skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a great argument for UBI.

Sanders-style minimum wage hikes won't do us much good when there's 20, 30, or even 40% unemployment, which will soon be a reality if these lockdowns persist.
IMHO the SAT is no more objective than an essay, grades in school, or any of the other things you listed.

What is the SAT objectively measuring? Not math. Not logic. Not writing ability. It's objectively measuring the ability to succeed at a timed test which involves some math, some logic, some verbal ability, and knowing how to "test well".

I taught GRE test prep classes for Kaplan for a year or two. What I observed was:

- To do well even the bright folks had to block out time and apply study skills, be organized, and "learn the test."
- This means having the time to do those things.

- Time allocated for test prep and study was a better predictor of success than almost anything else.

- Yes, some people who were naturally better at certain things had it easier, but that did not obviate the above.

My conclusion for the GRE at least was that it primarily measured the time available to prepare, the study skills of the student, and the test prep resources the student had access to.
something that tends to annoy me about hydrogen fuels - people emphasize that the combustion product is water. okay .. so that step is clean.

but how was the hydrogen in the fuel cell produced in the first place? i guess it’s an energy consuming process that produces a decent level of pollution, whether it’s by electrolysis, heating of a chemical in the presence of a catalyst, etc.
I have actually noticed this recently. I have a app that seemed to do this in my car.
Silver at least shows antimicrobial properties.
Each style of user interface is obviously not going to be the best for every single person, but for people who are used to using a keyboard, and who interact with software for long periods every single day a keyboard shortcut focused interface could be much more efficient (and they are - ask anyone who does 3d modelling for a living).

Designing user interfaces for some hypothetical "average person" that's using it for the first time might make sense for consumer software that's sold to everyone for occasional tasks, but there's plenty of software that benefits heavily from having a bit of a higher learning curve in exchange for faster/more efficient interaction.
I bet a lot of investors were backing out because they don't see any money to be made in this space. With the economy turning south, none of the major automakers are going to be dumping billions in to acquiring self-driving startups for at least another decade, at best. Worst case, Starsky Robotics won't able to even keep up with what the major automakers or suppliers are doing. I used to work for a major supplier in the automotive space and these companies do have some world-class software engineering talent.

I'm a daily reader of Jalopnik, but we have to be honest: they are the tabloid news of auto journalism. A lot of their articles are poorly researched and they pander heavily to their readership (unfortunately, IMHO, the author of this piece is the site's worst offender in this respect). Most of their good writers left a long while ago, so the only informative articles I see on there anymore are about motorsports.

I would recommend skipping right past the sensationalized Jalopnik regurgitation and reading the actual blog post from Starsky [0].

[0] https://medium.com/starsky-robotics-blog/the-end-of-starsky-...
As you might imagine, there is some prior art in this space.

In broadly portable Unix userspace, there is GNOME Keyring. It takes special caution to pin secrets in memory (prevent swapping them to disk) and to zero out secrets before freeing them. For session-lifetime password store, it never writes the secrets to disk at all. Keyrings are encrypted with a key derived from a master password for each ring. I don't know what key derivation algorithm is used. For persisted secrets, I imagine they are stored encrypted on disk using something derived from the keyring password.

In the Linux kernel, there is the infrastructure behind the user interface keyctl(1). I am basically unfamiliar with it aside from knowing it exists.

On MacOS, there is Keychain. Ditto.

On Windows, there is the CryptProtectData / CryptUnprotectData family of functions, which theoretically ties the encryption to the current user. Using that nice primitive, one can just encrypt and then write out to any old file on disk.
This will be extremely useful in product search.

"sofa with 3 cushions and a round arm" should generate a model and match with similar looking products
I hope you can remap the useless caps lock key into escape, as I do on my Mac.
Copper is also antimicrobial. Pennies of old had more copper in them.

Like pennies from my childhood.
People are going to be destitute if nobody is producing goods and services. Money is worthless if there's nothing to buy.
JS is inevitable, it just has a flattened curve.
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Hmm very interesting. As a paranoid germophobe I've already been following such guidelines
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I'd consider moving back there for this job, I like Edmonton, I have many friends there still, and my family is there. And I like Rust. But I don't like the current provincial gov't and I'd have a hard time convincing my wife to leave her family behind here.

Edmonton has awful winters, but it has a beautiful river valley, decent arts scene, and good local culture. Summers are nice there. I hated much about it when I lived there in my teens and early 20s but enjoy going back to visit now.
Why? There wasn't enough testing/medical capacity for at least the first month in Wuhan, and the rate wasn't any higher.
You obviously don't have young kids. Leaving your apartment and taking them for a walk is the bare minimum to the whole family not going crazy during something like this. You can't just sit at home and chill like a single adult can.
I’ve never heard this, but that rings so true. I don’t even notice with a card but it’s very obvious with cash.
Back in 2008 or 9 or whatever, they thought they should write the ACA so that the only factors were age and smoking status.

And now there's lots of people that don't want private insurance at all (or whatever it is they mean by Medicare for all).

So apparently it's not entirely hopeless.
No, but I think the point is a combination of Chesterton fence and Goodhart's law. The personal statments and the like, by becoming the primary targets, will cease to measure achivement, and instead measure wealth. So instead of changing without a plan, make a plan to replace SAT2 with something less subject to wealth

MIT is removing a test which rewards the wealthy and punishes the poor. That's good. But the other metrics that MIT currently use are more punishing to the poor, and more rewarding to the wealthy.

With the removal of this element, MIT is left relying on personal statements, recommendations, and the like. With those metrics as the targets, the kids of the wealthy will fund their child's various activities for the sake of giving them a better application.
Distrusting social skills, linguistic ability, and emotional intelligence doesn't sound like a recipe for success.

It's not like there aren't plenty of engineers, scientists, math folks, i.e. those "honest", quantitative folks, who aren't also crappy or deceptive people.

Just look at Facebook! ;)
I haven't used actual cash in months.

The last time I can definitively remember using physical cash was to scavenge my truck to gather 6 quarters for a vending machine that refuse to take card in West Virginia on a ski trip. And that was more than a month ago.
I really feel like you guys are ignoring a lot of the difficulties in ramping up production to nation scale for this hypothetical test. A "rapid" test no less. These things are not as easy as everyone is making them out to be. Making one? Simple. Scaling that up to 8 figures worth? Not so simple. A lot of us are being a little too Jedi hand-wave-y about this issue.

And think about it, I'm only talking about getting up to 10 mil or so here. We'd need a lot more than that to implement the plans being proposed on this thread. Logistics really does demand that medical personnel, and emergency responders be tested regularly to ensure their continued fitness for purpose under such schemes. Consider, there are right around 12,000 law enforcement officers alone in Washington state. Not counting doctors, nurses, EMT's and firemen. (And lest we forget the most important emergency worker of all right now, the Walmart stock boys.)

Add all that up. Multiply it by 50 states, some much larger than Washington. Under the plans you guys are proposing, we'd need multiple tests as the crisis goes on for each of these workers to make sure they aren't out infecting citizens when they interact with them. (Or when they put food on shelves that a customer picks up 4 hours later.)

Please, try to be reasonable. Maybe the current approach is not tenable, but the ideas being proposed on this thread are problematic as well.
For sure, many fond memories of playing this! I’m not sure what the secret sauce is, but it was but it was so much fun. Might be worth dusting off and see if it holds up.
Society is about to ask the doctors to work in a crisis situation, for long hours, possibly under-equipped, surrounded by death and disease on a scale that we might not have seen for 100 years. We desperately need them to be in good health. We're asking them to be exposed to very high volumes of virus, potentially risking a bad infection. We're probably not going to pay them any more than usual either.

It isn't totally clear to me what you are implying, but there isn't anything wrong with them stocking up on hydroxychloroquine if it is likely to be effective against COVID-19. It would be a shame if they thought it worked but government regulation prevents them from prescribing it to ordinary patients.
Converting code seems like an incredibly boring job.
The nature of a black swan event, what and when, is unpredictable. That one will happen is not. Any prudent leader must prepare to weather a financial downturn, a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, a war. The list goes on and preparation for one is likely the same as for all.

The point is, unprepared leaders will see their firms go out of business, but based on the number of firms that seem to never be prepared, it seems the standard incentive isn’t enough. Thus it warrants discussion on how to align leadership incentives to prepare in advance. If we had businesses that could weather 3 months of crisis, whatever the crisis without triggering a depression the entire economy would be better off. Yet here we are.
> information could be better controlled," said the source close to the biosecurity board.

wonder if we could have complete flu vaccines by now if these warmongers asshats weren't in power
Do you have a link to this article that you read about?
I wonder how much serial # tracking stores do. Given modern hardware, it'd be trivial to track them.
South Korea isn’t testing everyone, every day. Neither is China.

So there’s a middle ground here somewhere.
I've seen https://macrometa.co take a stab at an edge database, but their guarantees (consistency / correctness) don't really infuse any sort of confidence in me [0]. https://yugabyte.com is another global scale database that competes squarely with cockroach-db, though I haven't used either.

Cloudflare Workers KV has the simplest model, with a central-db that transparently and eventually only replicates read-only, hot-data specific to a DC but writes continue to incur heavy penalty in terms of operations-per-second, cost, and latency.

In our production setup, we back Workers KV with a single-region, source-of-truth DynamoDB [1] and employ DynamoDB Streams to push data to Workers KV [2], that is,

Writes (control-plane): clients -> (graphql) DynamoDB -> Streams -> Workers KV

Reads (data-plane): clients -> Workers KV

Reads (control-plane): clients -> (graphql) DynamoDB

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19307122

[1] We really should switch to QLDB once it supports Triggers.

[2] We do so mainly because we do not to be locked-down to Workers KV, especially at its very nascent stage.
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The point is to confine people to very their telescreen. They don't want you flirt with other companies while you're in the business riding their car.
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That's true, I'm just pointing out that the normality of the distribution of the results alone proves nothing.
This particular mutation of a virus is black swan even, as it never happened before.

A recession is not.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...:

1969, 1973, 1981, 1990, 2000, 2007 - a recession of US economy at least every 10 years, like a clockwork.

So, if you're a CEO of an airline and you're giving away 90% of your cash to shareholders instead of saving it to last few months when business declines, then it's an obvious failure of planning.

Or, more accurately, it's yet another case of "It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It."

CEO salaries and bonuses are tied to performance of the stock (because they are set by board of directors, who are there to represent shareholders). So they spend the money to buy back the shares which increases the share price and their bonuses.

It's really simple if you know the incentives.
> everyone knows

I found his comment helpful because I wouldn't necessarily have thought of that.

Yours, however, adds nothing useful to the conversation.
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Bit cringey when Seneca's mansplaining to a mother struggling with son's death why she shouldn't be so gloomy.
Chrome does this more simply, but the feature is less discoverable. you don't have to create the keywords manually, you just hit tab after entering the URL where the search box is located. since the URL is autocompleted, for frequently used websites this is a matter of typing the first two or three characters and then hitting right arrow.
Not knowing the evidence doesn't make someone unscientific. Most scientists don't know most evidence.

If he had the evidence explained to him and then just assumed it would be different in France that would be unscientific, but we'd all need to read French to ague about that.
If there’s 50% unemployment because we’ve stopped the economy, handing out dollars won’t help. There won’t be anything to buy.
Yes, but fundamentally that's still just bargaining with the problem. If spread is supercritical, the hospitals fill up regardless of how protected healthcare workers are.

My comment was in the context of "what can time fix", which would mean supplying healthcare workers and everybody else with masks before letting up. Retail workers wearing masks would go a long way to creating some peer pressure to act differently.
> I'll switch to cashless if it's just as private.

If it were just as private, what would be the point?
That it impacted the kids and 20-30 yo cohort the way it impacts the 70+ yo.

Also those co-morbidities like high blood pressure have the all important age distinction missing. So yeah if you’re 70 and have high blood pressure it’s worse.

It’s perverse to stop world for some low rate CFR for the elderly. The world is made for the young. We shouldn’t destroy it for the elderly.

Also actuarial tables for a 75 year old is extremely haunting. People magically forget that a sick 75 year old doesn’t have much time left to live in the first place.
I am a commited Apple user but every time someone asks this I always think of the time he staged a whole press event to announce...an iPod dock. A product that probably sold 100 units (or the apple equivalent) and sank never to be seen again.

The lesson isn't that he's some sort of idiot, just that he had iterations and flubs just like anyone else; his hit percentage was simply a bit higher.
This is true, but starting as an LLC and converting to a C corp does have a potential QSBS benefit, if you are able to meet the 5-year holding period. The QSBS deduction is the greater of $10 million or 10 times your adjusted basis at the time of acquisition of the C corp stock. If you incorporate as a C corp initially, you get the $10 million deduction, at best. If you form as an LLC and only convert to a C corp (and get your C corp stock) at the time of your first financing, your adjusted basis may be significant. If the value of your equity share is, say, $3 million at the time of your first equity round (not unheard of), when you convert to a C corp, you potentially get a QSBS deduction of 10 times that (i.e. $30 million).

Please note that in a conversion from LLC to C corp, you only get the QSBS on the gain over the initial basis. So, in my example above, if you end up selling the shares for $2 million in an exit (when the basis when you received the shares was $3 million), you will get no QSBS deduction.
The narrative is that the virus stays alive for up to three days on surfaces. My understanding of viruses like this would make that an extreme outlier. Do we have any conclusive data on the duration of virus viability outside of the host?
nice to see some creative writing at bloomberg

/sarcasm
Little Lisper or Little Schemer.
Now that is what I'm talking about. Multigraph baby!
From what I understand Rust makes many things explicit that are implicit in other languages. You always have to deal with lifetimes one way or the other.

Which is why I think it would be easier to learn, you get immediate feedback.
Common cold is caused by hundreds of different viruses so a single vaccine is not useful
What's "objective" about the SAT is that, at the very least, different people are being made to take the same test. Contrast that with the essay: it looks like the same task (everybody gets 500 words), but for poor kids this task looks like writing an essay, while for rich kids it looks like shopping for the best college counselor to write the essay.

At the very least, given an SAT score, I can know that somebody worked alone for 4 hours with a No. 2 pencil to get it... that's more than any other indicator can guarantee.
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I don't understand this paranoia. Why so concerned?
By the way, people in the industry call the bulk liquor "juice". If you ever want to have fun with a distiller when touring their barrel room, ask them "are you using MGP juice or distilling it yourself?" They'll give you a funny look and think you're in the industry.
extra risks; like permenentally giving up the ability to have two party value transfers.

Your short sighted reasoning is easily applied to the war on crypto, general purpose computing and ultimately marking humans to buy and sell.
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The vast majority of people with COVID do not end up at the hospital. So it is absolute fact that we are sacrificing the economy in order to save, relatively speaking, a select few.

If this continues for more than a few weeks - 50% of American business dies. 50% of America is unemployed. Contagion from massive defaults and write-offs spreads throughout the entire economy. Money printing at a rate heretofore unimaginable and probably hyperinflation to follow.

It is no less than committing hari-kari in a moral panic. Hopefully we will wake up from the fever dream before it’s too late.

“Flatten the curve” is a terrible lie. The extent and duration of the measures required would bankrupt 95% of the country.

ICUs being overrun is actually an argument for getting the COVID cases out of the way quickly, not dragging it out over, say, 24 months.

If you can get your head around the scale involved, if 80% of people are going to be infected and 14% of those are going to need serious treatment (doubtful, but the same assumption the “flatten” exercise is based on), there is actually no way to keep COVID cases “at or below” ICU capacity. They will absolutely take 100% of capacity and beyond for more than a year, if you drag it out.

The longer you have COVID cases overwhelming your system, the longer you have non-COVID routine emergencies getting untreated.

Either you can contain it in a few weeks or you have to let it burn through. There is no “slow smolder” scenario I can see that leaves society intact.
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If there was a cost to eating terrible, we would have less to lose from this virus.
If they're all sick at the same time hospitals can't help them or anyone else. Then routine emergencies for everyone became fatal or life altering events.
Anyone use uLisp, Ferret (clojure->C++) and/or esp-lisp that can give a good recommendation on which one is most appropriate and capable on microcontrollers?
SICP and PAIP are great if you work through them and do all the exercises instead of just skimming
Tell you what: you seem to really resent the process so feel free to stop developing for the platform. There is a competing platform that has all the properties you espouse.

And there's even a natural experiment running on the Mac: there is an App Store like the iOS one and you can just download apps from the net. And guess what: users seem to prefer using the Mac App Store (which surprises me but, well, it's data).
Stopping every transmission isn’t necessary. We just need some way to drive R < 1.

China’s approach (lots of temperature taking, testing everyone with a fever) might not eradicate the disease here, but it could keep it manageable until a vaccine is deployed.
>Windows 8 and beyond, however, have been less so.

While they didn't stick too well to the old paradigm in detail, they introduced ribbons in Windows 8 Explorer, which are keyboard-friendly and very "vimperator-alike", using modal hints for commands (press Alt in Explorer to see how it's different), and support the quick toolbar. That's a massive improvement on itself, compared to the old accelerators. There were also many other keyboard-friendly improvements like the basic window tiling and separate desktops, ability to cycle tray icons, almost every OS setting being accessible from the console instead of GUI, etc. I'd say Windows 8 was the first Windows version somewhat usable without a mouse, in Windows 10 they improved on it (and made a huge step back with WPF applications).
Actually its more valuable to consume something. There's way too many creators chasing too few fan dollars. It's to the point where we have so many creative works people are dumping them for fractions of pennies via subscription programs and humble bundles.
Well we can look at Italy for example. Also America has a lot of obese people, which are supposedly at a high risk, so it’s possible we see a higher fatality rate. I personally don’t think so just trying to answer your question
It's also a great counterargument against UBI
On average credit cards have almost 2x the volume of germs as cash[1], but in this era I would be more concerned about the POS terminal itself.

Even with contactless cards or Apple Pay I still have to touch the same screen the previous customers (even just to tip). I would expect the terminal to be as dirty as a typical public door handle.

There may be a hygiene case for using QR codes as is universal now in China - but until we solve the privacy concerns I wouldn’t argue for it.

[1] https://lendedu.com/blog/dirty-money-credit-cards/
>They are destroying the middle class for some "theoretical" projection that might not even play out the way they think. What is guaranteed though is that businesses will die in troves and the economy and middle class with it.

Look at the age of the people making the decisions. If you were 60+, unhealthy, and had the option of minimising your own risk of catching the disease by stopping the economy, you sure you wouldn't take it, regardless of the long term damage it would do to the country?
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