, and pass the virus on to their elderly relatives? would you make the same trade?

love these tools, have used them on multiple projects, thanks so much for your work.

bit of a difference between educating people about nazism vs. giving actual neo-nazis a space to use for communication and recruitment.

I agree. There's already so much content and trash on Youtube that it will be a huge investment to make it worthwhile, assuming you are lucky. Creating structured, high-quality cou…

"We build this on the face image data of CelebAMask-HQ [24], which contains high-resolution facial images with semantic masks of facial attributes. For simplicity, we currently foc…

Could police sketch artists use this as a tool?

the comment was referring to failure in execution, not necessarily failure in choosing the correct approach. it's hard to argue that sweden shouldn't have been more careful with it…

on the other hand many places recorded record low injuries and fatalities from car crashes due to quarantine. i wonder how it balances out in the end.

bad analogy. trump has far, far greater power than any talk show host and is advocating violence against americans.

"The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization" https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12671296442282475...

recent somewhat related article discussion: Remote work means anyone can take your job https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23337857

you were of course correct, but your professor was simply illustrating a point- of whether we can trust our senses, of how we truly "know" something. philosophy often brings up "co…

you're right, not all of us can be super star devs (i certainly am not) but we can apply their techniques, mainly stay healthy and never stop learning.

given the numerous posts about age discrimination on hn, i'm delighted to hear your story and wish you many more years of happy programming. as a whipper-snapper 40-something devel…

One offering from The Great Courses that the HN crowd might appreciate is "Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature": https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-utopian-a…

tongue in cheek. lately musk has reminded me not to have heros :(

this is an awesome take- musk has been playing 4d chess all along, getting hard-core conservatives to buy into renewable energy..

i would also prefer a more neutral grey. i'm curious as to how designers choose greys in their palette. is there something wrong with just using equal amounts of rgb, e.g. #666666 …

bulma is amazing. clean and elegant, super easy to set up. i use it for prototypes and later often realize i just don't need anything more.

Ask HN: Is there a search engine which includes only what the Chinese government wants me to see?

I was surprised to hear of blatant Covid-related insider trading by individuals in government, either some really are too stupid to know better or they feel impunity. I fear it's t…