skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The beneficiaries of these activities are the people buying the products. If people wouldn't have a desire for more cheap food and other products then people wouldn't make it. Turns out though, that it's the poorest people for whom cheap food is most useful. An executive still eats the same amount of calories as anyone else.
I’d rather have information and misinformation - I’m more than capable of filtering myself (years of experience haha) than someone at Twitter deciding for me and banning accounts reporting accurate info from China for being “Sino-phobic” or some other politically-correct censorious reason.
I find it amusing that Sketch and Figma are considered "traditional tools" now. It wasn't so long ago that neither of these existed, and everything was Photoshop.
The alternative is random unevenly distributed making of people less well off; such as the Australian wildfires or the gradual flooding of Miami.
Those corporations employ millions and feed billions.

We eat food they grow and sit on furniture they make while typing on computers they invent bought with wages they pay, all the while complaining that the people who run corporations are destroying the world.
Yes, but that is kinda proving his point. The issue with IPSec is that way too many things are configurable which shouldn't be.
Breaking Bad – Uncovering the Oil Industry's Dirty Secret
The money paid as UBI doesn't disappear from the economy. People on low incomes spend everything they have and that money supports local shops, bars, restaurants, factories, etc.
Ironic, considering that “misinfo” was the name of the game when WHO was in charge of downplaying this, and anyone following mainstream media got caught completely flat footed when the dam broke, while I am well stocked up on supplies I purchased in late January.

I know there’s a lot of disinfo and rumors out there. But I don’t want them shutting it all down. Put a warning over it if you must. But without some of these sources I would not have learned about the severity of the virus in time to prepare.
Though I'm sure Google holds a share of the blame, from my perspective abuse of search engine optimization led to this issue. There was a period when seemingly everything I searched had some obviously low quality product taking up the first page.

I agree that the current state overvalues crappy media articles, but I'm not sure how much of it is Google's decision or richer organizations learning SEO themselves.
> after we saw what happened to yarn

What happened with yarn? As a very casual user of it, it seems to work well and have pushed npm to innovate a bit when it was stagnating. But I haven’t followed it lately. Were there technical issues or political drama?
I did as well. I was certain they were going to be rescued!
I like cheat.sh, works great with curl.

http://cheat.sh/
Specific only to COVID-19.

I don’t see social media companies making any dent on misinformation. Here are a variety of examples.

* Troll farms that deliberately seek to manipulate gullible people for unrelated motivations.

* Fanatics, which are the same as troll farms except their motives are aligned to what they claim.

* Cults which are also just like troll farms except their motives are centered around the desires of a central person or idol.

* Liars. People who deliberately mislead others for personal reasons nor affiliated with an organization.

* Stupid people are like liars except their deceit is not deliberate and they have primarily fooled themselves and want to share their foolishness, such as people who put their heads in the sand and twist themselves into knots to ignore evidence when pushing opinions onto people.

* Gullible people are those who spread any information they believe to be true where truth is only based on popularity, conformity, or social expediency.

I want to see how social media eliminates that.
> An executive still eats the same amount of calories as anyone else.

.. but throws away far more, and the CO2 emissions and land area produced are not the same for all calories.
This would make sense if our markets were optimising for something useful other than how to extract wealth from workers & consumers whilst providing as little as possible in return.

Practically everything on this site is about moats & branding. Of waves of VC money swamping an ingrained industry with the hope of carving out a monopoly. Of google smashing existing competitive markets giving away a better product for 'free' in order to have better surveillance of phools so google can sell their spending.

None of this is "efficient allocation of capital". Unless your goal is wealth concentration and the destruction of democratic liberal society.

We need a cultural change to lauding regulation that enforces competition in our markets and politics. Otherwise we're on a rapid track to feudalism.
True, remember when Alex Jones told us Saddam had WMDs and we went to war? Crazy times...
Not necessarily. If it's already in a sizable portion of the population but mostly undetected, it will kill some seemingly healthy young people.

They may have some unknown underlying condition, may have the genetics to trigger a lung destroying cytokinin storm, or may just have gotten unlucky.
The irony in your comment stings so hard, I'm feeling like a fakir reading it...
I mean, seriously, have you had a look at wealth distribution? It's about 0.7 percent that owns about 46% of all the wealth. (https://interactive.guim.co.uk/charts/embed/nov/2017-11-13T1...)

To stay with the boat analogy; the top half of the boat is nearly empty, reserved for the exclusive use of some few rich people (and maybe their servants), while the lower decks with the machinery is teeming with masses of poor people, crowded by the hundreds into vast rooms right beside the boilers, devoid of any infrastructure or sanitation, barely able to move or breath.

The boat is sinking and the poor in the lower decks are drowning. All the while the few rich in the upper decks are trying to cut a way pieces of the boat and make them swim by themselves.
Very exciting, very handy, we need it right now! May be the progression of the virus on sonomera from many people can quicken the search for the solution!
Juliet, Teacher, Uganda
3-4 days after John Hopkins started tracking and the number of infected was still below that of SARS 2003, but exponentially curved upwards. The WHO increased the threat level, but lacked confidence to declare international emergency.

Then in the same speech where they say, they will be fighting a misinformation pandemic, they say nobody outside of China has died, when a Thai national had died in Kolkuta.

All countries complained about the data sharing from China, but when asked, the WHO replied with praise and that it was not time to point any fingers.

Their main concern was for countries with a weak healthcare system, while Italy has the second-best healthcare system of Europe, and India and Africa seem better of.

> they declared it when it reached the criteria to do so.

A pandemic is defined as: "an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people." The fact was that it's an epidemic in China, Italy, South Korea, and Iran, and it is occurring in more than 80 countries, with some devastating effects. Public health experts were all talking of a pandemic correctly, while Ghebreyesus was still doing "an ongoing assessment" before making a decision.
Do you really think that Bangladesh's problem is the "ankle deep water"? Honestly, I think the left has completely lost it. Let me elaborate very briefly: forty years ago, the left would have been concerned with people in the poorest countries living in mud huts, with no food safety, no hospitals in reach, no schooling, no protection from illness and natural disasters.

Nowadays- and it's enough to read a left-wing newspaper to realise- the left is only concerned with the marginal increase in misery (supposedly) caused to the poorest by climate change. While in fact the mythical baseline we should bring the world back to is only just slightly better than the current situation, that is, still horrid by any standard.

If your problem are the floods in Bangladesh, you'll help them very little by cutting the jet trips of the rich west; what they need are tons of energy and machines to build water management systems, schools to educate a class of engineers and civil servants, factories to build job security, agriculture to build food safety and resilience. All stuff that in fact emits shittons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

/rant
No, I don't. I think that extensions are extensions which by definition are not part of the standard.

Compilers should allow extensions, but the standard does not necessarily have to. I do not say it should be done this way, but it is perfectly possible to define a strict standard and leave extensions out of it.
Think of an order like swiping on tinder. If both sides swipe (are willing to trade at a given level) they go on a date (the buyer's order is "matched" against the seller's and there is a trade).

A vol break is like everyone is still able to swipe on tinder but the dating is going to happen in one big bang (pardon the pun) when the market resumes.
> pretty much everything you use for Msft Word and similar - all on a 1 MB floppy

Somewhere in my pile of not-quite-abandonware I have a copy of the install floppies for Microsoft Word 5.1a for Macintosh, circa 1988/89. All three of them -- and the last one held the spelling checker dictionaries.

IIRC you could run Word off floppy, although ideally it wanted 2-4Mb of disk space. And it had most of the features we associate with Word today, including full WYSIWYG -- the only significant omission was Word BASIC. which showed up in Word 6. (Word 6 was a bit of a mess -- bloated from 3 floppies to 20, ran sluggishly, broke all sorts of UI guidelines -- because MS's Mac developers got downsized and in the end Word 6 on the Mac was Word 6 for Windows with some sort of Windows-to-Mac compatibility shim that didn't work terribly well.)

(I wrote my first published -- non-fiction -- book with Word 5.1 for MacOS.)
As long as you are lucky enough not to get caught by the cops, everything is fine. However, they start to deploy heavely and there is really poor chance you don't meet cops.

Once they caught you, they ask for the printed document [1] either properly filled with required information or handwritten on a paper. Next they keep it, so you have to provide another one the next time.

If you don't comply with the rules, you get fined from 38€ to 135€.

If you go out to buy food or other vital important goods (soap, toothpaste, ...), you are required to go only on governement approuved shops. For now, few people succeed to get that list of official shops and you see almost everyone going were they can find food.

Honestly, people are really scared and very angry because three to four days ago, the government said everyting is fine, no need to worry, let's keep calm, let's be goods citizen, don't hurry on shops, and bla and bla and bla.

In the end, civilized people like me just understood they have been abused because while they tried to stay good citizens, bastard emptied shops and as of now, you are very lucky if you can find something to eat or even a soap, at the price of hours long waiting queue on the parking of the shops.

By the way, even before the quarantine, you couldn't buy as many goods a you wanted : since yesterday morning and in almost every shops, supply is very, very limited and you can only buy a limited number of the same item, although the limits are not official and/or legal (for now).

It's not North Korea, but it's almost like ...

[1] https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/content/download/121663/976885...
Because microk8s is only for Linux. So Win/Mac developers cannot use it at all.
It uses managed services for building and hosting.
Yes, I think you are correct. I've also noticed it in own behaviour and now deliberately and consciously avoid it. Instead I try to convey and share my enthusiasm for something I just learned because I think a lot of folks enjoy finding out about things.
A MapReduce Example (With Ducks)
In many Reddit communities you'll see "hey community x, here is my new discord server 'x'"

An extremely niche and obscure (single player) game I follow for example has four discord servers-about one for every three active posters in the community!)
Use any modern programming language.
i used to write ebook in gitbook but not anymore. yeah it's pretty sad that gitbook is going in that way.
Wouldn’t it be possible to just annoy them a lot by sending lots of DMCA takedowns to their hosting platforms?
> I am still learning tools designed around the constraints of teleprinters

We are still reading books using a 2k year old alphabet to represent ideas. Not sure why it would be surprising that text manipulation is still the norm pretty much in everything we do, including computing.
That's the theory, but in practice it doesn't work that way. Just take oil and gas, for example. The poorest people are certainly not consuming large amounts of petroleum products. For example, consider the US Military - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_Sta...

The primary beneficiaries of this military consumption are the corporations that supply the goods and services that the military pays for (with public money), but the gains made by those corporations go into a relatively few pockets.

Another example is big agriculture corporations. In the US, for decades there have been subsidies paid to corn "farmers" (now big corps), to the extent that the businesses had to find ways to use corn beyond just food. Thus came corn syrup, ethanol (https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_against_ethanol_bad_...) and more.

Beneficiaries of this, again, are a few people. Meanwhile, land is burned out (soil quality reduced to worthless), plus all the infrastructure and energy use related to operating large scale farms.

If I had all day to spend, I could probably find a dozen other examples.

This has nothing to do with cheap food for poor people; and after all, the research shows that the cheap food is the unhealthiest.
> are you seriously arguing that heavily taxing insanely wealthy people is unethical?

I don't think that is what allovernow is saying at all.

> There's a point where it becomes unethical and/or counterproductive...but where that point is perhaps remains to be seen.

So, potentially

- Tax the billionaires down to 999millionaires. Not unethical or counterproductive in the slightest.

- Implement a tax that makes every worker's net income identical. Probably both counterproductive and unethical.

- Implement a tax/UBI system that puts a worker's net income below that of a non-worker. Definitely counterproductive, unsustainable and unethical.

The point that allovernow is describing is somewhere between those extremes.
Knowing how evil telcos can be, I'm legitimely surprised they didn't exploited this crisis and their virtual monopolies to squeeze more money from customers.
-Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors?
Adtech, aka predicting what people will like and driving consumption (allocation of resources) improves human life too, for the same reason.
> Giving up Netflix for 'library books'. This implies a serious degradation in the quality of life.

If everyone gave up Netflix for library books, I think that’d be a massive societal win.

Other than that, I agree with your point.
Landing Page Generator
Ankle deep water is just a flippant way of referencing rising sea levels. Some families that used to have low-lying farmland now just have a river, raise ducks instead of chickens.

Its a visible outcome of the use of fossil fuels. Obviously its not Bangladesh's only nor primary concern.

Also, FWIW, I find it exceptionally offensive that you've tried to turn this into some left/right hocus pocus. Global warming, climate change, developing world poverty; these are all issues where the directional political learning does _nothing_ to provide the solutions.
It's "moot"
Nirobi, Metro Area Population 10 million

https://www.civitatis.com/en/nairobi/

Compare:

Largest cities in Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Africa_by_po...

Vs

Largest cities in USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Towards 1.0 for Crystal-Lang in 2020
What does "value is real" even mean?
The problem is that if we look back with hindsight, knowing what we know now, then back in (for example) early february there's a lot of material in the "Reddit rumors" that turned out to be accurate and the official position of certain major governments and even WHO was misleading, possibly intentionally.

Yes, it's important to reduce misinformation, but it's also important (and IMHO even more important) to allow challenging the official information. The issue of "truth vs misinformation" is orthogonal to whether the information is approved by some particular source. So what I'm worried about is when the official position of some nationstate conflicts with the truth, then they'll be able to label the truth "misinformation" and get it removed/suppressed because of that, and that is something we definitely want to avoid. Sure, politicians can call anything they dislike as misinformation or fake news, but it's imperative that they don't get the ability to remove/suppress that information just because of that.

Rumors spread in the absence of trustworthy, extensive, reliable information. If in some situation there's no trustworthy, extensive, reliable information provided (for example, about the early situation in Iran) and rumors is all we can get, then rumors don't need to be suppressed as they are the best source of truth available even if it's not perfect.
Europe should forget about Green Deal, focus on Coronavirus – Czech PM
The US fed gov just tried to buy an early vaccine candidate “on unprecedented scale”. I’m not sure that they will do the same when shit hits the ventilators.
Reasons to buy a non iron shirt
It remains to be seen whether we will really have enough "creative" work for people to do.
> The beneficiaries of these activities are the people buying the products.

I seriously doubt that. There might be some activities of a CEO that a customer buying a product of the company led by said CEO might benefit from, but a CEOs activities are exclusively to the benefit of said CEO. Not to the benefit of the company, not to the benefit of the shareholders and for sure not for the benefit of the customers. (Any benefit these groups might incur are accidental).

Customers buy cheap products because they have no means of differentiate between commodity products, except for the price. That's why they buy cheap stuff.

If we had any kind of transparent measure to actually be able to differentiate between commodity products (other than just the self-aggrandizing promotion and advertising), say; some standardized information about i.e. lifespan of a product, invested energy, carbon emissions, then there might be actually be a choice for the customers. But most industries fight tooth-and-nail against such labels, as can be witnessed i.e. the food industry.
Correct - the idea is mostly for ebay/amazon small packages, gloves, mobile phones and glasses (maybe even shoes though I don't see them as a big threat). Never directly applied to skin nor pointed at face/eyes; I'd probably use some tin foil to reflect part of the light, and use sunglasses as precaution though I need to check if they filter UV-C. Any ideas of sensors that could be used to measure W/cm2?
You can also make a serverless ebook from any web page by clicking print to pdf
Tax, utility, mortgage and interest holiday?
The only solutions I’ve seen proposed to the current economic situation will just further help the rich (banks, rent-seekers, etc...). Give everyone $1000 and it’ll just be trickle-up economics. Poor spend to survive, rich grow their empires.

Those who are suffering right now are those who just got laid off. And there’s a ton of them, and almost all are living paycheck to paycheck.

What they need is a way to survive the next 1-3 months. To do this, they need to not pay rent or utilities, and not accrue interest.

So I propose the banks and credit cards don’t collect interest (on existing loans), that mortgage payments are deferred, and that landowners waive rent for the next 3 months.

Help me understand: what are the downsides of this for our society? Clearly the rich will be out a few months gain in rent but what else?
And yet, people do fail to see this. The inflated price of college is almost entirely the result of easy credit and inelastic demand. And it creates a cycle: as college prices increase, more people need credit to access education, which puts more pressure on politicians to ease credit rules, etc.
The gnu tools are super fast and do the job. Ive seen people spinning their own solutions which end up being super slow and arguable take more time to develop.

With any gnu tools it is great that they will stay there for your life and are usually by default installed on every system
Except 1: climate change causes species to A) migrate and B) relative population levels to change, and thus new prey to be selected; both causing species (as viral reservoirs) that rarely interacted before to more frequently interact, promoting opportunities for viruses to jump reservoirs.

Except 2: coal mining (an important source of income for Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary) consumes large amounts of dust masks, something we will need direly to fight the coronacrisis.
I simply don't watch, listen or expose myself to any type of news (except HN). I've essentially blocked every single mainstream news outlet (TV, Press, Radio) on twitter, I'm not on facebook so I would suggest you suspend your account if you have one (but keep messenger if you use it), don't be tempted to google anything related to that "toilet paper virus".

This has two main benefits IMO:

1. you short circuit the mainstream media's agenda: provoke fear to generate clicks and keep your eyeballs stuck on the screen which means more revenue for them.

2. When you put yourself in situations of severe stress, you release that stress hormone (whose name I'm unable to recall) which can and will have a negative effect on your body putting you at even more risk of becoming ill. (this has happened to me earlier last year)

Last piece of advice: in your downtime, try to call your friends, family members if you're on your own, play video games with them online, have fun, watch comedy movies / shows etc ...
Don't let this get to your head, that's how you beat the virus.

I say all this because in my area, the vibe and energy is so off and negative it feels like everytime I go out I'm about to meet to group of zombies ready to eat me alive (a la walking dead).

Just wash your hands, and the rest will fall into place. At this point there's not much one can do, people die everyday from countless numbers of illnesses and diseases, the world will move on eventually.

I don't know if it's a western thing or what, but it feels like people in this part of the world are craving for a catastrophic scenario like that to unfold so they can feel part of something greater than themselves, it's quite unsettling.

Oh, and also, use this time to re-evaluate your goals and aspirations in this life, because you've only got one. Apologize to the people you hurt and forgive those who've hurt you, make peace with yourself and smile to people when you see them, lift the atmosphere up a bit, because the media sure isn't going to do that.

Finally, as one meme I've found on the www yesterday so brilliantly put it: WW3 never happened and the Australia fires eventually stopped.

Sorry I went on a bit of rant, but I had to get this off my chest.

Cheers mate
Outsource Data Migration or Not? – That Is the Question